Monday, September 29, 2008

Presidential Chessboard: the Democrats

KING: Franklin D. Roosevelt

QUEEN: John F. Kennedy

KNIGHTS:
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson

BISHOPS:
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter

ROOKS:
George Washington
James Madison

PAWNS:
Harry Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Grover Cleveland
John Quincy Adams
James Monroe
Lyndon Johnson
Zachary Taylor
James Buchanan

4 comments:

  1. psst...wasn't lincoln a republican? i support acquiring him, just sayin'.

    choice of bishops: inspired.

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  2. Yes indeed. But a Dem in spirit, what with the whole keeping-the-nation-together thing

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  3. yeah I called her on that bull, too.

    Revisionist history.

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  4. i mean, i'm a bit ambivalent about it, because i hate the "party of lincoln!" crap some republicans pull to prove their party is the real true holy forever advocate of civil rights. it's just disingenuous to ignore the major shift in party lines since--fdr, lbj, "southern strategy," etc. but it doesn't seem fair to cherrypick lincoln like that when he isn't here to object.

    ...this is how seriously i take lists at 1:40am.

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