The fist GW was not such a hot president either for example there is
the matter of the Wisky rebellion and going along with Hamilton on
the National Bank?--- In [email protected], "Susan Hogarth"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 27, 2008 5:17 PM, Bob Giramma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I don't have time to read or listen to Rothbard, especially given
my low
> > opinion of what I've already read from and about him.
>
> Why am I guessing that it's more of the latter than the former? :)
>
> > Can someone be so kind as to summarize why it's reasonable and
good to
> > trash
> > George Washington?
>
> Rothbard considered him to have been a poor general; ill-suited to
> what Rothbard thought the appropriate battle style - gureilla - of
the
> revolution. He also considered him something of a
political 'player',
> with high ambitions. Rothbard apparently did not buy into the
> 'reluctant public servant' myth surrounding Washington.
>
> Of course, *after* he became president, we had the Whiskey
Rebellion.
>
> > Is there anyone beyond Rothbard's hatred and intolerance?
>
> Rothbard hated and had little tolerance for statism. Washington was
a
> quintessential statist; not at all a man of the sort of the early
> agitators for freedom, like Hancock or Paine. Rothbard thought
highly
> of the original thinkers of the revolution; Washington just wasn't
one
> of them.
>
> --
> Susan Hogarth
> http://www.colliething.com
>
