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03-10-2004, 06:05 PM
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The Donkey...The Elephant
Who chose the symbols? Of the Elephant for Republican and the Donkey for democrat!!? Seems unfair because democrats are refered to as "ass" I thiink everyone should take a stand and get this awesome sybol changed!! Let make it a lion. Firece and standing alone. All empowered!! After all would you want your political symbol to be a donkey or an ass? What do you guys think? Should they change this heart crushing icon? It isnt right as it is and I think some republicans made this democratic symbol up!
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03-13-2004, 08:49 AM
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Well, it's about traditions...
The symbol of the elephant first appeared in Harper’s Weekly on November 7, 1874 in a cartoon by Thomas Nast.
Two unconnected events led to the birth of the Republican Elephant. In the political arena of the time, Ulysses S. Grant was midway through his second term as President and considering a third term. The New York Herald and illustrated journalists were depicting Grant wearing a crown raising the cry of "Caesarism." The Democrats had taken up the issue during the mid-term elections in order to disaffect Republican voters. At the same time, in a completely non-political arena, the Herald was involving itself in a delightful hoax known as the Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874. They ran a story, totally untrue, claiming that the animals of the zoo had broken loose and were roaming New York’s Central Park in search of prey. Cartoonist Thomas Nast took the two events and put them together in a cartoon for Harper’s Weekly. He showed an ass (symbolizing the Herald) wearing a lion’s skin (the scary prospect of Caesarism) frightening away the animals in the forest (Central Park). The caption quoted a familiar fable: "An ass having put on a lion’s skin roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met within his wanderings." --From William Safire’s New Language of Politics, Revised edition, Collier Books, New York, 1972. One of the foolish animals in the cartoon was an elephant, representing the Republican vote- not the party. It showed the Republican vote being frightened away from its normal ties by the phony scare of Caesarism. In a subsequent cartoon, after the election in which the Republicans did badly, Nast showed the elephant in a trap, illustrating how the Republican vote had been decoyed from its normal allegiance. Other cartoonists picked up the symbol and it soon ceased to represent the voters, but came to represent the Party itself. The jackass, now referred to as the donkey, made a natural transition from representing the Herald to representing the Democrats who had frightened the elephant.
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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)
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03-13-2004, 06:29 PM
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The Democrat's Donkey
When Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist views and his slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson, however, picked up on their name calling and turned it to his own advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson's stubbornness. The first time the donkey was used in a political cartoon to represent the Democratic party, it was again in conjunction with Jackson.
The person credited with getting the donkey widely accepted as the Democratic party's symbol probably had no knowledge of the prior associations. Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist, came to the United States with his parents in 1840. He first used the donkey in an 1870 Harper's Weekly cartoon to represent the "Copperhead Press". Nast intended the donkey to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed, but the symbol caught the public's fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers. By 1880 the donkey was well established as a mascot for the Democratic party. A cartoon about the Garfield/Hancock campaign in the New York Daily Graphic showed the Democratic candidate mounted on a donkey, leading a procession of crusaders. The Democrats claim it is humble, homely, smart, courageous and loveable.
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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)
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10-28-2005, 04:21 PM
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How about the sloth and the pig?
Democrats can be the sloth- the laziest creature on earth, spending over 12 hours sleeping each day.
Republicans can have the pig- greedy devouror of filth and garbage.
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11-01-2005, 06:58 AM
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I don't think the symbol of the parties has anything to do with how people percieve them.
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