On September 13 1814 a lawyer and a poet Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner.  Back in the days before national media one of the best ways for a politician to reach common man was through catchy tunes sung at bars and parties.  While second President John Adams was campaigning for re-election against Thomas Jefferson in 1800 Francis Scott Key borrowed the old tune from a propaganda poem called “Adams and Liberty.” The poem warned against mercantilism and foreign involvement pointing out Jefferson’s notorious pro-French sympathies.