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With only minor adjustments, Roosevelt could have said precisely the same thing today about Republican critics of the Occupy Wall Street movement who refuse to even consider the causes which first provoked average Americans to take to the streets to protest Wall Street abuses, preferring instead to focus entirely on the bad behavior of a few in order to satisfy themselves as to the stupidity and illegitimacy of the movement as a whole.
Many of us have been saying for the past three years that the hysterical nature of right wing attacks against this remarkable and much-maligned President -- called a dangerous radical bent on destroying the country and undermining its history, institutions and traditions -- says a lot more about the current state of the Republican Party than it does about Obama himself.
Extremists, after all, always need extremists on the other side to justify their own extremism. And claims that President Obama is a "radical socialist" were always preposterous when Obama's actual performance was placed within the currents of American history, since Obama has always been squarely within the American mainstream.
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Teddy had the same things to deal with a century ago as we do today. I think Barry should (where he's here fucking up traffic anyway) take a little trip out to Long Island and visit Sagamore Hill. Some TR might rub off on him.
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Teddy Roosevelt. One of my favorite presidents, well-deserving of his monument on Rushmore. Obama is NOTHING like Roosevelt. Roosevelt was a huge personality, outrageously sure of himself, almost always right (justifying that certainty), and a masterly politician. People like to think he was uncompromising, but he knew how to play the game and, more importantly, he knew how to win the game. Obama doesn't have half of Teddy's talent as a leader or a politician. And there's no question that Teddy had sac enough for five people.
Obama always gives me the impression of someone who slips quietly into the room during the party and then talks politely with other guests in some corner somewhere, pleasant, easy going, and unobtrusive. It's said that, when Teddy entered a room, every eye was drawn to him automatically. He was a larger than life figure. Obama? Bush was the worst president of my lifetime and Obama the weakest.
I'm pretty much in the amen corner for DBK's comment.
I can't work up any enthusiasm for Obama's Kansas speech as I don't believe Obama will do anything at all to fight for the integrity of this nation and certainly will not do battle for her people. I'm never convinced by last minute conversions.
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Jay in N.C.
The difference is that TR had a big stick. Obama's got an invisible light saber that needs batteries.
Jay, I'm with you on not believing him. He has already proven he'll talk the talk to get your vote, then abandon his talk as soon as he gets the votes.
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