Coming To America

 

1. The more I read TR, the more I wish he’d come back and do it over again! His writing on the nature of boys, on courage and determination, his speechifying while wounded by an assassin, his marvelous “man in the arena,” put to shame the tremulous hand-wringing change-jingling heel-rocking blubbering pissants who pass as “heros” today.

     Oh, TR, speak to us today!

   Posted by Rickvid       01/30/2006  at  01:05 PM  



2. The voice of sanity.

   Amplify and turn up, please!

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       01/30/2006  at  01:12 PM  



3. Amen, brother!

   How much of the invasion of our southern states is driven by those who believe they were stolen from Mexico and plan on taking them back?

   Posted by babylonandon       01/30/2006  at  01:31 PM  



4. Will it ever be possible to have a REAL man and leader like Teddy back in the White House?  I hope so.  Now that I think about it, we could use men like him in all facets of government.

   Posted by shinjinrui       01/30/2006  at  02:39 PM  



5. This is a vision of America that I can believe in.  My family are immigrants on both sides.  I know and respect the immigrant experience.  My family came here to be Americans, just as TR said.  I won’t ask any more of any other immigrant, neither will I expect any less.

   Posted by Dr. Jeff       01/30/2006  at  02:58 PM  



6. Where is the next real TR now that we need him?

   Posted by rudebadger       01/30/2006  at  03:23 PM  



7. Alas, Teddy would be sooooo un-PC these days. How far we have fallen…

   Speaking as an immigrant, I concur with his statement on this subject. If you want to come to America and make a life you should become American. It is a rare country where this is possible. Move to another country, learn the language, learn the culture, raise a family and you’ll still be a foreigner, often ineligible for citizenship.

   Good find on the pic, Skipper. I recognized him without title or description.

   Posted by StinKerr       01/30/2006  at  07:34 PM  



8. I sometimes ask people to identify this head of state, and most can’t answer correctly, I think because the man’s resume is so incredible and diverse:

   While head of state, often walked to work, was seen with a large pistol in his back pocket while bending over to greet children at church

   Brave and physically tough, he was a champion boxer, practioner of jiu-jitsu, rock climber, fine horseman, noted hunter, once spoke for another hour after being shot in the chest during a speech, another time he one-punch cold-cocked a drunk waving two pistols and shooting up a bar

   He also was:
   Lawyer
   Legislator
   Cattle rancher
   Police Commissioner
   Navy Secretary
   Governor
   Soldier
   Vice President
   President
   Explorer
   Ornithologist
   Historian

   Moving force behind world’s greatest construction feat of the time

   Author of 36 books, several of which are still cited as the gold standard in their field

   Recipient of nation’s highest award for valor in combat
   
   Winner of Nobel Prize

   Had numerous children and rejoiced in his family life;
   Lost one son to war, one son also received nation’s highest award for valor in combat

   Burned bright, died young. What a man.

   Of course he was Theodore Roosevelt; for a very readable biography on TR, see The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and Theodore Rex both by Edmund Morris.

   Posted by dick       01/31/2006  at  12:17 AM  



9. Excellent, Dick. You can add environmentalist and conservationaist to that list.

   Posted by StinKerr       01/31/2006  at  04:31 AM  



10. Thanks Stin; I meant to add founder of the National Park system and then forgot. Another anecdote attesting to the man’s mind:  While President, he answered a reporter’s query about his personal reading and recited, from memory, the titles and authors of the 125 books he had read in the past year.

    Posted by dick       01/31/2006  at  10:24 AM  



11. Amen - and don’t forget he was the one who said, “Walk softly but carry a big stick.”

    Posted by wardmama4       01/31/2006  at  02:28 PM  



12. Jingoism
    Extreme nationalism characterized especially by [imperialist&] belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism.

    Posted by Oink       02/01/2006  at  04:39 AM  

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