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I have at least 6 heroes from

Richard Day — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:21:44 +0000

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I have at least 6 heroes from the Twentieth Century and probably more like 60 but Eleanor has to top the list.

This Saint brings us from Teddy to Franklln through blood, sweat and tears.

We have this great great history Ramona!

It all enthralls me.

And I really believe that without Teddy, we never would have arrived here.

And compared to other ages and other places, 'here' aint that bad a place!

Oh my goodness, is this a

Richard Day — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:17:11 +0000

In reply to That was beautiful, Richard.

Oh my goodness, is this a nice sentence to wake up to from a late evening nap!

Thank you Mike!

Richard, you are indeed one

Ramona — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:07:39 +0000

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Richard, you are indeed one of a kind. That may be why you "get" Teddy. He was, too.

And I'm with MM. Beautiful. (Eleanor would approve.)

That was beautiful, Richard.

Michael Maiello — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:00:39 +0000

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That was beautiful, Richard. Seriously, I hereby from all of me to all of you. Well said, sir.

It is ironic.

Richard Day — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:25:25 +0000

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It is ironic.

FDR became Governor of NY and he also became Secretary of the Navy and...

Our Savior followed in the footsteps of his cousin and President Wilson.

But FDR had a wife!

And Eleanor had some weight in all of this!

Wilson did so many wonderful things but he re-segregated DC. A sin that shall never be forgotten.

(Except for those who refuse to read our history)

Teddy came out of nowhere. 'They' just wanted him out of NY state. And yet, some idiot shoots the Prez and Teddy was in a position of power that no one ever could have predicted.

Taft ended up pissing Teddy off to no end, and so Teddy runs again as a Bullmoose and gets shot!

I laugh everytime I watch Blue Bloods, I mean Teddy is featured by a picture every damn episode and yet, Teddy had real 'objectives'.

He was never a commie, at least not like Eleanor (and I mean this in the nicest sense. I mean Eleanor wished for rights sanctioned by the WORLD for citizens including health care and food and the right to work and....

FDR had a real effect (or is it an affect) on Ike and Ike kind of bought into some of this.

Ike did not work to destroy SS or the highway project or a number of other legislations.

So Teddy is with us for many, many decades.

Without Teddy there would never have been an FDR.

Without Teddy, there would never have been an uprising with regard to giant corporations that would 'never fail'.

Without Wilson, there would never have been an FDR, even with all of his sins.

There was some story of Teddy greeting a Black Man for dinner and the papers went nuts.

Teddy castigated those writers, although he never invited another Black Man to dinner.

All our leaders were guilty of great great sins.

But damn, when you look at this history....

We would never have SS or :Medicare or Medicaid or Civil Rights Legislation or ;anything of value without these three men plus one--Ike.

We are a better country because of Teddy and a host of other fellows following his search for the Holy Grail.

Add LBJ to the picture and you can imagine how the New GOP is so goddammned pissed off today.

Ayn Rand or Teddy.

I will take Teddy any day, with all of his faults!

the end

I have no idea what started all of this? hahahahahahah

But really, how can anyone not see, not perceive the value of this NUT?

We have succeeded in so many things as a country; yeah Denmark might have a greater health code and Sweden might have a better 'net'; but we have 350 million units as it were compared to the Danes of ten million.

Okay, I am done now! hahahah

You're welcome. My great

Ramona — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:25:34 +0000

In reply to Thanks, Mona! Such a great

You're welcome. My great pleasure.

Thanks, Mona! Such a great

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:44:04 +0000

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Thanks, Mona! Such a great review!

The Progressive Era is one of

Aaron Carine — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:47:01 +0000

In reply to Teddy Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Brought Us Progressivism

The Progressive Era is one of the examples I cite when arguing against the refrain that the government is simply a pawn of the corporations.

Thanks, MM. You ain't so bad

Ramona — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:32:03 +0000

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Thanks, MM. You ain't so bad, yourself. So many parallels to today, but MW, to his credit, just told the story (beautifully) without feeling the need to remind us. And what a great story it is. I see a movie in the making.

Great review, Mona. It

Michael Maiello — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:14:03 +0000

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Great review, Mona. It reminds me, by the way, of my favorite bit from a book -- a somewhat minor incident where a railroad baron complains that regulation of interstate shipping rates would harm railroad earnings and ultimately, railroad shareholders. "Many of our shareholders are widows and orphans," he said.

I imagine orphanages full of little pre-World War I E*Trade babies...