Posted on 10/23/2015 9:57:24 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Upon taking office in 2009, Democratic President Barack Obama identified himself with the towering figure in Republican Party history: Abraham Lincoln. And now his presumed successor, Hillary Clinton, wants to take on the mantle of another great Republican: Teddy Roosevelt, a progressive who fought the excesses of the most powerful corporations of his day.
In 2009, Obama saw himself, like Lincoln, as a president who mournfully led a nation divided against itself, a president who hoped to build a bipartisan team of rivals to heal the wounds. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out for Obama any better than it did for Lincoln. If we are any less divided now than we were in 2009, it’s only because we’ve exhausted ourselves in the battle.
Now we have another Democrat taking inspiration from a Republican
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Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive.
If we are any less divided now than we were in 2009, it’s only because we’ve exhausted ourselves in the battle.
We have “not yet begun to fight!”.
Fight? How is Hillary taking as many millions in donations from Big Bussiness as possible considered "fighting" them?
All you need to do is show voters her donors list to explode this lie.
Tedy was partial towards large families, he wouldn’t have been impressed with you just having one child.
“Hillary Clinton wants to be Teddy Roosevelt (Huh?)”
Will go all the way and have the Addadicktome...
Well, in today’s fundamentally transformed America, anyone can become anyone just by ‘feeling’ like them.
A white can become black; a man can become a woman...I guess being Roosevelt isn’t too far out of what has now become the mainstream...
Does anybody remember Lloyd Benson chastising Quayle for admiring Kennedy?
“I knew Jack Kennedy and you sir are no Jack Kennedy!”
Too bad Reagan isn’t around; “I knew Abe Lincoln and Teddy and these people are neither!”
Why do the Republicans let them get away with this?
Actually, she does look a lot like him from the back—LOL!
Theodore Roosevelt famously asserted that"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . .Fat chance that Hillary would say that - it is the precise opposite of “You didn’t build that."
Well, she’s fat and wears thick glasses..........all she needs is a bushy mustache............................
Teddy was also an American Nationalist who would not comprehend what was allowed to happen in Benghazi.
Sure, send her up San Juan Hill on horseback into a blizzard of incoming.
Teddy also ran around the Caribbean with his Big Stick oppressing poor Latinos.
Plus Teddy was one of the leading proponents of Eugenics in his time. A Margaret Sanger blood-brother as it were.
The more you look at his record the more you realize the GOPe would be pushing him today. Even more than Jeb.
Hey, now, let us not insult the bull moose. Even is one did bite your sister, there is not call for this sort of comparison.
Works for me, I note in passing that TR is dead.
Hillary wants to be “Old Rough And Ready”?
After her performance with Benghazi, she’s more like “Old Slimey And Chickenshirt”.
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