Could someone see that Obama gets this????
” You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
-—Abraham Lincoln
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Great quote and cartoon, LadyJ.
Legend has it that the naming of the beloved Teddy Bear resulted from one of President Roosevelt’s famous big game hunting trips. In 1902 Roosevelt traveled to Mississippi to settle a boundary dispute between the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. As he was an avid and accomplished hunter, his trip included a four-day bear hunt. During the entire time, he failed to shoot a single bear but other members of the party managed to capture a small bear cub. They tied it to a tree so the President could shoot and claim it as his own but Roosevelt refused, sparing its life.
A political cartoonist by the name of Clifford Berryman recorded the episode in a sketch entitled “Drawing the line in Mississippi” and published it to wide acclaim in The Washington Post. The sketch attracted so much national attention that the popular cartoonist hereafter included the appealing little bear character whenever he portrayed the President. But neither Berryman or Roosevelt ever referred to the Bear as “Teddy”.
It took a Brooklyn shopkeeper by the name of Morris Mitchom to give the bear its moniker. Mitchom asked his wife Rose, a seamstress, to stitch a jointed bear to resemble Berryman’s drawing and then showcased her creation in their shop window along with a sign that read “Teddy’s Bear.” The bear sold so quickly they couldn’t make bears fast enough to meet demand. He wrote to President Roosevelt asking for permission to name his popular bear “Teddy” and the president is said to have agreed in a hand-written reply. On the success of their “Teddy Bear” design Morris and Rose launched the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company and with it, the American Teddy Bear was born — and the rest is Teddy Bear history!
http://vtbear.stores.yahoo.net/teddybearhistory.html
