[SierraWasp]

Hey! According to PBS, TR changed the entire course of the office of President! Prior to his tenure, if the constitution was silent on an issue, the President was not empowered to do anything about the issue. (at least that was what everyone thought up to then) Bull Moose Teddy didn't see it that way, in fact he saw just the opposite.

He claimed that if the constitution was silent, there was a vaccuum that the executive could promptly fill with any opinion the President could conjer up!!! Both Roosevelts saw it this way, except cousin Franklin tried to pack the court to cut down on disagreements with this idea!!!

I also saw Teddy's Bullmoose CONvention delegates all singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" at the top of their lungs! One wonders how the Counsel on Arab and Islamic Relations (CAIR) would view THAT these days!!!(or Dems)

Oh! And how come the EnvironMentalists have adopted TR when he murdered both wild animals and especially their habitat with MASSIVE disturbances of nature around the world? Huh???

Both Roosevelts were very bad news and neither of 'em shoulda been on Mt. Rushmore IMO!!!

[calcowgirl]

Oh! And how come the EnvironMentalists have adopted TR when he murdered both wild animals and especially their habitat with MASSIVE disturbances of nature around the world? Huh???

I'm not familiar with that. When I think of Teddy, I think of his "progressive" period when he and Hiram Johnson were the mavericks of the day. And then there was his alliance with progressives (aka socialists) Amos and Gifford Pinchot, sweeping up millions of acres of private property in the name of Conservation.