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It does look like the balloon is coming from the White House, probably to represent President Bush. Remember Trudeau can't draw actual people.

And if what's on my monitor is representative he has real trouble with his coloring too. His palate is enough to make one queasy.

But there may still be a partisan mistake in the comic. What were the circumstances under which Roosevelt made this quote?

I suspect it was part of an attack on Woodrow Wilson, for not being bellicose enough during the early days of the First World War.

One could come up with some damning quotes from TR against pacifists, slackers, peaceniks, etc.

[Andrew Wiggin]

If the Dems are reduced to quoting the originator of 'gunboat diplomacy', then Bush has pretty much won the war at home.

[jedi]

What were the circumstances under which Roosevelt made this quote?

I suspect it was part of an attack on Woodrow Wilson, for not being bellicose enough during the early days of the First World War.

That's funny; JP Morgan funded Teddy in 1912 to split the Republican vote between him and Taft, in order to get Wilson elected.