Dean Promises to be the Next Theodore Roosevelt for the Environment

Talon News ^ | 08/01/03 | Charles Mahaleris

[Lunatic Fringe]

Teddy was a conservative. He supported protecting the environment and wildlife because America is a beautiful country... not because trees and antelope have god-given rights.

BTW, Teddy was a hunter. When was the last time Dean went hunting lions in Africa?

[sauropod]

Bad news.

[dead]

Dean Promises to be the Next Theodore Roosevelt for the Environment

Gonna be difficult. Roosevelt was able to accomplish things because he was President of the United States.

Ex-governors of Vermont have considerably less clout.

[AAABEST]

BTW, Teddy was a hunter.

He also was an abusive land grabber who opened a can or worms that has been enormously destructive to our country.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

... Reengaging with the international community and restoring our nation's role as a global leader on environmental issues. Dean believes America must work toward the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol. He called for adding to this international agreement by including carbon pollution reductions by developing nations as well as developed nations...

Finish the destruction of the nation, formerly the Republic of the United States of America.

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Dean as president promised to require that 20 percent of the nation's electricity needs come from renewable energy sources by 2020.

What a completely meaningless “promise.”

First, even if hell froze over, and Dean was elected, he couldn’t possibly still be president when his promise came due. So it’s meaningless.

Secondly, unless he’s personally going to go out and invent these technologies himself, he has absolutely no control over the issue.

Do his dumbass supporters really fall for these utterly meaningless, pie-in-the-sky promises? Are they really that friggin’ stupid?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Do his dumbass supporters really fall for these utterly meaningless, pie-in-the-sky promises? Are they really that friggin’ stupid?

In a nutshell: yes.

[Prodigal Son]

I wonder how many people who might vote for Dean even know who Teddy Roosevelt was?

[Sloth]

He's gonna bomb Europe and Japan?

[bedolido]

Theodore Roosevelt --- "Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "

With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy.

He took the view that the President as a "steward of the people" should take whatever action necessary for the public good unless expressly forbidden by law or the Constitution." I did not usurp power," he wrote, "but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power."

Roosevelt's youth differed sharply from that of the log cabin Presidents. He was born in New York City in 1858 into a wealthy family, but he too struggled--against ill health--and in his triumph became an advocate of the strenuous life.

In 1884 his first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, and his mother died on the same day. Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. There he mastered his sorrow as he lived in the saddle, driving cattle, hunting big game--he even captured an outlaw. On a visit to London, he married Edith Carow in December 1886.

During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment, which he led on a charge at the battle of San Juan. He was one of the most conspicuous heroes of the war.

Boss Tom Platt, needing a hero to draw attention away from scandals in New York State, accepted Roosevelt as the Republican candidate for Governor in 1898. Roosevelt won and served with distinction.

As President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none.

Roosevelt emerged spectacularly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the Northwest. Other antitrust suits under the Sherman Act followed.

Roosevelt steered the United States more actively into world politics. He liked to quote a favorite proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . "

Aware of the strategic need for a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific, Roosevelt ensured the construction of the Panama Canal. His corollary to the Monroe Doctrine prevented the establishment of foreign bases in the Caribbean and arrogated the sole right of intervention in Latin America to the United States.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, reached a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world.

Some of Theodore Roosevelt's most effective achievements were in conservation. He added enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands for public use, and fostered great irrigation projects.

He crusaded endlessly on matters big and small, exciting audiences with his high-pitched voice, jutting jaw, and pounding fist. "The life of strenuous endeavor" was a must for those around him, as he romped with his five younger children and led ambassadors on hikes through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C.

Leaving the Presidency in 1909, Roosevelt went on an African safari, then jumped back into politics. In 1912 he ran for President on a Progressive ticket. To reporters he once remarked that he felt as fit as a bull moose, the name of his new party.

While campaigning in Milwaukee, he was shot in the chest by a fanatic. Roosevelt soon recovered, but his words at that time would have been applicable at the time of his death in 1919: "No man has had a happier life than I have led; a happier life in every way."

[Lunatic Fringe]

I wonder how many people who might vote for Dean even know who Teddy Roosevelt was? Post #9

He's gonna bomb Europe and Japan? Post #10

[newriverSister]

I know who Teddy was......who's Dean? (Or should we better remember him as Dean the Green Socialist?):-)

[sergeantdave]

Dean: "I want to revisit the 1776 issue and act like King George III, sending out swarms of officials to eat out your sustenance and see what happens."

[Sloth]

LOL... I just saw the headline and my mind read it as FDR.

[randog]

Do his dumbass supporters really fall for these utterly meaningless, pie-in-the-sky promises? Are they really that friggin’ stupid?

Considering that most of his followers were educated in liberal arts colleges (if educated at all), I would say yes. I read the local lefty 'alternative' newsrag every once in a while (for its comedic value), and I find that there's a widespread acceptance amongst leftists of zero-point energy and other perpetual motion-inspired energy scams.

[VOA]

Dean Promises to be the Next Theodore Roosevelt for the Environment

This should be interesting.
To see Dean follow in Teddy's footsteps in going on long hunting expeditions, killing
hundreds of examples of wildlife and posing for the camera with his prodigious
harvest.

And didn't the Panama Canal get finished on Teddy's watch? Maybe this
Dean guy has something going for him, after all (just joking).

[ServesURight]

He also was an abusive land grabber who opened a can or worms that has been enormously destructive to our country.

TR didn't know that it would become the nightmare that it is now.

With all due respects, this is similiar to FDR starting Social Security. Good intentions at first, but FDR also was worried that Social Security would someday become out of control.

[Huck]

Good intentions at first, but FDR also was worried that Social Security would someday become out of control.

Is that why he packed his administration with Communists?

[huck von finn]

Bully!