Rove distorts TR’s legacy.
By on Jun 26th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Rove distorts TR’s legacy.
President Theodore Roosevelt, who “vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms,” shares a lot in common with President Bush, according to Karl Rove. The Plank’s critique: “Notice Rove’s emphasis on either character and form rather than substance.â€
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Yep, he is a lot like TR, TR said ” American’s learn by catastrophe” and sure enough I think americans have learned from the Catastrophe in Chief.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:39 pmand KKKarl Rove shares a lot in common with Lucifer…
June 26th, 2006 at 1:40 pmShow some respect TP.
Stop calling him “Rove”.
The name is “Turdblossom”.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:41 pmIf Theodore Freakin Roosevelt met Bush today, he’d punch him in the face. Bush isn’t 1% of the man Roosevelt was, and if Roosevelt knew about all of the things Bush has done, to this country, and the environment, he’d be pissed… mega pissed.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:42 pmDefinition of a parasite: Karl Rove, “Emphasis on neither character nor form as oppose to substance.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:45 pmIf they spent half the time actually fixing the country, that they do trying to equate bush with past presidential greats, maybe our country wouldn’t be in this mess.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:51 pmPresident Theodore Roosevelt common with Bush? Big difference: Roosevelt charged up a hill; Bush went over one.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:52 pmKarl Rove lies about everything so this is nothing new > lol.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:52 pmBush Junior used to compare himself to Abe Lincoln, untill he found out Abe slept in the same bed with his male law partner, and that is too much like Dubya sleeping with Gannon!
June 26th, 2006 at 1:54 pmIf they spent half the time actually fixing the country, that they do trying to equate bush with past presidential greats, maybe our country wouldn’t be in this mess.
Comment by Krazny
This country is in a mess because Bush keeps messing with things trying to “fix it ” the way he and his neocon supporters want it to be.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:56 pmThey broke it on purpose ( Laws and the Constitution ) and will continue to do so as long as they are in power.
Ah, Republican values: Form over function.
June 26th, 2006 at 1:57 pmcharacter & substance. Teddy had them in abundance. dumbya? he’s still lookin’ for the line of coke Karl drew for him before the twins interrupted him…..No character there. No substance other than illegal ones.
June 26th, 2006 at 2:32 pmunfortunately, the voters have proved time and time again, that the apperance of substance matters, as opposed to actual substance
June 26th, 2006 at 2:35 pmIf Rove were to realistically compare Bush to Roosevelt, it would reveal how much these two presidents have in common. Rosevelt was in favor of the Philippines being annexed to the United States during the early part of the twentieth century. The United States, under the leadership of William McKinley, proceeded to have the Filipinos “assimilated” by slaughtering at least 200,000 Filipinos who dared resist being “assimilated” by the United States. To quote Chalmers of Johnson, writing in The Sorrows of Empire, “Theodore Roosevelt and [McKinley's secretary of war] Elihu Root had represented a European-derived, militaristic vision of imperialism backed by nothing more substantial than the notion that the manifest destiny of the United States was to govern racially inferior Latin Americans and East Asians.” Despite what many commenters on this post may think, Theodore Roosevelt, like Bush, was far from being a benevolent president.
June 26th, 2006 at 3:08 pmTwo seconds after finding out he’s not going to be indicted, and the devil’s handmaiden Karl Rove has diarrhea of the mouth again. Diarrhea has more substance and truth than anything that comes out of that pig’s mouth. The world deserves better than these cretins.
June 26th, 2006 at 3:26 pmThe pukes control the day.
June 26th, 2006 at 3:43 pmI haven’t seen a substanitive story all day long. It’s about what rove or snow or the decider, “thinking” (?). Where are the issues that are so important in the last few months before the election. It almost sounds like imfo mation has come to the blog. Are the blogs being taken down the road to storyland? What is important today? Certainly not this garbage that the pukes would like you to think. Hello!
Despite what many commenters on this post may think, Theodore Roosevelt, like Bush
Well at least we can agree that Bush is an amoral opportunistic monster, unlike Roosevelt though, he has no redeeming features, has achevied nothing and leaves as his legacy, a country in ashes. Well two countries actually.
I must say, I’ve never heard any of that stuff about Roosevelt. Got any sources? Sounds like an intriuging read.
June 26th, 2006 at 3:43 pmBrian Coughlan
As I mentioned in my quote, Chalmers Johnson talks about T. Roosevelt in his book The Sorrows of Empire, which looks at American imperialism, going back to the claim that the U.S.S. Maine was alegedly sunk by the Spanish, whic eventually led to the Spanish-American War, to the illegal invasion of Iraq by the U.S. Two other books which I recommend, which look at the same theme as American imperialism, are The Empire Has No Clothes by Ivan Eland and The New American Militarism by Andrew Bacevich.
June 26th, 2006 at 4:38 pmAll three books are well written and articulate basically the same position, which is how the United States tends to try and solve many, if not most of its problems, by military means.
TR did some good things,but he was also a racist,empire building,murder loving a**h**e.HE LOVED WAR AND BLOODSHED!!
June 26th, 2006 at 5:00 pmTheodore Roosevelt, for whatever faults he had, was at least a conservationist. As some pundit, whose name escapes me right now, pointed out George W. Bush has never met a tree that he didn’t want to chop down.
June 26th, 2006 at 9:06 pmGWB: Heh heh, ah’m gonna clear me some brush on the white house lawn, wearing my Teddy Roosevelt teddy. Heh.
June 26th, 2006 at 9:11 pmI am a history buff. From what I have read about Teddy Roosevelt ( which is quite abit) I don’t think Shrub reads at least 5 books a day, is fluent in several languages, is a respected botonist and naturalist, has won the peace medal, wrote several science and history books, ect. Actually I think the only thing Geroge has done is start an unneccesary war. Oh, yeah, and bring the world’s hatred upon us. And brought us torture.
June 26th, 2006 at 10:33 pmNo, I don’t they have much in common.
It is nothing short of an insult to compare the dim-wit decider to ANY past president, other than possibly Nixon. Even then, Nixon commited only a few transgressions; this man’s are literally a none stop list. He would not qualify to shine T. Roosevelt’s boots. TR did not conduct a frontal assault on the constitution, nor have I ever heard he referred to it as just a “goddamned piece of paper.” Bush’s legacy will be that of the most incompetent president, presiding over the most corrupt administration in the history of this great nation.
June 27th, 2006 at 8:46 am