Quote from Theodore Roosevelt

[I Have A Dream]

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918


I had never heard this before. It's so very, very applicable today.

[indepat]

1. Please, someone give any principle Teddy spoke of that has not been mocked

in totality by the neocons who today control every lever of power of government. It is unbelievable that tens of millions of Americans today support the total violation of every principle Teddy so succinctly spoke of: we the people get the government we so richly deserve when large numbers of us support those who destroy the very foundations of freedom. God save the Constitution.

[driver8]

2. Maybe we can save the Constitution after the neocons get done

lining their bird cages with it.

[I Have A Dream]

3. I don't know much about Teddy Roosevelt.

This quote has piqued my interest. He certainly seems to have integrity, at least from what he's saying here. I hope that it wasn't all just talk. (i.e., I hope that he also walked the walk.)