Quiz - Which American President said this?

[Canuckistanian]

No cheating, now. Googling will easily find the answer.

"...the voter, moreover, feels that his want of confidence in Congress is justified by what he hears of the power of corrupt lobbyists to turn legislation to their own uses. He hears of enormous subsidies begged and obtained... of appropriations made in the interest of dishonest contractors; he is not altogether unwarranted in the conclusion that these are evils inherent in the very nature of Congress; there can be no doubt that the power of the lobbyist consists in great part, if not altogether, in the facility afforded him by the Committee system.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. It's not W

unless someone wrote it out for him to say. The language, to me, speaks of a President long gone, but I don't know who.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I won't give it away

but I will say I was correct, though the President who did say this came along later in history than I suspected.

[unblock]

2. ike?

[unblock]

4. ok, i looked it up. damn! shoulda known.

[lonestarnot]

6. Ok tell me. I won't tell.

[lonestarnot]

5. Thomas Jefferson?

[Up2Late]

7. Well, it's not the current pResident, that's for sure, so because of...

...the family tradition of lying about everything, I'll guess George H.W. Bush.

[Mass]

8. Truman?

On edit: No, but I looked and it was earlier than I thought. I guess the problems repeat themselves again and again.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Haven't seen it yet - keep trying n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. the language is very Wilsonian, but ...

no, I gotta go with Woody

[Canuckistanian]

12. Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!

Yes, it was Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. Thank you... I guess that class in early 20th Cent USq

finally paid off

[Canuckistanian]

17. Yeah, I'll bet you're making a good living because of it

Right?

And sorry, I can offer no prizes befitting your impressive knowledge of American history.

There doesn't seem to be much call for it these days.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

18. Nope. Never has been.

Probably never will be.

[yngliberal]

11. Woodrow Wilson...n/t

[Canuckistanian]

13. A second winner!

You know your history, it seems.

[yngliberal]

22. I just love history...n/t

[PDJane]

14. Woodrow Wilson..........

[Canuckistanian]

15. A bit late but I'll give the benefit of the doubt..

A very Wilsonian kind of quote. He was very much against the "Committee system" in the House.

:thumbsup:

[Up2Late]

19. Be careful praising Woodrow Wilson around here. I did last week and...

...had some Ultra-Radical, way too far Left, Left-wing Radicals attacking me as being a Right-wing Reactionary. That was a first.

The Dis-info is VERY high, I discovered, in this country re: Woodrow Wilson. I'm not sure when it happened, but finding a complete history, on the internet, of what changed Wilson's mind about the U.S. entering WWI is almost imposable. And most Americans are now to lazy to go to the Library or do the work to figure it out, let alone read a book.

Here, check it out, I ended up having to use the alert (for my first time ever) on this person: <http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x205965>

And yes, the deleted message was his too, and I have been and still am having Internet Node trouble, so I wasn't about to waste any of the little online time I did have on this idiot. I decided to just let the thread die away.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Hmm, quite a lively discussion

And I was not intimating that Woodrow was any kind of progressive ideal, I just thought the quote itself was prescient.

[Up2Late]

21. Neither was I, I only posted that as a "hey, I found a free e-book...

...that some of you might be interested in reading..." sort of post, but then I got blind-sided by that person.

And all it was, was an e-book of the public speeches he gave, from February, March and April of 1917, published as "Why We Are At War" in 1917 <http://historicaltextarchive.com/books.php?op=viewbook&bookid=66>. I was very impressed at how he actually DID lay out a logical and well reasoned argument, to the Congress and the American People, about why it was necessary that we join the War in Europe ASAP, un-like the way the festering turd we have now in the White House did it.

But instead of getting a few short thank yous for the find, I get attacked by someone recommending that I read the alternate history written by one of the Uni-Bombers Anarchist buddies. Just offering an FYI about this subject.

I have a question that I've lately wondered. How much are you taught in Canada about U.S. History? Is it something you have to choose (in school) to study?

I have had quite a few non-American (U.S.) friends, over the years, and I have to tell you, they know a HELL of a lot more about U.S. History than I did, at least as far as the U.S. Foreign Policy is concerned.

You would be amazed at how little Americans know, and how little we are taught, about the history of the crimes and foreign interventions of the U.S. Government. The Japanese and the Chinese governments have nothing on our government, in that regard (the non-teaching of the bad stuff we did over the years).