As for his policies, I don’t see anything wrong with them! God forbid we guys should protect women and children! Horrors! Look how absolutely (but predictably) disastrous our policies of the last 30+ years have been! Deregulation of banks is (PREDICTABLY!!) going to lead to nothing but bank scandals, bank failures, bank closings, S&L scandals and failures, etc. This has ALREADY happened! Poor people voting for “trickle-down theory”? How STUPID!
Deregulation is nothing but UNMITIGATED DISASTER, but it makes rich thieves richer! ENRON! Added tax breaks for the already wealthy have lead to our increased national debt! We went from PLUS $500 BILLION to MINUS $16 TRILLION! With the Chinese (formerly the RED CHINESE!!!) holding 1/3 of OUR DEBT! THEY OWN US! What DISASTER! Chuck

He was a Progressive Socialist hiding in the Republicans, looking like a Conservative, then trying to create a new party, the Progressive movement…….not my favorite Pres.

New Nationalism was Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive political philosophy during the 1912 election. He made the case for what he called the New Nationalism in a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, in August 1910. The central issue he argued was human welfare versus property rights. He insisted that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice. Roosevelt believed that the concentration in industry was not necessarily bad, if the industry behaved responsibly. He wanted executive agencies (not the courts) to regulate business. The federal government should be used to protect the laboring men, women and children from what he believed to be exploitation. In terms of policy, the New Nationalism supported child labor laws and minimum wage laws for women. Roosevelt supported graduated income and inheritance taxes, workers’ compensation for industrial accidents, regulation of the labor of women and children, tariff revision, and firmer regulation of corporations.

That is sick socialist ways folks

Am currently reading “T.R.: The Last Romantic” by H.W. Brands, about half way through and loving every minute of it. Covers his entire life, not just presidency, additionally it discusses his personal life as well. Very in-depth and quotes TR’s letters and diaries frequently, which is great. I highly recommend it.

Cyrus: You could use that argument for almost every man of that time, he was no more racist than every other person during his time period despite that being post-civil war. He was simply a man of his time despite being wrong in that respect, although it is important to consider.