T. Roosevelt: McCain's hero, socialist.
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McCain talks about his "hero" Teddy Roosevelt who was a bigger "socialist" than Obama ever could hope to be called... McCain can call Obama a socialist or he can call Teddy Roosevelt his hero. He can't do both.
http://www.slate.com/id/2202950/
Teddy Roosevelt's words (and he's on Mt. Rushmore):
"We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community.… The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size, acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and … a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate."
The New York Post's Page One would blare: "ROOSEVELT: I'LL SEIZE 'SWOLLEN FORTUNES'!
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The only socialist is Obama. He frightens me with his agenda. This country is in for four years of turmoil with him in office. Hopefully we will regain the Senate after people see the real non-experienced Socialist/Terrorist lover Barack HUSEIN Obumbla. Terrorists will be jumping in the street when he wins, watch and learn.
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Straight talk my ass.
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From Andrew Sullivan, a letter to the NYT in 1908:
>>Moreover, most of the Rooseveltian policies - the arid land reclamation schemes, the National forests, the leasing of coal and mineral rights, the renting of grazing lands, the construction of the Panama Canal by direct employment, the development of water powers under public ownership and control - are in strict harmony with Socialist principles....The faith of our forefathers in the sacred principle of competition as the self-acting force which yielded ideal justice and rendered to every man according to his deserts, has departed as surely as the belief in witchcraft. [socialists] can't threaten me worse than Theodore Roosevelt does with his inheritance and income tax schemes and the social workers of New York with their ever-increasing demands on the city budget.<<
In McCain's defense, it's possible that he was just overcome by TR's personal magnetism.
Dennis
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