President T. Roosevelt ~ Being an American

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What if President Bush had adopted, word for word, the immortal words left behind by President Theodore Roosevelt (a few of my favorite listed below and can be found here at this website http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/TR%20Web%20Book/TR_CD_to_HTML01.html). If one takes the time to actually read the words left behind by President T. Roosevelt, one might even surmise an amazing similarity of position and stance that President Bush has taken. So I dare to ask, go to the web site I listed above and read the immortal words of President Roosevelt and then, reconsider what has been said by President Bush. There are far greater similarities then there are differences. And at least President Bush has a plan, I haven’t seen anything other then rhetoric out of the Democrats, including the one who happens to be a direct descendant of President Roosevelt.

And for those of you who may be curious, I was born in another country, but I stand before each and every one of you today as an American and nothing else. No prefix, No dual-nationality claims. I am just an American and I am damn proud to call this country my Home.


Allegiance:

We can have no "fifty-fifty" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. We are akin by blood and descent to most of the nations of Europe; but we are separate from all of them; we are a new and distinct nation, and we are bound always to give our whole-hearted and undivided loyalty to our own flag, and in any international crisis to treat each and every foreign nation purely according to its conduct in that crisis. (New York Times, September 10, 1917.)

We are a different people from any people of Europe. It is our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided allegiance to the one flag which floats over all of us. (At Lincoln, Neb., June 14, 1917.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 192; Nat. Ed. XIX, 183.
UNITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:
In this country we must all stand together absolutely without regard to our several lines of descent, as Americans and nothing else; and, above all, we must do this as regards moral issues. The great issues with which we must now deal are moral even more than material; and on these issues every good American should be with us, without the slightest regard to the land from which his forefathers came. (1916.)  Mem. Ed. XX, 250; Nat. Ed. XVIII, 216.
We are all of us Americans, and nothing else; we all have equal rights and equal obligations; we form part of one people, in the face of all other nations, paying allegiance only to one flag; and a wrong to any one of us is a wrong to all the rest of us. (New York Times, September 10, 1917.) Mem. Ed. XXI, 43; Nat. Ed. XIX, 37.
____________. There is one point upon which I wish to lay especial stress; that is, the necessity for a feeling of broad, radical, and intense Americanism, if good work is to be done in any direction. Above all, the one essential for success in every political movement which is to do lasting good, is that our citizens should act as Americans. . . . It is an outrage for a man to drag foreign politics into our contests, and vote as an Irishman or German or other foreigner, as the case may be. . . . But it is no less an outrage to discriminate against one who has become an American in good faith, merely because of his creed or birthplace. Every man who has gone into practical politics knows well enough that if he joins good men and fights those who are evil, he can pay no heed to lines of division drawn according to race and religion. (1890.) Mem. Ed. IX, 217; Nat. Ed. X, 360.
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Gotta wonder if T.R. could get elected these days :-) ... even a JFK might be labeled an extremist, anymore.

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