"Ken Fortenberry" wrote...
rw wrote:
lid wrote:

Once upon a time those were the cornerstones of the Republican
platform.

Right you are. Back in Teddy Roosevelt's time. ...

Saw a Theodore Rossevelt quote the other day that is as apropos
today as it was when it was uttered in 1918:

"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."
--Theodore Roosevelt

Here's another that's also quite apropos:
"If [peace activists] could only be prevailed upon to sum up eloquently the many
unspeakable miseries and horrors of War, and to present them to their own
country as a conclusive reason for its being undefended against War, and
becoming a prey of the first despot who might choose to inflict those miseries
and horrors- why then I really believe we should have got to the very best joke
we could hope to have in our whole Complete Jest Book for Posterity and might
fold our arms and rest convinced that we had done enough for that discerning
Patriarch's amusement."
--Theodore Roosevelt
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TL,
Tim
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