He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and attended Columbia Law School. Within two years of his Harvard graduation he became the youngest man ever elected to the New York State Assembly (New York State had a population of over 5 million at that time compared with Alaska’s current population of well under 1 million) and published his first book, The Naval War of 1812. That would be the first of more than 35 books that he wrote during his lifetime.

Before being chosen as the vice-presidential nominee he had also been a very active President of the Board of Police Commissioners in New York City (Google “midnight rambles”), held two Federal level positions as U.S. Civil Service Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, fought in a war and been Governor of New York State. His political career between his first term as an Assemblyman and his election as the Vice-President, spanned twenty years.

Theodore Roosevelt had a fine mind, enjoyed poetry as much as hunting, was a voracious reader and was open to new ideas (even those that imposed a financial burden on business owners). He also got along well with people from all walks of life, including elitist city folk like himself.

Sarah Palin has a lot of catching up to do.

Teddy Roosevelt also:
• was a soldier in the army
• was a conservationist, calling for conservation of natural resources. He also played a large role in the slow, but eventual Wilderness Act of 1964,because of his preservation of many federally designated Wilderness Areas, many of which are still protected till this day under the Wilderness Act. He was also close friends with John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club.
• the first president to call for a universal health care system. Something that MCCain is against
• a self-proclaimed Progressive, something that Obama is as well
• Harvard student, something Obama is also.
• Went to law school. So did Obama. In fact, Obama was the president of the Harvard Law Review.
If someone really wants to compare Teddy Roosevelt to the Candidates, they’ll loose with McCain. Palin is a JOKE.

Only if you’re a person who doesn’t understand what a “corporation” is or what “welfare” is. Liberals LOVE welfare programs as long as they can be sure that the recipient will always be dependent, will never create or do anything to match the cost of the “welfare” provided, and is free to produce lots more recipients, each entitled to their own “welfare.” In michael’s world, if a corporation only pays 35% in taxes, it’s corporate welfare and must be stopped before something crazy happens like jobs being created or wealth being generated. Better to raise that level to 50% or 60% to ensure that the recipient goes away forever, produces nothing and can offer no opportunities to any of those pesky individuals who need jobs. It’s just the usual idiocy.

It’s too bad that people who have great information in some areas alllowed themselves to be tainted by stupidity in other areas

Palin-McCain wants us to expand domestic energy production. That means thousands of new private sector jobs to build production facilities, pipelines, power plants, and related infrastructure. Barack Obama opposes expanded domestic energy production. His “conservation only” approach will not make jobs, it will eliminate them.

Palin-McCain wants to cut taxes on America’s investor class and lower America’s Highest in the Industrialized World corporate tax… the tax that is driving so many jobs overseas. Their policies create more money for investment, which creates more jobs. Obama wants to raise taxes on investors and corporations, which will further destroy jobs. And he wants to do this not to raise revenue for the government, which he admits it won’t, but to satisfy his Marxist idea of “fairness.”

That’s the difference in philosophy between an executive and a “community organizer.”

My concern about Obama isnt’ about high taxes but that he and the Dems in Congress plan on totally subverting the Constitution and go full-steam socialist.

Obama is a Marxist.. there can be no doubt about that. His entire Presidential campaign is a fraud, in the strongest meaning of the word.

For William Ayers to choose Obama to co-lead a multi-million dollar organization devoted to shaping education policy in Chicago so that their values (William Ayers) are taught to kids has to require that Obama and Ayers are in agreement on what those values are.

If one hasn’t done a good job at finding out about Ayers life then they may not think this association is so dangerous. But I watched a self-titled documentary on “The Weather Underground” that was filmed in the early 2000s (or late 1990s .. cant remmeber) You can find this film for free at Google Video. If you haven’t watched it.. you really have to.

The Ayers of today is just as commited now as he was back then to revolutionary transformation of American society and goernment to a “humane system”

No Lib can tell me that Ayers is going to pick Obama to distrubute millions of dollars of Ayers insitution if Ayers thought it wasn’t working toward his goals.

Glenn beck / CNN did an awesome show on the dangers if Obama wins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd-JeeNcTig

I urge everyone to watch the Weather Underground documentary… you must understand what Ayers tried to do in the 70s.. and then watch the Glenn Beck / CNN video to see how that matters today