STUPID, or just slow learners?

[Gary - K7GLD]

Are we "SLOW LEARNERS" or what?



Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN



"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. "



Theodore Roosevelt 1907



And now THIS, from another Democrat:



http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=4859&z=3&p=





NAHHHhh - I figure we're just stupid... .

 

[RT66DOC]

Too bad we don't have a puke smilie here.



I'm with Teddy.

 

[Boomer II]

Stupid gets my vote

 

[JPope]

Slow learner!!!!! Who was it that said "those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

 

[Greenleaf]

Stupid is as stupid does. Or whatever Forrest Gump said.



GL

 

[Hohn]

TR-- a Democrat from back when that wasn't a bad thing at all!!

You should read his "It's not the critic that counts" speech that he delivered at the Sorbonne. It's a CLASSIC and it's perhaps the best speech ever on what it means to be an American in a Republic.

It's called "Citizenship in a Republic", and was given April 23, 1910.

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html

Why can't Presidents and other politicians INSPIRE us anymore??