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I’m so frustrated at this point.

I was through with Noot when he sat on the couch besides Nutsy; then he continued to kick me in the teeth with the Scozzafava endorsement and the snide remarks about the Tea Party; so now I’m supposed to embrace him. Sickening.

"The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been, and must always be, to take from some one man or class of men the right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows," Roosevelt said. "That is what you fought for in the Civil War, and that is what we strive for now."

Obama Is About To Make A Big Class Warfare Speech, And Echo A Republican President At The Same Time
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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. This, I know, implies a policy of a far more active governmental interference with social and economic conditions in this country than we have yet had, but I think we have got to face the fact that such an increase in governmental control is now necessary.

Roosevelt's New Nationalism speech completely failed to pull the Republican Party in a progressive direction. Many Republicans denounced Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" as "socialism" ... which it clearly sounds like.

Roosevelt eventually split from the Republicans and created a new Progressive Party. In 1912, he ran against Taft and lost to President Woodrow Wilson. America got a progressive president as Roosevelt wanted.

Previewing Obama's New Nationalism speech