THE AMERICAN CITIZEN

THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S IDEAS on immigration, immigrants, and on being an effective American in 1907 were once considered sane, profitable, and good for both the country and the people. Some of us still think it is a brilliant sketch of American inspiration, and are astonished that some people have the audacity to disagree:

"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 person's becoming in every facet 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... 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

Every American citizen needs to read this!

ABC NEWS HEAVILY EDITS PALIN

A TRANSCRIPT OF THE UNEDITED interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson clearly shows that ABC News edited out crucial portions of the interview that showed Palin as knowledgeable or presented her answers out of context. This unedited transcript of the first of the Gibson interviews with Palin is available on radio host Mark Levin's website. The sections edited out by ABC News are in bold. The first edit shows Palin responding about meeting with foreign leaders but this was actually in response to a question Gibson asked several questions earlier...

This hardly secretive mass conspiracy to elect Barack Obama against all odds of qualification and suitability should alarm every persuasion of voting American. Please do not be hookdwinked by this conspiracy. Do your research. Remain clearheaded. Then vote your gut. This is too important an election to leave to the so-called media pundits and corrupted machine operatives. Vote intelligently. Vote with strength of character.

Readers of the The Two-Fisted Quorum no doubt have an inkling of my position, but the ballot box is open to all. So please, cast your vote, but cast with it an eye to the future of this country. Beware if you dare stand tall for our nation of false promises that soon find their undisclosed location swept under the carpet, bombing like so much the hot air which immediately proceeded it.

Read it all...

Guess Who I Am?

I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor’s office.

Did you guess?

I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900.

Oh, about that button. This year's "New Democrats" have reveled in the fact that they have scored a few pages out of the GOP playbook, after having vigorously pursued a scorched earth primary season which ended in a coup to install a staggering Barack Obama as its presidential nominee, and according to the Hillary blogosphere, literally beating back the minions of the Clinton campaign with rather unwholesome and undemocratic thug tactics. There is strong substantiated talk that Karl Rove set the whole mission in motion, resigning his post with the Bush White House in order to infiltrate the Democrats in somewhat of a Trojan Horse maneuver with Democratic Party strategist and Obama campaign managerDonna Brazile

Brazile most recently added more combustion fuel to the Obama-Palin lovefest by coining the awkward phrase that "Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor."

But not to be outdone, it wasn't long until another acerbic wit suggested that "Well, let's see. Al Capone was a community organizer. FDR was a governor."

So you see, voting in this election is more an act of faith than any hard evidence that either political party has your best interests in mind, so I think it is time that we think along the lines of JFK's famous dictum about who's best for the country. For me that leaves an easy choice. But then I realize that intelligence and faith are frequently found to be mutually exclusive, and this election cycle seems to insist on proving that this is not the most compelling season to hide behind open-ended slogans and empty suits. I'd prefer to leave those things to the community organizers of the world.

Okay, let's have some SNL fun.

HYPHENATED AMERICANS

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." [Teddy Roosevelt in a speech before the Knights of Columbus]

TEDDY ROOSEVELT HAD IT RIGHT

Teddy Roosevelt in Egypt
Despite almost certain risk of being tagged a filthy racist pig and anything else the heavy hearted, high-minded so-called globalist, uh I mean, anti-globalist, uh fiddlesticks, the uh, let's call 'em the "which is it" crowd, can fathom in their ragged pursuit of raging chaos they prefer to call peace in their lifetime—when it comes to immigration and those immigrants who refuse to assimilate into America, TR said it best:

"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 person's becoming in every facet 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 ... 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—from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919 three days prior to his death.

To clarify these points I am working offline on an essay which seeks to identify and apotheosize The True American. Of course, this process must begin with Thomas Paine. And I don't mean the monolithic American, but simply the true American. Stay tuned.