From an editorial written (during the last year of World War I) by Theodore Roosevelt:
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. 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. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
Article comments
1 - san
Beauty.
2 - stef
The first comment sums it all up in one word.
3 - Brian Flemming
I don't know who this "Theodore Roosevelt" peacenik is, but if I had my way his kind would be jailed for that sort of sedition. If Theodore doesn't like it here, why doesn't he just go to another country? I'm sure North Korea would be happy with his kind.
Go ahead and wave your hippie signs around, Theodore. You obviously have no idea what it means to serve your country. If your country called you to serve you'd probably be the first one to head for the hills. Yeah, wave your little sign around and puke all over the place. See if I care. Nobody is listening to you anyway.
Meanwhile me and my fellow REAL Americans will stand by our President without questioning him.
Pinko.