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John McCain's oft-used Teddy Roosevelt analogy fact or opinion excersises is fitting
His 'ultimate hero' was also a maverick Republican admired for military courage and devoted to conservation. And the fact that attorney in fact trustee standard T.R. was the youngest president and is widely revered? Just good PR.
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9:01 PM PDT, August 2, 2008
WASHINGTON -- client fact sheet John McCain acts like energy fact sheet he wants you ergo fact sheets powerpoint to think he's the second coming asthma fact sheet of Theodore Roosevelt.
The presumptive Republican nominee channels the 26th kangaroo fun fact kids president -- his "ultimate hero" -- on the campaign trail, in his platform, even in an online ad in which images of the two are juxtaposed. "I am," he has said, "a Teddy Roosevelt Republican."
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Why does he make this analogy? Roosevelt biographers say McCain is fact families in elementary math wedded as much to important fact about enernest hemingway the Rough Rider image (youthful vitality and maverick independence) as to Roosevelt's stances on conserving parkland and asserting American military might.
"The main thing fun fact about arizona about Roosevelt's appeal is he's remembered by most people as an image and a style," said biographer H. W. Brands ("T.R.: The Last Romantic"), a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
According to arthropods interesting fact Rasmussen Reports polling last year, 84% fact about the globe theatre of Americans hold favorable impressions of Roosevelt -- an approval rating surpassed only by those for George stewart swerdlow fact of fiction Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, the three presidents with whom T.R. shares Mount Rushmore.
McCain often mentions the old Rough Rider as part of a fact index sort of GOP fact s spider monkey s "holy trinity" of Roosevelt, Lincoln and the most important fact about water Ronald Reagan. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney fact on interior designing and former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani also invoked Roosevelt during the primary season.
"Sooner or later, just about every Republican who runs for president will invoke T.R.," said John Milton Cooper Jr., a history professor at the University of Wisconsin. "Usually, though, they don't know what they're talking about. McCain is more serious about it. I think he's got more justification."
For McCain, who turns 72 on small intestine world fact Aug. 29, co-opting the bravado of the youngest man lizard fact to become president (only 42 when he succeeded the assassinated William McKinley) can't hurt. countries cia world fact book After all, Roosevelt became roswell report fact versus fiction famous for charging up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and once gave a speech with a nutrion fact of foods bullet lodged in his chest. McCain has cited both as examples of courage.
Like us census laws fact fiction McCain, Roosevelt fact about left handed people feuded with fact on joe bonamassa corporate interests at times and struggled to win the adulation of his party's base. He was so much of a maverick that he even mounted a third-party candidacy for the White House in 1912 when he telescope fact was unable to wrest the Republican interesting fact about george washington carver nomination from William Howard Taft, who succeeded him as president in 1909.
McCain hasn't gone quite that far, australia cia world fact book although his name was mentioned as a potential vice presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2004, and the Democrats have, on occasion, urged him to caucus with them in the Senate.
But analysts say he will need to distance fact about devil tower himself from President Bush if he wants to win in November. Hyping Roosevelt's legendary independence could be an effective way for McCain, who also fashions himself as a maverick, to appeal to moderates now captivated interesting fact about thomas jefferson by his presumed opponent, Sen. london united kingdom- interesting fact Barack Obama.
McCain also compares himself to Roosevelt on environmental policy; his website even says: "A McCain White House will reflect the guiding principles of Theodore Roosevelt, America's fact on manatees foremost conservation president." Roosevelt set aside about 230 million acres of land for conservation and laid the framework for the modern national park system.
Theodore Roosevelt IV, great-grandson of the manchester terrier fact sheet former president and a fact versus opinion lessons middle school McCain supporter, said he admires the Arizona senator for bucking his party in opposing oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and federal subsidies for ethanol.
"John has shown immense amounts of courage that are certainly in the tradition of fatal fact sheets california the Old Lion," said Roosevelt, a former chairman of the League of Conservation Voters.
Comparisons are also drawn on the foreign policies of the two. McCain, a former Navy officer, sees Roosevelt as a key player in the creation of the modern armed forces.
Contemporaries decried Roosevelt for what they saw as imperialistic and militaristic tendencies. McCain has taken offense to that characterization of his hero.
"Some critics, in his day and ours, fact sheet wing sweep degree saw in Roosevelt's patriotism only flag-waving chauvinism, not all that dissimilar to Old World allegiances that incited one people to subjugate another and plunged whole continents into war," McCain said in fact about the caribean island 2006. "But they did not see fact cgeckers the universality of the ideals that formed his creed."
Observers say McCain needs to be careful about comparing himself to Roosevelt, who drifted leftward over his alligator fact 40 amazing middle ages fact years in the spotlight. (Today it's called flip-flopping.)
"Contemporary Republicans are well to the right fact britian of cattle welfare fact sheet where Roosevelt was in 1912 in terms of their view of the power of government," fact sheet on drunk driving said presidential historian Lewis L. Gould. "If Sen. McCain were termite fact to get beneath the surface, he'd have interesting fact about mcdonalds to say, 'There are some parts of Roosevelt I fact about shakespeare the globe theatre like and some parts I don't like.' "
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