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dbu wrote:
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> In article <452efd67$0$19617$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>,
> "dh" <dh@stargate.com> wrote:[/color]
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> > Democrats are all about preserving that sort of scenery. Glad you enjoyed
> > it. It was a CCC project of the Roosevelt Administration. He was a
> > Democrat, you know. A Progressive, in fact.[/color]
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> Well whoop-dee-doo!! Ever hear of Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican who
> contributed greatly to the national park system and preserved thousands
> of square miles of forrest lands. President Roosevelt was known as a
> conservationist. It is a misconception that the democrats own the
> environment, but this is what they want to portray thus another example
> of brainwashing the voter, LOL. Slick politics, another example of that
> is big Al's global warming crusade, LOL.[/color]

Was Teddy Roosevelt a liberal or conservative Republican? If a
conservative, how do you explain his nickname, "The Trust Buster", and
his advocacy of child labor laws and the Pure Food and Drug Act, which
established the Food and Drug Administration? And if he was a
conservative, why did he later run as the presidential nominee of the
Bull Moose party, AKA the Progressive party, after he lost the
Republican nomination? The Progressives favored voting rights for
women, health insurance for workers, and the income and inheritence
taxes.. Which of those views is conservative?