When Presidents Were Real Men

[Weatherman2020]

Imagine a President today standing on the edge of a 3,000 ft cliff with no guard rail. Or getting shot in the chest while giving a speech then finishing the speech. Ike, JFK, Reagan, Bush's all fit the bill too.

 

[Pogo]

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

 

[The Great Goose]

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

 

[Pogo]

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The election year was 1912.

The Socialist was Eugene Debs, the guy with big hair was "Fightin' Bob" LaFollette. LaFollette was the last Progressive -- a term that's loosely and incorrectly used by political novices today as if they still exist.

 

[The Great Goose]

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The year was 1912.

I thought he WAS president.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Imagine a President today standing on the edge of a 3,000 ft cliff with no guard rail. Or getting shot in the chest while giving a speech then finishing the speech. Ike, JFK, Reagan, Bush's all fit the bill too.

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Yeah, fuck Hillary, she's not a real man.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Imagine a President today standing on the edge of a 3,000 ft cliff with no guard rail. Or getting shot in the chest while giving a speech then finishing the speech. Ike, JFK, Reagan, Bush's all fit the bill too.

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Also, maybe it's the fact that these guys kept getting shot that stops them being "real men" any more.

 

[Wry Catcher]

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

TR

 

[Pogo]

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The year was 1912.

I thought he WAS president.

He was, prior to that. He left office in 1909 to what he thought was his successor, Taft. But Taft went too conservative for his tastes, so TR challenged him for the nomination in '12 -- which is when he was shot (and, it's true, continued his speech).

LaFollette actually won the first couple of primaries before TR overtook him and then went on to sweep almost all the rest. Taft, the incumbent, won one state, barely. But the Party ignored the primary results as that was the time it wanted to establish a path to the right, which Taft would deliver and Roosevelt would not. So they both ran in the general election, and Wilson was left to benefit from it.

We have a strange electoral system -- the more candidates who run, the easier it is for any one of them to win with a minority of the vote.

 

[Gracie]

I wish we had another JFK. I surely do.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

I think all the presidents have been glamorized. Though, a few were truly great men at least in some respects.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

I wish we had another JFK. I surely do.

I wish we had another Lyndon B Johnson as VP.

 

[Dale Smith]

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The year was 1912.

I thought he WAS president.

He was, prior to that. He left office in 1909 to what he thought was his successor, Taft. But Taft went too conservative for his tastes, so TR challenged him for the nomination in '12 -- which is when he was shot (and, it's true, continued his speech).

LaFollette actually won the first couple of primaries before TR overtook him and then went on to sweep almost all the rest. Taft, the incumbent, won one state, barely. But the Party ignored the primary results as that was the time it wanted to establish a path to the right, which Taft would deliver and Roosevelt would not. So they both ran in the general election, and Wilson was left to benefit from it.

We have a strange electoral system -- the more candidates who run, the easier it is for any one of them to win with a minority of the vote.

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The year was 1912.

I thought he WAS president.

He was, prior to that. He left office in 1909 to what he thought was his successor, Taft. But Taft went too conservative for his tastes, so TR challenged him for the nomination in '12 -- which is when he was shot (and, it's true, continued his speech).

LaFollette actually won the first couple of primaries before TR overtook him and then went on to sweep almost all the rest. Taft, the incumbent, won one state, barely. But the Party ignored the primary results as that was the time it wanted to establish a path to the right, which Taft would deliver and Roosevelt would not. So they both ran in the general election, and Wilson was left to benefit from it.

We have a strange electoral system -- the more candidates who run, the easier it is for any one of them to win with a minority of the vote.

Wrong, Teddy Roosevelt was financed by the banking oligarchs to run against Taft in order to pull votes away from so Wilson (the choice of the bankers) could win because he agreed in advance to sign over the control of the nation's money supply to them. The Bull Moose Party was financed by the big banks and it accomplished it's goal. Taft was against a central bank just like most of our founding fathers.

 

[Pogo]

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The year was 1912.

I thought he WAS president.

He was, prior to that. He left office in 1909 to what he thought was his successor, Taft. But Taft went too conservative for his tastes, so TR challenged him for the nomination in '12 -- which is when he was shot (and, it's true, continued his speech).

LaFollette actually won the first couple of primaries before TR overtook him and then went on to sweep almost all the rest. Taft, the incumbent, won one state, barely. But the Party ignored the primary results as that was the time it wanted to establish a path to the right, which Taft would deliver and Roosevelt would not. So they both ran in the general election, and Wilson was left to benefit from it.

We have a strange electoral system -- the more candidates who run, the easier it is for any one of them to win with a minority of the vote.

That guy who got shot in the chest and continued giving the speech, wound up running the table with primary victories. Won most of them easily. Dude from New York whose critics called him an 'egomaniac'.

He took those primary votes into the convention expecting to win but the establishment snubbed him and nominated the conservative guy from Ohio.

Shot-in-the-chest guy went down the street, started his own party and ran anyway. Came in second, pushing the Republican to third and siphoning off enough votes that Woodrow Wlson won the White House with less than 42% of the popular vote.

Oh yeah the election also featured a popular Socialist and a guy with big hair.

True story.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The year was 1912.

I thought he WAS president.

He was, prior to that. He left office in 1909 to what he thought was his successor, Taft. But Taft went too conservative for his tastes, so TR challenged him for the nomination in '12 -- which is when he was shot (and, it's true, continued his speech).

LaFollette actually won the first couple of primaries before TR overtook him and then went on to sweep almost all the rest. Taft, the incumbent, won one state, barely. But the Party ignored the primary results as that was the time it wanted to establish a path to the right, which Taft would deliver and Roosevelt would not. So they both ran in the general election, and Wilson was left to benefit from it.

We have a strange electoral system -- the more candidates who run, the easier it is for any one of them to win with a minority of the vote.

Wrong, Teddy Roosevelt was financed by the banking oligarchs to run against Taft in order to pull votes away from so Wilson (the choice of the bankers) could win because he agreed in advance to sign over the control of the nation's money supply to them. The Bull Moose Party was financed by the big banks and it accomplished it's goal. Taft was against a central bank just like most of our founding fathers.

I'm sure if a limb falls off a fucking tree you think it's a conspiracy by the Illuminati combined with played-backwards messages on Beatles records too.

 

[Unkotare]

I wish we had another JFK. I surely do.

We haven't been brought close enough in a while to nuclear war for you?

 

[Dale Smith]

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The year was 1912.

I thought he WAS president.

He was, prior to that. He left office in 1909 to what he thought was his successor, Taft. But Taft went too conservative for his tastes, so TR challenged him for the nomination in '12 -- which is when he was shot (and, it's true, continued his speech).

LaFollette actually won the first couple of primaries before TR overtook him and then went on to sweep almost all the rest. Taft, the incumbent, won one state, barely. But the Party ignored the primary results as that was the time it wanted to establish a path to the right, which Taft would deliver and Roosevelt would not. So they both ran in the general election, and Wilson was left to benefit from it.

We have a strange electoral system -- the more candidates who run, the easier it is for any one of them to win with a minority of the vote.

but who was the guy who got shot in the chest?

Teddy Roosevelt.

The year was 1912.

I thought he WAS president.

He was, prior to that. He left office in 1909 to what he thought was his successor, Taft. But Taft went too conservative for his tastes, so TR challenged him for the nomination in '12 -- which is when he was shot (and, it's true, continued his speech).

LaFollette actually won the first couple of primaries before TR overtook him and then went on to sweep almost all the rest. Taft, the incumbent, won one state, barely. But the Party ignored the primary results as that was the time it wanted to establish a path to the right, which Taft would deliver and Roosevelt would not. So they both ran in the general election, and Wilson was left to benefit from it.

We have a strange electoral system -- the more candidates who run, the easier it is for any one of them to win with a minority of the vote.

Wrong, Teddy Roosevelt was financed by the banking oligarchs to run against Taft in order to pull votes away from so Wilson (the choice of the bankers) could win because he agreed in advance to sign over the control of the nation's money supply to them. The Bull Moose Party was financed by the big banks and it accomplished it's goal. Taft was against a central bank just like most of our founding fathers.

I'm sure if a limb falls off a fucking tree you think it's a conspiracy by the Illuminati combined with played-backwards messages on Beatles records too.

I'm sure that I know more than you and it seems to irk you for some reason. I'm not trying to "one -up" anyone. I am simply trying to get people to wake up...nothing more or less. Read the book "Creature From Jekyll Island"...you can get it for free by downloading it on -line. That's not my only source but it's a very detailed account of the unconstitutional passing of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

 

[Dale Smith]

I wish we had another JFK. I surely do.

We haven't been brought close enough in a while to nuclear war for you?

Your knowledge of the Cuban missile crisis is lacking. Kennedy actually wanted to enter a period of real peace by ridding the parasites that make money off of war that run our banking system...that was why he was killed. JFK wanted to right the wrongs of the past leaders that were complicit in enslaving the world in this never ending debt cycle of fiat currency. Regardless of the faults and weaknesses that he had in his personal life, he was, at heart, a very good man that wanted to right the wrongs. He got his "pass down" from Eisenhower about the military industrial complex and he wanted to fix it.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Imagine a President today standing on the edge of a 3,000 ft cliff with no guard rail. Or getting shot in the chest while giving a speech then finishing the speech. Ike, JFK, Reagan, Bush's all fit the bill too.

View attachment 86297

Yeah, fuck Hillary, she's not a real man.

Taking heavy enemy fire while coming into a hot LZ, Hillary is the men of men.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I think all the presidents have been glamorized. Though, a few were truly great men at least in some respects.

No matter how hard the media tried to make him a man, the effort turned futile.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Imagine a President today standing on the edge of a 3,000 ft cliff with no guard rail. Or getting shot in the chest while giving a speech then finishing the speech. Ike, JFK, Reagan, Bush's all fit the bill too.

View attachment 86297

Yeah, fuck Hillary, she's not a real man.

Taking heavy enemy fire while coming into a hot LZ, Hillary is the men of men.

Making fire is some sort of drug she was one, and she was taking it while going into somewhere rather warm/