We need Roosevelt in office NOW

[bboswell]

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
"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

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/troosevelt.asp

[Cropduster]

Amen!!!!

[Burnadell]

Hmmm...our forefathers didn't bother to learn the Indians' language when they immigrated to America. ...just a thought.

[Luck_of_the_Draw]

Hmmm...our forefathers didn't bother to learn the Indians' language when they immigrated to America. ...just a thought.

So are we going to be put on reservations when "they" take over.

[TurkeyTracker]

Let us see if this meets the stadards?

Teddy also had a great quote about hyphenated names-which is exactly what has happened, the Black Caucus, LULAC, etc. are really just the start of the balkanization of America by suggesting that one group has a totally different set of needs than any other American group, consider this quote from TR.

TR was the author of numerous history books, campaigned as a trust buster, created the civil service on merit not patronage, and personally negotiated the end to the Russian Japanese war noting at the time that the Japanese intransigence suggested we would probably have to deal with them sooner or later, another great prediction that sadly came true, anyway....

.. There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic…