Favorite President ?

[mookiemookie]

I admire Teddy Roosevelt. He championed the idea of the "Square Deal," which he would have been lambasted by the drooling yahoos of today for. He wanted to reign in corporate excesses, namely in the railroads:

Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic. We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth

Plus, he was a badass. I mean here he is riding a swimming moose: