U.S. Presidents Podcast

Awesome stuff. Would love to hear more.

TR great? Great but terrible, dishonest, and tyrannical. TR a nationalist and an internationalist? TR sold out the Koreans to the Japanese because he thought the Japanese were a better race. TR sold out the Russians to the Japanese through chicanery. The Russians would have crushed the Japanese had they continued to fight. The Japanese were at the end of their rope when TR fooled the Russians into talking peace. TR a realist? That’s a joke. A realist wouldn’t have created the Bull Moose Party. A realist wouldn’t have turned the country over to racist Woodrow Wilson. Karma got the bastard. He lost his son in the Great War which he vigorously argued the the US should fight. And for what? England defeating Germany? We had no business fighting in the Great War.

I could have learned as much if I skimmed Wikipedia. No personal touch, just a short article that happens to be read by somebody.

The one I listened to was the one about Theodore Roosevelt. The prof. lecturing let's you know right away that he is a BIG fan of extreme left progressivism. No thanks, I don't need the indoctrination. I hope you guys aren't planning on doing any of the president's between Lincoln and McKinley because he comes right out and says that they were all pretty much nameless and faceless guys with whiskers (I am NOT kidding, that is almost a direct quote), they didn't really do anything of note, and besides nothing much really happened in those years. Then he goes on to say that when TR, Wilson, FDR, and Truman really strengthened the presidency (note that he leaves out Coolidge, Harding, and Hoover all three conservatives) we had two world wars and a great depression. When I hear this I start thinking that the nameless faceless guys with whiskers are looking pretty good!! I'll try a couple more but if I see any type of bias I will be done with this.