Editor, Times-Union:
Is there no one in the Democrat Party able to repair this mind-numbing broken record? Faced with having to come up with a message the American citizens will listen to is difficult after having lied to them for all these years. Rep. AOC and her socialist geriatric side kick have gone on tour and have come up with a new name for Donald Trump and his friend Elon Musk ... Oligarchy. I guess it’s better than Hitler or Nazi but it is a word made popular by Vladimir Lenin during the Bolshevik ascension to power in the Russian Revolution of 1917, ushering in the Communist Party.
I find it hard to believe the Democrats recognize AOC as their new party leader. I thought she was the reason they put directions on shampoo bottles, but I digress. Critics have been wasting our time trying to persuade us that Trump is anything but the patriot we know he is. It all brings to mind some famous excerpts of a speech I ready by Teddy Roosevelt:
“It is not the citric who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles of where the does of deeds could have done it better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even checkered by failure ... than to rank with those cold timid souls who neither enjoy or suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Teddy Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents and would often speak eloquently in his own defense. He too was maligned by his political rivals, always having to fight a resistant Democrat Party, but he succeeded in building one of the wonders of the world, the Panama Canal, in spite of them. He was a patriot, a visionary who led negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 and was awarded with the Noble Peace Prize. He established our National Parks system and helped guide America through the turn of the century.
Although the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt and Don Trump are separated by 115 years, they have astonishing similarities. They both strive to do great things despite an irrational, malcontent Democrat Party and a militia of news critics to diminish their endeavors. They both were shot by would be assassins and most importantly, they both showed up in their respective eras ... just in time to save the country they love.
Gerald Roach
Warsaw