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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Bully Birthday to You

Today is an important Fake Holiday: the 151st birthday of the great Theodore Roosevelt.

ABOVE: That's right, the man killed an elephant.
Probably lots of them, and not necessarily
with a gun. You have a problem with that?

TR was maybe not our greatest president, but he was hands down the coolest. Let's review:

  • The first sitting president to win a Nobel Peace Prize, and arguably the only one to deserve it (sorry, Wilson and Obama).
  • The only president to be awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor.
  • The only person ever to have both of the above awards.
  • The only president ever to stab a mountain lion.
  • He was a cowboy.
  • He was a cop.
  • He was a war hero.
  • He was an award-winning historian.
  • He was an award-winning nature writer.
  • He was an explorer.
  • He was a hardass.
  • He was a philosopher of hardassness.

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Blogger The Marmoset said...

You forgot to mention that he was the only president to be shot while delivering a speech... and then finish the speech.

3:34 PM  

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