The Cheney precedent: Will Ryan serve as ‘assistant president’?

The Cheney precedent: Will Ryan serve as ‘assistant president’?

Sol W. Sanders   Jack Garner, a Texan whom Franklin Delano Roosevelt chose as his first vice president for “balance,” put it succinctly: The vice presidency was “not worth a bucket of warm p–” (later cleaned up to “spit”). But Garner, ironically enough, helped block FDR’s power grab when that most charismatic of presidents tried […]

Barack Obama is no Theodore Roosevelt ‘Progressive’

Barack Obama is no Theodore Roosevelt ‘Progressive’

Special to WorldTribune.com Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media President Barack Obama himself and his supporters in the Soros-funded Center for American Progress have tried to suggest that Obama’s progressive philosophy is somehow based on or related to what President Theodore Roosevelt said and believed. This is a clumsy attempt […]