Comments on: 100 Years Ago—A Chaotic Presidential Election http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/11/03/archives/post-perspective/1912-election.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1912-election Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Ima Ryma http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/11/03/archives/post-perspective/1912-election.html/comment-page-1#comment-450502 Ima Ryma Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:01:54 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=75066#comment-450502 Teddy Roosevelt, as Bull Moose,
In 1912 for Prez reran,
Got shot by a guy with screws loose,
Screwing up Teddy’s orate plan.
Teddy knew that he had been shot
Through the speech tucked inside his vest,
Not coughing blood, correctly thought
The slug was not deep in his chest.
And so for 90 minutes he,
With his scheduled speech, did proceed,
Even while bleeding profusely.
Hard to stop a Bull Moose – indeed!

That Prez bid, Teddy did not win,
But lived thanks to thick speech and skin.

]]> By: Bob McGowan http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/11/03/archives/post-perspective/1912-election.html/comment-page-1#comment-449865 Bob McGowan Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:17:54 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=75066#comment-449865 Chaotic is putting it nicely, Jeff. The cartoon depicting the Wild West was more like it. One can only imagine how angry Teddy Roosevelt was with himself in having Taft as a friend, and vice-versa after all that went down.

As I write these comments, the 2012 election is just a few days off and is giving me cause to think of what unknown outcomes will result from its outcome. Of course, we’ll be lucky to know that by Nov. 6th. Hopefully we won’t have to wait as long as Thanksgiving or possibly even Christmas to know. It’s ashame I can’t say “just kidding” with that last sentence—but I can’t.

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