By GottaLaff
It's L.A. Times letters to the editor time:
Roosevelt then, Obama now
Re "Roosevelt was right — we need more Americans ‘in the arena,' " Opinion, April 23
Bob and Elizabeth Dole remind us of the words of Theodore Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena … who does actually strive to do the deeds."
As I read this, I could think only of our president, who is striving so valiantly to solve our problems. And the critics: the Rush Limbaughs, the Glenn Becks and, yes, many in Congress — the small men who, for power and money, do nothing but criticize, tear down and attempt to destroy him.
Sadly, too many Americans admire the critics, whose negativity serves only to destroy, rather than the doer, "whose place shall never be with those cold and timid souls" but who "spends himself in a worthy cause" because that is what brave men do.
It is time we rethink our heroes.
And our priorities. And our approach to "news". And the way we communicate. Feel free to add other rethinkitudes in Comments.
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