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voiced some sort of disappointment
No mimed disappointment?
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¨When asked by TPM about McKinleyâs lasting legacy, Kenney cited his role as commander-in-chief during the Spanish-American War, which she said, was the first time the U.S. went to war on foreign soil.
âThat was a fundamental shift in our foreign policy,â Kenney told TPM. "The United States became a global power with that war and it set the precedent for foreign policy into the 20th century and the 21st century. No one really realizes that or talks about that.¨¨
Yeah, we became a world-class imperialist nation under McKinley. For which we should be ashamed, not proud.
As Mark Twain wrote toward the end of McKinleyâs first term:
I left these shores, at Vancouver, a red-hot imperialist. I wanted the American eagle to go screaming into the Pacific. It seemed tiresome and tame for it to content itself with he Rockies. Why not spread its wings over the Phillippines, I asked myself? And I thought it would be a real good thing to do
I said to myself, here are a people who have suffered for three centuries. We can make them as free as ourselves, give them a government and country of their own, put a miniature of the American constitution afloat in the Pacific, start a brand new republic to take its place among the free nations of the world. It seemed to me a great task to which had addressed ourselves.
But I have thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Phillippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. . .
It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
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I always assumed the McKinley Presidential Library would be, like, in a small Craftsman.
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Forgive her. She has a lonely job.
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The librarian sounds pretty level-headed to me.
And the Ohio Republican delegation had an issue with something Obama did? Did they wait to hear what happened before voicing their displeasure, or after?
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I wish the mountainâs original name was Muhammad just to make the wingnutâs heads really explode.
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âââThat was a fundamental shift in our foreign policy,â Kenney told TPM. âThe United States became a global power with that warâ"""
Yup and from then on missed the entire point in being a global superpower. Our first President warned us about wars but McKinley did not listen. We are a global power because we can do wars ( not so well in the last 75 years but that has not stopped us ) . Shame.
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I prefer disappointments to be expressed through interpretative dance myself.
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That matters?
Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio) called renaming the mountain â back to what it used to be called â âconstitutional overreachâ. I kid you not.
Honestly, thatâs just laugh-out-loud stupid. Even for a Republican Representative.
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Shouldnât that be the Denali Presidential Library?
What Obama should have done was rename it Mount Inclusiveness and planted a rainbow flag on its peak.
Then rename the Mississippi river as Al Gore river!!!
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I love this story. Kudos to the curator for keeping her chin up. And she is right. Its probably the only time in her entire time on the job that the phone has actually been ringing with reporters asking her questions about McKinley. Or anything, really.
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McKinley, an Ohio native who was assassinated six months into his
second-term, is often forgotten because of President Teddy Rooseveltâs
âlarger-than-lifeâ presidency, which followed McKinleyâs.
History repeats, right President Trump?
Youâd almost think itâs something the State of Alaska has been requesting for the last 40 years if the action wasnât so damn liberal⌠it could only come from Obama!
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We were going to war with the Spanish âEmpireâ (reasons) because frankly while we could, both the Cuban and Filipino leadership at the time were cheer-leading for us to intervene. Now the Cuban rebels might have forgotten that this country wanted to make Cuba a bunch of slave states at one time.
But because it was the Spanish governmentâŚthe Americans were seen as the better alternative.
(I didnât get into the Maine, because then Hearst would have to be mentioned as well.)
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âMcKinley, an Ohio native who was assassinated six months into his second-term, is often forgotten because of President Teddy Rooseveltâs âlarger-than-lifeâ presidency, which followed McKinleyâsâ McKinley was part of the pro-business faction of the Republican party while Roosevelt was part of the pro-reform faction. Then, as now, the pro-business faction hates Hates HATES those reformer types. The Republican party bosses decided to get rid of that Reformer Roosevelt by making him the Vice- Presidentâ where politicians go to die. Ahhhhh but âthe best laid plans of mice and menâŚâ BTW: Mark Twainâs âWar Poemâ is about the Spanish./American war which he hotly denounce. Rudyard Kipling (Britainâs famed imperialist poet) wrote âWhit Manâs Burdenâ in honor of the Spanish American war.
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A President McKinley Presidential library. Who new? (except Ohioans, apparently.)
ok Iâll bite. How many visitors did the McKinley Presidential Library have in 2014?
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Same here in Iowa with The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.
Itâs actually a VERY interesting visit, one which I didnât get to until after my first 10 years here. I had passed by it Iâm sure close to 100 times without deigning to stop, âcuz, well, yaâ know.
For those of you traversing the mid-section of the country, itâs right on I-80, about 20 miles east of Iowa City. (That would be about 50 miles west of the Mississippi as you cross into Iowa from Illinois).