Video: The Forgotten Man
How would the Founding Fathers react to the fall of the constitutional republic and the rise of Barack Obama? Artist Jon McNaughton
puts it on canvas. Watch the video (I especially appreciate the criticism of Obama’s predecessor implicit in the clip and painting. As I’ve observed many times, the Big Government Republican paved and pre-socialized the way for the Big Government Democrat.)
(h/t reader Seth Adam Smith)
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Lincoln and Reagan side by side. NICE.
The way I see it, if Obama is the Messiah, then Bush is John the Baptist.
Their expressions – quite interesting. FDR and Clinton seemingly pleased, Bush sad/concerned for the citizen, Lincoln shocked… Obama, resolute.
Just like Hoover for FDR.
We must rid ourselves of Progressives, no matter the party!
I REALLY like this artist. If my business ever gets back to the way it was before the Pelosi led Democrat Party took over, I’ll likely buy a print.
Impeach, vote out, or arrest obama and everything will be okay again.
Look at the Republicans on the left of Obama.
Spot on and powerful!
The dishonor that bho brought to himself by reciting the oath of office knowing full well that he didn’t honor or respect the Constitution. With that lie that he spoke that day, he brings dishonor to the office of the President and dishonor to the American public, which he has chosen not to serve. He is one big mistake, just like the quote on the carpet. He is one big fraud for the American public. Traitor is to kind of a word for him, since he is beyond a traitor.
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What an attention getter! That was great.
As a marxist he does not care.
Sorry, but TR did more to bring the United States onto the world stage than any other president. And his “liberal” policies were liberal for the day. He did use the term “welfare state,” but his meaning certainly wasn’t Marxist.
The laws and regulations that he passed are today viewed as “leveling the playing field,” primarily, and common sense.
I would have endorsed this painting, otherwise, but there’s simply no way you can convince me that TR aligns closer to Jimmy Carter or his cousin Franklin than he does with Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan.
Teddy was a hero, a genius, and a giant.
I find the artist’s views here to be historically inaccurate, and personally unpalatable.
Love the message in the video, the painting and words spoken.
I couldn’t agree more with Michelle on this topic, Bush and the Republican congress gets way too much credit for what they didn’t do and not enough blame for what they did do.
I can feel the responses coming as I type this…I could throw out the names but why bother I’ll amuse myself with their rants of anger, while they conveniently forget the truth.
Wow. Just wow.
Well it is high time that he and all the other Constitution shredders were made to care.
Oath, what’s that? And isn’t that the ultimate lie.
Wow. That’s awesome.
Speaking of “The Forgotten Man”, I’m 2/3 way through Amity Shlaes’ book of the same name. The hubris of FDR and his ‘brain trust’ is unbelievable. Obeyme is a rookie by comparison. However, the playbook (i.e the mistakes) are the same. Fortunately, Obummer isn’t nearly as charismatic, and the people have caught on quicker.
Indeed it is: thank you Miss Malkin, Mr. McNaughton.
Our Constitution: well worth fight for wouldn’t you say?
His painting was wrong in one respect. Obama stepped in a pile of dog @#$% before he stepped on the Constitution.
If you haven’t already, you should go look at it on the artist’s site. You can hover over each president and get a small blurb of honest, sometimes painful truth about each one.
Awesome Picture! I just sent the link to everyone I could think of….
Meanwhile in other news, while the nation is hurting Michelle Obama is holding a dance recital at the WH.
Oh and remember how a two state solution is all we need to secure peace in the middle east….well Abbas says no to recognizing Israel (How long till Obama blames it on Bush and the Israelis?)
Israel should recognize a Palistinian state. Then after the first Katyushka rocket lands in Israel, declare war on Palestine and level it. Problem solved.
Good painting and message. Only one problem, Lincoln was the original president to tear up the Constitution. He set the pattern for what Wilson, FDR, and LBJ subsequently finished.
Look closely at the history of the War of Northern Aggression, you will see that Lincoln started the thing. Yes, the South fired on Sumter, but only when Lincoln invaded the harbor. The reason for the invasion? To collect the tax. Much has been said about restoring the Union. But what is the Union, the fact is that Lincoln prevent a region from exercising its right for self determination. That is the most fundamental of human rights.
Slavary? On its way out and would not have survived another 10 years. Yet Lincoln supported the 13th amendment that would have assured slavary to this day.
The Founders might have quoted from The Living Bible if they had it. They had the King James. Psalms 139 21 22. Our forgotten man is the entire world who loves God. Our country is the only nation on the face of the earth that lets those of every faith be here.
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You could spend a lot of time at that website looking at the magnified details. Well worth it. There is lot to study in that painting.
Yes, I must admit I went right to a couple of my personal irritants and found that the artist seemed to represent them fairly.
When a POTUS puts his hand on a Bible and takes a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America…that is powerful stuff. And if that POTUS breaks the oath, it is TREASON. Why isn’t anyone calling it that? Are we afraid of the consequences??? Well, I say, tell the truth and get this guy out of office. Our country can survive that. What we can’t survive is much more of this Chicago Thug Community Organizer Mafia-Style Marxist A-Hole. Of course, that is just my humble opinion.
One picture is worth 10,000 words.
I agree with Rob: Having listened to some of Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign speeches from 1912, he sounds a lot like Sarah Palin. He railed against Candidate Wilson’s liberal ideology and Big Government Ideas, as well as then-President Taft’s giovernmental meddling with the peoples’ business. Yes, President Roosevelt did take down the trusts, but he did it to protect the American People from graft and unregulated pricing, but that doesn’t mean he looked over the shoulders of every large business of his day. One of the reasons he broke with Taft was because of his big government ideas which were getting the USA into truble. He even helped to form the Progressive Party which, in his day, was akin to the Tea Party Movement of today: conservative ideals, standing up for what is right, and taking up the stick when necessary (San Juan Hill and the “Rough Riders” anyone?)
Personally, I looked for Theodore Roosevelt in the crowd of Presidents to Mr. Obama’s right, and was rather surprised to see him “applauding” with the Presidents on his left. Theodore Roosevelt should not be on that side. He would be appalled at President Obama, and would rightly speak out fervently against him, just as he spoke out against President Wilson time and again. He even sided with Coal Strikers during the massive coal strike of 1901~02 in one of his earliest acts as President of the United States. I would appeal to the artist to please move President Theodore Roosevelt to the left of the picture, to the right of Obama. Were ghe alive today, Roosevelt would be taking on Obama, not agreeing with him (just as he did President Wilson, much to the latter’s chagrine)…
*I have said it many a time; George Bush saddled up this socialism horse and P-BO is attempting to ride it for all its’ worth; The GOP needs to own up to that reality real soon or their trust level will remain at less than zero!
Again, agrees much with this statement. Prez Linclon suspended Mhaebeas corpus and in the outset of the war, made it clear that he wasn’t out to end slavery but to save the union. He was, also, repeatedly asked by the Confederate Government to remove the garrison out of what was then-South Carolina property, Fort Sumter, and Lincoln refused.
As far as slavery is concerned, it would actually have ended ibn `63 or `64 had the war not happened…
A well-made painting, though it would’ve been perfectly suitable if BOTH Obama and Bush had their shoes on the Constitution.
I just watched John Boehner being interviewed by Larry Kudlow on CNBC who asked him to reveal the GOP plans to get the economy on track after November and whether it includes a Tea Party Contract from America agenda. Lay up right? Hanging curve ball over the middle of the plate belt high right? Wrong!
Boehner waffled until settling on stressing the need to “put aside our differences and “work together in a bipartisan manner” to arrive at solutions. Hardly “repeal Obamacare” or cut spending. Just a general attitude.
So it’s back to “reaching across the aisle” and getting back on the Bush program. Hello Hillary in 2012!
“Raise the GOP Titanic!!!”
John Boner actually said “work together in a bipartisan manner…?” Well, that’s just great… What an ass!
Darn it! What is wrong with these people?!?!
Liberals and Milquetoasts OUT! TEA PARTY CONSTITUTIONALISTS IN!!
National defense, a few roads, maybe the post office. That’s IT! I wouldn’t allocate a dime for anything else!
I’d balance the budget in 1 day if I ran things.
Hey if we want sympathy, we can find it in the dictionary. We are not the guy on the bench. It will be a cold day in h@11 before I view us in that way.
We are Americans.
If only the Tea Party were an ACTUAL Party….
hahaha…this is the same guy who brought us Jesus anointing the Constitution.
his usual drivel. But let’s be kind–someone lied to him when he was little and told him he was a worthwhile human being.
And your point is……?
Just an interesting discovery is all. Thought I’d share it with the group.
Well that was mighty nice of you, bless your heart, we’d never have spotted your interesting discovery by ourselves. What would we do without you to educate us?
Why, thank you. Bless your heart too!
The North handling of the secession issue always seemed one of convience to me. On one hand, they were fighting to prevent the Southern states from seceeding. (Ye old, “save the union” rallying cry.) And then after they were victorious, what did they do? Make the the Southern states be readmitted to the Union. Never made sense to me. If secession was illegal, those states never left and thus couldn’t be readmitted. And if secession was legal, why weren’t the states permitted to leave?
What was that play/movie-Damn Yankees? I never could get it right-New york Yankees or that Lincoln fellow? One of them.
What’s wrong is that politicians are so far removed from the average American that they can’t see the forest for the trees. Most of them are waiting for people to calm down and forget about whatever it is that they’re mad about….so they, the politicians, can get back to running the country their way. They don’t get it. They don’t get that they ARE the problem. We’d better make sure we do something about that in November or we will be changing the name of the US to the United Socialist Nation of America.
Unless of course the Bible has no real meaning to him, he is not changed.
Not exactly the act of a free market capitalist.
The Progressive Party by definition would not be conservative. Unless by that you mean being a Big Government Conservationist and buying up land to keep it out of the hands of people.
TR was not President when he was in Cuba.
So he was on the side of the unions. All progressives are. How would that be different from Obama? He didn’t force the coal company into the hands of the union?
b-cat,
Where, again, does free market capitalism prevent labor from organizing? Can you show me where it is written that the owners of the capital can organize and do whatever they choose, but the workers have to shut up and take whatever conditions and pay they are offered?
Roosevelt was correct in supporting the unions. Remember, unions were a VERY different thing than they are today. These weren’t the “standing union monopsonies” that we see today. Not by a long shot.
I despise most standing unions, but I would defend the right to organize with my life. It’s essentially the right to free assembly.
Roosevelt was the United States first Hawk, on a global stage, when it was appropriate to be a hawk. What he did in Panama is completely anathema to ANY liberal sensibility. His nationalizing public lands and making them parks was “progressive,” but I thank him for it every time I visit one of them.
Nobody said that he was president when he stormed Kettle Hill. What we’re saying is that he walked the walk, not just talked the talk. He was a legitimate war hero. He was a HUGE believe in personal freedoms, but also a HUGE believer in personal RESPONSIBILITY.
That last issue, alone, completely removes him from the liberals.
Nixon called for Universal Health Care – do you think he’s liberal, because of that? Reagan made deficit spending the center-piece of his budgets… care to call him a liberal?
Teddy Roosevelt was conservative before the word was in use. More than perhaps any other US President he believed in personal responsbility, coupled with what he called a “square deal.”
I wouldn’t give you 2 cents for a painting that paints him differently.
The artist has a right to be stupid, but I have a right to tell him that he’s being stupid, too.
Our problems have always come from politicians, hasn’t changed, won’t change until government is Citizen-Centric rather than Party and Agenda driven.
Of course the southern states had the right to secede. It was a war of conquest.
One may argue the northern states were right to engage in a war of conquest against the southern states, given the abomination of slavery and the international dangers dividing the country would create, but the war was what it was.
People just like to pretend it was something else since conquest is so mean and unfair.
That’s all good and fine. But there’s nothing strictly constitutional about any of it.
Although I love the painting, I would have preferred the man to not be sitting down, looking defeated. I would have preferred him to be standing strong, with a accusatory right finger pointed at Obeyme, like he’s screaming, and I would see a rifle at the carry position on his left arm. Americans are not going to sit down and shut up. Thank you.
b-cat, I would challenge you to listen to Roosevelt’s 1912 campaign speeches. He shifts responsibility away from the government and to the public, stating that, yes, there should be regulatiion, but by the people, not the government. Does that sound like a liberal? He takes up the plight of children and women in the labor force, stating that large businesses, again, were wrong to overemploy women and overwork them, and to employ children in any fashion. Sound like a champion for liberalism? He calls the Republicans and the Democrats parties of the government and establishment, but the Progressive Party the party and the voice of the people. Liberal or Tea Party-er before the modern version?
Again, as was stated by RobM1981, Roosevelt was one to walk the walk and talk the talk, unlike many of our politicians and government people of today (I wonder how many in Obama’s administration alone bothered ot pick up a weapon and take a military oath). Nobody said anything about Roosevelt being president and doing anything in Cuba: he did his work in Cuba as a volunteer for the US Army. When trouble came in 1898m, he served; when trouble came again in 1917, he was, again, congressionally allowed to prepare to serve, but his era’s version of Obama forbade it, much to the USA’s detriment…
As far as TR tackling Big Business – Monopolies – again, he did it to wipe out graft and the employment of children, and, in fact, to aid all employers. I remember Reagan doing the same thing as President with certain aspects of American business (like firing all of the air traffic controllers for striking and brining in the US Military – a government entity; was Reagan a liberal for doing so?) and his immediate successor doing similarly, as did his successor’s son.
I would also challenge you to take a good, close look at the Progressive Party when it was led by Roosevelt and not LaFollette. Roosevelt made it a grassroots thing; LaFollette made it a top down entity when Roosevelt left (which is why it failed to sustain itself) and returned ot the GOP. TR was more interested in fiscal responsibility and accountability for the government by the people (Tea Party today demands the same). TR demanded a “Square Deal” for farmers and their families (again, sounds like the Tea Party). TR petitioned the government and the people for fair wages and fair market enterprise within free market capitalism, allowing Mom-and-Pop to survive even against the giant conglomerates he had tackled a decade before (Tea Party People again ask for the Government to allow Mom-and-Pop to prosper). But don’t take my word for it: listen to TR on the campaign trail himself.
As far as suporting the coal strike, I grew up in a coal state, and RobM1981 is right: the unions of today are a far different species of bear than what was a century ago, especially when the Onwers generally tried to tie their worker’s lives to the smallest minutiea to the company (“I owe my soul to the company store” isn’t just a verse of a catchy song). In fact, owners then were much the same as Unions today, demanding breaks for themselves and their top workers, while rifling the working man’s pocketbooks and demanding they vote a certain way.
Teddy Rosevelt desired a strong America, and during his two terms as President, brought it about. He was America First all the way (hardly in the same vein as Obama or Clinton) and as he vigorously opposed President Wilson and his policies throughout the latter years of his life, so today Roosevelt would be baminging away and blasting at President Obama (and would have also done to Clinton). I like this painting, but the artist has grossly misinterpreted and misrepresented Theodore roosevelt. He should be far to the right of Obama, not claping as he steps all over the Constitution. In hact, he should be portrayed as preparing to take the Big Stick to Obama’s noggin….
So the President – despite his oath to uphold and defend the Constitution – should just stand aside and watch as big business (too big of a business) has its way with the downtrodden and the helpless that are *ahem* “employed” by them, denying constitutional rights of those employed by them? After all, big business is a private enterprise….right? Is it further constitutional for the President to just sit back and relax while big businesses unconstitutionally disallow small business to prosper, hounding them at every turn, and eventually putting them out of business? Is it further constitional for a President to stand idly by while coal companies their owners invade and pervade every facet and sector of miners’ lives, where the Constituion of the United states of America forbids such, even to the police and other law enforcement entities?
Taken on the whole, I’d say that Teddy Roosevelt’s actions were ENTIRELY Constitutional….and the USA is better because he upheld and defended it from both foreign and domestic enemies, both before, during, and after his time as President….