Reply #38: I am well aware. The analogy is not perfect. TR was a man of his times.

[tom_paine]

While that doesn't excuse him, it was not his Imperialist aspect I was likening Edawrds to, but his trust-busting and his reigning in of corporate excess.

You do make a good point, but then, FDR imprisoned the Japanese-Americans.

Hell, for that matter, Ben Franklin ran a whorehouse and Thomas Jefferson bedded his slaves.

No one is perfect.

I also believe that he will take aggressive steps to end the Iraq War, his flubbing of the "gotcha" 2013 question, notwithstanding.

I could be wrong, so could anybody be about any candidate they support. We won't know if/until they get into office.

But my point about TR was not referring to his imperialist side, and I feel pretty confident in saying that ALL our Democratic candidates are not Imperialists, except maybe Sen. Clinton and if she is, it is considerably milder that Bush Imperialism.