Page 189 - Planet Rothschild. Volume 1 : the forbidden history of the new world order, 1763-1939

1905-1908
MARK TWAIN NAILS TR TO THE LITERARY CROSS

One thing that great writers all have in common is the uncanny ability to read
human nature and to see through the facades of our behavior. The legendary
Mark Twain had TR all figured out. His brutal and illuminating words,
accumulated over a period of 6 years, speak for themselves.

“He is magnificent when his ears are pricked up and his tail is in the air, and he
attacks a lightning express, only to be lost in the dust the express creates. (25)
Mr. Roosevelt is the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the twentieth century;
always showing off; always hunting for a chance to show off; in his frenzied
imagination the Great Republic is a vast Barnum circus with him for a clown
and the whole world for audience; he would go to Halifax for half a chance to
show off and he would go to hell for a whole one. (26) We are insane, each in
our own way, and with insanity goes irresponsibility. Theodore the man is sane;
in fairness we ought to keep in mind that Theodore, as statesman and politician,
is insane and irresponsible. (27) Our people have adored this showy charlatan
as perhaps no impostor of his brood has been adored since the Golden Calf, so it
is to be expected that the Nation will want him back again after he is done
hunting other wild animals heroically in Africa, with the safeguard and

advertising equipment of a park of artillery and a brass band. (28)

Great writers instinctively sense the flaws and facades of the human character.
That is why Mark Twain despised the show-off “circus clown” Roosevelt.