LETTER: Speak softly and carry big hockey stick

Question: I have been the governor of my state for less than two years, I have five children and I am running for the office of Vice President of the United States. Who am I?

Answer: There are two: Governor, Vice President and President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Hmm. Do you see a pattern forming here?

Mike Frizzell

Anchorage

Editor’s note: Below find the original comment thread to this story. Additional comments may be added below.

Voter wrote on Sep 23, 2008 10:38 AM:

" Bully!Bully!You are right on Mike!I believe Governor Palin can bring a new and positive spirit of change to our nation(if the neocons don't wreck her).As Teddy Roosevelt brought dynamic change when it was needed most in the early 20th.century Sarah Palin may well do so in the early 21st.century.Go Sarah!Don't let the Obermans and Gibsons of the tainted and biased media wear you down. "

don j wrote on Sep 23, 2008 9:44 AM:

" Yeah, President Roosevelt and Sarah Palin are even REMOTLY similar, give me a break. Currently LMAO. "

Oh my wrote on Sep 23, 2008 9:25 AM:

" Talk about missing the point. Pres. Roosevelt may have only been Governor for a short time, but his pre-Governor experience far out-shadows anything Gov. Palin has done. I don't know… Like Asst. Secretary of the Navy, President of the board of New York City Police Commissioners, graduated from Harvard, and attended Columbia Law (left school for politics). This man was an over-achiever and, as far as I can tell, didn't list "Beauty Queen" as one of his qualifications. "

CS Laurie wrote on Sep 23, 2008 8:36 AM:

" Funny you should mention Teddy R. Charlie Gibboons question about Bush Doctrine was way off the mark and incorrect. I guess Charlie made that one up all by himself. It was Teddy's doctrine that we had a right to preventive military strikes. I guess old Charlie forgot the lines in the Marine Hymn, "…from the shores of Tripoli". And Teddy's telegraph to the Sultan of Tripoli, "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead", as he dispatched US Marines ashore to deliver the message. "