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If I were a military leader, I’d be Teddy Roosevelt; who are you?


Since I don’t know a lot about military history, I’m not sure what this really means (I’ll be googling to learn after I post this). I like the Nobel Peace Prize win though.

Who are you?

Hattip to Reasoned Audacity. (sorry – forgot that in the original post)

Update: Wow – I know it’s only Wikipedia, but it puts me to shame for not knowing all this – I like the comparison to Teddy Roosevelt, from the sound of this:

In 1901, as Vice President, the 42 year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley after McKinley’s assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He is the youngest person to become President.[4] He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a “trust buster“. He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. His “Square Deal” promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs) and the businessmen. He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance.[5][6] As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910, he broke with his friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. He beat Taft in the popular vote and pulled so many Progressives out of the Republican Party that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the Republican Party for the next two decades.

UPDATE: A tribute to one of the military leaders – make sure you watch through or advance to about 58 seconds. Did anyone else ever hear the rumor that they didn’t know English when they first started out?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:39 pm March 13th, 2008 in Culture, Military 

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30 Responses to “If I were a military leader, I’d be Teddy Roosevelt; who are you?”

  1. 1 Ben Keeler on March 13th, 2008 1:22 pm

    uhh…I wishh I could lie, but I came up with Wes Clark. Shoot.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on March 13th, 2008 1:24 pm

    ROFL! Love it! But don’t worry, as you and I know – no one reads blogs. :)

    Fwiw, Roosevelt has some not so good things too about him.

  3. 3 Scott on March 13th, 2008 1:25 pm

    It says I’m Napolean…an anal-retentive over-planner! Sadly, I think they got it right.

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on March 13th, 2008 1:30 pm

    Hmm – are there any Jewish military leaders!? I have to go back and look.

  5. 5 Joe Amschlinger on March 13th, 2008 1:49 pm

    Ugh, Wes Clak too. :(

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on March 13th, 2008 1:51 pm

    Ah ha! I bet YOU BOTH pulled Dem ballots, didn’t you!?

  7. 7 Ben Keeler on March 13th, 2008 2:49 pm

    no…. Clark was my least favorite candidate in 2004 for the Dems.

  8. 8 Greg Helms on March 13th, 2008 2:50 pm

    John Paul Jones (not the Led Zeppelin bassist) for me.

    I changed my first answer and kept the rest of them the same. Doing that, I came up with George Patton.

  9. 9 Loraine Ritchey on March 13th, 2008 5:18 pm

    How apt I am the Duke of Wellington hmmmmm Napolean’s watch out you may be meeting your Waterloo BIG :) which is why our toilets in England are called “loo’s” by the way

  10. 10 Jill Miller Zimon on March 13th, 2008 5:58 pm

    Ben – Roger Bundy of Cleveland Equanimous Philosopher is also Clark – wow.

  11. 11 Jill Miller Zimon on March 13th, 2008 5:59 pm

    I can see the relation between Patton and JOnes – but I don’t know you well enough. :)

  12. 12 Jill Miller Zimon on March 13th, 2008 6:01 pm

    Loraine that is too much! excellent

  13. 13 Chuck Butcher on March 13th, 2008 7:05 pm

    I was hoping for Atilla The Hun and got Wes Clark. Oh well.

  14. 14 Carole Cohen on March 13th, 2008 8:51 pm

    Okay they said I was Lord Wellesley a combo of things…I guess I’m not disappointed because it said he was somewhat of a diplomat lol. I’ll have to take it again when I’m feeling more Napoleonic :-)

  15. 15 Jill Miller Zimon on March 13th, 2008 8:53 pm

    Chuck – I do not see you as an Atilla the Hun – what are you hiding?

  16. 16 Jill Miller Zimon on March 13th, 2008 8:54 pm

    Lord Wellesley!

    There are no women leaders on there either – no Jews, no women. Who made up this thing! :)

  17. 17 muley on March 14th, 2008 6:30 am

    ……..seems I’d bee O. Bradley, I can live with that.

  18. 18 Jill Miller Zimon on March 14th, 2008 6:40 am

    I need Remedial Military Leaders, 101.

  19. 19 Greg Helms on March 14th, 2008 7:43 am

    Omar Bradley was a British general during WWII.

  20. 20 Carole Cohen on March 14th, 2008 10:00 am

    Jill how do we know that these Generals do not have Jewish lineage. Why, even Napoleon could have been part Jewish! (Let’s start a rumor lol)

  21. 21 Paula on March 14th, 2008 2:45 pm

    Let’s hope in 20 years they’ll have “What Female Blogger are you most like?”

    Why isn’t Joan of Arc up there?

  22. 22 Carole Cohen on March 14th, 2008 3:24 pm

    Or Cleopatra? Queen Elizabeth the 1st? Hmmm Not generals

  23. 23 LisaRenee on March 14th, 2008 10:59 pm

    Robert E. Lee…That’s surprising

  24. 24 Glass City Jungle | I’d be Robert E. Lee…how about you? on March 14th, 2008 11:05 pm

    [...] saw this over on Jill’s blog where we learned she would be Teddy Roosevelt, so I wondered who’d I be in the Leadership Profile Test. It’s an interesting online [...]

  25. 25 Chuck Butcher on March 14th, 2008 11:07 pm

    Attila? You don’t read me real often, then.

  26. 26 Jill Miller Zimon on March 15th, 2008 9:02 am

    Chuck – you caught me! ;) What do you think is the most marked similarity between the two of you?

  27. 27 Chuck Butcher on March 15th, 2008 3:23 pm

    I don’t use their tactics, I come real hard, my archery is accurate

  28. 28 Chris Baker on March 16th, 2008 9:24 am

    Interestingly enough, I got Roosevelt as well.

  29. 29 Jill Miller Zimon on March 16th, 2008 9:33 am

    Chris!!!!! Yeah!!!! Out of about 30 people I know who have taken that quiz, you are the only other person who came out as Roosevelt like I did.

    Ok – now – what does that mean?? :)

  30. 30 Jill Miller Zimon on March 23rd, 2008 2:00 pm

    Chuck – I take that as a challenge – I commit to reading your blog more often and being nudged if you catch me not doing so! :)

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