Palin cites only part of writer’s thoughts on Truman — the good part
Missourians both Democrat and Republican were perhaps proud to hear GOP veep nominee Sarah Palin’s speech tonight give a nod to a favorite Show-Me son and the only president born in the state, Harry S Truman.
“Long ago, a young farmer and habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency,” Palin said. “A writer observed: ‘We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity.’”
Palin was quoting journalist Westbrook Pegler, who indeed said that about Truman.
But here’s what Pegler said previously about Truman, according to a book by conservative pundit and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.
This Truman is thin lipped, a hater, and not above offering you his hand to yank you off balance and work you over with a chair leg, a pool cue or something out of his pocket.
And?
and Jake Wagman makes another minor league mistake.
It’s spelled ‘haberdasher’.
Wagman, you could have used spell check instead of just copying and pasting the quote from the other news sources that spelled it wrong.
Way to go -agreed. Kill the messenger! Can’t wait for your paper or website to come out for us to peruse! I’m sure it will be absolutely perfect!