OKAY EVERYONE STOP USING FACTS in stating your opions, I am REPUBLICAN so all I need is the news media to tell me what is true.
Heck if I was smarter, I might have graduated from college , got a better job and become an elitist Democrat.
SO join me in keeping AMERICA the DUMBEST NATION THE WORLD, and VOTE REPUBLICAN !!
APPLES AND ORANGES
Small-Town Folks, Making It Big
Published Sep 13, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 22, 2008
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History repeats itself — but not without a few wrinkles. We make the connections, then pick them apart.
The Comparison
Veep nominee Sarah Palin answers concerns about her inexperience by comparing herself to Harry Truman, who became president three months into his term, when FDR died. At the time, Truman didn't even know about the development of the atom bomb.
Why It Works
Both had non-elite upbringings and, as Palin says, "unlikely" paths to high office. In the reformer category, both were early supporters of pork projects (Truman's early political career was backed by the Pendergast machine) who later lambasted wastefulness and fraud.
Why It Doesn't
Truman, a World War I vet, was selected more for his 10-year service in the Senate, where he voted on major national legislation and steered a war-preparedness committee, than his origins as a small-town Missouri haberdasher, as Palin has suggested.
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