[GloriaJane]

"Lovely sentiments. However, it is greatly embellished at best and just plain untrue at worst. The story of the American founding is dramatic and inspiring enough that it does not need to be “supported” by half-truths and untruths. http://www.snopes.com/history/american/pricepaid.asp"

I question snopes sources for their supposed truths. Unless they can publish prints of the actual news paper articles then those books written by today's writers prove no more truthful to me then Rush's fathers address. Which by the way, I found to be was very moving and wonderfully written.

[Sherman Logan]

Please see post 8.

I picked one paragraph and did five minutes of research.

This single paragraph contains five or six significant inaccuracies that make the Signer’s life seem more dramatic than it really was.

Which do you think is more likely? That the author of the web page I link to, a gentleman apparently interested only in recounting the life of this particular d about the rumors floating around? Or that Limbaugh, Jr. repeated something he had come across that seemed to fit a point he wanted to make?

You are correct that it is moving and eloquent. Many people consider Obama’s speeches to be moving and eloquent. If we have learned anything over the last few thousand years, it is that eloquence has in itself very little to do with truth. Sometimes they coincide. More often the eloquent person will “touch up” the truth to make it fit his point more precisely.