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Gee, you keep changing the rules as we go along. First you have to serve in the military in order to have an opinion. Then when I told you I was in the military, you come back and say I have to be an expert in order to have an opinion. I suppose that if I show you I am an expert, you'll come back and say that I had to have been there in order to have an opinion. In which case, none of us here would be able to discuss anything prior to the 1930s.

cynicom seems to have a problem with anybody who is well-read and armed with facts other than himself. Yesterday he posted something about how few people even know who Henry Wallace was and I posted a few Henry Wallace facts off the top of my head. Then cynicom comes back with the following (false) claim:

Guess ole PJ went to look at that 30 second bio he scanned of Wallace.

I guess cynicom can't accept the fact that I actually KNEW those facts without having to look them up. And as proof of this fact was my claim that I read a book about the 1948 Progressive Party campaign called "Gideon's Trumpet." Guess what? I was WRONG! I found out this morning that the name of the book is actually "Gideon's Army" which means that I did NOT look up that info on the web since if I did I would have stated "Gideon's Army" not "Gideon's Trumpet" (another book).

Please forgive me, cynicom. I got the name of the book slightly wrong but it has been many years since I read it so my memory wasn't quite up to par. However, it does prove I got those Henry Wallace facts from my memory, NOT from the web. This may shock cynicom but other folks actually do read books. I can attest for sure that you (SamAdams76) definitely are a big book reader from what I've seen of your active participation in the Freeper Reading Club. Perhaps cynicom should join too since he might learn a few things.