Posted
6/17/2006 05:53:00 PM
by Douglas
Fascinating article about Louisiana politics and the man that made it famous,
Huey Long. This is the best description of him I've ever heard:
populism gone awry or fascism barely averted
You also gotta love the closer:
“Someday Louisiana is going to get ‘good government,’ ” Earl Long once declared. “And when they do, they ain’t going to like it.”
It'll never happen. Also, I had no idea this quote was from
Edwin Edward and not Long:
The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy
In the annals of political posturing, that's got to be the best.