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September 16, 2008
Grim Milestone Watch, Week 8: Channeling Huey Long
The Wall Street collapse introduces a crazy element into the election. While it's been building for months, the problems introduce a problem as urgent and immediate as Iraq into the campaign, although I still think Bristol Palin's pregnancy is the great dividing line between the tickets.
The financial tangle will enable some smart candidate, one open to trying new personae to communicate with his or her constituency, to try on some Huey Long-style populist table pounding. Share the wealth! Every man a king or queen!
I won't say who I think ought to channel the Kingfish, but he or she would say something like this:
Well, I know a lot of them smart Harvard or Princeton fellas are down on Wall Street, 'n they know a lot more 'n I do about stocks and bonds and credit swaps and derivatives and CBOs n' all those things we don't talk about that much in the country or Training Union. But I know they're not doin' too good a job a runnin' the place. Fact is, they're mostly running their businesses into the ground and leavin' the taxpayers to pick up all the pieces. Is that fair? Maybe we need some average fellas from Illinois or Arizona or Delaware or Alaska to come in and say what's what.
Who'll pick up the mantle of the Kingfish and start the ball rolling for some good ol' backwoods harangues?
Van | 09/16/08 at 08:49 PM | Categories: - GOTV '06 to '08
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McCain and Palin are the populists, Obama is a con artist. So probably both parties will make a play for the Huey Long award.
chuck | September 17, 2008 12:10 AM
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