The Huckster
David Sixbey and James Willis (both former SAU history faculty--one I drink coffe with, the other I shoot pool with...depending on the time of the day), alerted me to the appearance of a letter of Tom Forgey's (yet another retitred SAU history faculty member..he's also a former Arkansas lawmaker and Deputy Sheriff) in the most recent issue of Arkansas Times. It made me smile, so I thought I would pass it along...see the original at:The Huckster
After listening to Bro. Huckabee's declaration that he is not running for vice president because he always runs "for the gold, and not the silver" I am reminded of his race for lieutenant governor (Silver? Bronze? )
As an opportunist he prevailed, barely. And the rest is history.
If the Republicans are goofy enough to try an unnatural coupling of the Bro. with Giuliani (a New York-Arkansas axis) they ought to look at what happened in 1928 when the Democrats tried that with Al Smith (New York) and Joe T. Robinson Arkansas.)
The Bro. should slip quietly into retirement, oiling his arsenal of guns — a Weatherby rifle, a Browning shotgun, a Barelli duck gun and his most beloved, a rusty 20-gauge shotgun (guess which one he paid for).
Tom Forgey
Magnolia
1 Comments:
Speaking as an SAU grad. who suffered thru Tom Forgey's history class, (No I didn't make an A), I only wish he had been a retired member of the history faculty befor the 1980's. Maybe Forgey can start a club with all the other unhappy, irrelevant, former dimocratic lawmakers of Arkansas. We have legions of them here in The Land of Opportunity, you can probably find another or two in Magnolia if you look. If Forgey thinks Huckabee barely prevailed, I suggest he hark back to those landslides posted by Slick Willie a few years back. As far as Huckabee as prez. I don't cotton to the idea of another political leader who gets instructions from a higher power no matter the party. But the dimocrats have a canidate who saw a real live UFO, and is honest or dumb enough to admit the same. I see the Ark Times now sells subscriptions, the late John Robert Starr always refered to it as the "Free Weekly" so the paper, like the Right Rev. has come up in the world. Keep posting and remember this, you will not deconstruct the South. It is a place not a direction... Ozancreek
By ozancreek, at 5:15 PM
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