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Entry: Huckabee: The New Huey Long Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/huckabee_the_new_huey_long#11998 Post contents: I think Huey Long is getting a bad rap here. The stepfather of one of my best friends was a boyhood playmate of Huey's. As he told my friend, "Before Huey became governor, I had to work on the roads for two weeks a year under the old corvee system. After he took over, we were freed from that." Before Long, Louisiana was a banana republic where 2% of the population kept the rest as serfs. Not surprisingly, this is the goal that the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street have for us now. Long's downfall was that he was a better demagogue than FDR. This led to his assassination. If Mr. McCarthy is going to smear Huey Long with an unsupported relationship with Huckabee, at least he could support the comparison with some evidence. Sent at: 2008 07 06