"You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.”
Obama channels Gilligan...
Well, it WORKED that time, didn’t it? Of course Smathers could have just called him a Commie...they didn’t call him “Red Pepper” for no reason!;)
This is a very well written article. Thanks for posting it.
"You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.”
I thought the headline had misspelled “Smithers”, as in Mr. Burns’ asst. on The Simpsons.
Obama would be a natural at that role, I’m reasonably sure...
As I recall, that speech never happened but was “too good” not to be “true”. Smathers chased skirts with JFK and sold his house to Nixon, his best friends in the Senate. He had a mostly poor record on civil rights but could break from his fellow Southern Democrats. He was a pretty distasteful individual all in all. His anti communist rhetoric did get him by Red Peppers.
Well, to be honest, Obama IS a cunning linguist.
(As long as TOTUS is near by.)
Wow, does that bit of political history bring back memories.
Claude Pepper’s sister taught history in my junior high school.
Poor woman - looked exactly like her brother, which was almost a crime against nature.
Looks intersting..save for later.