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1st printing dust jacket of Penn Warren's famous novel about Governor Huey Long of Louisiana

Because the Billings Gazette is very selective about which George Will columns they publish I thought it might be useful to remind everyone about one from last summer in which Will calls President Obama an “ivy-league Huey Long.”

This appeared in Newsweek. I guess the editors of that left-leaning magazine were not worried that their readers would understand the reference.

If you haven’t studied recent American History or even if you did in the last 20 or 30 years our friends at PowerLine have pointed out some of the reasons that Mr Will is actually frontally attacking Mr Obama. There are some interesting similarities between Mr Obama (or at least some of his cronies, including the ones who write his speeches) and Mr. Long. Check this out and this too. It seems that sharing the wealth has a long history.

And of course there are books and movies too about the famous Huey Long. That is the first printing dust jacket above. As usual Wikipedia is good on these. That is where the above image comes from.