{"id":990,"date":"2008-11-09T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=990"},"modified":"2008-11-09T19:06:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T19:06:16","slug":"hey-we-just-elected-huey-long-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Hey, We Just Elected Huey Long As President."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Hey%2C%20We%20Just%20Elected%20Huey%20Long%20As%20President.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Compare:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long:<\/strong> He published an autobiography, in October 1933.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama:<\/strong> He published his autobiography, in August 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long:<\/strong> Elected to U.S. Senate in 1930<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama:<\/strong> Elected to Senate in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long:<\/strong> Attempted to increase revenues by imposing a new tax on the oil industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama:<\/strong> Hello windfall profits tax, aimed at oil companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long:<\/strong> &#8220;Unless we provide for redistribution of wealth in this country, the country is doomed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama:<\/strong> &#8220;My attitude is that if the economy&#8217;s good for folks from the bottom up, it&#8217;s gonna be good for everybody &#8230; I think when you spread the wealth around, it&#8217;s good for everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long:<\/strong> Long&#8217;s &#8220;Share the Wealth&#8221; plan involved taxing all incomes over a million dollars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama:<\/strong> Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Share the Wealth&#8221; plan involved taxing all incomes over $250,000&#8230; or $150,000, if you listeBiden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long:<\/strong> Community Organizer &#8211; &#8220;If you have a Share Our Wealth Society in your neighborhood or, if you have not one, <strong>organize one<\/strong> &#8211; meet regularly, and let all members, men and women, go to work as quickly and as hard as they can to get every person in the neighborhood to become a member and to go out with them to get more members for the society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama:<\/strong> Community Organizer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long:<\/strong> &#8220;Every family to be furnished by the Government a homestead allowance&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama:<\/strong> &#8220;We are going to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Hey%2C%20We%20Just%20Elected%20Huey%20Long%20As%20President.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Compare: Long: He published an autobiography, in October 1933. Obama: He published his autobiography, in August 1995. &#8211; Long: Elected to U.S. Senate in 1930 Obama: Elected to Senate in 2004. &#8211; Long: Attempted to increase revenues by imposing a new tax on the oil industry. Obama: Hello windfall profits tax, aimed at oil companies. 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