Comments for EWE coming to Hub City at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 11 out of 11 comments http://www.theind.com Sat, 25 May 2013 16:34:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22790 Leo Honeycutt's charming book, "Edwin Edwards: Governor of Louisiana" (2009) [Lisburn Press] is not the sort of work required for such a great Louisianian. I sincerely desire that the 84 year-old octogenarian [He was born on August 7th, 1927] will personally write his own "Memoirs." I want to know who his great-grandfather & great-grandmother were. Also, his grandfather & grandmother on both sides of his family. Especially, his immediate father & mother. I want competent historiography capturing his years in office as the top political officer of this State: 1972-1980, 1984-1988 & 1992-1996. I do not want rehashed news clips parading themselves as "history." [Pro or Con] I would suggest to the great man that he reads his Mestrius Plutarchus of Chaeronea [ca. 50-ca. 120 CE], "Parallel Lives" [23 pairs]. Have him pay attention to the Lives of Alexander the Great & Alcibiades in particular: family, education, debut in public life, climaxes, changes of fortune or attitude, latter years [and, finally, by others, his death. Furthermore, I would want the great man to read Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon [1675-1755 CE], Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon, so he learns how to write a competent "Memoirs." This will fortify his brilliant mind, and its photographic memory, with proper, enduring literary art. The final revenge in life is the Grave. One's critics during life are easily forgotten in the dustbin of history. When the great man produces by his own labor, a competent, massive history of his Great Age in Louisiana, he will have the last laugh from his vulgar detractors. He will, also, inspire first-rate scholars to study his personality carefully and astutely for the next five centuries [if we are not extinct as an animal species]! Governor Edwards is an extremely moral, innerly-rich human being. I want the unborn children of Louisiana in the year 2061 CE [fifty years from now] to realize what an extraordinary man he "is" [You do not "die" when you protect your legacy competently]! This great man must satisfy the strict & stern standards of Autobiography. Our present age has a tasteless, vulgar reading public. If they like any book written about you, it is an assured judgment that the book is mindless crap! It is wonderful that the great man is visiting us in Lafayette, especially, so soon after his marriage to the beautiful Trina Grimes Scott at the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans on July 29th, 2011. As she gave solicitous care while the great man was in his prison cage, she can now motivate him to become immortal! - Gaius Cilnius Maecenas Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:41:14 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22652 Jindal = Palin, the straws that will break any camel's back. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:33:28 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22645 He sure was a better Governor than the douchebag we now have. Jindal steals from us every time he gets a check for being Governor while he spends all of his time trying to get nominated to run for vice president. - Gene Broussard Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:21:50 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22609 Thank you Wow People, " Ms Trina is a very attractive young lady. I wish the couple every blessing and a long and happy lifetime together. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:56:34 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22573 Regular Grind: Who reads books anymore, SERIOUSLY??? Read a few, broaden your horizons, the internet is not a substitute for books...you WILL thank yourself if you do. Hard Hat: The "missus" name is Trina, not Tawana. Pat and IMJacquemo: Really guys? I was around for all 4 terms...please name one governor who brought SOOO many new industries to Louisiana at any point in our history, i.e. Chemical Plants, New Technology, import/exports with other countries(especially the sugar industry), increased oil & gas revenues two-fold. Not to mention the HUGE reforms he pushed through for ALL public employees, ESPECIALLY the ones who deserved it most: police, firefighters, and teachers. Huey Long and Edwin Edwards were champions of the common working class of Louisiana, which scares the hell out of the wealthy, elite, CONTROLLING class of Louisiana. Everyone can agree that Huey was a crook, however Edwards was unfairly prosecuted due to Eddie Jordan and the neo-conservative powers at the time...they literally had to go after him like a mafia don in order to get something to stick, which it never actually did. I would challenge anyone to post ANY piece of evidence showing that a crime was committed, the government's star witnesses were two crooks from Texas with charges pending...AND YES Edwards had and still does have much hubris, a poor boy from Louisiana manages to pull himself up by his own bootstraps to LSU, LSU law, the military...where he became a pilot...to the legislature, to the governor's office. Can you honestly say that you would expect anyone coming from his background, who achieved that many things to not have any hubris? I believe self-confidence would be a better characterization. I do not wish to fight with anyone, or anything of the sort, just my thoughts on various things I read above. Thank you for your respective times. - Wow People Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:18:21 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22556 You got it Pat. While EWE is engaging and charismatic, he went to the dark side and blew his God-given opportunity to make this place a better state. He squandered his leadership abilities in his hubris. Seems folks are just looking for some kind of bent nostalgia in their remembrance of him and what he did. - IMJacquemo Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:04:56 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22547 I'm going to, but I'm going to see Tawana Edwards, the missus. - HARD HAT Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:19:12 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22546 I'll be there. In camo to protect the Gov. I'll be in the rubber plant. - NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:16:21 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22539 Isn't a ewe some kind sheep? Besides who reads books anymore. - Regular Grind Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:40:36 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22536 I disagree. With his intelligence, gift for working the masses , how much could he have done to rectify the Huey Long wrongs? I certainly don't speak for the many that would now love to reelect him if possible, but for my part of another generation, he let me down. He had the potential to use a formidable set of God given abilities to do what no one else may have been able to do, lift Louisiana to a tremendous level of funding and promise for schools, infrastructure, but instead decided to take the La political prison path more often traveled. - Pat McDonald Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:28:29 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/9066-ewe-coming-to-hub-city#comment-22524 I think this is great. What a part of Louisiana history. Everyone should go out and see him. - Ben Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:24:21 +0100