How to win friends and influence politicians - Morgan Freeman
Thanks Morgan! From
CNS News/Associated Press:
Morgan Freeman on Mississippi: �Base Stock of This State is a Mule-Headed Bunch of Farmers�
Clarksdale, Miss. - Academy-Award winner Morgan Freeman says Mississippi is "starving" for the right leadership, so the actor is using his celebrity status to help his friend run for governor in 2011.
Freeman has written a fundraising letter and is one of the hosts for a cocktail party in Los Angeles next week for Bill Luckett, an attorney seeking the Democratic nomination. Term limits prevent Republican Gov. Haley Barbour from seeking a third term.
�Reform in Mississippi is hard because the base stock of this state is a mule-headed bunch of farmers,� Freeman told The Associated Press on Sunday. �Those farmers have ruled the roost for so long because this is an agricultural state.�
And then, it gets interesting:
Freeman lives in Charleston, a small town in the Mississippi Delta where farming is the main economic engine. The area has been plagued by poverty, illiteracy and racial tensions.
So, Morgan. What are you doing to help alleviate the problems you see.
Showing up at fundraising parties in Los Angeles?
When was the last time you gave a motivational talk at a local high school. Tutored a kid in reading. Funded a scholarship to a local college.
And next time you call a farmer "
Mule-Headed", follow one of them around for a couple days -- you would be amazed at the level of management skills and intelligence required to successfully run even a small farm, let alone anything over a couple hundred acres.
Asshat...
Posted by DaveH at October 14, 2009 9:12 PM