The worst job in
the world has to be press secretary for Donald Trump. Day after day poor Sean
Spicer has to get up and try to paper over lies so outrageous that they would
make Baron Munchausen blush. What’s
worse is that poor Sean is appallingly unsuited for the job. What you would
need for the job at the very least is a sense of humor, which poor Sean doesn’t
seem to have.
Edwin Edwards
has the ideal personality for Sean Spicer’s job. Edwards served one term as a
congressman from Louisiana,
four terms as governor, and eight years as an inmate in a federal prison for
corruption. Edwards is larger than life and full of joie de vivre.
He said of an opponent in the
election of 1983: "David Treen
is so slow it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes."
In the election of 1992, his opponent was David Duke, a leader of the Klan.
Edwards said of Duke: "The only
thing we have in common is we’re both wizards under the sheets." In the election someone charged him, married at
the time, with sleeping with six difference women in one night. He replied: "No, it
wasn't that way. He (the author) was gone when the last one came in."
Recently a voter came up to him and said, “I
hate Democrats, but I’m voting for you,” the woman said. “All y’all steal. But
you were honest about it. You were gambling, you said you were gambling. You
didn’t sneak around, hide nothing. You never took from the taxpayers, just from
the fat cats.” Asked why Louisiana
voters seem so willing to forgive Edwards his past transgressions, the woman
said, “Well, he’s one of us.” Then she hugged Trina [Edwards’ 35-year-old wife],
imploring, “Don’t let this weasel get away.”
Anyway, Edwards isn’t going to take a
job working for Trump. At 86 he thinking of running for Congress again.
