Huck Hope

OK, so the Washington Post‘s Joel Aschenbach doesn’t deal in profundities, but how do you do a little profile on the Hope, Ark. that both Billy Clinton and Mike Huckabee came from, and write a sentence like this–“Anyone on the Huckabee trail in Hope has to pay a visit to a local dentist, Lester Sitzes […]

OK, so the Washington Post‘s Joel Aschenbach doesn’t deal in profundities, but how do you do a little profile on the Hope, Ark. that both Billy Clinton and Mike Huckabee came from, and write a sentence like this–“Anyone on the Huckabee trail in Hope has to pay a visit to a local dentist, Lester Sitzes III.–and not manage to pay a visit to, or say a word about, the church he grew up in? I mean, he’s the first Baptist pastor running for president, no? I say this knowing that I sound like GetReligion‘s Terry Mattingly, but still…

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