Not history yet

Gov. Mike Easley said he shouldn't be in the history books yet.

In a press conference this afternoon, the governor said it's too soon for his biography to be included in a state-produced history of North Carolina's governors.

When asked if he thought his staff should have heavily edited his entry, Easley demurred.

"I'm not going to touch that catfight at Cultural Resources with a 10-foot pole," he said.

He said the only things he knows about the book controversy are what he's read in the paper, but he thinks it's not right to write about history before it's, well, historic.

"The whole thing is idiotic to me," he said.