Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Shape Shifter 
The Philippines continues it’s development into a Bizarro World version of America.
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has gone from discussions of her “doing a Ford” and pardoning her predecessor [she did] to her current crisis, where she is urged to “Do A Nixon” 
and resign over corruption charges.
No word on if she’ll do a Mukasey and claim no crime can have been committed. 
It Was Grand 
Remember when Presidents and candidates would get all gosh ‘n shucksee, trying to get down all hillbilly-licous with their rural cousins? 
A country music blog says they don’t write, they don’t call no more.
And shockingly, “Barack Obama has been noticeably country music-free.”
“I would love to see a President Huckabee 
…because if our president were named ‘Huckabee,”
how bad could anything really seem?… It’d be as if
the entire country was animated by Hanna Barbera.”
From the Associated Press comes word that Colbert’s vision is already being realised in Huckabee’s [and Clinton’s] hometown of Hope Arkansas, with a lake named for Huckabee. 
Tear Down This Myth! 
From blogs4mccain comes a novelty:
attacking the cult of Ronald Reagan because it is a weapon false conservatives use to attack one of our greatest Presidents, George W. Bush. 
What follows is but a small taste, and I can’t follow the argument, but I applaud the effort. Or at least the typing involved.
“No matter how hard our demagogue conservatives have tried to destroy George W. Bush he is still the same Texas Cowboy. The conservative agenda has failed to deter a man who has governed far more conservatively than Reagan ever did….In order to maintain control of their cult followers, they have created this mythology of Reagan. It is a growing cult, one that has been carefully manipulated and cultivated has begun to explode into the conservative monolith of The Great Conservative God, Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately the truth is something very different. This is a “god†who gave us less than perfect “conservative†SCOTUS justices, yet he is cherished, his myth nurtured while George W. Bush is reviled for his less than perfect conservative record. He must be reviled and criticized at every possible turn. He must be taught that to venture toward a successful GOP Presidency is to possibly thwart the cult of Reagan. A successful Republican Presidency simply must not be allowed.”
