Archive for March, 2008
Giants Steps
Closed Published by mr.president March 26th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, STEPHEN COLBERT, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, DICK CHENEY, RICHARD CHENEY, AMERICAN HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, GERALD FORD, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HARRY S.TRUMAN, GEORGE W. BUSHWhere Did The Time Go?
Part of the entertainment value of thumb-suckers musing over the Bush Administration’s “Legacy” is who asks the questions. It’s our old friends and perpetual whipping boys, The Media!
A part of society which for the most part went unquestioningly into battle in Iraq, and which let Ronald Reagan and Gerald […]
What We [Will] Have Lost
Closed Published by mr.president March 25th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSHDallas is only beginning to come to a reckoning on the true costs of the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
The Dallas Morning News brings us a roll-call of soon-to-be dead retail, doomed when the Park Plaza Shopping Center is flattened to make room for Bush and the world of swank he brings to Southern Methodist […]
Easter Parade
Closed Published by mr.president March 24th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE EASTER EGG ROLL, PRESIDENT'S CHILDREN, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, BILL CLINTON, POLITICAL HUMOR, GEORGE WASHINGTON, THOMAS JEFFERSON, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, GEORGE W. BUSHGame Face
Yet another holiday is wholly incorporated into the universal White House calendar.
The Clinton Library glommed onto the White House Easter Egg Roll, but holding it’s event a week earlier.
Giving us the disturbing image of Presidential Heads on Sticks.
But Clinton is merely following the proud […]
Richard Nixon, Lousy Tipper
Closed Published by mr.president March 24th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, HILLARY CLINTON, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL CHRISTMAS, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXONBrace Yourself for Disappointment, Lad
Canadian pol Bob “He Too Has Known Disappointment”Rae takes us back to our Nation’s Capitol in the fifties. Dick Cheney’s Fortress of Solitude at the Naval Observatory was decades away, and Vice Presidents walked amongst us.
Or at least resided. Rae says he served as Nixon’s paperboy, and […]
Storming Heaven
Closed Published by mr.president March 23rd, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, RICHARD CHENEY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMORReady [Or Not]
Excited panting about missile defense, Star Wars, or for true believers “President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative,” will likely climax today, the 25th anniversary of Reagan’s speech unveiling the concept.
The breathing is already labored in the wake of the February US shoot-down of a falling spy satellite over the […]