His Last Sure Thing  
His Destiny, The Stars! 
Portfolio looks beyond today’s election headlines towards next January, when Mr. 25% takes his sad self back to Texas.
The magazine talked Bush image restoration with all the PR greats, and Jerry Della Femina.  Their advice ranges from sitting on his ass in Crawford in order to somehow restore his best-guy-to-have-a-beer-with image, to the wildly brain-dead: assaulting Americans in the midst of their television viewing.
“He needs to start campaigning again like a good ol’ boy. For instance, Jon Stewart makes fun of Bush’s dance moves. Bush should go on Dancing With the Stars, not as a contestant but maybe for a quick cameo.”
 
Previous efforts along this line took the President to Deal/No Deal, without visible effect.
The Clinton School: Stay Classy!
16-Oct-08
 Albright Alright with Jerry?
“America’s Newest Presidential School” continues to draw the odd and the available to Little Rock.
The latest Clinton School catch:
beloved former Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer! 
Yes, Jerry brings his concerned look to America’s future rulers, joining the long line of greats.
Days Of Glory  
What child of Reagan is not clambering aboard the Obama Express? The latest to endorse overcomes not only political differences, but the additional barrier of being dead.
Jeane Kirkpatrick is nominated a Hopenista by Allan Gerson, her former minion.
Why-ever would Obama accept?
Kirkpatrick shared with our current president the breezy confidence of the convinced, from her dismissal of junta killed American nuns in El Salvador [“The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists.“], to her coinage of the delightfully fag-baiting term “San Francisco Democrats“, to her passion for the surpassing weird Argentinian junta who killed 30,000 opponents while carefully stealing the children of the dead for adoption into military families.
Don’t worry though:
Kirkpatrick’s “Dictatorships & Double Standards” found it’s proudest expression in her work at the United Nations propping up Saddam Hussein. A UN condemnation of Iraq’s chemical warfare against Iraq was in the works, and working to kill the resolution was an especially sharp slicing of distinctions between ghastly regimes. When Iran repelled it’s Iraqi invaders Reagan himself was mobilized at the UN, not to condemn chemical warfare but to condemn Iran for trying to punish the aggressor.
Because as Gerson teaches us:
“she knew that the H-word in the diplomatic lexicon — “aggression” — should only be used sparingly. “
For This I Got Out Of The Tub?  
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother is suspected of opium smuggling ties, corruption is rife, and the war is being lost. Who can win the struggle against Talaban and Al Qaeda?
Why not a former boy Stalinist?   
Who better to combat the unacknowledged spawn of the Reagan Era than the Reds we hoped they would beat!
Step forward Muhammad Hanif Atmar, newly nominated for Interior Minister. 
Atmar spent the 80s with the late unloved Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan, serving with the deeply sinister secret police, the Khad. He’s been Education Minister and held other posts in Karzai’s government, with his past neatly erased.
His experience in the siege of Jalalabad should serve him in good stead against the current threat.
Where To Turn?  