“Officials: Lincoln’s Birthday Obscuring Reagan’s Birthday“

Ronnie Really

Madison Wisconsin’s Capital Times has taken a Reagan Legacy Project’s press release, “localized” it,   and loosed it upon an unsuspecting public.

The shocking headline?

Doyle doesn’t sign ‘Reagan Day’ proclamation

Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle declined to roll over for the Reagan Legacy Project’s effort to snowball opponents of their glossy memory of Reagan’s presidency.   The Cap Times does source to the Project, but we never hear Doyle’s version,  and the paper swallows whole the Project’s hysterical tone:

“Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle was one of only a handful of governors to deny recognition of the late president “

… when even the Project counts quite a handful, 20 Governors [2/5ths of 50!], as either declining to feel good about Reagan, or being too uninterested* to respond to the Project’s query.

*Including Bobby “New Reagan” Jindal!

2012 Update:  The RNC Remembers

[Not that their hacks don’t do the same and worse]

David Plouffe Shocked To Learn Oil Oligarchy Controversial 

                                              …To Donate Speaking Fee To The Oppressed

The Wall Street Journal reports that Barack Obama campaign wizard David Plouffe meant no offense in consorting with dictators, will donate his honorarium to some of those done to by the Aliyev clan.

Plouffe is on the ground in Baku, where his comments after a closed door speech gave no hint he’d be giving up the cash.

The oil-soaked region is so blessed that even tourism materials feature gas flaring. 

David Plouffe: Let The Eagle Soar 

Barack Obama campaign wizard David Plouffe appears to be following the well worn path of other political advisers: make your name in America, then make a killing advising foreign tyrants on prettying up.

Plouffe is traveling to Azerbaijan to meet second generation oil despot and President Ilham Aliyev.    Poppy was a Brezhnev crony and KGB general reborn after the Soviet Union’s dissolution as maximum leader of the Caspian kleptocracy, and sonny Aliyev currently presides, with his fetching wife Mehriban.

It’s a land of enchantment.  At home the Azerbaijanis enjoy      a cult of personality built around former President Heydar Aliyev and fixed elections,  while abroad the Aliyev’s enjoy collecting pictures of themselves with world leaders from Bushes             to Clinton   to  Belorussian Strongman    Alexancer Lukashenko.

Hiring Plouffe would be a step up for the Aliyevs.   A previous thrust for swankiness entailed renting out Mount Vernon to try and link the Father Of Their Country to George Washington, an event graced by the presence of Bush family Consiliari James Baker.

Who Is The Real Michelle Obama? 

Alarms are being sounded over First Lady Michelle Obama forays into the policy realm, as she made the first of what are promised to be more federal agency visits. Mrs. Obama has touted Obama Administration policies recently at both the Housing & Urban Development and Education Departments.

First Lady historian Myra Gutin told The New York Times she is disappointed:

“She went to some lengths to say she was going to be first mom in chief …I don’t think we ever really imagined her edging toward public policy like this.”

A different view was expressed in November, when  The President’s Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century author Dr. Myra Gutin looked ahead:

“I think she could be active the way Hillary Clinton was”

But as First Lady historian  Myra Gutin cautioned the Washington Times last June:

 “There is a real disconnect between what we know and what people are really like. The media doesn’t always match what a person is. “