We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For 
Springfield Illinois is getting a jump in the Barack Obama commemoration/memorializing sweepstakes, as a sculpture commemorating a 100 year-old riot contains a figure looking remarkably like Obama.
 The 1908 Springfield riots featured lynchings and destruction of black neighborhoods, and the shock of this in Lincoln’s hometown in a Northern state helped launch the NAACP.
Memorial Sculptor Preston Jackson was coy with the Chicago Tribune:
“That could be him…But I have a nephew that looks just like him.â€
 I Ever Tell You The One… 
Proud Libra and Ramallahh resident, Palestinian-American blogger Sam Bahour is doing his part to bridge the gap, bringing the two [or more!] sides together by recycling yet again a Bush Library Classic Joke we’ve all so enjoyed over the years.
Taking time from the “Territories” day to day occupation grind, EPalestine can’t resist the musty rib-tickler which begins…
“The George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages and accepting donations.”
I get 34,000 Google hits for this one. Your results may very.
What We’re Made Of  
Ronald Reagan’s birthday is Friday, and it would appear America’s love affair with the leathery matinee idol can only be sated by fawning tome
after fawning tome
 on the cooing conservative.
   But the only Reagan book you really need this year is Will Bunch’s Tear Down This Myth.  The Philadelphia blogger has become a national treasure simply by resurrecting Reagan Library Executive Director Duke Blackwood’s explanation that the restless spirits of the age led to the Reagan Library having no Iran-Contra material on display:
“We’ve had it in. We’ve done many of the renovations and it was addressed. It’s out now and, at some point in time, we hope to bring it back. But again, that’s the fluidity of a museum. You can’t have the same thing, you know, for ten, fifteen, twenty years. You need to refresh.“
Make Way For Tomorrow: Duke & Friends Fill Space 
We’re Jacket-less To Serve You Better! 
The American people know two things about recent Bush Administration talking points:Â whatever they say will get endless media replication, and down the road be found to be a lie.
We are now at stage two in the battle over Andrew Card’s stirring defense of White House decorum. The former George W. Bush Chief of Staff was saddened to see a jacket-less Barack Obama in the Oval Office, and Huffington Post has now surfaced photos of Bush among a parade of Presidents in shirtsleeves, often with ties.
A Big Texas Welcome! 

Jolly art pranksters at Dallas’s Decorazon Gallery open a “Big D” welcoming party Thursday night for newly returned Texas hero George W. Bush.
Oh yes, shoes are involved, but they won’t be gathering up your typical pile of castoff Uggs. This is a swanky show.
“Participating artists are encouraged to explore innovative, evocative and genuine creations and to transcend the outside layers of the shoes.“
See you on the inside!