Archive for February, 2010
Out Of The Past
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 27th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BUSH LIBRARY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, JIMMY CARTER, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTISH, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSHBush Alumni Gather
George W. Bush has shown his sensitive side to gathering of the faithful, while interested observers puzzled over an exciting new Bush mystery:
Where did they hide the papers this time?
The former President repeated claims he’ll stay above the political fray, while saying former President Carter had “made my […]
We Don’t Like You And Your Friend Too
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 24th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Beck Banishes
Awakened from their slumbers by patriot/seer Glen Beck, conservatives across America rush to join the antic showman in tossing Teddy Roosevelt over the side.
Until now, who knew that TR’s hysterically masculine crackpot vision of a white man’s world had some problems? Evidently not Jonah Goldberg.
Wonkette peers under the hood of Teddy’s […]
Barry Far Away
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 22nd, 2010 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AWESOME POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA®, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY
Bringing Back Barack
Driven from the streets of Jakarta, the boy-statue of Barack Obama has found a home at Obama’s childhood school, or as Fox viewers know, his madrassa.
The Awesome Power Of Social Media® mobilized Indonesian citizen or some kind of outrage at public space being used to honor Obama, with motivations ranging […]
Tim Pawlenty, Buried In Grant’s Tomb
1 Comment Published by mr.president February 21st, 2010 in PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, MARGARET THATCHER, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BARACK OBAMA, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, ULYSSES S. GRANT, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, CHURCHILLIAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYGrant Me This
It was a gathering of the conservative faithful at CPAC this past weekend, and the search for novel political analogies reached strange new heights.
Among the oddities was Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, whose doomed Presidential campaign took its first tentative steps off the cliff by reminding the assembled Neo-Confederates of a past […]
Fakes, Frauds, & Founders
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 18th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, FOUNDERS!, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE WASHINGTONBehold These Goofs
Unable to stage signing the “Mount Vernon Statement” at, um, Mount Vernon, massed conservatives held their event instead at the swanky Collingwood Library & Museum, a former dinner theatre venue on property once owned by George Washington and now available for wedding rentals.
Mount Vernon wouldn’t let them hold a political […]