Me Real President! 
A touching feature each President’s Day is efforts by our nation’s cracker remnants to attach Confederate President Jefferson Davis to the ranks of actual presidents.
Davis is equated to the real deal in this Bizarro World parallel universe, including fellow Kentuckian Abraham Lincoln. Jolly Confederate clowns wish Davis “Our first and only president…so far” a Happy President’s Day, and weep bitter tears over “One of the great American Presidents, overlooked each year.”
Not some places. The New York Times reviewer of HBO’s “Eastbound & Bound” discovered to their amazement that the series’ “Jefferson Davis Middle School” wasn’t a joke. He adorns schools across the South.
The Georgia state park marking Davis’s capture by Union troops assures us that  “On Presidents Day, rangers will offer guided tours to all visitors,” and apples4theteacher thoughtfully amends their Lincoln coloring pages with smiling Jeff Davis. 
Twilight Serenade 
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One Nation, Duel Exhaust   
American’s strange compulsion to man-up presidents by linking them to motorcycles opens an exciting new chapter in Springfield, where somehow it was felt appropriate to display an Abraham Lincoln Harley Davidson.
This year has already seen the now sadly closed Art of The Chopper exhibit at the Clinton Library.
George W. Bush posed on a motorcycle for 
 the 2004 campaign,
for the traditional 
Harley factory tour,
and in Indonesia for some reason. 
Bush invited the Rolling Thunder cavalcade to the 
 White House and proudly donned the leather vest, joining their crusade to save America’s somehow still missing POWs through, um, riding motorcycles. 
But don’t worry, it’s not all choppers and babes.
Lest we lose this potential presidential teaching moment, the 2004 Bush bike features the Preamble to the Constitution on the tank, and the Lincoln bike features “replica shackles ‘representing the issue of slavery’).”
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€
