Nowhere to Go But   
As he shows Barack Obama around to measure the White House drapes, 
 George W. Bush can take quiet pride knowing that he has secured another presidential first, surpassing Richard Nixon in the American people’s dislike.
Seventy-six percent disapprove of Bush’s performance, compared with sixty-Six percent for Nixon as he boarded the last chopper ride.
All Bush needs now is for a magnanimous President Obama to pardon him, and the healing will begin!
‘the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.’
Don’t Mess With America’s Widow 
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The beatification of Nancy Reagan took a further step Friday, when Barack Obama learned that inept jokes referencing her obsession with astrology were forbidden.
Obama was responding to a pointless spray of Presidential cliches [“Have you spoken to any living ex-presidents, what books you might be reading?  
Everyone wants to know, what kind of dog are you going to buy for your girls? Have you decided on a private or public school for your daughters?”]
Rather than saying something about the sagacity of his illustrious forebearers, Obama made a crack about Nancy’s stargazing before launching into a detailed discussion of the family’s puppy considerations:
“In terms of speaking to former presidents, I’ve spoken to all of them that are living. Obviously, President Clinton — I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.“
Newsmax Nancy boys lept to the attack, rolling out Nancy’s claim she only turned to the stars after Reagan’s shooting, a story blown up twenty years ago. 
The nominally more respectable Politico reached for the eveready example of Hillary Clinton, proving once more that any Republican behavior may be explained by the cool kids doing it at some future point.
Late in the day Obama caved and called Nancy.
From Action to Proximity 
The Kansas City Star’s Brian Burnes is digging deep in the Eisenhower archives, and oh the treasures he’s found.
 The Kansas native who reluctantly sent federal troops to integrate Little Rock schools is held up as a civil rights pioneer. The evidence: Ike wrote letters, and location, location,location!
1. Eisenhower stormed the margins of polite opinion.
“Correspondence also indicated that Eisenhower wrote to Billy Graham and asked him to provide feedback about current and future race relations.”
And who better than Billy “Stranglehold” Graham to discuss prejudice?
2. As a child, Eisenhower was, once, sometime, somewhere near “minorities” of unknown derivation.
“A picture of Eisenhower from his 1909 graduating class shows two minorities, which Burnes said is an indication that Ike, even at an early age, did seem to have a feeling about other races.”
Feeling is healing!
Which One Is Not Like The Other Ones?
 
Among those apparently driven round the bend by Obama’s poll numbers is the National Black Republican Association.
Always a little on edge, the Association has tried its “King Was A Republican” campaign with no visible effect,
 “Urban Print” 
 and now they are reaching back to defend Nixon’s embrace of Southern, er, traditions.
“President Richard Nixon’ 1970’ “Southern Strategy†began a 30-year odyssey to get fair minded people in the South to stop voting for racist Democrats who were discriminating against blacks.”
Fairminded Folks 
Name In Vain 
Hope Arkansas’s Second Son Mike Huckabee graced the stage at the Republican convention’s Wednesday session, offering up democrat and god fearin’.
Sadly the Arkansas Augustus has been caught out making up a Lincoln quote, the gist of which is to make Old Abe an enemy of big government. It’s been attributed to much of the Founders pantheon, but it’s really just a Gerry Ford line from the 70s.
The whitest Republican convention in forty years remains eager to drop Lincoln’s name, the latest being both Cindi and John McCain Thursday night.
 You’d think she might shy away from the word Lincoln.
