“Turning Bo, the White House Dog, into a Teachable Moment“

Short of Checkers’ role in Nixon’s career, no.

Slacker!  

The always in the know Mike Allen reports former President George W. Bush has settled on a format for his upcoming memoirs.  Allen reports that:

“…his book will revolve around 12 tough decisions he made as president. Planners for his presidential library in Dallas are considering a similar format.”

Making Richard Nixon’s Six Crises look like nothin!

Bush spoke in Canada, giving us a little taste of the torture apologetics to come:

“I want people to understand what it was like to sit in the Oval Office and have them come in and say, ‘We have captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’ — this mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the alleged killer of a guy named Danny Pearl [who died] because he was simply Jewish — ‘and we think he has information on further attacks on the United States.’ I want to draw people in to that environment and let them determine what they would have done if their most important job was to protect the country.”

In the same appearance Bush claimed he’d be quiet about the Obama administration, but apparently “drawing comparisons” does not count as criticism.

Almost* April In de Paris 

One president was shot wearing a suit he tailored, and another was buried in one. Now Georges de Paris feels it’s time for Barack Obama to get shovel ready too.

Ronald Reagan almost died in a de Paris suit, and Gerald Ford,  formerly “our most athletic President” rode his last mile wearing one.

The legendary Washington tailor and renowned hair farmer tells Vanity Fair  Obama is letting down the team wearing casual clothing, and doesn’t much care for his fancy clothes neither.

““The suits President Obama has is not quality.”

A new chapter in Tony Blair’s Bush’s Poodle career is revealed, as de Paris claims the former prime minister ordered up a duplicate of a Bush suit de Paris was making.  Tragically he is silent on the only Bush fashion question to have ever troubled Americans:

    What the hell was that thing on his upper back?  

*March 30,1981

Code Of Silence  

An Obama nominee’s shocking mockery of Ronald Reagan may torpedo his nomination.  Dennis Hayes is up for deputy secretary of Interior, but soldier of the Reagan Revolution John McCain claims to take great offense at some five year old musings   somehow tying Reagan to cowboy mythology.

Hayes wrote of the legendary man of the west,

“a rugged, gun-toting individualist who fiercely guards every man’s right to drill, mine, log, or do whatever he damn well pleases on the land…Like Ronald Reagan before him, President Bush has embraced the Western stereotype to the point of adopting some of its affectations—the boots, brush-clearing, and get-the-government-off-our-backs bravado.”

That’s it, end of mockery.

McCain pronounced himself unhappy, as well he should, being a product of the DC suburbs parachuted into the wilds of Arizona with only native guile and his wife’s money to support him.

For christ’s sake, Hayes is a chemical and utility lobbyist.

Land That Time Forgot  

We’re often told the mighty Information Wurlitzer that is the Internet will seek out and destroy untruth.

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In Erie, Pennsylvania’s’s Danzig Corridor, the winters last longer, and the chill seems to prolong shelf life.  The Erie Times News letters column has recently enjoyed a spirited debate based on a long exploded Bush fraud.

The Obama Era of Good Feeling was off to its spirited start, when former George W. Bush Chief of Staff Andy Card took powerful exception to the youngsters besmirching America’s Oval Office by appearing sans jackets.  Card’s more in sadness had been barely emitted when photos of Bush’s own jacketlessness surfaced, and the world laughed.

But the Reverand John Detisch still felt the call, sallying forth in the local letters page on the strength of the legend, heedless of its death the week before.

“Please, Mr. President, don’t give in to so many other American men who are constantly lowering their standards. Lead us by example.“

Two weeks later, it fell to J. Spinelli to Speak for the Nation:

“Rev. Detisch, as you said in your letter, lead us by example. Get your facts straight.”

But clowning continues, in proud ignorance.