Too soon to tell, but as your Engaged & Underage HQ notes, something may be up.
Wednesday Obama announced his latest Commerce stalwart, and once again ambiguous upper lip action was present.
                                                                        This never would have happened when Kurt Loder was alive.
The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize winning arts critic Mark Feeney has solved the Presidential Library/Pharaoh-ization problem: Make Obama go first!
It’s a position our first African-American President has been in many times before, and why not round out Black History Month by renouncing the building of his all but inevitable Presidential Library?
I agree with almost everything Feeney says about these places – the terrible history, bad architecture, and overall waste of these monuments to would-be greatness.
But why start with the new guy? George W. Bush has yet to announce a design, much less break ground – that one could be strangled in its birth. The Carter Library will be is closed most of this year in order to sink another $10 million into the place. And despite Feeney’s claim that the Nixon Library finally got his papers in 2007, they are still building,        and the papers are not expected on site until Fall 2009.
The established Presidential Libraries are rotting from within, and could be left to wither. But why does Barack Obama have to be first?
The Washington Post this President’s Day gives us hints at the parties would-be roads to power, and if the Republican portrait is accurate we won’t be seeing them for a good long while.
The Democrats continue to parade about as cut-rate New Dealers, seeing one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished, and vowing to get around to that.
The Republicans are the fun bunch. I assume the Post reporters here are faithfully paraphrasing Republican emissions, because actual reporting might call them into question.
Churchill spent the late thirties on the outs with his Conservative Party leadership, but the party held a parliamentary majority until being crushed by Labour in 1945. If by leading you mean making speeches while out of power, he did.
Perhaps this is the catapulting:
Churchill returned the Tories to power in 1951, but on the basis of an election in which Labour received more than a million votes more than the Tories.
Meanwhile, the Churchill bust on loan from Britain which graced the Bush Oval Office has been shipped back by Barack Obama.
The Washington Post marks President’s Day Eve profiling Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall, who offers an entertaining add-on to the Washington Monument.
What finer place to commemorate Nat Turner’s  slave rebellion?
The sly artist told the Post that Barack Obama’s election is all well and good…
[Not that their hacks don’t do the same and worse]
David Plouffe Shocked To Learn Oil Oligarchy ControversialÂ
                                             …To Donate Speaking Fee To The Oppressed
The Wall Street Journal reports that Barack Obama campaign wizard David Plouffe meant no offense in consorting with dictators, will donate his honorarium to some of those done to by the Aliyev clan.
Plouffe is on the ground in Baku, where his comments after a closed door speech gave no hint he’d be giving up the cash.
The oil-soaked region is so blessed that even tourism materials feature gas flaring.Â
 Too soon to tell, but as your Engaged & Underage HQ notes, something may be up.
      
