Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Book Buddies 
From Palestine comes a first: a Presidential Library honoring the dead leader of a barely functional fragment of an occupied territory. The Presidential Library contagion has now spread to the Israeli occupied West Bank, where an institute devoted to the late Yasser Arafat will now join the proud line of American inspired memorialist buildings.
Perhaps they can do exchanges with the new Rabin institute.
Seem Familiar? 
An Israeli museum dedicated to Yitzhak Rabin compares itself to American Presidential Libraries, and it’s on the same path fueled by foreign money.
The Rabin received German and American government donations of $5 million apiece, and continues to fund-raise here.
Bill Clinton appears at Rabin events, and while not yet dead is honored by the “William J. Clinton and Hillary R. Clinton Memorial Gardens.” There is also a Reagan names project-like running tally on places and things named for the late great.
“I would love to see a President Huckabee 
…because if our president were named ‘Huckabee,”
how bad could anything really seem?… It’d be as if
the entire country was animated by Hanna Barbera.”
From the Associated Press comes word that Colbert’s vision is already being realised in Huckabee’s [and Clinton’s] hometown of Hope Arkansas, with a lake named for Huckabee. 
The tiresome whiners at Judicial Watch receive breathless coverage in the right wing blogosphere for their Hillary Clinton papers pursuit. But facts occasionally shed light on just how strained their effort is.
The National Archives is asking a judge to make Judicial Watch wait it’s turn. Freedom of Information Act requests to the Presidential Libraries are handled as they come in, first come first served. The Watchers are considerably back in the pack, and they are pigs.
Archives sneers:
“At an estimated three million pages, the size and scope of Judicial Watch’s present FOIA request makes it the largest FOIA request that the Clinton presidential library has received to date…Further, the request is greater than any FOIA request ever received to date at any of the presidential record act libraries.“
Before It’s Too Late 
Just when we are shedding the Bushes and cracks appear in the His ‘n Her Presidencies juggernaut, a new dynastic threat looms.
It may take swallowing a second generation of Romney, but it’s a price worth paying to strangle this political career in it’s cradle.
When the New York Times asked Nixon’s Grandson about his future, Christopher Nixon Cox brings the coy:
“When asked if he would ever consider running for public office, Mr. Cox sidestepped a bit. “For me, the key is to serve my country and my community in whatever way I can,†he said. “It can’t be about ego. It has to be about using my talents to serve the country in the best way I can. Right now, that means working for John McCain.â€
You have been warned.
