Bill Due

To the storied Plains of Kosovo, where the embattled former Yugoslav dominion rebuilds itself as an alternative Albania.

Like the Land of Eagles, Kosovo loves them some US Presidents.  Pristina pines for former President Bill Clinton to dedicate the massive statue they’ve erected on Clinton Boulevard in his honor, but he won’t be able to come until next month.

Kosovars love of Freedom’s Own Land and its former leaders is apparent at every turn.

A Bridge In The 21st Century 

Excitement builds in Little Rock, where the Wall Street Journal reports federal stimulus money has been allotted to finally fix the old bridge picturesquely decaying by the

Clinton Presidential Library.  Sure some say the Library promised to repair the bridge to secure the site, but that’s water somewhere when it comes to tourism promotion!

Friday In A Hall With George             

Former President Bill Clinton’s joint appearance with his despised [ if not quite as much as before] successor has not gone unnoticed.

Bill and George Show helps rehabilitate Bush

And:

Bill Clinton: A Disgraceful George W Bush Enabler

A thoughtful George W. Bush once said his successor “deserves my silence.” Would that his predecessor felt the same.

Phil-ing Up Space 

 The Clinton Library lecture series continues its cavalcade of the unspeakable and the available.

The latest?  Beloved TV doctor, “Dr” Phil! 

Phil brings his patented bullshit and charm to the Clinton School of Public Service’s leaders of tomorrow Monday.

The School’s distinguished  speakers series are now available on line in tiny boxes, and who is the most watched video crumpet?

Public servant, whore-hound,  seeker of truth, Jerry Springer defies category.

Industrial Fans Complete The Dungeon Look  

Survey Says 

C-SPAN’s presidential historian survey holds many thrills: the inexorable rise of Bill Clinton, how far from bottom     George W. Bush has settled, but the historians themselves hold their own excitement.

Who are these guys?

The mysteries of “presidential historian” credentialing are many, and among this crew are some rather odd characters.

In his writings Joseph Persico confused Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, confused Teddy’s daughter’s name with his sister’s, and got the year Roosevelt was elected in his own right wrong.

Stanley Renshon is perhaps best known for utterly missing the point of Stephen Colbert’s legendary appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner.   Colbert’s jolly mockery of the media’s deference to President Bush was the evening’s theme, but in Renshon’s view it was all terrible les majesty aimed at Bush.

“It is a testament to Mr. Colbert’s lack of perspective that he could even consider making such remarks. It is also a testament to the view, that he apparently shares, that when it comes to Mr. Bush, no level of crass rudeness is inappropriate…He owes the President and Mrs. Bush an apology.“

The utterly weird Paul Kengor tosses off articles with titles like “What Bush And Moses Have In Common,” and loses himself in reveries over Ronald Reagan’s life-guarding and the 77 lives he claims he saved:

“I believe it’s not an exaggeration to draw a straight line from Reagan at the Rock River to Reagan at the White House.“

Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s claim to fame is as Historian for the highly dubious National First Ladies Library, absorbing most of their salaries not paid to the wife of their former Congressional patron.