Remember, Remember The Eleventh Of September 
The George W. Bush Presidential Library has no building yet, but in our up to the minute virtual world they’ve begun filling the Internets with thoughtful reminders of the glorious Bush Era.
The Library website has an exciting 9-11 look-back slide-show, 
  featuring our hero on the phone,
videoconferencing, 
and 
 staring urgently.
All of our old friends are there:
Tony Blair,
   Hamid Karzai,
even good old Pervez Musharraf. 
And never forget: we invaded for the children! 
I’d forgotten former New York Governor 
  George Pataki was with Bush on the rubble mound
in NYPD drag, anticipating the butch look 
Bush would sport the next seven years.
Now Paperless To Serve You Better! 
Faced with demands not to destroy White House emails and account for several million which had gone missing, the Bush Administration ran out the clock. The Bush White House variously claimed there wasn’t a problem, to be working on the problem, and unsure that there was a problem.
Then they all turned into pumpkins and scurried out of town along with the Archivist of the United States, leaving the National Archives and Obama Administration to clean up the mess.
We now learn that some 22 million missing emails have been found, with prospects of more in the woods. But whatever is now found goes into the catacombs of Archives’ Presidential Library system, with all the slow delights that promises. And leaving Bush free to roam about presenting sunny memories unsullied by actual facts.
The Washington Post turns for missing papers perspective to “Scott Stanzel, a former Bush White House spokesman”
Scotty is just so weary of the whole thing, and blames litigators the Committee for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington:
“CREW ‘has consistently tried to create a spooky conspiracy out of standard [information technology] issues. Their misleading statements about our work demonstrates their continued anti-Bush agenda, nearly a year after a new president was sworn in.“
Bias perhaps demonstrated by being not impressed with Scotty’s own role in the saga, offering vague assurances and misdirection until it became someone else’s problem.
Now With Added Stature! 
In an intriguing political parallel universe, pollsters matched up the sitting president with his term-limited predecessor. And the out guy is a comer.
From his popularity depths in the 20s, George W. Bush has clawed his way back to a position where 44% of poll-ees want him in office over Barack Obama.
Laying low, raising library money and a thoughtful assist from the beloved Bill Clinton appear to have done the trick.
Old Acquaintance Been Forgot  
Your Results May Vary
Thoughtful readers of sprightly Internet phenom Talking Points Memo reacted in horror today to the display ad which popped up on some screens.
Continuing the Go-It_Alone, maverick-y before it was cool ways that endeared him to a nation, the George W. Bush Presidential Library bought space on the liberal bastion, reaching out to a new generation.
Bold New Platform      
George W. Bush has announced exciting new plans for his Presidential Library, spraying the horizon with many, many numbered lists of intentions, notions and fanciful ideas.
Just what will his legacy be all about?
The Bush Library will continue Bush’s on-going worldwide effort to devalue words by grasping them tightly to himself:
Join The Freedom Registry for only $50! 
In the spirit of the age, the Bush Library hopes to mobilize the sinister power of social networks through its Member Advocates. But if the roaring success of the Bush administration alumni blog is an indicator, Face-book will remain fairly Bush-free.
The Bush Library web site is doing its part to erase the Kennedy assassination stain from local consciousness, offering a map of “Dallas Landmarks” with Dealey Plaza unmarked. 
Not From Around Here? 
We’ll be seeing a lot more of Bush’s attempts to tie himself to great “dissidents,” hiring a guy from Columbia whose “One Million Voices Against FARC” Face-book page harnesses the power of the web against the plucky jungle fighters by presenting seven [7] photos, one of Cheney and two of them of Bush.
Something called ” The Freedom Collection of the Bush Institute’s Oral History Project” looms, in which “the Institute will bring together dissidents who are participating in the Freedom House oral history project. They will share their experiences and promote best practices.”
Not to be confused with the just announced “George W. Bush Oral History Project,” by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
 Friendly Ghosts 
What sort of probing questions might the Miller-narrians ask?
Lets take a loving look back at the Reagan Administration, the Millerists’ hard hitting interview with Caspar Weinberger.
What did they chat about?
The interviewer glides lightly over Iran-Contra, and asks Weinberger no questions about hiding documents in the Library of Congress, lying about it to the Special Prosecuter, his indictment, or his pardon by George H.W.Bush on eve of trial.
“Weinberger’s notes proved to be an invaluable contemporaneous record of the views and activities of the highest officials regarding those sales. They revealed, among other things, that contrary to his sworn testimony, Weinberger knew in advance that U.S. arms were to be shipped to Israel in November 1985 without Congressional notification, in an effort to obtain the release of U.S. hostages, and that Israel expected the United States to replenish the weapons Israel shipped to Iran. Weinberger’s notes also disclosed that, contrary to his sworn testimony, he knew that Saudi Arabia was secretly providing $25 million in assistance to the contras during a ban on U.S. aid.“
Lame or not, the Miller Center best get going, given some Bush administration figures shall we say slippery memories.
  featuring our hero on the phone,
 staring urgently.
Tony Blair,
   Hamid Karzai,
  George Pataki was with Bush on the rubble mound
