GEORGE WASHINGTON Archive
Fakes, Frauds, & Founders
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 18th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, FOUNDERS!, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE WASHINGTONBehold These Goofs
Unable to stage signing the “Mount Vernon Statement” at, um, Mount Vernon, massed conservatives held their event instead at the swanky Collingwood Library & Museum, a former dinner theatre venue on property once owned by George Washington and now available for wedding rentals.
Mount Vernon wouldn’t let them hold a political […]
Founder-ing
0 Comments Published by mr.president January 14th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, FOUNDERS!, SARAH PALIN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE WASHINGTONFirst In War, First In Peace, & Not On The Tip Of Sarah Palin’s Tongue
Twenty-Twelve Dream Twixie Sarah Palin continues making the rounds of the Fox News Legends she now resides among, only to be caught out by Glen “I Know It When I See It” Beck, of all people.With the spunk and verve […]
George W. Bush’s Rocket To Obscurity
2 Comments Published by mr.president February 23rd, 2009 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, BUSH LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, GEORGE W. BUSHThe Forgotten Man
The Dallas Morning News reports that former President Bush is on a slow road to nowhere in the mysteries of the Internet. In Google searches for “bush library” The George W. Bush Presidential Center ranks below Dad and below a blog on the Library-to-be that hasn’t been updated since May 2007.
The News […]
Washington Re-Worked
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 15th, 2009 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE WASHINGTONDead White European Males, Monumental Addition
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…
“But the moment that […]
America Elsewhere
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 9th, 2009 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTS ABROAD, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, GEORGE W. BUSHDavid Plouffe: Let The Eagle Soar
Barack Obama campaign wizard David Plouffe appears to be following the well worn path of other political advisers: make your name in America, then make a killing advising foreign tyrants on prettying up.
Plouffe is traveling to Azerbaijan to meet second generation oil despot and President Ilham Aliyev. Poppy […]