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British Conservatives Look Back in Anger

It ain’t just disgruntled Labour supporters in Britain who dislike the current US president.

British Conservative blogger Ian Dale has polled his largely Conservative readership on ranking US Presidents since World War II. It’s not a scientific poll, but even these hardened fans of the smack of firm government view Bush the Younger as a walking disaster.

The rankings:
Franklin D Roosevelt +67
Dwight Eisenhower +59
Harry Truman +53
Ronald Reagan +50
John F Kennedy +40
Bill Clinton + 20
George Bush Snr -4
Lyndon Johnson -19
Gerald Ford -20
Jimmy Carter -40
Richard Nixon -42
George W Bush -48

Proof that Conrad Black is not a crank?

Michigan is going ahead with pulling the plug, removing their Capitol Hill statue of a consequential historic figure in favor of the nation’s highest placeholder.

They would yank Senator Zachary Chandler, a Radical Republican who pressed President Lincoln to arm freed slaves against the South in the Civil War, and who led the fight against slavery in Washington DC.

In order to put up “Everybody Loves” Gerry Ford.

 

Chandler

An aroused citizenry could stop this travesty. Statue flipping began only in 2003 with Eisenhower. California is dumping one of it’s existing statues to make way for the beloved Ronald Reagan, but they’ve spared us Nixon so far. [Notice a pattern here?]

The Joint Committee on the Library of Congress has to sign off on dumping Chandler for Ford, so let them know you want Gerry in his place.

That would be over on the Senate side, in the Veep bust collection.

Wrap It Up

The Ford Library in Grand Rapids is now commemorating, um, commemorations.

They’ve unveiled a painting of long time Museum board fixture Marty Allen carrying the flag after it flew at half staff for 30 days after Ford’s death.

Not to be confused with 70s comedian Marty Allen.

Dr. K’s 100-page Super Spectacular comic blog is digging deep, recalling 1976’s “Challengers of the Unknown” encounter with an as yet to be beloved Gerald Ford and the unaccountably still visible Henry Kissinger.

Dr.K sums up The Amazing Adventures of Kissinger & Ford:

“President Gerald Ford calls on the Challengers of the Unknown to rescue Secretary of State, Nobel Prize winner, and war criminal Dr. Henry Kissinger from an island in the Bermuda Triangle inhabited by dinosaurs, cavemen, and samurai. I’m just going to stop writing now, forever, because I don’t think I’ll ever write a sentence as awesome as that.”

Festiva!

 

Christmas is a special season at the White House. Won’t you join the search for America’s best Presidential gifts?

 

 

 

 

 

Most Wonderful Time!

 

 

 

 

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For only $150.00 you can get this handsome Baccarat paperweight. It features Woodrow Wilson looking for all the world like the President-For-Life of a former Soviet republic.

 

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Often mocked, never bettered, the Nixon birthplace birdhouse. A classic at $45.00

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Vice Presidents before Dick Cheney often felt slighted and ignored, and were forced to find themselves something to do. In tribute to those dark days, the United States Vice Presidential Museum offers this Dan Quayle shot glass. $3.77.

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He may belong now to the ages, but he can still help tuck you in at night. The Lincoln Nightlight, $27.50.

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A sly dig at Betty Ford’s addictions? On offer for $24.95 in the Reagan Library’s “Nancy Reagan’s favorites” gift section, the First Lady Purse Pill Box. “It can be a headache to be first lady. This silver pill box helps you find the right remedy ever-so-elegantly“

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Because repeating “um, you lost,” won’t silence Confederate apologists, $12.00 gets you ten Christmas cards and envelopes with this touching Christmas scene of the Jeff Davis family from the “Confederate White House.”

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An undistinguished presidency yields endearingly odd sports apparel from Bridgeport Connecticut’s Warren Harding High School. $21.99 or multiple variations at similar prices.

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For $40.00, a talking Nixon doll with some explaining to do.

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“No Nickname”? Because “America’s Fattest President” couldn’t fit on a patch? Yours for only $4.27.
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You’ll accept no substitute for victory over sleeplessness with this 18″ square Commander in Chief throw pillow! President Bush has never looked so butch, and you’ll never feel more comfortable. For $18.99 you can take your pillow with you on trips like El Jefe does!

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