Facts On The Ground: The Strange Courtship of Princess Diana & Bill Clinton

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Mr. President is doing his part to crash the Clinton Foundation web site, joining the aggrieved and the whimsiclay curious in pawing through these givers to the greater good of Bill Clinton.

As so many have cautioned, early trawling has been limited by the slowness of the site when it functions at all.

Amidst the proud donations of our Middle Eastern allies, some other curiosities appear.

Why does the public University of Florida appear among the $50-100,000 donors?

In the loftier one to five million donor band is a “Presidential Inaugural Committee” [left over 1997 money?] and the Princess Diana Memorial Fund.  The latter might be a pass through for some common project on AIDS, although there is no mention of one on the Fund’s site.

The two big haired Nineties personalities do share an interest in cluster bombs: he dropped them in and about Kosovo,  and her foundation attempts to clean them up.

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Mr. President Is On Assignment

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Everythings Coming Up Nixon For Me & For You!

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Frost/Nixon lumbers onto more of the nation’s screens this weekend, but America’s infotainment complex apparently believes in putting  a little touch of Nixon in everything they do.

Up next: HBO thrills once more to Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham as all that stood between us and fascism.

Her storied Pentagon Papers and Watergate confrontations with the Nixon administration are tales we tell children in Washington, while passing swiftly over her heroic union busting immediately afterwards.

Nixon stories are well on their way to being the thoughtful person’s Woodstock anniversary, events endlessly replicated in news and pop culture until the issues are reduced to “iconic” personalities,  anyone alive at the time dies or rioting spoils the party.   woodstock-riot.jpg

George W. Bush’s Unified Executive In Action!

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The Los Angeles Times gets the gritty detail of Bush administration history in the making:  talking points distributed to Cabinet and Agency heads to sell, sell, sell!

His departing virtues? Too many to count, but above all [and repeated twice] is his restoration of “the honor and the dignity of his office.”

When were that?

It’s a broad definition of dignity, apparently including the White House meetings, which Bush knew of, where his Cabinet officers and aides planned and signed off on torture, and those where he personally demanded torture.

Our Past Presidents: Dead? Sure, But How Were Their Abs?

 “I have always wondered…

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out of pure interest what state do you think the bodies of our founding fathers

are like? or others like Abraham Lincoln? do they get embalmed?”

One of the many paths to presidential knowledge, demonstrated by “indian23” in Bodybuilding.com’s forum.