Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Start Over? 
Those boho scenesters at the Storefront for Art and Architecture are aiming high. The Chronicle of Higher Education may have their back ‘o the envelope Bush Presidential Library contest; the Storefront is re-doing the White House.
Your submissions for replacing the old dear 
with a “Presidential Palace of the future” may be offered starting March 1st. The contest closes April 20th, with winners to be announced in May. Cash money prizes!
How its done in Kosova 
The Diamonds & Despots Tour 
President Bush’s tour of our many gallant Middle Eastern allies has drawn to a close, with a Hosni Mubarak Sharm El
Sheik grip ‘n grin.
It’s been an orgy of photo-ops and gifts, items that will someday find their home at Bush’s Fantastic Freedom Institute
And if the pattern of at least the last two Presidents repeats, Saudi, UAE and Kuwaiti money will help build Bush’s temple to himself.
That’s My Bush 
Legacy Building 
“In no way should our initiative be seen as a personality cult.â€
It’s always reassuring when Russian politicians begin their pitch that way.
Vlad Putin fans are pulling themselves together, bereft at his looming departure from the Russian Presidency, if not from power. The answer for keeping a polish on his ever shining star? A western import classic, the Presidential Library. If the bill passes, and it’s larded up with Putin allies, Putin, Yeltsin, and their successors will get state funded visitor centers of grandeur to commemorate their fab-ness.
As sponsor Mikhail Starshinov told Reuters, “State leaders are immortalised in one form or another in many civilised countries.”
Ronnie Goes to Russia? 
“Spengler” sees disaster ahead:
“Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong in American policy, but not as wrong as it will go now. As in 1980, a lame-duck administration will confront economic and strategic reverses. But it is worse than 1980, for no Ronald Reagan is waiting in the wings to set things right. “
And sends forth the call for the smack of firm government:
“Vladimir Putin, the most talented political leader of our time: what might he have done at the helm of the world’s only superpower, instead of salvaging the hulk of the defeated Soviet Empire? Why not give him the chance? Watching the last round of American political debates, it occurred to me that it’s time to think out of the box…Putin will finish his second term of office as Russian president early in 2008, just when the next American president takes office. There is plenty of time to naturalize him as an American citizenand amend the constitution to permit a foreign-born president. The alternative is to elect another incarnation of the political type that got America into trouble in the first place. “
His Place in History [or at least in Irbid] 
Too soon to tell if it’s the much hoped for Saddam Hussein Presidential Library, but his fans certainly put on a show for his death anniversary.
