Nixon: Our Man In Africa

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A retired Ghanaian Army man is making an outsider run for President, and one of the barriers he must overcome is his name: Richard Nixon Tetteh.

Nixon had a history in West Africa.

Ghana’s independence celebration attracted political personalities from throughout Africa and the world as the first country freed from colonial rule. Eisenhower dispatched the Vice President to carry the flag amidst the Marxists and Pan-Africanists. At the celebratory ball Nixon legendarily slapped a man on the back, asking “How does it feel to be free?” The man replied “I wouldn’t know, I’m from Alabama.”

In one version, Nixon’s encounter was with Martin Luther King, who was in Ghana for the celebration.

Sites For Sore Asses

Daily diary of the George W. Bush Library dream the Dallas Morning News has a thorough guide to all manner of dubious characters hopin’ and a prayin’ for some traffic to their Bush Library-ish sites, or to at least sell the web addresses they’ve squatted.

Motley don’t begin to describe them.

GeorgeWBushLibrary.net is the usual crummy collection of random ads pining for your patronage.

Better than Half Off! coulter-half-off.gif Hardy perennial “Ann Coulter’s Column Free” vies for your eager fingers with the Republican National Committee and this guy bush-squat-ad.jpgintensely posed in what appears to be his bathroom in order to further his writing career.

Look, but don’t buy, it only encourages them!

TheGeorgeWBushLibrary.com and  GeorgeWBushLibrary.org are anti Bush sites without much content.


The orgs do have a handsome graphic featuring Bush at his mission accomplishing best. flyboy.jpg

The Truman Show [Trial]

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truman-mushroom-cloud-couple.gif The impetuous youth of Long Island’s Ward Melville High School are taking Harry Truman to trial, charged with crimes against humanity for the Hiroshima bombing.

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Joseph Stalin is among the witnesses summoned from beyond to make the case against Ol’ Harry.

The defense bizarrely offers intimidating the Russians as part of Truman’s bomb drop alibi, usually a point offered by Truman critics. [Or un-slick Truman apologists like this Enola Gay pilot-related site.]

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From Stalin To Nixon

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Along with a Trotsky quoting fan of a 19th century slave holder, one of the joys of Venezuelan politics is the freakishly heterogeneous alliance of groups opposed to Hugo Chavez.

The broad span is demonstrated in a recent article where Venezuelan student leader Stalin González laments the alleged persecution of fellow campus caudillio Richard Nixon Moreno.

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Party Line

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Greg Grandlin offers a roundup of one interested party’s role in the last twelve presidential elections, and perhaps on his last one.

Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate” clocks el Lider Maximo’s walk-ons and cameos over five decades.

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