Remembering history the way they wished it had been
As America marked the 10th anniversary at ground zero with solemn ceremony, and Paul Simon, word comes of an exciting new cashing in on The 9/11 Experience®
Your Barack Obama action figure, standing over the bleeding corpse of Osama Bin Laden.
 
   Kind of makes Bush’s pistol plaque seem somehow inadequate, doesn’t it? Â
Your Presidential Libraries Never ForgetÂ
The world will little remember reaching for the remote, desperate to squelch George Pataki’s insulting reading of the Gettysburg address on the first 9/11 anniversary.
Some feared the vapid inanity of  2002’s commemorations could never be topped, but presidential libraries are doing their part.
Who Am I & Why Am I Here?  
Having apparently run out of things to say about either their nominal subjects or their periods, today’s presidential libraries seek to present themselves as founts of Everyhistory, places to mark any odd occasion with history slapped on.
And try , if possible, to include motorcycles.
At least four presidential libraries will mark the decade since 9/11, each in their own baffling manner.
The Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library is at least in the same state as one target…but after that the relation gets kind of strained.
They will be displaying a chunk of metal from the World Trade Center wreckage. 
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We might have enjoyed a retrospective on our relationship with our gallant Saudi Arabian ally, beginning with FDR’s quiet 1945 interlude with King Saud.
 Bush senior’s Library will also feature World Trade Center metal,
and they’ve rounded up some local rescue workers.
No word if Bandar Bush will show up.
 The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum has subcontracted
to the Boy Scouts, who will be hanging about all day.
And yes, they do have a chunk of the World Trade Center.
The Nixon Library will go all out for the memories. Sixteen tons of World Trade Center steel will arrive in ceremony Monday, and be available for public gawking all week. 
Keeping Up With The Kardashian
Tuesday will feature Angie Kardashian, one of the lesser known Kardashians.  Her claim to fame is post-9/11 firehouse cooking, not self-porning.
Let us pray 9/11 souvenirs don’t become the latest presidential library must have object.  At least until they all get their Berlin Wall chunks squared away.
  
The Reagan Library will be bursting with 9/11 goodness.  The Library will serve as a start point for Simi Valley’s “Freedom Walk,” Donald Rumsfeld‘s effort to mashup the initially popular Afghanistan war together with Iraq in a delightful Freedom Smoothie.
                                                         Freedom Handshakes?Â
The program will feature a 9/11 emergency worker, and they’ve dug up a prize. Out of all the rescue workers on the scene on 9/11, they’ve chosen the Scientologist.
  His “controversial” church got a reputation at the disaster site of proselytizing and sneaking around barricades, but  New York Fireman John McCole was their man on the inside. Â
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 The Reagan Library never lets a marketing moment pass, as they demonstrated with their 9/11 commemoration page.
 You’ll come to honor the dead,  you’ll stay to purchase souvenir Air Force One replicas.
My Country, Writer Wrong  
Before they were [accused] felons….
Barry Landau, “America’s Presidential Historian,” remains in a Baltimore jail and a heap of trouble, accused of pinching presidential documents and ephemera from a Maryland archive.
Such trouble that his lawyer is directing attention to Landau’s alleged partner in crime, emphasising that Barry had none of the loot in his possession when arrested.
Barry Often WrongÂ
We can all look forward to Landau’s credibility being tested at trial, the credibility of a man associated with McCarthy and Mafia mouthpiece Roy Cohn and  called a liar by a presidential special counsel, who claimed voicemail sniffer Rupert Murdoch inspired him  to write a book.  The veracity of a man who invents numbers and accounts for his “collections,” who this month shaved three years off a Woodrow Wilson visit to Iowa for a piece of CNN holiday fluff when he wasn’t filling space yammering on about flag desecration [against it!].
Barry sees what others can only imagine.
The”Presidential Historian” and dinner plate collector of the stars rushed to inform New York Post readers, and through them the world, that he alone spotted Tricia Nixon, daughter of disgraced former President Richard Nixon among Macy’s  shoppers one day. They, or at least Barry, recalled halcyon days of yore when Trish was married at the White House, an event memorialized in an Executive Mansion hallway, according to Barry.
Landau also shared the  good news that President Barack Obama recently placed a wreath at Nixon’s grave, a trick he managed without the White House or any news organ discovering it.
….in that, like Reagan, his apologists will now rush to credit him with something that didn’t happen on his watch.
| Â Â “I commend President Obama who has followed the vigilance of President Bush in bringing Bin Laden to justice “ |
The “Who Got  bin Laden” myth-making has already begun, with Republican House leaders reluctantly adding Obama to the Bush victory parade. 
Your Washington Post reluctantly conceded that bin Laden died during Barack Obama’s presidency.   Homeland Security Committee Chair Peter King [Provisional IRA, New York] sees Bush’s empty bluster as the foundation of victory:  “President Bush deserves great credit for putting action behind those words.“And what words they were!
  “If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! 
 The Twitter-sphere is awash in bizarre statements like  “Obama gets to enjoy the feeling of a (prior) cic’s victory.”
   Forgotten in the wave of Bush Revisionism are Bush’s frenzied efforts to dot this particular “I” before leaving office.
 And Obama’s weekend topping of the Gipper’s record by killing both a child and three of the strongman’s grandchildren.  Reagan only got one.*
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A future President’s lynching of two Britons for aiding slave escapes is the latest defense offered for the ill-starred Guantanamo military tribunals.
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  In a since withdrawn legal argument, prosecutors pointed to Bloody Andrew Jackson’s energetic response to Georgia slaves escaping to the Seminole Indians in then Spanish Florida.Â
 
  The Seminole tribe objected to being compared with al Qaeda, and escaped slave descendants might have something to say as well.
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   Defending the military tribunerals’ ever shape-shifting “procedures” was a challenge even before the Pentagon took to enlisting slave catchers as freedom’s legions.
