PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Archive

Republican Tinkerbell
The thoughtful press peepers at Media Matters For America [just typing it gives a tingle!] have detected a pattern in Republican affairs:  free-floating New Reagan naming, often not tied to any visible speaking skill or charisma.
Christie On A Stick! 
They run down the usual names named, your Palins, Rubios and the like, but […]

Rally For Our View  
No doubt we can now look forward to the many conservative stalwarts revising and extending their complaints at Obama’s grandiose event staging.
History didn’t deter them at the time, but we Americans are an optimistic people.

The Awesome Power Of Social Media® 
 The Washington Post reports another exciting example of our betters communicating with us via the Twitter, fostering new vistas of openness and communication.
The Twit in question is beloved Jordanian Queen Rania, who like Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan types from on high to her million plus  followers.
Unfortunately her husband the […]

Nigeria’s President Reverts To Type 
 
Social Times, “Your Social Media Source,” has discovered a new internet hero, the leader of a nation who engages with his public not just at election time, but online.  Meet Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria and Facebook aficionado.
Jonathan is West Africa’s Mohamed Nasheed,  a man we’ve never heard […]

Legends Of The Fall
It’s come to this: after being around for 20 years, the Nixon Library’s best spokesman defending the Nixon “legacy” is creationist fraudster and imaginary civil rights veteran Ben Stein.
The  celebration of 20 proud years is in the spirit of the man, with events featuring such 60s legends as Freddie “The Jew […]