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   Room For No View

 

Expectant neighbors of the exciting Bush/SMU-Library-To-Be are thrilled  to learn that they’ll have a parking lot smack up against their houses, north across SMU Boulevard from the Library proper.

Responding to their outcries, George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation President Mark Langdale pledged to remain noncommittal:

  “We want to be responsive to their concerns to the extent that we can.’’ 

One Nation, Duel Exhaust   

American’s strange compulsion to man-up presidents by linking them to motorcycles opens an exciting new chapter in Springfield, where somehow it was felt appropriate to display an Abraham Lincoln Harley Davidson.

This year has already seen the now sadly closed Art of The Chopper  exhibit at the Clinton Library.

George W. Bush posed on a motorcycle for   the 2004 campaign,

for the traditional  Harley factory tour,

and in Indonesia for some reason.

Bush invited the Rolling Thunder cavalcade to the    White House and proudly donned the leather vest, joining their crusade to save America’s somehow still missing POWs through, um, riding motorcycles. 

But don’t worry, it’s not all choppers and babes.

Lest we lose this potential presidential teaching moment, the 2004 Bush bike features the Preamble to the Constitution on the tank, and the Lincoln bike features “replica shackles ‘representing the issue of slavery’).”

David Plouffe: Let The Eagle Soar 

Barack Obama campaign wizard David Plouffe appears to be following the well worn path of other political advisers: make your name in America, then make a killing advising foreign tyrants on prettying up.

Plouffe is traveling to Azerbaijan to meet second generation oil despot and President Ilham Aliyev.    Poppy was a Brezhnev crony and KGB general reborn after the Soviet Union’s dissolution as maximum leader of the Caspian kleptocracy, and sonny Aliyev currently presides, with his fetching wife Mehriban.

It’s a land of enchantment.  At home the Azerbaijanis enjoy      a cult of personality built around former President Heydar Aliyev and fixed elections,  while abroad the Aliyev’s enjoy collecting pictures of themselves with world leaders from Bushes             to Clinton   to  Belorussian Strongman    Alexancer Lukashenko.

Hiring Plouffe would be a step up for the Aliyevs.   A previous thrust for swankiness entailed renting out Mount Vernon to try and link the Father Of Their Country to George Washington, an event graced by the presence of Bush family Consiliari James Baker.

 I Ever Tell You The One…

Proud Libra and Ramallahh resident, Palestinian-American blogger Sam Bahour is doing his part to bridge the gap, bringing the two [or more!] sides together by recycling yet again a Bush Library Classic Joke we’ve all so enjoyed over the years.

Taking time from the “Territories” day to day occupation grind, EPalestine can’t resist the musty rib-tickler which begins…

“The George W. Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages and accepting donations.”

I get 34,000 Google hits for this one. Your results may very.

What We’re Made Of   

Ronald Reagan’s birthday is Friday, and it would appear America’s love affair with the leathery matinee idol can only be sated by fawning tome after fawning tome   on the cooing conservative.

    But the only Reagan book you really need this year is Will Bunch’s Tear Down This Myth.   The Philadelphia blogger has become a national treasure simply by resurrecting Reagan Library Executive Director Duke Blackwood’s explanation that the restless spirits of the age led to the Reagan Library having no Iran-Contra material on display:

“We’ve had it in. We’ve done many of the renovations and it was addressed. It’s out now and, at some point in time, we hope to bring it back. But again, that’s the fluidity of a museum. You can’t have the same thing, you know, for ten, fifteen, twenty years. You need to refresh.“

 

Make Way For Tomorrow: Duke & Friends Fill Space