There’s Something About Joans
AstroTurf and Internet sock puppets are valued tools in the hope chest of propaganda, but one Reagan Library fan has fallen back on a steady method appropriate for America’s Sunset President
– the letter to the editor from a deeply concerned citizen.
Joan Marie Patsky is a realtor who donates to the Library, but she doesn’t let this connection cloud her vision one bit.
The Reagan Library’s new Discovery Center features students reenacting of the Grenada invasion, and even as fizzy event as that is presented in a spectacularly hoked up version.
Joan is so thrilled by the place she’s written various papers at least three letters to the editor praising the new vision quest.
She states the kool-aided uncontradictable:
“Creative education recently took a giant leap forward at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s grand opening of the Air Force One Discovery Center in Simi Valley“
She furthers the Reagan Library’s mission 
to insert Nancy Reagan into as many contexts as possible, while confusing the real plane for a fake one:
“There is also a replica of the historic Boeing 707 Air Force One aircraft that carried the president and Mrs. Reagan on important missions that shaped global history.”
But sometimes she gets that it’s a real plane in service of the make believe:
“the powerful presence of the Presidential Air Force One Boeing 707 that is a historical symbol of the Reagan policy of a strong national defense and proactive involvement in global diplomacy.”
And sometimes the vapors overcome her and she makes no sense at all:
“Let education be the destination and experience the human dignity values of American democracy!”
Bring Us Together 
Hearts aflutter at the Nixon papers in the US Archives Maryland facility – yes, they are still hanging on there until the Yorba Lindists build enough space in their “library” to hold actual documents.
Apparent National Archives intern Eneuman blogs about College Park creeps… until she meets a boy.
“I did meet a cute guy on the bus. Unfortunately he’s going back to wherever he came from-either Santa Barbara Cali or somewhere in Ohio. He was a researcher at the Nixon library and I met him on the bus. Had a discussion about the research, etc. He was soo my type (burly hiker hippie dude..kind of?)”
Still Pulling The Babes! 
Kurd Appeal 
Bush benefactor and oily Texan Ray Hunt had help from the US Government in signing an oil deal with Kurdistan, separate from the central Iraqi government.
Iraq called the deal illegal, and the State Department claimed to shocked and surprised by it. But State knew months in advance, Congress has now shown.
Hunt’s daddy H.L. built a Mount Vernon replica to live in, but Ray has chosen a more direct path to power. Hunt serves on the President’s Intelligence Advisory board, gave Southern Methodist University $35 million for Bush Library land, and lobbied the President to pick SMU.
Invisible Man 
The timeless aura of Plain Speakin’ & Brisk Walking Harry Truman claims another victim.
The 2008 campaign has already featured John Mccain wistfully recalling halcyon days when Truman strolled the capitol, accompanied by a single Secret Service agent.
Barack Obama has topped that on a visit to the Independence shrine, imagining Truman did it with no security.
“The thing that I envy most about Truman was that when he was in the White House, he could go out and take a walk. He could put on that fedora and take a stroll, without someone following himâ€
Obama had better watch his back. While he hit the Truman Memorial Building, and Truman’s home, Obama skipped the Truman Library, making the Library Board Chairman all huffy.
Trumanesque or Trumanish? 
Winsome, Lose Some 
It’s one step forward, one step back for gigantic representations of Ronald Reagan. An immense Reagan statue has been dedicated in Covington Louisiana, with a head oddly swollen compared to the original noggin.
Maybe It’s The Hair? 
Elsewhere, setbacks for the cause. A young Bill Clinton led anti-war demonstrations at the London Grosvenor Square American embassy. A Reagan statue was proposed for the square, but has just been turned down by the Westminster Public Art Advisory Committee.
It was double dipping by Chaz Fagen, who’s already making the Reagan statue to go in the US Capitol. He’s already done 
Bush Sr., and a Reagan 
relief bust for the USS Ronald Reagan.
