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.
First In War, First In Peace, & Not On The Tip Of Sarah Palin’s Tongue
Twenty-Twelve Dream Twixie Sarah Palin continues making the rounds of the Fox News Legends she now resides among, only to be caught out by Glen “
I Know It When I See It” Beck, of all people.With the spunk and verve that have stunned America, Palin managed to fumble through
answering history’s biggest softball:Who is your favorite Founding Father?
The Secret Word Is “Washington” 
Diet Deficit Delight 
Sarah Palin continues rummaging around the Reagan legend cupboard, searching for a usable past.
She fished up a gem in her Thanksgiving day ramblings, quoting the voice from beyond that
“all great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
What change did the master of folksy smarm propose back in those halcyon days?
His salute to domestic furniture’s decisive role immediately preceded a speech section where Reagan sought to mobilize today’s youth, calling on them to fink out their parents if insufficiently “American.”
“…If your parents haven’t been teaching you what it means to be an American, let ‘em know and nail ‘em on it“ 
What one American did to the American diet is clear: Reagan helped further degrade our already tenuous relation of food to nutrition.
The legend is true: Reagan’s administration tried to pass off delicious corn syrupy ketchup as a vegetable until laughed out of town. But they also killed studies of American’s diets, and abolished the office issuing diet and nutrition guidelines.
And Reagan was of course the Father of Frozen Food Day.
The Shadow Knows
As a curious world awaits Sarah Palin’s looming Oprah encounter, tiny shards of her upcoming polemic are emerging.
For all her roguishness, the Governor follows a predicable political path, lying about Ronald Reagan. 
The Associated Press prepared a catalog of her detachments from reality, and her Reagan claims are true to the spirit of the man, in that she confidently proffers demonstrably falsehoods with a smile.
“Palin: Says Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession than the one that appears to be ending now, and ”showed us how to get out of one. If you want real job growth, cut capital gains taxes and slay the death tax once and for all.”
THE FACTS: The estate tax,which some call the death tax, was not repealed under Reagan and capital gains taxes are lower now than when Reagan was president.
Economists overwhelmingly say the current recession is far worse. The recession Reagan faced lasted for 16 months; this one is in its 23rd month. The recession of the early 1980s did not have a financial meltdown. Unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent, worse than the October 2009 high of 10.2 percent, but the jobless rate is still expected to climb.“
