Remember, Remember The Eleventh Of September 
The George W. Bush Presidential Library has no building yet, but in our up to the minute virtual world they’ve begun filling the Internets with thoughtful reminders of the glorious Bush Era.
The Library website has an exciting 9-11 look-back slide-show, 
featuring our hero on the phone,
videoconferencing, 
and 
staring urgently.
All of our old friends are there:
Tony Blair,
Hamid Karzai,
even good old Pervez Musharraf. 
And never forget: we invaded for the children! 
I’d forgotten former New York Governor 
George Pataki was with Bush on the rubble mound
in NYPD drag, anticipating the butch look 
Bush would sport the next seven years.
Lasting Impressions 
The departing administration’s list of presidential gifts from foreigners is itself a delight, revealing some gifters’ self images, or at least how they’d like to be seen.
Famed Bush poodle Tony Blair presented the President with a classic dog whistle, a Wedgwood bowl inscribed with the words ‘‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’.’ This was a slogan of the 18th Century British abolitionist movement organized by Christian evangelical heartthrob William Wilberforce, engraved by Wedgwood at the time on bowls. medallions and tchotskies to promote the cause.
It’s an almost too perfect replication of the two men’s publicly presented self image, believing Christians setting out to do right in the world for the benighted swarthies, a reminder of sunlit days when caring whites could run the abolitionist movement before all those colored people got involved.
Bonus Fun Fact: Wedgwood ended the year filing for bankruptcy.
featuring our hero on the phone,
staring urgently.
Tony Blair,
Hamid Karzai,
George Pataki was with Bush on the rubble mound