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It was probably just liberal Marxists off for a spoof, but for some the dream was real.
The year was 2004, and someone claiming to be “Ann Cuolter” didn’t care enough about their fraud to come up with a better fake name. In September of that year “Ann” launched a petition to put George W. Bush on Mt. Rushmore.
To call the response tepid would be to insult lukewarm water. Only 137 have signed in four years, and many did so only in order to broadcast their hatred of Bush and the notion, or to promote 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Actual Ann “It’s Never Too Warm For Leather” Coulter shown here in all her finery. 
Elsewhere In Alternative Bush Reality:
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me 
The nation has taken Will Bunch to its heart, thrilling to his knocking Ronald Reagan down a couple pegs in his Tear Down This Myth.
Until now
Lately Bunch is embracing a cuddly vision of Reagan as an old violence-averse softee who would not stoop to torture like that mean George W. Bush.
“BUNCH: I do think that some of the swaggering rhetoric that Reagan used…have been I think misinterpreted by Republicans that this was his actual policy, when actually his policies didn’t have the same kind of cowboy attitude that some of his rhetoric did. I can’t imagine, particularly torture, I just doubt that would have been something that would have been condoned during the Reagan administration.
He actually was kind of a — in fact this was used in a headline in the Washington Post — he was actually kind of a pussycat so to speak when it came to the job of killing people through various acts of war.”
Well yes, if offshore don’t count.
The old pussycat just couldn’t help himself when it came to hiring the swarthies to kill, maim and torture for the cause, whether car bombing in Beirut, dubiously funding our Funding Father equivalent Nicaraguan Contras, to our gallant witch burning allies in Angola.
Perhaps that is the problem with Bush, that unlike the old magician he did terrible things “in our name” and didn’t leave a sufficient number of cut-outs in between for Americans to feel good about themselves.
There Were Giants Here Once 
To the Ford Presidential Library, where a fabled small but perfectly formed miniature White House is on display.
Joining the fun are Peter Sharkey’s obsessively detailed model drawings of any and all White House rooms and the exterior grounds.
Just the thing for planning your radio controlled model aircraft attack, or carrier pigeon conspiracy.
Mr. Sharkey also sees to your 
 underground White House laundry room viewing needs.
Your pining for impossible overhead views of the Oval Office is also met, as well as White House pool shots that look vaguely like crime scenes.
He Knows Civil War! 
Civil War Bookshelf has discovered that all are not enamored with the Lincoln-ifcation of Barack Obama.
“The Fourth International is fed up with Lincoln/Obama comparisons in the mass media:
‘Attempts to portray Obama as the heir of Lincoln’s legacy involve a grotesque historical and political falsification. Lincoln will forever be associated with one of the great progressive causes in history—the emancipation of the slaves and the destruction of the Southern slave-owning oligarchy in the American Civil War (1861-1865). Obama, on the other hand, bears only a negative and reactionary relationship to the great political questions of his day.'”
Trotskyism is a fantasy wonderland of factions, fractions, and preparatory committees to really do something about getting together. The Bookshelf has stumbled on one of the many, many groups, grouplets and ghost armies claiming to Be the Fourth International, World Party of Socialist Revolution
, although it casually insulted them by calling them Trotskyites, not the vastly preferred Trotskyists.
CWB is quoting from the International Committee of the Fourth International, whose dominant affiliate is the US Socialist Equality Party [perhaps the lamest name in Trot history].
Here’s what the US Trot Family Tree looks like [the Obama denouncers are 6th from the left at the bottom]:
 A thousand schools of thought contend worldwide for the 4th International Franchise, with some combination of 4s, hammers, and sickle branding.
          
And yes, t-shirts are available! 
Blogger Dimitri Rotov points out that the civil war history is often treated as fodder for random claims about freedom, destiny and personalities. His Civil War Bookshelf recognises that splintery though they may be, the Trots at least try to engage in real discussion.
“At this point in the ongoing orgy of “public history” I’m desperate for some intellectual standard in historical evaluation. I’ll even take it from the communists. “
Now He Belongs To The Undead 
With the proud boast “Filmed in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois,” perhaps America’s only Abraham Lincoln vampire movie has struck the internets, offering 24 minutes of farmer tans and corn-fed honeys battling a blood-sucking Great Emancipator.
The film has played the festival circuit, but now the entire film is available free on-line.
Star Michael Krebs day job is as a Lincoln “interpreter.” 
