http://www.presidentsrus.com Remembering history the way they wished it had been Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:58:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Republican Tinkerbell The thoughtful press peepers at Media Matters For America [just typing it gives a tingle!] have detected a pattern in Republican affairs:  free-floating New Reagan naming, often not tied to any visible speaking skill or charisma. Christie On A Stick!  They run down the usual names named, your Palins, ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/09/01/ronald-reagan-live-the-fantasy/ 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. http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/08/29/all-you-can-828-the-beckoning/ The Awesome Power Of Social Media®   The Washington Post reports another exciting example of our betters communicating with us via the Twitter, fostering new vistas of openness and communication. The Twit in question is beloved Jordanian Queen Rania, who like Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan types from on high to her million ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/08/20/twitter-twaddle/ Nigeria's President Reverts To Type    Social Times, "Your Social Media Source," has discovered a new internet hero, the leader of a nation who engages with his public not just at election time, but online.  Meet Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria and Facebook aficionado. Jonathan is West Africa's Mohamed Nasheed,  ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/08/03/goodluck-with-that/ Legends Of The Fall It's come to this: after being around for 20 years, the Nixon Library's best spokesman defending the Nixon "legacy" is creationist fraudster and imaginary civil rights veteran Ben Stein. The  celebration of 20 proud years is in the spirit of the man, with events featuring such 60s ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/07/29/dick-nixon-to-kick-around-again/ Quit Your Stalin      Americans like to think of D-Day as a splendid battle which, while tough, prefigured our inevitable sweep to victory over Germany. How it came to be  that most of the German army was elsewhere, or where the slave laborers who built the Germans' "Atlantic Wall" came from ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/07/17/bedford-falls-world-war-two-done-right/  House Proud A belated salute to the Washington Post's Philip Kennicott, who July 4th shared with readers his meditations on America and the world's obsession with replicating homes of the great and the good, or at least George Washington.   Mount Vernon, soon to host another superfluous "Presidential Library," holds ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/07/10/washington-slept-here-now-keep-moving/ What Would George Drive?   National Resource Wonkette tries to probe the deeper meaning of the Washington Post's probe of the unfortunate Founding Fathers impersonators revival. In a new ad, automobile welfare queen Chrysler has George Washington scattering his enemies with a sensible sedan, and the Post thinks they may be tipping ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/07/06/washington-outside-a-revolution-is-not-a-tea-party/ No Middle Ground  Having already  incorporated Truman and Kennedy into the conservative pantheon, reactionaries are now critiquing Barack Obama for being just not FDR-ish enough Portly torture enthusiast,  former Bush speech writer and stain on the Washington Post op/ed page Mark Theeson is out with an exciting ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/07/01/a-new-deal-for-dead-presidents-everythings-better-after-all/ Crime Seen Rick "Re-Animator" Barber triumphantly mobilized George Washington's ghost in the Alabama 2nd House District campaign, and now our first Republican president has been summoned to the cause.  Plus Holocaust victims!                                                                  Over The Top don't begin to describe it.  I think we know where ... http://www.presidentsrus.com/2010/06/28/republican-re-animator/