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CBS TV Funnyman David Feherty  has attracted concerned stares over the murderous fantasies about Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid  he revealed while welcoming George Bush to Dallas, but Bush’s fellow Preston Hollow resident clearly has other issues.

If you worry who Bush has settled amongst in Dallas, be of good cheer. Bush’s neighbors share his willful myopia, because after all, “what a nightmare of a time that was to be president of the United States!”

Yes, poor George did his best, or was stabbed in the back, or something, as he  “he played some of the rotten cards he was dealt.”

Feherty is quite the student of  Middle Eastern affairs, as  shown in his evocation of “my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East,” and  “having spent considerable time in the Middle East myself.”

This expertise leads the golf comedian to the bold conclusion that “Americans in America have been safe since 9/11, almost the whole length of G2’s term as president, and for that we should be thankful.”

And just how did he acquire this hard won knowledge of facts on the ground [with added sweep of history] in a dangerous neighborhood?

USO tours!

Yes, 2007 and 2008 crotch joke performances before military audiences, and classic man-dress and camel dung material for the readers back home of have taught Feherty all he needs to know about The Man Who Kept Us Safe. Feherty adds a touch of magic to his tales of desert redemption by saying the stirring war scenes he witnessed caused him to apply for US citizenship

Feherty’s Call to Citizenship

But by his own account he has been applying since July of 2003, back when the mission was accomplished, all we feared was dead-enders, and he had yet to travel to freedom’s new found land.

 In A Foreign Field

Now With Dignified Forms! 

The New York Times identifies a looming menace in presidential monumental-ism:  a renowned architectural crackpot’s involvement in Washington’s prospective Adams family memorial.

Rodney Mims Cook Jr is a man with a mission: hurling architecture back in time to an era of stately forms, and a whole lot of pillars. Cook gave Atlanta a taste of Washington’s magic to come when he erected an enormous faux Arc de Triomphe plotzed amidst big box stores.

     The Adams monument got a boost when America’s Tom Hanks brought David McCullough’s stirring vision of our first one term president to tony HBO. Not since Ken Burns invented the letter-scan-with-voice-over shot has the written word exploded from the screen with such pith and power.

With Cook on board we can look forward to a monumental granite remembrance of flinty New Englanders Adams, the Mrs., and offspring/president Quincy Adams.

Washington’s embrace of the tried, true and trite has a long pedigree. Cook is at the nexus,  tying in Bush Library architect Robert A.M. Stern, McCullough again, artful wordsmith of reaction Tom Wolfe, and voice for all those a little concerned about this Obama fellow, Cokie Roberts.

We could of course do worse, and probably will when Lynn Cheney’s next bio surfaces.  Watch for much of this same crowd engage in still more founder-swoon when this friend of liberty turns her loving gaze on our next to slavingist president, James Madison.

Hot Topic 

When Leadership Counts

Well, somebody‘s excited about the Bush Library’s easy money! 

Silence Is Golden 

Despite becoming actually more unpopular since leaving office, George W. Bush is quietly on his way to building the Bush Presidential Library ‘n Reputation Restorer in Dallas.

He has reportedly raised one hundred million dollars towards the library/rehab center at Southern Methodist University.

Time reports that the cash is rolling in despite the economy’s current enjoyment of the fruits of the Bush era. The ex-president went from beloved by 31% of the populace down to 26%  according to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll [the numbers are buried on page 9 of the pdf at the bottom of the linked page]

Meanwhile, Southern Methodist University’s attorney is under a gag order in the wake of jury pool tainting allegations.

SMU is being sued over land once considered as part of the Bush Presidential Library,with former condo owners suing the University claiming information about the looming Library was withheld.

The judge in the case had ordered the former president to testify in the case, and is concerned with  remarks by  SMU attorney Mark Lanier who  called those suing the university “terrorists,” and complained that they had rejected a $2 million offer to go away.

“the more press there is about this, the harder it’s going to be to pick jurors for a trial,” Judge Martin Hoffman said before ordering Lanier not to publicly discuss mediation-related matters.“

This in the wake of SMU hiring a prominent local Democratic lawyer, in the predominantly Democrat-leaning Dallas.

Rebuilding Reagan 

The Reagan Presidential Library takes its place at the trough this summer, as Madera Road will be widened from the hilltop shrine to Semi Valley. More than half of the $2.7 million cost will come from federal funds.

America’s titanic struggle over dreaded “pork,” apparently detectable by “earmarks,” featured many stirring calls to block money going to those corrupt presidential libraries.

Watch for Freedom’s Warriors on this one!