Was Pres BO there when Elvis met with Pres Nixon?

We just learned that The Obama White has been inserting "Obama" references in the presidential biographies section on the website.

In case you did not know, there is a biography of each president and First Lady in the official White House website.  

It's supposed to be about history, unity and connecting our 44 presidents.  

We learned that Pres BO is now "present" in many of the biographies.  Let me explain:

"The Obama team went into the pages of U.S. presidents dating back to Calvin Coolidge to add friendly looking "Did you know?" fact boxes to the end of their bios. 

Those additions were used to plug a host of Obama administration initiatives, ranging from the health care overhaul to the so-called "Buffett Rule" to his green-energy policies. 

For instance, the following line was added to the official bio of the late President Ronald Reagan: 

"In a June 28, 1985, speech, Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multimillionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule." 

The White House is coming under heavy criticism from conservatives for the changes, and not just to Reagan's page. "

My first reaction was to laugh and filed this under a Dennis Miller joke on The O'Reilly Factor.  

My second reaction was to get angry.   In other words, is there a limit to this man's narcissism?

My third reaction was to ask whether anyone at this White House is over 15 years old.

I can understand an isolated reference to Pres FDR, a popular connection for many Dems.  Or, a connection to Pres LBJ and some of the Great Society legislation of the 1960s.

Again, this is so weird that you have to wonder about the people working in this government.

Who came up with this idea?

Perhaps it was the same one who thought that creating a distraction such as "the GOP war on women" would help Pres BO.

Or, perhaps it was the guy who wrote that unemployment would not rise over 8% if we passed the stimulus of early '09.

Or, perhaps it was the expert who thought that sending Pres BO to a Hollywood fundraiser the day after the "same sex marriage" announcement was a good idea.

I don't know what "expert" came up with this one about inserting Pres BO in the biographies of other presidents.  I don't think that he is much of an expert.

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Will Pres BO now say that he was wrong about The Colombia Free Trade Agreement?

The Colombia Free Trade Agreement will finally go into effect today.  It was negotiated by Pres Bush and delayed by the Dems and Pres BO.

The CFTA was always about jobs.  It was about expanding commerce and creating jobs in both countries.  

It was such a good idea that the Dems opposed it to pander to the unions.

IBD has a good outline of some of the more obvious benefits from the CFTA:

"With the U.S.-Colombia free trade pact going into force Tuesday, the U.S. stands to gain $1.1 billion in new sales to Colombia, meaning plenty of demand for Long Beach. In anticipation, U.S. trade with Colombia increased 19% last year alone.

And ports like Charleston, Miami, Houston and New Orleans may reap even bigger benefits. That means jobs — lots of them.

The U.S.-Colombia deal took six years to pass and the news "narrative" was all about how free trade somehow costs jobs."

Of course, the narrative about costing jobs was wrong.  

We say hello to Colombia and look forward to a prosperous and very long economic relationship between the two countries.  

Colombia is a developing country and a wonderful ally in South America.  Colombia should also be congratulated for standing up to the cartels.  We salute Pres Uribe and the Colombia military for defending their country. 

By the way, will Pres BO now say that Pres Bush was right about The CFTA?

I don't know if Pres BO will recognize Pres Bush's visionary attitude about trade with Latin America.  Nevertheless, it's worth remembering that it was Pres Bush who fought to expand commercial relations with Latin America.

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