Yes, as they say, politics is a dirty business. And toiling as President can prove to be grimier and filthier than any political office. They promise to be pure. They promise to clean up the mess left by the fellow… Read More ›
Barack Obama
A White House Super Bowl Party Menu of Favorite Presidential Foods
Whether it’s been an isolated President and First Lady at Camp David, their First Family and First Friends in the White House private quarters or a large rollicking crowd with conflicting team loyalties, White House Super Bowl parties are a… Read More ›
First Ladies & the State of the Union Address: Private Speech Editors and Public Policy Symbols
Tomorrow’s State of the Union Address, delivered by President Barack Obama on Capitol Hill, may seem like it has always been a part of American life, but in fact it is one custom of the American Presidencybegun by George Washington… Read More ›
The Newt Gingrich “Open Marriage,” Adultery, Divorce, & Illegitimate Kids of Other Candidates
Newt Gingrich’s sharp rebuke of CNN moderator John King’s probing into his second wife’s claim that he asked for an “open marriage” to accommodate the woman who became his third wife abruptly derailed further discussion of the issue then and… Read More ›
The Wright Brothers to the Kardashian Sisters: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Wright Brothers – Orville Wright – Charles Lindbergh – Will Rogers – Eleanor Roosevelt – Dorothy Height – Barack Obama – Khloé Kardashian – Kardashian Sisters Andrews, Marx, Kennedy, Jonas, Mitford, Del Rubio, Smothers, Rockefeller, Dolly, Baldwin. From business to… Read More ›
Mao to Lady Gaga: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Mao Tse-Tung – Josef Stalin – Winston Churchill – Eleanor Roosevelt – Gary Cooper – Pablo Picasso – Brigitte Bardot – Queen Elizabeth – Lady Gaga
Presidents, First Ladies, Kings & Queens
President Barack Obama’s European visit this week marks the second time he will meet with Queen Elizabeth of England. Although the British monarch’s constitutional power is not equal to that of the American president’s, they meet equally as heads of… Read More ›
Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and the Actor JFK wanted to play Him, Part II
With so many events to bend into two hours, presidential biopics offer less chance to plumb the character of a President than do those films which focus on a specific conflict from their life. Critics faulted Amistad (1997) on both… Read More ›
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