We have not always been kind to our presidents while they were in office:
— Although California public schools teach neither real history nor geography anymore, a simple glance at the globe tells why we are in Iraq ? and ought to stay there. George W. Bush won”t go on Mt. Rushmore, but history will record him as brilliant for invading Iraq.
— All the smart money said George Washington was a beaten fool at Valley Forge. They told him to cut his losses and bail out. Congress actually abandoned Philadelphia because the war was lost. If he had followed their advice there would be no United States. Washington is on Mt. Rushmore.
— Yankee Media portrayed Lincoln as a gangling ape-like goon, sure to lose the war against the South. Now the South is a loyal region of the U.S. and Lincoln is on Mt. Rushmore.
— Jimmy Carter, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for ending all hostilities between Israel and Arabs, runs around the world proving Clinton wasn”t our worst president after all. Neither Carter nor Clinton will be chiseled on Mt. Rushmore.
— Reagan won the cold war, collapsed the Soviet Union, and saved the world from communism despite great opposition at home. He should go on Mt. Rushmore.
— Teddy Kennedy lies ill but still a senator. Except for his getting slobbering drunk and abandoning Mary Jo Kopechne to drown at Chappaquiddick Bridge while he ran off to call his lawyer, he would have been president. Mary Jo Kopechne deserves to be on Mt. Rushmore.
— Many think our best bet this year is for John McCain to select Bobby Jindal for Vice President and then collapse with disabling constipation immediately after the swearing-in ceremony. That would make Bobby president. Jindal might make it to Mt. Rushmore. McCain will never.
Randy Ridgel
Kelseyville
