Reality Checks
Tonight (10pm EST) The History Channel airs a piece on Lincoln. The provocative ads for the show question whether the photos of Lincoln are real, and whether he grew up in a log cabin. I suspect the photos they refer to are those that purportably show him as a young man. I have visited his Kentucky birthplace many times, and the cabin on display is not presented as, verifiably, the home the Lincoln's owned. But, it is regarded as typical of that period, so I will be interested to see what they say on that matter.
Disgraced former President W. J. B. Clinton is claiming that upon leaving office one of his great disappointments was not apprehending Osama Bin Laden. Can you say revisionist history? If that was such an imperative then, as he now suggests, why did he not accept the offers that would have accomplished the deed (Gorelick's Wall)? And why did he keep his desire secret from the American people? I don't recall that national address wherein Clinton told us that OBL was enemy #1; was Clinton operating the most secret government ever?
