SIGN THEM UP FOR OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN

The two best spokesmen for an Obama re-election today are GOP Presidential contenders Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. Gingrich's big lead in Iowa was obliterated by a Romney Super Pak blitz of negative ads portraying Newt as morally challenged in his personal and professional life. Newt, sounding like a 99% and Occupy Wall Street activist, now blasts Romney, saying Bain Capital under Romney used clever legal ways to loot companies. Bain, Newt charges, represents the "Wall Street model" where you bankrupt a company, take out all the money, and leave behind the workers.

Perry echoes Newt's populist message: "Romney practices vulture capitalism. Vultures are sitting out there waiting for a company to get sick and then they sweep in and eat the carcass, leaving the skeleton" That translates to "Romney fires lots of workers".

Newt and Perry are spot on in their criticism of soon to be anointed GOP Presidential nominee Romney. Unwittingly, they have framed the Presidential debate to follow: the super rich, who care not a whit for the 99% who are suffering under the vulture or crony or trickle down capitalism they personify, versus the betterment of society as a whole.

MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

Never in my lifetime has a former President disappeared so completely from the American stage than George W. Bush. And that is quite an accomplishment considering I've followed the exploits of every former Prez starting with "Give 'em Hell" Harry Truman's departure in 1953. As the third anniversary of his leaving office occurs in twelve days, I sometimes have to pinch myself to remember that he actually was President.

He disappeared from public view immediately after President Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009, and hasn't been seen since. Well, that's not quite true. He did pop up to give a slew of interviews to hawk his fictional memoir "Decision Points" in 2010. He has also been spotted at several high profile sporting events around the Dallas area where he is rumored to be ensconced in a million dollar mansion when not clearing brush on the Crawford ranch. No media outlets seek to interview him and the GOP Presidential field suffers memory loss of any GOP President after the deified Ronald Reagan. He wasn't at the 2008 GOP Convention as the outgoing President and he won't be at Tampa this year as the disappeared former President.

If he's not seen much around America he's seen even less overseas as he has a real fear of being arrested for the war criminal he is. At least in the good 'ol USA, Uncle Sam has given him a lifetime "immunity from war crime prosecution" card.

Maybe he could raise his profile a bit by becoming a stand up comedian. I'm sure Steve Martin would let him borrow a signature Martin bit allowing Bush to come on stage and say: "Remember that trillion dollar war crime in Iraq and the trillion dollar tax cuts for the greedy rich? WELL, EXCUUUUUUUUSE ME"!