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Elvis and the 1992 Presidential Election

2012 is an election year, and already it has been the catalyst for one article connecting Elvis and politics.  Well, now I have found a source that inspires another.   It is the text of a 1993 San Francisco Examiner column … Continue reading

Elvis for President?

If you live in Iowa, New Hampshire, or South Carolina (as I do), you have withstood a barrage of political pitches on TV, in the mail, and on the telephone.  After a while, it gets to be too much, and … Continue reading

Osama bin Elvis

This is the cover off the March 2009 issue of the political magazine American Spectator. The drawing of Osama bin Laden is pretty close to the real thing, but the depiction of Elvis is just terrible. Continue reading

Reagan, Obama, and Elvis

Lately, there has been much in the press about Barack Obama’s shift to the center. He is said to be thinking and sounding a lot like Ronald Reagan. This, plus the 100th anniversary of Reagan’s birthday on February 6, has even prompted news magazines to pair the two presidents on their covers. Continue reading

ELVIS IS ALIVE — AND RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

How's that for an attention-grabbing headline? With two-inch high letters, it dominated the front page of the May 16, 2006, issue of the tabloid Weekly World News. I chuckled when I saw that their 'Political Writer' wrote it. It seems like it should have been their 'Not-Really-Dead-Rock-Star Writer. Continue reading