Christmas gifts for the Bushes

November 16, 2:12 PMSouth St. Paul ExaminerRob Shirk

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                The Departing First Family

The City of South St. Paul may want to have a Christmas list for the Bushes as they prepare to make their way back to Crawford, Texas after spending eight years in The White House.

The list for the Obamas can be accessed here: "Christmas gifts for the Obamas".

The demise of Central Hobbies should not snuff the idea of gift wrapping a model of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the ship where the famous "Mission Accomplished" speech was triumphantly delivered on May 1,2003. If a soundtrack of the speech itself could be offered along with the model the gift would be sweet.

The ranch in Crawford is big, and I think if the Target Corporation, an icon in the Twin Cities, can use Segways throughout their retail empire, we should be able to convince them to cough one up as a gift for the Bushes.

As a reminder of the complexities of the economic morass, any number of magic tricks from Twin Cities Magic and Costume Company should help as the Bushes look back on their time in the White House. It's a gift that keeps on giving the whole year round and maybe the mastery of one of those tricks could replace the ones he's been using over the last few years.

From the Yellow Goat a copy of Baghdad By The Bay by Herb Caen, the beloved San Francisco journalist, might be given as a reminder that there is more than one Baghdad in the world.

The Black Sheep Coffee Cafe could give a set of mugs, a reminder every morning that despite what your family may think of you when you are young, you never know what a person can eventually become.

Finally, the city engineering department can give a half empty glass of water to the departing First Family, the glass half full having already been given to the Obamas.

This Christmas list is being compiled in November with weeks before Christmas. You, dear reader, are invited to add to the list as the season progresses. Merely use the comment button at the bottom of the text.