Scraping to fill the shelves of the Bush library

[MaineDem]

N THE Texas competition for the George W. Bush Presidential Library, the city of Irving promises $50 million in hotel tax revenue on behalf of the University of Dallas. Baylor University President John Lilley says, ''We'll raise whatever is required." Southern Methodist University may trump that with pedigree. Alumnae include Laura Bush and confidantes Karen Hughes and Harriet Miers. Vice President Dick Cheney was a SMU trustee when he ran Halliburton.
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Bush himself is already telling the story that will be told. In January, he told CBS's Bob Schieffer, ''I would like to leave behind a legacy or a think tank, a place for people to talk about freedom and liberty and the de Tocqueville model, what de Tocqueville saw in America."

The joke will be on the winner. If this library is stocked the way Bush stuck it to the people, this is going to be the most empty $200 million library in the world. It will be unique because the most interesting story of the Bush administration is how it did as much as possible without visibility.

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It is hard to see what you would display behind glass other than a Texas Rangers baseball from Bush's days as a part owner of the team. Certainly the curators would not dare display the flight suit Bush wore on the USS Abraham Lincoln on ''Mission Accomplished" Day, when he declared combat operations over in Iraq, only to see the occupation become mission impossible.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/05/10/scraping_to_fill_the_shelves_of_the_bush_library/

[flamin lib]

1. Besides, most of books are colored in already . . . nt

[AndyTiedye]

2. They Can Include a Picture of the President Reading a Book!

[anitar1]

3. Wouldn't he have to declassify everything? n/t

[badgerpup]

4. Oh, yeah, the flight suit.

Oh, I double dare them to display that...that and the bust.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/02/images/20060209-2_p020906pm-0089-515h.html

The bust very tactfully has the date(s) of Bush's presidency inscribed, seeing as how he is still AWOL from the Nat'l Guard...but you really can't put THAT on a bust, now can you?
:rofl:

[IndyOp]

5. Didn't he have the greatest moment in his term stuffed and mounted?

[Contrary1]

6. "I would like to leave behind a legacy or a think tank..."

Don't worry Junior, I'm sure there will be a bathroom in which you can do that.

[liberal N proud]

7. Just by a few hundred copies of My Pet Goad and some coloring books

And lay some crayolas on the tables and let the monkey free in the room. There you have the george w. bu$h prezidential library