Rawstory: "Objections to B*sh library mount at Texas university"

[npincus]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Objections_to_Bush_library_mount_at_1218.html

har har....




As planners moved closer on deciding where in Texas to site President George W. Bush's library, members of the community at one candidate university expressed objections about the establishment of the facility at their school.

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Jaschik's article further explains that if the Bush library is sited at SMU, two graduates of the school have stated their plans to lobby to have "Methodist" removed from the university's name.

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Some faculty members are not happy generally to be associated with the library of a president who — his librarian wife notwithstanding — isn’t seen as a big fan of intellectual life. When the reported price tag of $500 million for the library was publicized last month, professors didn’t like their institution being linked to the jokes being told. (Conan O’Brien: “President Bush is putting together his presidential library and apparently the library is going to cost $500 million, which will work out to $100 million a book.")

Johnson said that there are also real problems with the message the library could send. SMU historically has had a reputation for attracting wealthy students — a reputation that the university has tried to fight in recent years by offering generous scholarship to low-income students. “I think it might be a setback in terms of trying to attract a different constituency among students,” Johnson said. “Children of wealthy, leading Republicans in this state come to SMU, and then they are groomed here to become Republican leaders in all sectors of society. We shouldn’t be in the business of just replicating Republicans.”

[hadrons]

1. $500 million is way too much for storing two coloring books ....

and who knows when he'll be finishing coloring the third one

[a kennedy]

3. I just spit my coffee on that one......

:rofl:

[fujiyama]

11. Only one book I know for sure he'll have in the "library"

"My Pet Goat".

The book that defines his presidency.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. The future Bush library is going to be a target for any ME terrorist

that wants to get revenge on him. I wouldn't want it in my backyard for that reason alone.

[datavg]

8. No, It Won't...

...because any self respecting Texan has a safe full of guns. I had my share when I lived there.

Hitler once had a plan to invade the United States through Mexico, but abandoned it when someone told him there were millions of guns in Texas!

That's a true story!

[LeftyMom]

12. There are millions of guns in Iraq too.

:shrug:

They don't have magic powers, you know.

[datavg]

14. That Isn't The Point!

My point was that Texas is this strange place whose culture is essentially frozen in the 1850s, and the vast majority of those who live there don't want to see it change in any way.

[ToolTex]

4. It is called intellectual incest in Dallas and the park cities.

Park cities residents rear their children to go to SMU where they find spouses, buy a home in the park cities and rear their children to go to SMU.

They seldom have to venture out of the park cities, except to fly to NYC to buy the kids clothes at Bergdorf's, and of course, the Hinkles have to go visit their son every now and then. It is all just so perfect!

[ToolTex]

5. Delete please

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Largest collection of Fiction under one roof on the planet!

If I could I donate one non fiction book...

George Bush:
The
Unauthorized
Biography

by
Webster G. Tarpley
&
Anton Chaitkin

Introduction -- AMERICAN CALIGULA (47,195 bytes)

1 --- THE HOUSE OF BUSH: BORN IN A BANK (33,914 bytes)

2 --- THE HITLER PROJECT (55,321 bytes)

3 --- RACE HYGIENE: THREE BUSH FAMILY ALLIANCES (51,987 bytes)

4 --- THE CENTER OF POWER IS IN WASHINGTON (51,699 bytes)

5 --- POPPY AND MOMMY (47,684 bytes)

6 --- BUSH IN WORLD WAR II (36,992 bytes)

7 --- SKULL AND BONES: THE RACIST NIGHTMARE AT YALE (56,508 bytes)

8 --- THE PERMIAN BASIN GANG (64,269 bytes)

8-b --- THE BAY OF PIGS AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION(46,903 bytes)

9 --- BUSH CHALLENGES YARBOROUGH FOR THE SENATE (110,435 bytes)

10 -- RUBBERS GOES TO CONGRESS(129,439 bytes)

11 -- UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR, KISSINGER CLONE (99,842 bytes)

12 -- CHAIRMAN GEORGE IN WATERGATE (104,415 bytes)

13 -- BUSH ATTEMPTS THE VICE PRESIDENCY, 1974 (27,973 bytes)

14 -- BUSH IN BEIJING (53,896 bytes)

15 -- CIA DIRECTOR (174,012 bytes)

16-- CAMPAIGN 1980 (139,823 bytes)

17 -- THE ATTEMPTED COUP D'ETAT OF MARCH 30, 1981 (87,300 bytes)

18 -- IRAN-CONTRA (140,338 bytes)

19 -- THE LEVERAGED BUYOUT MOB(67,559 bytes)

20 -- THE PHONY WAR ON DRUGS(26,295 bytes)

21 -- OMAHA (25,969 bytes)

22 -- BUSH TAKES THE PRESIDENCY(112,000)

23 -- THE END OF HISTORY (168,757 bytes)

24 -- THE NEW WORLD ORDER (255,215 bytes)

25 -- THYROID STORM (138,727 bytes)

http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm

[gratuitous]

7. Looks like the Dixie Chicks aren't the only ones

Welly, well, who else is ashamed that Bush is "from" Texas? And will the whiny ass titty babies from the lunatic right be buying Mustang cars and setting them on fire?

[UTUSN]

9. Eh, it'll bring moohlah IN, moohlah TALKS, so the minor reticence will WALK n/t

[Ilsa]

10. I posted on this yesterday, and the story got so little interest until Raw

picked it up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2954708&mesg_id=2954708

Looks like it is now SMU's choice to take or reject the Library. Dallas U and Baylor have been ruled out, leaving it for SMU. I bet they feel cornered now. Wouldn't it be a hoot if one of the two graduates lobbying against it is Dimebag Laura?

[Critters2]

13. Bush is a Methodist, like it or not

So, it seems appropriate that his library be at SMU. I mean, if it seems appropriate for Bush to have a library--which is the more debatable point.

[SAXMAR]

15. Alumni must say they will will make no further contributions!

Alumni must say they will will make no further contributions!

That may stop the college administration.

My Junior year in college they brought in the guy who was Assistant Dean of Students at Kent State when four students were shot dead by the National Guard to be our Dean of Students. He had written he thought the shootings were justified.

Needless to say my graduating class has by far the least amount of contributions to the school. And when the Alumni assoc. and present admin. ask why we tell them.

Present students and almni have to say you'll get no money or recruiting help from us.

[datavg]

17. Once Again...

...you don't understand SMU and the kind of people that it attracts.

You also don't understand Dallas. It's a very insular, patriarchal place where people don't really think for themselves and don't have much intellectual depth.

It's a whole lot like high school...and the higher you go in the various corporations and workplaces, the worse it is.

I said from the beginning that SMU would build that library, and I was right.

The real danger for the Democrats isn't in where Dallas' movers and shakers build Bush's library. It's in the coming demographic shifts, to be documented in the next census, with the inevitable reapportionment and overall increase in political power for southern states.

It's something that HAS to be dealt with.

I can foresee the Democratic party not being twenty years from now, what it is today. I can already see it setting up. The Blue Dogs are talking about a market-based solution to the healthcare problem which is a far cry from Hillary Clinton's plans of 1993. Gun control is off the table, thanks to 9/11 and the ongoing problems at both borders.

Frankly, I think the abortion issue is dead. Roberts and Alito were confirmed almost without opposition. They and Scalia want to send the issue back to the states, and the pro-choicers don't have many friends there.

If that weren't enough, today's more conservative social climate, demographics and population shift to more conservative states in the South and West will essentially prevent any groundswell of support for abortion rights.

Schumer's decision to steer the 2006 races toward the middle was the right thing to do...but in the long run may accelerate the process of splitting the party in half. It was already gonna happen anyhow. Schumer's a smart cookie...maybe someone told him let's just get it over with.

[ThomWV]

16. He Can Put His Library Up His Ass As Far As I'm Concerned

As long as my tax dollars don't support a brick of it ...