Library fundraising hampered by Bush’s unpopularity.
By on Mar 10th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Library fundraising hampered by Bush’s unpopularity.
U.S. News reports that “President Bush’s friends are concerned that he will face serious problems raising the estimated $250 million needed to build his presidential library, museum, and policy center at Southern Methodist University. … They fear that Bush’s unpopularity will put a damper on donations and that the sour economy will limit contributions even more.”
View Most Popular
Advertisement
What We're About
What We're Fighting For
What We're Fighting Against
Featured
Subscribe to the Progress Report
Topic CloudView topics sorted by popularity
Afghanistan
Bachmann
Beck
Boehner
Business
Cheney
Civil Rights
Congress
Corporate Ethics
Dobbs
Economy
Education
Election
Energy
Environment
Ethics
Fox News
Gingrich
Glenn Beck
Global Warming
Health Care
Immigration
International Relations
Justice
LGBT
Lieberman
Limbaugh
Media
Military
O'Reilly
Obama
Palin
Pelosi
Politics
Race
Radical Right
Religion
Sports
Steele
Stimulus
Tea Parties
Tea Party
Terrorism
Veterans
Women's Rights
Visit Our Affiliated Sites
Reports
In-depth studies on select topics
Got a hot tip?
Have a hot news tip? We'd love to hear from you. Use the form below to send us the latest.
ArchivesBlog Roll
“President Bush’s friends…”
These are the sad losers looking for a soft place to land when they get thrown off the Gravy Train.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:48 pmThat and the fact that it will be a hate magnet right in the heart of Dallas.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:50 pmCome on, you can go to Lowe’s or Home Depot and buy one of those storage sheds for less than $1000 for a really nice one. How much room do you need for “My Pet Goat” and a roll of toilet paper, the only documents Bush has considered important?
March 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pma pole barn would be fitting
March 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pmThe Bush library rightly belongs in the UAE or Barefootistan or someplace like that.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pm“President Bush’s friends are concerned that he will face serious problems raising the estimated $250 million needed to build his presidential library, museum, and policy center at Southern Methodist University. … They fear that Bush’s unpopularity will put a damper on donations and that the sour economy will limit contributions even more.â€
Hmmmmmmm
So , the mannequin , Laura , and the ho twins along with Barnie are rightfully worried , are they ?
March 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pm“…one of those storage sheds… How much room do you need for “My Pet Goat†and a roll of toilet paper, the only documents Bush has considered important?”
Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian
He can cut a round hole in the floor…..
March 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pm“My Pet Goat†and a roll of toilet paper, the only documents Bush has considered important?
Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian — March 10, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
You forgot the Constitution… oh, wait… I didn’t see “toilet paper” the first time. Never mind.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pmI’m perfectly willing to contribute to W.’s LIEbrary. Where do I send the dog shit?
Uncle Hussein Ho
March 10th, 2008 at 12:54 pmA library in Chimpy’s name wouldn’t even be accepted by Pygmies ; nice going , SMU…………
March 10th, 2008 at 12:54 pmContribute to Bush’s library?
No thanks, I’d rather pick up some books.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:55 pmContributions are more likely to be used for legal fees than for the construction of any library. But if people are dumb enough to send their money there it won’t be tax deductible, right?
March 10th, 2008 at 12:57 pmLooks like he might be placing that ‘library’ down in Paraguay.
Right where it belongs. Unless we get an extradition treaty with them sometime in the future.
Of course, we’ll all be dead by then, so…
March 10th, 2008 at 12:58 pmI’m sure he’ll pull through at the last minute with a couple of large contributions from friends in Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai. It will be the first presidential library fully funded from international sources.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:58 pmWhy don’t they get their financing from the same place Dubya has been getting all his money? OPEC??
March 10th, 2008 at 12:59 pm“…and that the sour economy will limit contributions even more.â€
Oh the irony!
March 10th, 2008 at 1:00 pmWell duh! Everything this president has proposed has turned to shit. Why not start doing exactly the opposite of what he wants and make america a better place.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pmI’m sure Mr. Bush will find a way through his self-protecting cocoon of delusion to blame this on the Democrats or al Qaeda or anti-war leftists or people of different color, ethnicity, sexual preference or religion. Perhaps the economic recession brought on by irresponsible lackeys like Alan Greenspan are to blame. Actually, I believe it has more to do with who and what George W. Bush is. A man who arrogantly and ignorantly and selfishly failed to serve the best interests of the American people and the United States of America. At the end of the day, truth will out and the lack of an honorary library will be a relatively minor embarassment compared to the infamies he will be forced to endure for the remainer of his ignoble and shame filled existence.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:01 pmWhy even bother ?
Just convert one of those neo-con (non) “think tanks’” broom closet into Chimpy’s library ; how much room does one need for coloring books anyway ?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:06 pmWaitaminnit — what happened to all the oil men, big business fat cats, and other FOBs that have gotten rich off their buddy Dubya the past seven years? Why aren’t they paying back all those favors by contributing to Bush’s library?
Or do they have no use for a lame duck?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:07 pmMaybe Bush could sell the naming rights to his library. Something like:
The Exxon George W Bush Library
though I am unsure oil companies will want to sully their reputations by being associated with Bush.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:07 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:08 pmSeems like several colleges and cities turned down the bush library. Hey, let the bush family pony up some cash, some cash they have stolen from the American public.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pmOr do they have no use for a lame duck?
Comment by missmolly
They have a future lame duck they need to spend money on right now.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pmIt costs a lot of money to attach all those strings, and set the stage for their next puppet show.
Carlyle is going in the tank because one of its subs can’t make margin calls. That about sinks it for GDumbya’s liebary. All his potential donors are seeing their assets bleed — they have no interest in GDumbya anymore because he can’t help them out.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pmA befitting library would be one of the Katrina trailers, with a stopped up toilet flowing on the floor and two books on the stained table, a Bible and My Pet Goat. Only one has been opened though.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pmActually bush should name the library Enron/bush library. It was Enron’s help that swayed the Florida vote toward the Supremes.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
What private university has a need for a library that’s filled with coloring books ?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
your punctuation is a bit off. here let’s fix it together.
I don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built.
now you try.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:11 pm“though I am unsure oil companies will want to sully their reputations by being associated with Bush.”
Comment by dim wit
We know how much they hate having to clean up…..
March 10th, 2008 at 1:11 pmWhat private university has a need for a library that’s filled with coloring books ?
Comment by MCMetal — March 10, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
Oh. I get it. Just another post on TP for you to show your hate. Carry on.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:11 pmbush would be smart to hold off on any building bearing his name for awhile. Or at least the property should, just in case bush gets to spend some time in the Federal college for his crimes.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pmSo, the students and the faculty at SMU don’t want Bush and now it looks like he will have a hard time fund raising for his “library”, perhaps his fantasy won’t bear fruit. There’s always his buddies the Saudi’s to fund it, but I am getting the feeling that even they are done with Bush. He has done what they wanted by creating a situation where they can jack the price of oil up to obscene levels, so they really no longer have any use for him.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:12 pmVA vote are you serious or did I miss sarcasm ? How about just a statue that the pigeons can bless.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:14 pmWhat is his rating tanking to now? No doubt it would be THE most unpopular place in the country. Last poll showed 19% and rapidly descending. Must be in the low teens by now.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
There’s an awful lot this troll doesn’t see. Why start with this?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pmHey, va voter — GSY (Go Snark Yourself)
March 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pmWhat private university has a need for a library that’s filled with coloring books ?
Comment by MCMetal — March 10, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
Oh. I get it. Just another post on TP for you to show your hate. Carry on.
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
Can you post even a single , solitary reason for me to not hate the retarded simian you adore ?
I’m betting you won’t be able to ………………..
March 10th, 2008 at 1:16 pmSome thoughts…
Who is going to build it? The same outfit that ‘built’ the Bagdhad embassy?
Will it be a no-bid contract?
Can we expect such facilites as the Larry Craig Memorial Bathrooms and the Mark Foley Kiddie Play Center?
No doubt ther’ll be an entrance fee, so will they only accept Euros?
I’m not sure that The Pet Goat, unopened copies of the Bible and L’Etranger and piles of Guns ‘n Ammo with their pages stuck together constitutes a library, as such, more like the remnants of a garage sale.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:16 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter
“I don’t see why” is a clear and expressed statement of mental vapor lock.
If you had written “I can’t see why…” we might have been willing to give you some hope of gaining a political consciousness.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:18 pmHate is a strong word VA Voter, it should not be used lightly. And I hate Bush more than any person I have encountered in my 50 plus years. The damage that that smirking simian POS and his cabal have done to our country will take generations to fix. Kicking the Repugnicunts to the curb in November is a step in the right direction
Any American that does not hate what Bush has done is not a patriot.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:18 pmWhy I don’t want the Bush Library built….
….because there are too many landfills already.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pmMaybe Bush could put out an empty coffee can, stand on the corner, and do a little song and dance. I’m sure folks would line up to throw in a quarter or two.
This should be easy for him. He’s been doing a song and dance on the American people for long enough now…
March 10th, 2008 at 1:20 pmI’ll donate a pile of crap for Busch’s library.
∞
March 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pmWhy I DO want the Bush Library built….
…because that will be $250 million the likely donors won’t be spending to subvert vital public interest legilsation
March 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
Most of Bush’s presidency is secret and undisclosed. We don’t need a $250M reminder of that.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:24 pmMaybe donors are afraid that prosecutors will use this list to back into all the people who need to be investigated for shady dealings during the Bush administration. Or maybe I’m just dreaming.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:25 pmOh. I get it. Just another post on TP for you to show your hate. Carry on.
Comment by VA Voter
These poor widdle trolls. They are running out of talking points and getting really scared because they know their day of reckoning is coming.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:25 pmHow about the library built in the town of Crawford ? Perfect setting nice and QUIET. Last I heard even the souvenier shop has closed, seems no one is buying bush momentos. I wonder why.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:25 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
Because Porta-Johns are generally mobile………………..And don’t ever cost a quarter of a billion $’s.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:27 pmHey VA voter do you ever read a book ? Find out just a little of what your beloved idol has managed to do in his term? Or maybe how about a visit to a VA hospital and watch young people learn to walk again.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:27 pmOr maybe how about a visit to a VA hospital and watch young people learn to walk again.
Comment by texaslady — March 10, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
Yeah , with the aid of canes and/or prosthetic limbs…………..
March 10th, 2008 at 1:28 pmBush’s library is already built. Check out any book on the current state of the U.S. and U.S-foreign affairs.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:33 pmDo you suppose Condi has tried to tell the deluded one that he may have trouble raising money for his library because most people despise him and his crappy economy is beginning to damage even those who got rich from his corrupt policies? If so it isn’t hard to understand why bubble boy seems disengaged from fundraising.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:33 pm“President Bush’s friends are concerned that he will face serious problems raising the estimated $250 million needed to build his presidential library, museum, and policy center at Southern Methodist University. … They fear that Bush’s unpopularity will put a damper on donations and that the sour economy will limit contributions even more.â€
Did any of these so-called “friends” of Shrub ever give a thought to the illogical concept of a library erected in honor of an unintelligible and incurious douchebag ; not to mention he has already pissed away trillions of dollars on equally asinine and ridiculously similar projects these past 7 years being maybe a tiny barrier ?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:34 pmWhy aren’t they paying back all those favors by contributing to Bush’s library?
Or do they have no use for a lame duck?
Comment by missmolly
Nope, they are like the Saudis. They have gotten what they wanted from Bush so now they can abandon him to history. Greedy people don’t make good friends.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pmEven Scarborough admitted on Mahers show that the war has been mishandled. Of course he recovered and returned to the party line real fast.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
Tell us why you DO want the library built, VAV.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pmMaybe nitwit ought to just settle for a nice garden shed he can keep his brush-cuttin’ implements in.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pm“… nice garden shed he can keep his brush-cuttin’ implements in.”
Comment by tombaker
I’d contribute a gallon of Round-Up.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:41 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
Because Cheney’s office already HAS a large enough vault to hold all the secret stuff.
Duh.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pmJust how would you tell bush what a horrific mess he has created by being so lazy and letting the underlings run the show. And why would he believe the opposite of what his handlers tell him?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pmOh. I get it. Just another post on TP for you to show your hate. Carry on.
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
You are confusing hate with outrage. I don’t hate Bush. I certainly hate what he has done to this country and to the government. The carnage resulting from this one presidency will take years to clean up, and it may never be what it was.
But this issue of this thread is Bush’s presidential library, so I will focus on that. There are a couple of issues here that any American (including you — at least I’m assuming you are an American) should be concerned with.
First — we are concerned about the executive order Bush signed at the beginning of his first term giving himself permission to keep any documents “secret” forever. Every other president with a library has all his papers there — why can’t Bush?
Second — we are concerned that Bush wants to lend credibility to his library by having it associated with an academic institution (SMU), but won’t give SMU any control over the institute the library comes with. This is a “having your cake and eating it too” situation that has left many people at SMU quite angry.
And Third — we are concerned that Bush won’t release his donor list. What has he got to hide?
There is plenty to be outraged about here — mostly having to do with the unprecedented and blatant secrecy surrounding the library and his presidency in general. Why aren’t YOU outraged? Or would you only be outraged if Clinton (or any other Democratic president) built his library in this manner?
March 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pmVA Hussein Voter isn’t giong to hear a thing – in between posts those eyes are clamped shut, fingers in both ears, yelling, so that no information penetrates the credulous bubble that is the 19%ers opiate.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pmWell we know for a fact that Hunt gave 35 million to bush’s library fund. He is the same one who was given access to top secret Middle East documents. So that is one name. Hunt is the same one who doesn’t want the border fence running through his land. I believe he has oil interests in the Middle East, fancy that.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:49 pmNope, they are like the Saudis. They have gotten what they wanted from Bush so now they can abandon him to history. Greedy people don’t make good friends.
Comment by Bilbo Hussein Baggins — March 10, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
Thank you for reminding me how lucky I am. My friends won’t make me rich with material wealth, and they won’t make me powerful politically. But they can always be counted on to support me during tough times, celebrate with me during good times, and help me whenever I’m in trouble. I am never concerned that they will abandon me for somebody more dazzling.
How sad for Bush. Even Nixon’s buddies Rebozo and Abplanalp hung in there with him.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:50 pmHe can just talk to his uncle dick seeing how kbr is second only to big oil in the record profit category.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:54 pmQuestion:
What the fcuk is going to be on display in the “museum“???
Something akin to the contents of the “Creationist Museum”, in that it will be 100% fantasy.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:56 pmPerhaps Botch could locate his liberry in that huge embassy he built in Iraq. After, it doesn’t seem like it will ever be used for anything else MEANINGFUL.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:01 pmErect a dog house and throw My Pet Goat into it, and call it good.
Worst President in History Library.
Bush/Cheney
March 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pmHague Trials ‘09
Maybe Scripto will finance it.
A lot of Sharpies will be needed to redacted text covering 8 years.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:07 pmThe only thing I would donate to the Bush library would be a copy of the late Molly Ivan’s book “Shrub”.
Not sure they would accept it though. LOL
March 10th, 2008 at 2:10 pmMr. Bush, we really think you should give serous thought to erecting your outhouse, er, I mean, library as an outbuilding (yeah, that’s it) as part of the Iraq Embassy. And you might consider living there so you can witness everyday the outpouring of love for you. Why, I bet you’d get flowers and chocolates for the opening of your library there, so look for the backpack with the funny letters on it that say “We love you, W”.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:16 pmBooks for his library, well there are several paid for praise for him, Laura’s book, a couple from Babs and did Poppy write one as well ?
That could be 6 maybe ? Better make those shelves small.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:18 pmHow odd that a Library that would only show a slanted and myopic view of GWB is having difficulty in getting the needed funds. Is it that Bush is getting discarded like all the other used up republicans?
March 10th, 2008 at 2:47 pmHow odd that a Library that would only show a slanted and myopic view of GWB is having difficulty in getting the needed funds.
Comment by hellinabucket — March 10, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Maybe that’s because ALL OTHER presidential libraries show presidents in a “warts and all” mode (although they do tend to be arranged to show off the president’s best side) by including all their papers. These libraries can be important historical, research, and educational facilities no matter how history judges the quality of that president’s administration.
On the other hand, Bush isn’t interested in building such a library. He’s more interested in building a monument to himself. That narrows down the field of possible contributors from those who would value a presidential library from a historical standpoint to those who are willing to pay for Dubya’s ego trip.
March 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pmI think in Bush’s head his library looks like a copy of the lincoln memorial with him sitting stoically in the middle reading My Pet Goat.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:26 pmHas this been said yet?
Boo frickin’ hoo.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pmI think bush might have an idea he isn’t in the top fav of anyone since he is already training more Secret Service people to guard him than any other President in history.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pmComment by ninja97 — March 10, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
Most liberal I know are incredibly tolerant folks. The fact that most people strongly dislike this clown changes nothing. I fail toi see any point you might be trying to make. Would you be kind enough to flesh this idea of yours out for us a little more. Thanks!
March 10th, 2008 at 5:30 pmninjadickweed,
Explain this “guise” of anti-hate? I hate Bush more than I have hated anyone. No guise, pure unadulterated hate for what that POS and his sycophant c*nt supporters have done.
The sycophant c*nt was intended for you.
March 10th, 2008 at 6:18 pmI don’t see why you folks don’t want the library built?
Comment by VA Voter — March 10, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
If you took up a collection to build a prison to house our lying, traitorous commander-in-thief the American public would probably come up with $250 million in donations in record time………..
March 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pm…………but you probably don’t see that either.
Why I DO want the Bush Library built….
…because that will be $250 million the likely donors won’t be spending to subvert vital public interest legilsation
Comment by 5th Estate — March 10, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
When I read your comment I initially agreed with you. But, then I remembered that one of the aims of this lieberry is to fund a propaganda factory..oh, I mean think tank.
So, in fact, there’s a lot of damage that could still be done in his name.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:21 pmComment by ninja97 — March 10, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
Nothing projects like a Republican…
March 10th, 2008 at 10:30 pmThey should just take the money they have and build the George W. Bush Presidential Arcade and Car Wash.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:42 am