Bush’s legacy: ‘a great, great, great story.’
By on Mar 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Bush’s legacy: ‘a great, great, great story.’
Design firm the PRD Group has been as the “interpretive planner” for President Bush’s library and museum at Southern Methodist University. Dan Murphy, founder of PRD, describes his mission:
“We’re not really just trying to put a front cover and back cover around eight years of a presidency,” he said. “We have a much bigger story about America and about the history of the presidency and about the American experience. … We’ve got a great, great, great story.“
The architect for the project said that there will be “no bombast or boredom” to Bush’s library.
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Riiiight… it’s a real epic in the making, kinda like “The Titanic” meets “Goodfellas”.
Or mebbe “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” crossed w/ “Judgement At Nuremburg”.
“The Bad-News Bears” and “The Poseidon Adventure”?
“The Three Stooges Go To Mars” and “Psycho”?
Real high-concept, a they say in Lalaland…
March 15th, 2008 at 2:42 pmThe greatest Texas baloney ever sliced…
March 15th, 2008 at 2:42 pm“no bombast or boredom”
March 15th, 2008 at 2:42 pmJust coloring books, crayons and childrens stories such as my pet goat
We’ve got a great, great, great story.
Pol Pot had a great, great, great story.
Josef Stalin had a great, great, great story.
Adolph Hilter had a great, great, great story.
Chairman Mao had a great, great, great story.
The architect for the project said that there will be “no bombast or boredom” to Bush’s library.
Also, no truth or integrity.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:45 pmI give up. First I post and get a blank page. Now I post and get a message telling me I’m posting too fast, slow down.
Fix this site TP!
March 15th, 2008 at 2:45 pmIt is a great story. A great story of greed and corruption and how they can bring down a once great country.
It’s a sad story, one I hope we never forget.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:46 pmWhoa Nellie… can’t you just feel the Snark forming up around this thread?
March 15th, 2008 at 2:47 pm“no bombast or boredom”
Yeah, and no truth either.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pmHere’s a roundup of articles that should be front and center in the Bush Lie-berry:
Winter Soldier 2008
March 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
March 15th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I give up. First I post and get a blank page. Now I post and get a message telling me I’m posting too fast, slow down.
Fix this site TP!
Same experience here.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pmGeorge Bush’s presidency is a “great, great story” in a 30-car-pile-up sort of way.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm“We have a much bigger story about America and about the history of the presidency and about the American experience. … We’ve got a great, great, great story.“
Translation: We have a tall tale to tell. At this very moment, we have hundreds of fiction writers working on it.
In fact, we aren’t creating a library; we’re building a theme park full of fun and fantasy. We think we’ll call it “Bu$hWorld”.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:58 pmThere are capital campaigns going on at colleges and universities across the United States. Why would I ever, ever, throw spare change for $250 million display of failure (AKA, “a great, great, great story”)?
Bad ideas shouldn’t materialize. If private donors want to be ripped off by a con man, this couldn’t be a better time. And the federal government better not throw any loans or grants, or a combination of, at this.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:58 pmAnyone other than Bilbo and I having problems posting comments?
March 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pmYou are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
How much slower do I have to be?
March 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pmYou bet it’s a GREAT story! A failed businessman who also is a born-again, dry-drunk, socially illiterate, aw-shucks-I’m-a-simple-man, Horatio Alger story, to the presidency! Well, from an uber-wealthy family.
Kinks galore, eh TP?
March 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
March 15th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
You Sir (bowing), are the master of snark.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pmThis is a test comment.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:06 pmJeannie See Says:
March 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Thank youuuu… thank you verry much.
Some of us are lucky enough in this life to find our true calling…
And I have found mine: Snark Master…
March 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pmThis renovation of TP and its resultant fits and spurts is a nice metaphor for the Democratic nominating process.
And exactly HOW quickly is TOO quickly to post comments?
March 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pmPosting too fast….????
Would that be a case of… premature expostulation?
March 15th, 2008 at 3:18 pmBush is a great, great story, maybe, but not a great,great,great story.
Exagerratin’ as usual
March 15th, 2008 at 3:23 pmWe’ve got a great, great, great story.
That would be what they call, in the British Navy, a “LIE”.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pmRepublic Of Stupefication:
March 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pmAre you white?: The Great White Snark.
Posting in the p.m.: Snark After Dark
Ranting: Snark Raving Mad
Golden Oldies: Snarkive
At Xmas, and if the name is right: Snark the Harold Angels Sing
no bombast, no boredom.
Just BS.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pmBadmoodman Says:
March 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Republic Of Stupefication:
Are you white?: The Great White Snark.
Posting in the p.m.: Snark After Dark
Ranting: Snark Raving Mad
Golden Oldies: Snarkive
At Xmas, and if the name is right: Snark the Harold Angels Sing
Waiting to comment: Wait Until Snark
March 15th, 2008 at 3:30 pmAt the first exhibit, Cheney shoots you in the face with a duck gun.
Not boring at all.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:31 pmAt the entrance to the library dead eyed rice hand’s out copies of bush’s coloring book and a crayon….The first edition of his book was lost when his previous library flooded after cheney flushed…Blessings
March 15th, 2008 at 3:43 pmFrank M, Nixon had to resign, how is that great? Iran-Contra was great?
I cant think of anything great Bush has done.
Perhaps you can list the great feats for us, such as record deficits mebbe?
March 15th, 2008 at 3:51 pmI now truly believe in reincarnation…My X has crossed over, his name was Frank.I use to refere to him as Frank and miserable..He was/ is a republican also a cheat and lier, hence I divorced him….Hello Frank..How in the hell are ya doing….I will send you Blessings, you needed them then and you need them now..
TP the problem’s continue with posting to fast according to pop up…
March 15th, 2008 at 3:52 pm…“no bombast or boredom”…or truth!
As the author of Executive Order 13233, Bush’s library will be a monument to secrecy. They will obstruct access to the library’s documents or permit access only to “acceptable” scholars.
The good news is, they are have a tough time raising the money to build the library.
March 15th, 2008 at 4:01 pmLOL guess there will be some orange cone’s out side the entrance and a sign that say’s restroom out of order…..Blessings
March 15th, 2008 at 4:05 pm“no bombast or boredom or books or beauty, just a giant hole in the middle of an empty building with dollar bills perpetually floating down gently from the ceiling into the vast void… very symbolic…”
March 15th, 2008 at 4:14 pmFrank M Says:
March 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Of course it’s a great story.
To me he’s the greatest President we’ve had since Nixon and Reagan.
Nixon, Reagan, & Bush?
Ohhhh… I get’cha… a fan of The Three Stooges…
Saaaay, Frankie… got no luvvin’ fer Bush the First?
Geez, he’s the one who did the LEAST amount of damage to the country.
Ot his he “Shemp” in yer eyes? Yah know, not one of the Big Three of Stoogedon, but **sigh** still a Stooge when ya come right down to it.
The last really decent GOOPer POTUS was Eisenhower.
Actually a pretty sane guy, and he WON his war.
March 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pmI’m inclined to agree, but only if we apply to the word “great” a connotation of magnitude. Surely Bush’s lies, incompetence, lawlessness, cronyism, and corruption can only be reasonably viewed as “great, great, great” in scope.
March 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pmThe great, great, great story will be one told to future students, warning them of how easy it is to see democracy corrupted.
March 15th, 2008 at 4:27 pmFrank M Says:
March 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Of course it’s a great story.
To me he’s the greatest President we’ve had since Nixon and Reagan.
To you he’s the worst of the worst.
What a great story!
Actually , nitwit , it’s more like “you all” ; only 19% of the AMERICANS (the most idiotic , obviously) still believe in the loser who is the worst president in US history (and how nice of you to mention the 2nd worst in Ronnie Retard , BTW).
The entire planet besides you delusional , feeble-minded dopes knows the Chimp is a moron and a certified failure.
March 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pm“Bush’s legacy: ‘a great, great, great story.’”
Sure ………If you happen to define comic tragedy as “great”………
March 15th, 2008 at 4:31 pmI think Frank and miserable left with out putting the seat down or flushing..He alway’s had that problem, just another little annoying reason why I divorced him..LOL..Blessings
March 15th, 2008 at 4:35 pmBush’e legacy: Made in USA terrorism / Lies / Treason / Corruption / Shambled Economy / Katrina fiasco / Iraq and Afegahnistan fiasco / Torture / Secret prisons / Redition Flights / and most of all ISOLATION FROM THE WORLD COMMUNITY!
March 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pmSnarks are made possible by Frank M. and J.
March 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pmDon’t waste time on FRANK MERDA!
March 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pmIt’s mirror speak: read the opposite and you’ll find the truth.
1) “No boredom or bombast” means plenty of both.
2) A three-times great story means it’s really a puny one.
3) Telling the story of The Presidency; America; and the American experience (which has never been told before?), means #2 above: the story is so pathetic it has to be swathed in three other stories to make it look, you guessed it: great, great, great.
March 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm.
The Bush Leagcy in one word:
L I A R!
.
March 15th, 2008 at 5:16 pmThe only thing the bush libery will have is rolls of toilet paper with the US Constitution printed on them. There will be several missing as he has used them.
March 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pmHopefully Bush’s library stands for generations as a great, great, great reminder of the greed, lies, and corruption that we should never allow to happen again.
March 15th, 2008 at 6:07 pmRight.
It can be summed up this way: “The worst president in the history of the United States. This administration caused 9/11 and was responsible for killing it’s own citizenry. And then this lead to 2 preemptive wars. And the results from this are a ruined economy, a national boken spirit, and no respect in the world.”
March 15th, 2008 at 6:30 pmHow is it that I am posting my comments to fast when the last comment I posted was around 3 EST and it is almost 7 EST?
March 15th, 2008 at 6:42 pmWhat library? He is not letting any relevant papers out. The building will be empty. Every department in his administration was involved in criminal activity, so it will all be classified for centuries.
March 15th, 2008 at 7:17 pmThe bush library will be a perfect reflection of him- the worst of its genre…ever.
The biggest story will be how they took a slacker moron and stole an two elections. Next biggest will be how he got nearly 4000 soldiers killed in a war of choice and bankrupted the country. And this drugstore cowboy, all hat and no horses, isn’t as much westerner as Buffalo Bob.
March 15th, 2008 at 7:44 pm“We’ve got a great, great, great story.“
Just because you say great three times doesnt make the story any greater.
Did Bush tell him to say that? Something very Bushlike about a persons vocabulary running out of simple adjectives in a few seconds.
March 15th, 2008 at 7:55 pmYa think they’ll put a copy of “Not-So-Curious George” on tha shelf..
Shelf… singular… not, shelves, plural… tha shelf…
March 15th, 2008 at 8:09 pmTasting, tasting, tasting, ….
March 15th, 2008 at 8:14 pmI think what would be more believable in the title of the article would be, “a pathetic, pathetic, pathetic man”
March 15th, 2008 at 8:18 pmstory, as in – fiction.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:40 pmIt is a great story. Of how any idiot can become President. And one did. Somewhere a village is missing its idiot.
March 15th, 2008 at 11:16 pmI guess there will be lots of pictures for him to keep up with the fiction.
Will they have a facsimile of the mountain of corpses that W is responsible for?
March 16th, 2008 at 12:16 amFirst I post and get a blank page. Now I post and get a message telling me I’m posting too fast, slow down.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:22 amWorst President ever is a “great, great, great story”?
Most out of touch would be more like it. Just take a look at his comments today. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23632324/
His message on the economy is to stay the course and we all know how well that has worked out in Iraq. To change course would mean that Bush would have to admit that he made mistakes and that is something that Bush will never, ever do no matter how compelling the evidence against him is. Many economists are now saying that the economy is in far worse shape than what is generally recognized. To that I would say “duh”.
And McCain is now asking that we replace a stubborn idiot with a stubborn old fool. Fat chance of that ever happening. Not with all of the seething anger in the nation for Bush and the obstructionist Republicans in Congress. Think not? What just happened in the election to replace Dennis Hassert? I rest my case.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:29 amHeh, wotta riot! A greatx3 story and it’s not about HIM! His own lieberry knows there’s nothing between the covers. They’re distancing themselves; he’s not even a frikkin footnote!!!
March 16th, 2008 at 7:31 amThe Great grest great Story is the one about how the modern propagandists, Neo-conservatives and Zionists destroyed what was left of the American republic and replaced that with a neo-fascist oligarchy.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:56 amDid darth leave his koolaide spicket for Dan Murphy, founder of PRD to suck on while he was in the middle east telling them we were about to invade another country??
Oh, and did you notice that dubya sent a tanker-o-koolaide for EACH employee of the prd working on this fantasy???
Re-writing history as usual…nothing to see here….
March 16th, 2008 at 9:17 amdjdfjdfjfjfj
March 16th, 2008 at 9:48 amdjdjdjdjd
March 16th, 2008 at 9:49 amShouldn’t take long to build this library. They only need one small room to cover the accomplishments of this administration and that room will come equipped with it’s own roll of toilet paper.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pm‘The architect for the project said that there will be “no bombast or boredom” to Bush’s library.”
Translation: We’ll just make up stuff.
There’s not much bombast or boredom in an action movie, but like the Bush legacy they blow up a lot of stuff and kill a lot of people.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:38 pmwhat will they do with this edifice when they discover that he and his administration planned and implemented 9.11 ? now that will be a legacy!
March 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pmYeah, a great . . . horror story .
March 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm