Comments on: United Methodist Church Votes To Refer Petition Rejecting Bush Library At SMU

By: rockyroad

rockyroad — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:48:53 +0000

#5. Guido the Loving OBGYN Says:
Good. SMU’s gonna look pretty funny with a Bush libraray, but no Methodist Church on the property. I am in the Methodist community in Dallas and like most of us we’re fighting this library all the way.

Guido,

While I appreciate that you too want to fight the library “all the way,” I must remind you that when you advocate a position, it’s critical that you be honest, otherwise, your adversaries will identify your half-truths (or outright lies) and use your dishonesty to discredit the entire cause. No longer will the merits of the cause be considered, only the liars that support it.

I graduated from SMU twice. I know SMU. I know Dallas. Apparently, you don’t. The SMU campus houses two churches and the leading Methodist seminary in the world. Highland Park Methodist Church is on the SMU campus. It was founded in 1915 and the land was deeded to the church by the university. It consists of more that 250,000 square feet and its sanctuary was recognized as a “Recorded Texas Historic Landmark” in 1995. Thousands of members. The Perkins Chapel is also in the middle of the campus. Many of my friends were married there.

A Methodist University is no place for a private presidential library that will seek to hide records and to justify the use of torture while glorifying King George, the inept torturer who circumvented the democratic process to get elected twice and to send Americans into a war for the benefit of him and his royal cronies.

Still. Stick to the facts. You harm our cause when you lie.

By: republicanSScareme

republicanSScareme — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:14:59 +0000

If the Bush Library was be built on the premises of Leavenworth Penitentiary, he could review his Presidency without having to walk far.

By: cd

cd — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:32:59 +0000

Pete the Church does technically retain the power to excommunicate but there’s a concern that if we excommunicate Bush the Church will split into factions and people will starve as a result.

By: Alecto

Alecto — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:58:01 +0000

Someone needs to make one of those mosaic picturesof bush’s face made from pictures of the soldiers he has killed, and then get THAT picture as a billboard posted directly oppostie the front door of wherever this piece of shit one volume “library” will be housed, probably some bathroom somewhere.
I loathe this sack of protoplasm.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:59:04 +0000

What exactly is “the vision of the president”? Legally blind?

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:44:46 +0000

I went to take a Bush in Mpls & got Cheneyed by Craig instead!

By: Sinfonian

Sinfonian — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:41:32 +0000

Oh, and I’m taking suggestions on alternative locations for the Bush Library.

Suggestions so far include:

Rikers Island
the old Branch Davidian complex in Waco
The Hague
the Ninth Circle of Hell
Guantanamo Bay

In related news, I heard that recently, a large collection of books that Chimpy was planning to donate to his presidential library was destroyed in a fire.

The real tragedy is that he hadn’t finished coloring all of them yet.

By: Sinfonian

Sinfonian — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:39:06 +0000

844-20.

I did the math. 2.3%.

That’s the very definition of schadenfreude. Ha!

By: pete

pete — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:36:31 +0000

Does anyone know if the Methodist church excommunicates people? I would think the Chimperror would be a prime candidate.

By: Shayne

Shayne — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:09:47 +0000

IgnoranceIsNotBliss Says:

Then we can all say, “I have to take a Bush”.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:42

Then we can at least have the Bush Administration Legacy Dictionary to put in the Portapotty Library.

“I have to take a Bush.”
Go Cheney yourself.”
“Typical Stepfort Laura wife.”

By: Shayne

Shayne — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:05:09 +0000

Library, that’s still so funny to me. All the books the idiot can understand would fit in a portapotty. And that would make it so much easier for us to all piss on his “legacy”. Now that would be worth making a trip to Texas for.

By: jaramilr

jaramilr — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:44:01 +0000

Only history can judge the actions of Still-President Bush and company. That is why it is critical that history only be written and disseminated by loyal Bush supporters rather than actual impartial historians.

By: cd

cd — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:33:48 +0000

Bullsmith I totally agree and I’m not alone.

In 2003 The World Council of Churches (which represents a combined total of 350-450 million Christians from over 100 countries) issued a statement in opposition to war with Iraq, stating that “War against Iraq would be immoral, unwise, and in breach of the principles of the United Nations Charter.”

The Pope himself sent a personal envoy to plead with Bush not to invade Iraq.

Bush & co. ignored them all.

By: octamethyl

octamethyl — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:33:38 +0000

Glad to see at least SOME of the churchies thinking for themselves.

By: christopher wiwi

christopher wiwi — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:32:13 +0000

Dubya sure has a lot to celebrate don`t he IE; WAR,LIES, CORRUPTION,CRONYISM,SOLDIERS DYING,WOUNDED SOLDIERS WHO COME HOME A V.A. THAT CAN`T COPE WITH THEIR P.T.S.D.,MORTGAGE CRISIS,$HITTY ECONOMY and most of all his CONTEMPT of the Constitution, Hang these creeps ASAP.

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:31:25 +0000

Or maybe he can use one of those defunct off shore oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:25:02 +0000

Maybe poor li’l George can have his friends from Dubai make him one of those fancy man-made islands to house his LIEbary. Or maybe we could just put up a bookshelf in the men’s bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Karl can be both Head LIEbarian and bathroom attendant.
“Would you like to read a copy of “My Pet Goat” while you take a Bush, or are you just here for the RNC meeting?”

By: Bullsmith

Bullsmith — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:17:59 +0000

The way Christians have been used to provide political cover for nakedly political and blatantly unchristian purposes, like say starting a war of aggression, is one of the saddest parts of the story of the right wing rise to power. It is heartening to see churches realizing they are being used in a blasphemous and dishonest way. Why should the Baptist convention provide land to a propaganda institute accountable to no one but George Bush and his coterie. What is even remotely Christian about the work of Karl Rove?

By: nanlichi

nanlichi — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:17:37 +0000

I still think dead Iraqis and soldiers would be more appropriate than porn. Porn is a good thing, whereas everything about Bush is vile and disgusting and perverted.

By: j swift

j swift — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:06:05 +0000

Here’s a link to the Bush portrait done with porn images.

You can look at it in more detail there.

I’ll pass, it would just ruin the porn.