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Bush Claims His Library Institute At SMU Will Not ‘Herald’ His Presidency

During an interview on Thursday with NBC News’s John Yang, President Bush talked about his life after the presidency, namely, putting together his presidential library at Southern Methodist University. A “think tank” will accompany Bush’s library there, and during the interview, Bush claimed the institute won’t attempt to burnish his legacy:

BUSH: The klieg lights will be off as far as I’m concerned and the new president will have his chance to serve in this great job. And I’ll be occupied with some interesting things to do. We’re going to build a freedom institute at Southern Methodist, a policy center that’s going to not be a place where we herald George Bush or [the] Republican Party.

Watch it:

But the institute Bush is referring to will be completely independent from the academic governance of the university. It will reportedly “sponsor research and programs designed to promote the vision of the president” and “celebrate” Bush’s presidency. One university professor said that “[a]cademics everywhere should be concerned about this” and that it “goes against the idea of dispassionate inquiry.”

In fact, Bush’s chief political operative Karl Rove — who is orchestrating the “Bush Legacy project” — will serve as a “critical resource” for the institute. Moreover, the library “will rely chiefly” on a design firm, rather than historians, to showcase Bush’s policies.

A number of SMU professors have expressed outrage that the library will trade academic scholarship for partisan praise of Bush. And after the United Methodist Church referred a petition to reject the library to its local jurisdiction that owns the university property, Methodist ministers launched a PR campaign highlighting the institute’s partisan nature. While the petition ultimately failed, a church committee offered a resolution urging the Bush library to protect the academic “integrity” of SMU.

Indeed, Bush has already begun promoting his tenure in the White House and he seems happy enough to rewrite history to do it.



84 Responses to “Bush Claims His Library Institute At SMU Will Not ‘Herald’ His Presidency”

  1. upside99 says:

    When this Dubya asskissing debacle is completed, it will seal the fate of SMU once and for all. Just another third tier school, like Liberty and Oral Roberts.


  2. DNFP says:

    Funny, I was just reading an article about how his “Freedom Institute” (LOL, a non-acedemic, neocon think-tank) will be crucial in repairing his horrible legacy:

    “This is going to be Bush vision.” Brinkley said of the institute. “Bush has never liked the academics, and this is a nonacademic institute aimed at cutting to the core of things: only pro-democracy foot soldiers who are green-lit by George and Laura Bush are in the mix.”

    You can bet the library will be front and center in the campaign to promote the “Freedom Institute”.


  3. penalcolony says:

    As with most people of limited mental resources, whenever Bush says “interesting,” it almost always means “I know I’m boring you, but I really don’t care.”


  4. Gregor Samsa says:

    Bush has already begun promoting his tenure in the White House and he seems happy enough to rewrite history to do it.

    In other words, this is business as usual. Bush and his minions have never had qualms about trying to re-write history.

    These people lie about big things, and about small things. I am convinced it’s pathological.

    Here is another Bush gem: The war in Iraq is “on its way to being won in 2011″. Who knew!?

    I thought Kristol and the other Bush minions had already declared the war was won, and we shouldn’t set “artificial timetables” lest we “embolden the terrorists”.


  5. Another Joe says:

    Well if chimpy said it, the mainstream media will “catapult it”.

    And eventually, it will become common wisdom for the ages.

    I am sure grateful that the chimp set the world straight on this one – the administration that stole 2 elections, looted the federal treasury, and was given a blank check from the dems for all crimes, treasons, war crimes, and crimes against humanity will not be “heralded” at a religion-sanctioned library.


  6. Fred says:

    bush’s little coloringbook autobiography………no hubris here, eh?


  7. Another Joe says:

    Hey – didn’t the guy that enabled 9/11 and started 2 wars that we are still fighting get a PEACE medal too?!?!?!?!

    Wow, what a guy, what a legacy…

    What a chimp.


  8. katy says:

    * * * * * *

    The Bush LIE-BURY

    * * * * * *


  9. Witch1 says:

    I wonder if the “Freedom Institute” will include the name’s of the million Iraq men women and children, over 4200 military and 1300 from N.O. who’s soul’s bush set free, early by intent, neglect and design with his war’s against us all…..Jeebos,,Will this lunatic ever just vanish.? I can only hope…Blessings


  10. katy says:

    penalcolony Says:

    As with most people of limited mental resources, whenever Bush says “interesting,” it almost always means “I know I’m boring you, but I really don’t care.”

    I TAKE ISSUE WITH THAT – AND SHALL NOW CALL YOU AN ASSSHOLE.

    a thesaurus can’t come up with a better all-round useful word.


  11. Roket says:

    Shame on you, Bush the Liar. The worst President ever once said, “[F]ool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” Since the prick can’t bring himself to say ‘shame on ME’ we’ll just have to say it for him.


  12. alphainfinityomega says:

    What a perfect jingle that will be every year at Christmas time:

    HARK !! The herald Bush dopes sing
    Falalalala lalalala.

    ¶ AIO


  13. Another Joe says:

    dur chimpfurher may be pathological, but that isn’t the point, the folks behind this criminal cabal wouldn’t want a free-thinking monkey in the white house, so they found chimpy.

    Folks like him are a dime a dozen – he was “special” because he is part of a family with a long line of treason and criminality.

    Meet the Bush Family: Nazis, Crooks, and Murders

    MUST SEE video – to understand this administration, should watch this one too:

    Bush Link to Kennedy Assassination

    And this one is granddaddy:

    Bush and Hitler


  14. Fred says:

    Another Joe Says:
    Well if chimpy said it, the mainstream media will “catapult it”.

    And eventually, it will become common wisdom for the ages.

    I am sure grateful that the chimp set the world straight on this one – the administration that stole 2 elections, looted the federal treasury, and was given a blank check from the dems for all crimes, treasons, war crimes, and crimes against humanity will not be “heralded” at a religion-sanctioned library.

    Pretty broad brush you use there joe. So the dems are complicit and equally as bad as the republicans, that about it?

    Is there any politician today that you think is not our enemy?


  15. Fred says:

    Another Joe Says:

    Joe, in 13 you once again seem to be making two points that are counter to each other.

    First you claim bush is a stooge and just a figurehead and then you list his family ties to events of the past and present…..which is it?


  16. impeachcheneythenbush says:

    “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.”

    George Orwell’s ‘1984′


  17. Another Joe says:

    Fred – you don’t get anything

    Pelosi took impeachment off the table, none of the committees would enforce subpoenas, and the only accountability is a nasty letter by conyers.

    I am so sick of the way you paintbrush with a wide, ignorent brush.

    Let me tell ya about a new tool on the tubes – it’s called GOOGLE and you can find information about who has or who has not held this administration accountable.

    And guess what – whether they have Rs or Ds after their names often doesn’t matter! They vote the same way and have refused to enforce the “rule of law” that they held the previous administration too.

    Oh, but if GOOGLE is too hard for you, try KIDSCLICK

    http://www.kidsclick.org


  18. Fred says:

    Another Joe Says:
    And guess what – whether they have Rs or Ds after their names often doesn’t matter! They vote the same way and have refused to enforce the “rule of law” that they held the previous administration too.

    Ok, what do you suggest?


  19. Another Joe says:

    Fred

    You are not the brightest bulb are you – did you watch the videos?

    The bush family has been involved with a great deal of criminality, but that does not make them the mastermind, does it?

    But I see you style from your other posts on other threads – ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

    Ongoing pattern that isn’t too hard to see


  20. alphainfinityomega says:

    Fred why are you stalking Another Joe?
    Do you need a room?

    ¶ AIO


  21. katy says:

    recently, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, i saw a most amazing piece… see it here, but the photo does not do it justice… it is huge – i stood not much over the half way mark…

    The Other Vietnam Memorial, by Chris Burden

    http://www.archinode.com/wtcmwj.html

    each name is only about 1/8″ tall… 3 million names…
    it was a very moving memorial – i had tears…

    another viewer:
    http://yavebegnet.blogspot.com/2007/10/american-war.html


  22. Another Joe says:

    I bet I could teach do things, even illegal things. Bet you could too.

    The monkeys behavior doesn’t mean he understood or was the mastermind – at least not when I teach him.

    Now if you teach him, maybe the monkey is the mastermind…


  23. katy says:

    oh – that was directed at sharon’s #9 comment…

    see yaz… things to do today…
    gotta get christmas out of storage… get me in the mood…
    somewhat…


  24. hellinabucket says:

    Bush has claimed a lot of things. He claimed he was in the Air National Guard even though there are no records proving it or any eyewitnesses to verify it. He claimed Saddam Hussein had WMD’s in large qty’s aimed at us. He claimed he stopped drinking.

    He has proven not to be held at his word so I don’t care what he claims. His Library is a reminder of what can happen when a narrow minded ideology gets a figurehead.


  25. Badmoodman says:

    Bush Claims His Library Institute At SMU Will Not ‘Herald’ His Presidency»

    – - Bush’s entire library will be one, huge fiction section.


  26. Another Joe says:

    I bet I could teach do things should be…

    I bet I could teach a monkey to do things that are illegal and I bet you could too.


  27. katy says:

    fred – like i said on the previous thread:

    wow… sanctimonious snide-azz… ok for you then [,joe]…

    i think he just “woke up” too… but that’s ok…
    old news to us, but at least others are finding it now…

    just not worth the tension.


  28. marlow says:

    I’d be very eager to tour the “thinktank” that will reportedly be in operation at this facility. I can see it now, a thousand chimps banging away at typewriters and flinging poo at intervals. At some point a fortunate chimp will write something that appears to adequately reinvent history and defy reality. I can’t wait.


  29. Another Joe says:

    Creepiness Factors Surrounding the Bush Clan
    or
    Tricky Dick Was Bush-League Compared to Chimpy

    I am sure it will offend some, just one interpretation of history. Let’s just look at the “creepiness factors” here.

    The Bush family fortune did not come from oil — it came from financing the Nazis in WW II. There was an investigation (official record) and I believe some assets were frozen and even seized.

    In fact, some say the Prescotts and other powerful elites were actually behind Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Think about this – it is a fact that the propaganda techniques had their roots in America. Was Hitler an evil genius or a stupid puppet — anyone else see some scary possibilities here.

    George Bush I namesake and maternal grandfather, George Herbert ‘Bert’ Walker, was a native of St. Louis, who founded the banking and investment firm of G. H. Walker and Company in 1900. Herbert “Bert” Walker controlled Smith and Wesson. The brownshirts in the streets of 1920s Germany were armed with Smith and Wesson revolvers, which they got for free from Fritz Thyssen (of Thyssen/Krupp), who got them wholesale from Walker.

    George’s grandfather, Prescott is responsible for bringing Richard Nixon into politics, set him up, and provided direction and support.

    George I was involved with the CIA many years before being its director under Gerald Ford. He was involved with the Bay of Pigs. Some believe he has connections, direct or indirect, with JFK assassination. If you do not accept the Warren Commission, and most Americans don’t, then the murder of an elected president was nothing less than a coup d’etat. It is a verified fact, that the rest of the world accepts though it was never given the press it deserved, that chimpy did not win in 2000 – another coup d’tat?

    If you think the JFK case is convoluted and full of lies – check of the RFK murder! Most certainly this paved the way for tricky dick to get into the Whitehouse (remember, this is Prescott’s main man). Isn’t this, in many ways, a coup too? While we’re at it – Martin Luther King’s murder was the result of a conspiracy – at least that is what a judge and jury decided when they heard the evidence. How come the rest of America never heard the evidence?

    Nixon could not have possibly resigned over the Watergate burglary — this is minor league stuff, especially by today’s standards. What possibly could have been on that 18-minute gap that cannot be recovered with today’s technology? You know that you cannot actually erase your hard-drive this clean. A secretary certainly did not erase these tapes in this matter by herself. No — this is not a direct Bush thing, unless there was direct, indirect involvement with JFK murder. Any other speculation as to what was on that tape?

    The “Reagan Revolution” was enabled by treason – George Bush Sr. negotiated with the Iranian hostage takers to hold U.S. citizens captive until AFTER the election. This, coupled with the “mighty Wurlitzer” mainstream media undermined President Carter and threw the election to Ronald Reagan. This “October Surprise” was actually a coup detat against a sitting president. Reagan did not start his presidency as a wildly popular “uniter”, he was propelled into office via an act of treasonous.

    The Reagan assassination attempt was done by the son of a close bush family friend — while Ronald ran as an aggressive, “reform” type in 1980, he became a passive “hands-off” delegate after the assassination attempt. Coincidence — Nancy Reagan could not stand the Bushes.

    If you can accept that there was Bush involvement with the CIA and perhaps even the Reagan assassination attempt, then please look at this link:

    http://www.mackwhite.com/lennon.html

    Neil Bush was a major player in the Savings and Loan scandal — cost us billions. He told congress that he received million dollar loans that were “forgiven” and that this “happens all the time.” Does anyone else think this makes chimpy’s Social Security con more reprehensible?

    Bush Sr. was a leading player in the Iran-Contra scandal. Drugs were used as a weapon against targeted communities INSIDE of America and the illegal funds that these sales generated were used to maintain illicit, “off-the-book” programs that have never been made public. The destruction of America’s inner city funded additional illegal, treasonous activities.

    Bush Sr. pardoned all of the Iran/Contra co-conspirators. Many of these same folks have played active roles in enabling treasonous acts of George W Bush.

    Bush Sr. was having breakfast with Bakr bin Laden, brother of Osama, the morning of 9/11, at a Carlyle Group shareholders meeting.

    Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened security alert was lifted. Daria Coard, 37, a guard at Tower One, said the security detail had been working 12-hour shifts for the prior two weeks because of numerous phone threats. But on Thursday [September 6], bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed. On the weekend of 9/8, 9/9 there was a ‘power down’ condition in WTC tower 2, the south tower. This power down condition meant there was no electrical supply for approx 36 hrs from floor 50 up… “Of course without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors and many, many ‘engineers’ coming in and out of the tower.” Surveillance tapes and maintenance logs are missing.

    The Bush administration was specifically warned about planes being used as weapons and that “Bin Ladin Determined to Attack US” yet they claimed “who could have known?”

    President Bush’s cousin should have been in the World Trade Centre when it was attacked. Jim Pierce, managing director of AON Corporations, had arranged a business conference on the 105th floor of the South Tower where its New York offices were based. But his group was too large so they decided to move across the street to the Millennium Hotel.

    The Bush administration was specifically warned about the need to rebuild NOLA levees and was specifically warned about Hurricane Katrina, yet they claimed “who could have known?”

    Iraq, a war that Bush I refused to continue fighting in after Desert Storm, was allowed to progress into what is now being more widely accepted as “the gates of hell” and a civil war. This after the American public was told “we would be greeted as liberators” and “mission accomplished. The oil industry, however, is making record profits that are astonishingly high and the military-industrial complex is making BILLIONS in profits – much of the federal money they receive (hundreds of billions) cannot be accounted for. Outrageous billings for services and supplies are the order of the day – but billions are just “disappearing” into the war machine’s deep pockets.

    George W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States to proclaim that torture is official U.S. Policy. Of course, torture was part of the government’s attempt to destabilize sovereign governments under Iran/Contra. Those programs were illicit and kept “off the book” and out of the press. George W. proclaims this is now official U.S. Policy.

    George W. Bush declares the constitution is just a “God Damn piece of paper” and declares that he is above the law. He signs bills with statements that he will not follow the laws he is signing. He also signs into law a budget bill that was not passed by both senate and house.

    As President Bush embarks on a new effort to shore up public support for the war in Iraq, an uncle of the commander in chief is collecting $2.7 million in cash and stock from the recent sale of a company that profited from the war.

    Is it possible that the Bush family has connections to some of the most disturbing events in the past 100 years?

    I humbly present this for discussion only, not as fact – “Gemstone” files style, seeking to promote dialog. Much of this would never be verifiable if true – run these topics through your favorite “search engine,” see what you find, decide for your self, and share your ideas.


  30. Another Joe says:

    Note that none of the above about bush family claims they are somehow the sole person in charge – in fact, they work with other interests, have for generations.

    They are the public face, but that doesn’t make them the boss does it?


  31. Fred says:

    alphainfinityomega Says:
    Fred why are you stalking Another Joe?
    Do you need a room?

    Are you stalking me? Wanna get a room?


  32. Another Joe says:

    that fred dude is pretty creepy – maybe him and katy should get a room. But somehow, I doubt that she is his type.


  33. Fred says:

    Yeah Joe, all that you mention is old news. For the record, I haven’t attacked you….yet. You however seem intent on calling me names such as being a dim bulb, etc.

    But you never answer my questions. You just spout more rhetoric as if you were giving a lecture.

    I’m asking for you to tell us what we can do that we are not doing…….

    So far you have provided a wealth of old, well known information as if it were a brand new day and it just came out and you have the inside track and everyone else is in the dark…..huh?


  34. Another Joe says:

    ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK. fred…

    and then follow on to the next thread for more!

    Glad you learned how to key with 2 hands, fred, or do you hunt and peck with your face?


  35. Fred says:

    Another Joe Says:
    that fred dude is pretty creepy – maybe him and katy should get a room. But somehow, I doubt that she is his type.

    Actually, if you had actually been lurking as you claim, you would know that Katy and I are both older Americans who both have raised or are raising families and love to garden and are both seasoned and reasonable progressives who respect each others opinions…….

    alphainfinityomega on the other hand is an old agitator who loves to stir shit and sit back and watch the action…….

    guess you don’t know everything after all.


  36. alphainfinityomega says:

    Another Joe Says:

    that fred dude is pretty creepy…

    LOL

    ¶ AIO


  37. Fred says:

    Another Joe Says:
    ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK. fred…

    and then follow on to the next thread for more!

    Glad you learned how to key with 2 hands, fred, or do you hunt and peck with your face?

    Well, I have questioned thing you say on both threads but I did so with reasonable questions. I never resorted to the kind of name calling and deameaning statements that you feel so free to use.

    I will repeat however, that you have not answered one of my questions with a direct reply….only with condecention and obscure references to conspiracy theories that are old news to me. You then act as if I am ignorant because I don’t acknowledge your expertise in these matters……

    so who is the attacker here?


  38. Another Joe says:

  39. Another Joe says:

  40. alphainfinityomega says:

    Fred Says:
    …you would know that Katy and I are both older Americans who both have raised or are raising families and love to garden…

    The question should be; Who should really give a sh¡t about all the personal crap?
    If I agitate against anything, it’s against that.
    The ZOO was created for just that purpose.
    This is a political commentary blog.

    ¶ AIO


  41. MontereyDean says:

    I wouldn’t worry too much about this report. I’m fairly certain that in W’s version of the English language “think tank” means “toilet.”


  42. Another Joe says:

    Fred says:

    “We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell them stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I took the fairy to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe so I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter you’d say. Now where were we, oh ya. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because if the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.”


  43. Another Joe says:

    Fred says:

    “Good question. On one of my frequent trips to the ground, I noticed Malloy wore sneakers, for sneaking. My next clue came justyesterday at the museum. We felt slighted by your age bashing and started home. Malloy said, ‘I’ll catch up with you.’ [Malloy starts climbing the side of the building] I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. There was something strange about the way he walked, much more vertical than usual. And finally, Malloy, unlike most retired people, has the world’s largest cubic zirconia on his coffee table.”


  44. Fred says:

    Joe, not many here will defend me but when you demean Katy you have bitten off more than you can chew. She has many friends and supporters here and you will find yourself on the ropes for that action alone before long.

    The idea here is to discuss things, not to come here and tell us how it is. No one person has all the answers.

    If you have a point, I would love to hear it. I probably agree with you on some things, but to act like you can just lay out such trite as you have here this morning and then just expect everyone to accept it and give you kudo’s for being a superior intellect is a little too much to expect.

    You would know that if you had actually been lurking here as you claim.


  45. Another Joe says:

    Fred says:

    “Anyway, about my washtub. I just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a walking bird. We’d always have walking bird on Thanksgiving with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, and yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we’d all watch football, which in those days was called baseball.”


  46. Wayne A. Schneider says:

    Another Joe,

    In comment #13 (12:27 PM), your second and third links go to the same site. Although I have seen sites that show the well-documented links between the Bush and Hitler “families”, I am curious to know what that last one should have been. Could you please provide it and I’ll check it later when I get back from the store. Thanks.


  47. alphainfinityomega says:

    Glad you learned how to key with 2 hands, fred, or do you hunt and peck with your face?

    As Terry Bradshaw would say: “Now that’s funny” !! LOL

    ¶ AIO


  48. Fred says:

    alphainfinityomega Says:
    The question should be; Who should really give a sh¡t about all the personal crap?
    If I agitate against anything, it’s against that.
    The ZOO was created for just that purpose.
    This is a political commentary blog.

    So what has that to do with me….I’m not a member there…..I have never posted there…..you don’t have any more of a point than joe.

    Your hatred of zooey has been evident in many threads here. You are an outsider who although you are a liberal leaner, likes controversy and engage regularly in personal attacks. I have seen you do it.


  49. Another Joe says:

  50. celtic cynic says:

    and every day at 3PM, the Let’s Pretend Playtime Theatre will begin. It will be hosted on different days by Karl Rove, Dana Perino, Ari Fleischer, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Billy Kristol or Sean Hannity. They will serve cookies and warm milk or kool aid afterward. Tickets are available for a small fee.


  51. j swift says:

    What? They are settling for covering up his incompetence instead.


  52. alphainfinityomega says:

    Fred says:

    It was dark and stormy back in the day, my friend. When we walked to school nobody could comprehend that there were monsters lurking in the midst.
    We carried on as if nothing mattered, then we encountered my grandmother who said “children this is outrageous”
    At that time we couldn’t speak because the perenial bulbs just wouldn’t shoot and couldn’t formaldahide with glee.
    So me and katy took up gardening


  53. pax says:

    I really want to attend the opening of this library……with my protests signs!


  54. Another Joe says:

    48. Fred Says:

    The god has spoken – now all please take your hands off your keyboard, genuflect, and show proper deference.


  55. alphainfinityomega says:

    Another Joe Says:

    48. Fred Says:

    The god has spoken – now all please take your hands off your keyboard, genuflect, and show proper deference.

    Yes, yes, I bow myself down to his seniority, loquaciousness and gardening skills. :O

    ¶ AIO


  56. tokin librul says:

    Library?
    WTF?
    Jon Stewart said it best: Build him an arcade and a bumper car park and be done with it…


  57. Bozo The Neoclown says:

    you bet your sweetass it won’t be a “place to herald george bush and the repuklican party” since after the elections of 06 and 08 you have been told by the american people you are not deserving of any accolades and neither is your coporatist “party”


  58. Witch1 says:

    Thank’s for the link Katy…Nice…Very sad and moving reminder..

    Good morning, late with that today..Intereting post’s all, some are quite old repeat’s but no matter all worth the re read..

    In my previous post I should of given most of the evil credit to cheney, sorry…Every one know’s bull shit bush is to dumb to do all the damage alone…P.B & J


  59. Bozo The Neoclown says:

    i never knew SMU was known to attract “great thinkers”. errrr, that’s right, it’s not…being a third tier school and all.


  60. Fred says:

    alphainfinityomega
    Another Joe

    Yeah, you two clowns sure put me in my place. I like the way you used facts and reality against me./snark.

    buh bye.


  61. jb says:

    Will the Lieberry have the part about running our country into the ground, killing ONE MILLION innocents and playing into the hand of Bin Ladin?


  62. Witch1 says:

    jb, I hope it has picture’s of bull shit bush holding hand’s with the saudi prince and tip toeing through the garden at the crawford pig farm..Blessings


  63. jb says:

    Witchy One, that hand holding session has got to be one of the classics of W’s reign of terror, idiocy, ideology, secrecy, deception, fear and cruelty. Is the sewer been named after him or just one of the turds?


  64. dbadass says:

    This may sound really stupid but I will admit I have never felt nor had the need to go to amy presidential library. That said what sort of shit do they keep in there. Seems to me it is all just a taxpayer monunment to a rich dude. Is not the same info without the need for a positive twist available through the library of congress or any other source of historical documentation. These me libraries seem to be nothing more than fluff designed to stroke the ego’s of those they are dedicated to as well as their kin.


  65. Witch1 says:

    jb….LOL… I think both…Shit for brain’s sewer system and turd’s float would work…Blessings


  66. jb says:

    I’ve heard that the Jimmy carter Center actually does some good things in the world.


  67. Witch1 says:

    jb, bull shit bush can never do enough or claim to do enough to undo the devastation he has been a part of…Never…Blessings


  68. Witch1 says:

    dbadass, I have never been to see one either…Think your correct, it’s just for his ego…Blessings


  69. Game of Life says:

    I will hurdle every time I read about chimpy.


  70. Jess Wonderin says:

    Maybe the Meths can see to it that a few local recently “unemployed” are hired to build the Bush Liebury . . . . I’m SURE stacking cow dung requires no real skill . . . .


  71. Another Joe says:

    Fred says:

    “Well, you’re really asking two questions there. The first one takes me back to 1934. Admiral Byrd had just reached the pole, only hours ahead of the Three Stooges … and I guess he won the argument, but I walked away with the turnips. The following morning, I resigned my commission in the Coast Guard. The next thing I heard, there was civil war in Spain … and, that’s everything that happened in my life right up to the time I got this phone call.”


  72. barfly says:

    Another Joe:
    I am so sick of the way you paintbrush with a wide, ignorent brush.

    And the First Law of Internet Posting claims another victim…


  73. nofltwlt says:

    He’s god damn right it won’t “herald” his presidency! Who the F-CK would “herald” a presidency that drove this country into the ground; the squandered the health, weath and security of our nation and appointed every sort of leech and lunactic to government posts?


  74. katy says:

    wow… it’s not just a CONcern trooll…
    it’s a real live RUSHpublican trooll…
    the kind that think they’re so clever and funny…

    what a disappointment…


  75. katy says:

    and fred, you’re mistaken…
    i did not know you are a GARDENER!!!

    so, we really must get married… you’ve made great positive strides here… i’ll take you! (i’m joking, mrs.fred)… (kinda)

    btw, fred – did you ever live in columbia mo.?


  76. Fred says:

    katy Says:
    and fred, you’re mistaken…
    i did not know you are a GARDENER!!!

    so, we really must get married… you’ve made great positive strides here… i’ll take you! (i’m joking, mrs.fred)… (kinda)

    btw, fred – did you ever live in columbia mo.?

    My Grandparents gardened, they were depression survivers and I have never let it go. Something about the smell of dirt…….heh…..others will laugh but you know…..

    That’s a mighty high compliment Katy. I’ve learned much here, not just information if you know what I mean. There are a lot of good people here and you definitely are one of them…..

    I never lived in columbia. I’ve worked in St. Louis and Ks City….

    All the best to ya Katy and if I don’t get the chance before it gets here…..Merry Christmas.


  77. katy says:

    thanks, fred…

    and a VERY merry christmas to you and yours also…

    happy ALL the holidays!


  78. Witch1 says:

    Happy Yule to one and all from a some time viseting witch….Blessings


  79. MCMetal says:

    Bush’s “Freedom Institute” : free of any and all truth(s) and/or reality…………….


  80. MapleStreet says:

    I don’t get it. Are y’all, like, implying, like, what Bush says is usually true ?


  81. Perry logan says:

    Sneak peek at the Freedom Institute’s first report: turns out the whole thing was Bill Clinton’s fault.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WugcAuQMP1s


  82. cd says:

    For those of you who think Methodists are happy about this think again.

    The United Methodist Church was against the Iraq war from the start but even before that W gave his own Church the cold shoulder and listened to people like Pat Robertson morning noon and night.


  83. MapleStreet says:

    As “Herald” has a major use in terms of announceing / foretelling / etc. – it hopefully won’t herald any more Bush presidencies.


  84. twocents says:


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