Bush Legacy Watch: Is he the next MLK?
By on Dec 11th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Bush Legacy Watch: Is he the next MLK?
The Dallas Morning News reports that George W. Bush Library foundation president Mark Langdale downplayed suggestions that Bush political guru Karl Rove is heading up Bush’s “legacy project.” However, Langdale noted that Rove will continue to provide advice for the library’s attached “policy institute” — which has received criticism from Methodist ministers and SMU faculty because its research projects will reportedly “celebrate” Bush’s presidency rather than maintain academic integrity. And it seems that Langdale may have already begun the celebration. Pictured behind him in the photo provided along with the Morning News article is a photo of Bush superimposed over Martin Luther King, Jr.:
UpdateThe Bush library's contracted web developers allowed the domain name www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com to expire and had to buy it back for $35,000 from another company that purchased it for less than $10. Langdale said he was unaware of the transaction.
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It's symbolic on many levels.
Bush did darken MLK's dream. His catering to rich people left many of MLK's people in the shadows. Bush is pint sized in relation to King's holistic vision.
Bush's lips are "dripping with the words of interposition and nullification."
December 11th, 2008 at 10:15 amThat's sick.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:16 amIt would all be a lot funnier if so many people weren't dead.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:18 amSo, they decided to go with the name "Policy Institute" rather than the "Records Department of the Ministry of Truth".
December 11th, 2008 at 10:20 amBush did take a fire hose to Wall Street. He washed away regulations that would've protected investors.
He turned his back to investment fire bombs that invaded pensions and retirement portfolio's.
And he encouraged greed, one of the seven deadly sins. Bush is a poster child, however that poster should be hanging in a neighborhood post office with a Top Ten Most Wanted heading. Bush should be remembered that way.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:21 amActually, I think the juxtaposition of Bush and King makes perfect sense. One had a dream and one was a nightmare.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:22 amallowed the domain name http://www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com to expire and had to buy it back for $35,000
Why not http://www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.org instead? Let's see:
"Welcome to the future home of the officious George W. Bush Presidential Library. This patriotic website will serve as an authoritative digital archive, dedicated to preserving and celebrating the godly legacy of the most honest, peaceful, and intelligent leader in the 6,000 year history of the planet Earth.
"
If you read it 'unsarcastically', it seems perfect!
December 11th, 2008 at 10:23 amOh I get it. When the clock strikes midnight on Janurary 19, 2009 and Bush is gone, America can proclaim:
"Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
December 11th, 2008 at 10:25 amI assume the Library will be opening a gift shop in George Bush Square in Baghdad that I heard about?
December 11th, 2008 at 10:28 amI just threw up a little in my mouth.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:28 amWhat was that line about being judged "by the content of their character." What are Bush's approval ratings these days?
December 11th, 2008 at 10:32 amThat photo is disgusting. Talk about catapulting propaganda. Shruby should be superimposed on a photo of Bozo the Clown. Or a photo of a dead light bulb. Or a photo of the Abu Ghraib victims lying in their own waste.
The arrogance of these people is beyond mind boggling. Unbelievable.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:32 amI am the nightmare that made this nation rise up and live out the true meaning of greed: "We hold these positions of power in order to be self-serving, that our lust and gain shall be equal."
I am the nightmare that divided the red voters of Georgia from the blue voters of New York from the purple voters of Iowa so that none would sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I am the nightmare, sweltering with the heat of oppression and bigotry, that transformed our nation from an oasis of freedom and justice into one of war and torture.
GWB
December 11th, 2008 at 10:36 amW gets his fake peace medal from Rick Saddleback Mt. Warren.
Other medals scheduled to be handed out include...
Big Dick Cheney's World Class Sharpshooter medal
Donald Rumsfeld's 'Wal Mart War' medallion
Alberto Gonzales' 'Justice for Just Us' commendation
Condi Rice's 'Doing Nothing is Better Than Something' award
Douglas Feith's 'Dumbest Phuck in the World' award
Hank Paulson's 'I gave them everything we had' monetary stipend
John Boner's 'Tears for Fears' tribute.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:36 amIt is now being reported that MLK has joined our Founding Fathers and President Lincoln, who are currently spinning in their graves.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:43 amThe unmitigated gall of that man and his pathetic supporters never ever ceases to amaze me. He can't possibly think he is of the caliber of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Bush gives dilusion a new meaning. How irreverent and disrespectful. What a self absorbed child.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:44 amThe man has more nerve than anyone I can ever remember! He leaves office after shredding the Constitution, failing at two wars, millions without health care, and the economy tanking, and he thinks he did a good job? People, the man is delusional, and a menace!! Good by, W! So sorry you came to visit to begin with.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:45 amHere are some suggestions of Bush quotes to be stencilled onto the walls of his ego-masturbation lieberry:
"Give an honest day's work for an honest day's wages. Tell the truth and be honest. Don't cheat or steal....And always remember: You are responsible for the decisions you make."
- address at Texas A&M University, April 6, 1998
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”
“I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
-both quotes from the 2000 Presidential primaries
"I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture ... "
-The Atlantic Monthly, October 2003
"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies"
anyone else want in on this?
December 11th, 2008 at 10:55 amBush Legacy Watch: Is he the next MLK?»
- - Bush: "I have a nightmare..."
December 11th, 2008 at 10:56 amBush Legacy Watch: Is he the next MLK?
I'm going to go out on a limb and just throw this answer out there: NO, not even close!
December 11th, 2008 at 10:56 amHm, I think maybe we should allow them - nay, goad them - to go completely over the top with this stuff. Bush is better than MLK! And he can walk on water! He should be on Mount Rushmore and the dollar bill! He's better than Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln combined! Bush won Iraq by going over there and beating up the insurgents with his bare fists! And so forth.
That might be worth the entertainment dollar.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:06 amThe Bush library's contracted web developers allowed the domain name http://www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com to expire and had to buy it back for $35,000 from another company that purchased it for less than $10.
This is clear evidence of GWB's unwavering commitment to the ideals that shape his legacy.
TP shamelessly tries to ridicule the President by pretending that "liberal values" like competence and efficiency are more important than hiring people that want to have a beer with you.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:16 amTheir mission will be to keep this venue all white. Surely that illegimate pic will do its job.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:17 amThis place will become just a monument to a sick man and his sick idealogy. And no one will show up until the students put a nose around his neck and topple him from their campus.
ralph the wonder llama Says:
This is clear evidence of GWB’s unwavering commitment to the ideals that shape his legacy.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am
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Absolutely. Some guy made a $34,990 profit at George Bush's expense. It's just the free market at work! :)
December 11th, 2008 at 11:18 ambadmoonman
bush: I have a nightmare should read
I am a nightmare
December 11th, 2008 at 11:25 amWhat do George Bush and MLK have in common?
Nothing.
Yet.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:31 amOrganizers are taking pains to make sure the facility is seen as a credible and independent "internationally respected policy shop," not a partisan vehicle, he said.
Museum officials have identified four "core governing ideals" they say Mr. Bush has used as guideposts in Austin and Washington. They are considering presenting key moments in the Bush presidency as case studies that relate to topics of freedom, opportunity, individual responsibility and compassion.
So it's going to be selective 'history' and paean to Bush's "core principles".
Freedom:
"Liberating" Iraq--Yes
Deaths from liberating Iraq--No
Domestic spying--No
Indefinite detention without evidence---No
Opportunity:
Faith Initiative---Yes
Results of Faith Initiative--No
No Child Left behind--Yes
Results of No child Left Behind--No
Dow Jones Record High--Yes
Dow Jones Record Drops---No
Home 'Ownership'--Yes
Home Foreclosures--No
Growth of Private Security Contractors--No
Oil Company profits--Yes
Individual Responsibility:
Clinton at fault for 9.11--Yes
Homeowners at fault for recession-Yes
Democrats at fault for recession--Yes
1 million dead Iraqis--No
2.5 million Iraqi refugees--No
$15 billion for medicine Health in Africa--Yes
Results of African Aid--No
Compassion:
December 11th, 2008 at 11:40 amTurkeys pardoned--Yes
Torture--Yes,we don't torture
Katrina--Yes, we gave them trailer homes.
Disabled War Veterans--Yes, we let a lot of them keep their jobs.
Black Children--Yes, included in photo-ops when available.
Self--Yes, being president was hard work!
Scooter Libby--Yes, it was terrible what happened to him
Oh gag me, that picture of Bush looking up is supposed to make him appear to be looking up to heaven for supreme guidance I suppose.
This Lieberry will be a case study in propaganda! Students will come from around the world to see how truth can be twisted!
And how dare they super-impose that, that bunch-of-dirty-words on the image of MLK! I'm thinking that some of their visitors may not like that too much.
December 11th, 2008 at 11:53 amHe will never be known as George Washington Lincoln Roosevelt Reagan King Christ Bush.
He will always be known as "W", as in "wrong".
December 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pmWWWWHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTTTT?????????????????
SICK, INSULTING, PREPOSTEROUS
AND YES I KNOW THAT ALL CAPS IS SHOUTING.
December 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pmWhat an INSULT!
December 11th, 2008 at 12:22 pmAnother shameless attempt by the right to hijack Rev. Kings memory.
December 11th, 2008 at 12:23 pmGW paying $35K for his own domain name cracked me up.
A delicious irony...
December 11th, 2008 at 12:27 pmTorture, treason and tyranny. Heck of a legacy, George.
December 11th, 2008 at 12:53 pmThey can polish it all they want, a POS is still a POS.
December 11th, 2008 at 12:56 pmHell, even they know it. But in exchange for millions, they'll gladly raise their glasses and toast even this low-life.
The shrub lieberry is a joke. It will become a repository for all the Whitehouse records not shredded by BushCo when he leaves. Those records will be locked down so hard that I doubt no one living today will ever be able to see them.
I biggest regret is that the shrub is going to "Get away with it". Instead of wandering the eternal history to be read by our posterity with a BIG RED TOE TAG that screams IMPEACHED! The shrub will "Get away with it".
December 11th, 2008 at 1:00 pmWow, that sounds really smart! Whoever made those statements would make a great president! Who was it?
December 11th, 2008 at 1:03 pmThat's a nasty-looking growth on MLK's right cheek. I'm pretty sure he didn't have it while he was alive.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:12 pmIt's a fine symbolic gesture for his legacy---vandalism.
December 11th, 2008 at 3:28 pmYou can't polish a turd. Sorry, Georgie.
December 11th, 2008 at 5:52 pmDon't you people realize that George W. Bush has been the hero of Disaster Capitalists everywhere? Of course he's the best and the brightest of them all. They don't care what horrible mess they leave this nation in. They intend to suck every last ounce of money out of the system in order to enrich themselves while they can. Trust me, they can't drain our national treasury fast enough. Gosh, they only have a little over a month left. They find it hilarious to make a mockery of the likes of MLK jr. Honorable people hold no place in their lives. It's all about greed and power. These SOB's make the Mafia look like a bunch of punks in diapers. It saddens me to realize how many Democrats have become complicit in this robbery and commission of treason against our nation.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:46 amI wonder whose property the original image of MLK is? The King family is very careful........well, to be honest, I believe that they always charge for anything that they own. Did the Bush library pay for the original image and then alter it, or did they buy the altered image? Of course, maybe it's just a photo from the Bush family album.
December 20th, 2008 at 10:57 amthat's absurb, disrespecting MLK, Bush is the worst president ever in USA history, texas sohbetpeople lol
February 15th, 2009 at 8:43 pmSICK, INSULTING, PREPOSTEROUS araç sorgulama
March 18th, 2009 at 5:20 am