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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 08:52 AM Apr 2015

Correct me if I'm wrong

Former president George Walker Bush has raised five hundred million dollars for his library. That's a lot of jack!!! For reference the Amway Center where the National Basketball Association Orlando Magic play was built for three hundred and eighty million dollars:




Why doesn't the lap dog press ask John Ellis Bush if those donations affect his decisions.


Oh, they can't because the library doesn't disclose its contributors.


I just ask for fairness


"For with the judgment you use, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
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Correct me if I'm wrong (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 OP
Good point. MannyGoldstein Apr 2015 #1
If you use use your status and prestige DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #3
I've neither status nor prestige MannyGoldstein Apr 2015 #10
good question cali Apr 2015 #2
The only Bushes officially involved are Marvin and Laura: DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #4
I plan to visit bvf Apr 2015 #5
If you can build a state of the art professional basketball arena for... DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #8
$500,000,000 bvf Apr 2015 #12
They can directly give millions to his Super PAC NightWatcher Apr 2015 #6
It goes to the old saw "that what's illegal is shocking but what is legal." DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #7
They need an extra wing for his paintings!! madamvlb Apr 2015 #9
Needs a very substantial roof and walls. Coloring books are extremely fragile. n/t Orsino Apr 2015 #11
$500 million for a building to hold coloring books? madinmaryland Apr 2015 #13

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
3. If you use use your status and prestige
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 09:11 AM
Apr 2015

If you use your status and prestige you could start help me start a political action committee that would allow me to travel and independently investigate all the presumptive Republican nominees.

Our brothers and sisters on the left call it praxis; putting theory to practice. What better way to empower the left than to shine a light on the mendacity and duplicity of our opponents.


Will you help me, Manny?

A man of your inestimable status and prestige would be an invaluable asset.







 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
10. I've neither status nor prestige
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 10:12 AM
Apr 2015

merely an angry mob demanding my head on a pike.

But let me know how I can help, sounds like a good cause.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
5. I plan to visit
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 09:22 AM
Apr 2015

because I've never had the chance to take a dump in a solid gold toilet before. It'll have those, right?

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
8. If you can build a state of the art professional basketball arena for...
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 09:30 AM
Apr 2015

If you can build a state of the art professional basketball arena for three hundred and eighty million dollars can you imagine what you can build for five hundred million dollars?

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
12. $500,000,000
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 10:58 AM
Apr 2015

Look at that.

It's obscene to think of that going to a library dedicated to a drunken idiot who probably hadn't even cracked open a book since Yale, if even then.

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