Texas Has Big Plans for Bush Pres. Library (W will do faith-based work)

[DeepModem Mom]

Los Angeles Times:
Texas Has Big Plans for Bush Presidential Library
It's early in the second term, but a team is already looking for a site. Several cities and universities throw their hats in the ring.

By Warren Vieth and Edwin Chen, Times Staff Writers


WACO, Texas — President Bush's aides contend that he hasn't thought much about what he will do when he leaves office in January 2009. But there are indications that plans are underway.

Bush has named a close friend, former Commerce Secretary Don Evans, to head the search for the location of his presidential library. Evans said he was being assisted by one of the president's brothers, Marvin Bush, and by Craig R. Stapleton, the husband of a Bush cousin and the nominee to be ambassador to France.

And in comments to the Los Angeles Times, Bush said that his return to private life probably would include work with Texas faith-based organizations that performed social services. He did not elaborate....

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In Texas, political handicappers have placed their bets on Southern Methodist University. Laura Bush not only received her undergraduate degree there, but also serves on the school's board of trustees. The Bushes are Methodists, and the university is in Dallas, where the president and first lady are expected to buy a home after they leave Washington....

***

Baylor has some assets it hopes will catch the president's eye. Among them is the Center for Religious Inquiry Across the Disciplines, a think tank created last year to study the effect of religion in American life....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lifeafter9jun09,1,4670691.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. The only book in it:

"My Pet Goat" :evilgrin:

[Benhurst]

6. Take that back, fertilizeonarbosto! There will be

TWO books: "My Pet Goat" and "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."

[HockeyMom]

11. Three - The Bible

How could you forget that?

[CBHagman]

31. No, you left out Ayn Rand.

To say nothing of the entire Regnery catalogue. :puke:

[suegeo]

57. What about the fourth book?

"The handbook on human treachery", with a foreword written by Hank Kissenger.

[peekaloo]

2. Location = Huntsville

plenty o' time to think in the tank!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Library will contain EVERY issue of "Jughead" in "chronocological" order

:evilgrin:

[Supersedeas]

23. Gilligan reruns

[MaineDem]

4. And how much of our money will be used for this religious outreach???

Atrocious!

Even after he leaves office he'll be an embarrassment.

[northzax]

13. presidential libraries are privately funded

and SMU is even a private university, so they can do what they like, no public money used.

[MaineDem]

20. But aren't they part of the US Archives or some group like that?

No taxpayer money is involved at all?

I'm not arguing; I'm actually glad there's no public money. I did think some government agency was involved.

[northzax]

27. they serve as official repositories

of government documents, in this case directly relating to the President in particular. Many libraries provide this service. here's a list: http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/govdoc/otherdep.html

[CottonBear]

5. Bu$h hasn't thought much about anything, ever.

"President Bush's aides contend that he hasn't thought much about what he will do when he leaves office in January 2009."

Since when has Dim Son ever thought or done anything useful? Since he doesn't read the news (or even books), what the fuck does he need with a library.
:grr:

[acmejack]

7. At least he isn't considering Austin!

nt

[LibDemAlways]

8. What a joke that place will be.

They'll need a full time staff of graffiti removers just to erase the profanity half of the visitors will be tempted to leave behind. I know I'd sneak in a permanent marker somehow.

[ima_sinnic]

9. um, I'm sure there is a toilet paper closet somewhere in Texass

that can more than hold the illiterate a-hole's scribblings.

and note this from the Weekly World News (which does have great political satire) sometime back:

NO-BOOK BUSH
THE PRESIDENTIAL library that President Bush plans to build upon leaving office won't contain any books -- because it's an open secret that the President doesn't read, and he doesn't want to be portrayed as a hypocrite!

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/politics/?page=5

[rocktivity]

12. According to the Stephanie Miller Show

A fire has destroyed the Bush library in Crawford. It began in the bathroom, both books were destroyed, and Bush is particularly devastated because he hadn't finished coloring the second one.

:headbang:
rocknation

[ima_sinnic]

21. ROFL!! haha, good one!

:yourock:

[kskiska]

10. Let's see how much $$$ he spends on a post-presidential office

Remember the flak Clinton got in NY? Previous to that, no one ever cared about such matters. Everything Clinton did came under scrutiny.

[DFWJock]

14. Dear God

Please dont let them put that here in Dallas, I want to forget about these idiots as quickly as possible when he's out of office.

[snooper2]

15. I am thinking the same thing.....

And what's this shit about them buying a house in Dallas? Take your ass back to Crawford!

[Bridget Burke]

26. They'll sell the Pig Farm the minute he leaves DC.

And move to a nice gated community in the Metroplex.

Sorry! We've got Bush Sr & Ma Bush (plus Neilsie & his newer wife) here in Houston. In a gated community, of course. Let's share the pain.

[Vickers]

33. Exactly...I can't believe they are giving up the family ranch!!!

It's been in the family for months!

[Jane Austin]

36. "Take your ass back to Crawford!"

Take it to Florida, where you're little brother can protect you.

[kskiska]

28. * and the missus have been looking at houses in Dallas

in the neighborhood Uncle Dickie vacated when he hastily moved to Wyoming. Seems the wife doesn't like ranch life.

[Occulus]

45. If you buy into nefarious purposes,

everything that happened to Clinton was so it would be harder for it to happen to *. Look at how huge a pass he gets from the media. Look at the pressure they were under after Clinton left office to 'leave the President alone', as it were.

If you buy into the idea of this administration going into the game from day one with the knowledge that they were going to do things they could later be impeached for, doing exactly that to the guy in office immediately prior to them makes that much more sense. And you're right- everything Clinton did was closely scrutinized, right up to and including the election ending Clinton's second term.

They wanted to impeach Clinton so it would be harder to impeach *. The thing is, these people are so bad, I simply wouldn't put all this past them. I'm not saying this is what they did, only that they are certainly capable of it.

[getmeouttahere]

16. When has Bush ever worked?

Faith-based "work"? Ha!

[Ganja Ninja]

22. When it comes to the word work I'm sure Bush would ...

react about the same way Maynard G Krebs would. He would shriek "WORK!" and run in the other direction.

[Javaman]

17. Do we honestly believe he will actually do anything except...

collect baseball cards and be a geek at star wars conventions?

I mean really, he's going to "work" with Texas faith-based organizations that performed social services? That would mean that he would have to put in some "hard work".

This is the boy king, he doesn't work, when the world is in flames, he reads, "My Pet Goat", when a "terrorist flies over Washington", no one tells him, when he speaks to an audience, they have to be hand picked, when he is in a debate, he needs a ear microphone to coach him.

The only thing this dolt will do, is collect money from some useless religious organization that wants to use his name on their stationary.
"The George W. Bush* memorial funeral home". That should be a cool couple of thousand in endorsements right there.

What I think moron* will come to realize when he's no longer prez* appointed, no gives or really gave a shit about him. No more will various leaders have to play is brand of "guess my line", I suspect open hostility towards him. I suspect, that he will become the pariah of the repuke party. I think even the donors that supported him will cast him aside as old news, they don't need him anymore, they are onto something new. Welcome to repuke mentality 101.

He will be the new Hoover, reviled and hated. The new prez after this moron* will blame him for all our problems, regardless if it's Democrat or repuke. However, the new prez will have every reason to, because he will be left holding a bag of total bullshit built on nothing but lies. And for the next several admins, their job will be nothing more than to unfuck moron* "legacy".

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. I have faith based on George's past that he won't do a lick

of work after he leaves his stolen position, whenever and however that occurs.

[Justitia]

19. So, he's going back to being a "busted oilman"???

"Bush said that his return to private life probably would include work with Texas faith-based organizations (dry hole drilling oil companies) that performed social services (enriching oil cronies)."

He failed at every job he's ever had, including his current one.
Get real, he'll go back to being a spoiled frat brat.
The thought of him coming back to Texas makes me hurl.

:puke:

[UTUSN]

24. He's on Probation/Community-Service Again? n/t

[speedingbullet]

25. Library?

I was going to suggest a library full of comic books. On further reflection I would not wish to insult comic books or their collectors.

[underpants]

29. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[underpants]

30. Is the most secretive administration ever is going to display documents?

No no way-it will be nothing but picture after picture of W in a cowboy hat and at Ground Zero. I am actually interested to see how they treat his childhood from Connecticut to Williams Prep in Andover Mass.

[cornermouse]

32. Oh come on now.

You know they'll have to have at least one wax statue of George and one of Laura...

Think of the chill down your spine that seeing it will give you...

[BarbaRosa]

34. Thats what I was thinking

Do you suppose he will move poppy's and Reagan's papers in order to keep them even more under wraps, hidden from all? Or can he?

[wallwriter]

35. Seriously. Maybe they'll just have tons of fat-tip Sharpies

for staffers to redact everything.

[Ishoutandscream2]

37. Great! Right in my home town

Now I'll have two places to take out of town friends and relatives. Dealey Plaza, and the freakin' W "libary"!!! Damn, I can't take much more of this!

[kskiska]

38. Forget the library. Why don't they just build a church?

* can preach there every Sunday, and Pickles and the Twins can teach Sunday School.

[donheld]

39. George will have a LIBARY

not a library. Best Libary in Merika. Lots of nukular pictures too. :evilgrin:

[Supersedeas]

40. will Iraq be the Golden Moment section of the Library???

[Ilsa]

41. George Bush is NOT a Methodist from what I can see. Methodists

don't act like radical religious fundamentalists, bombing and killing people. Methodists are spiritual, kind-hearted folks that are concerned about the human condition.

Bush goes to a Methodist Church with his wife. I wonder if he's actually on the rolls of a Methodist Church?

[DuckBurp]

47. There is a movement to revoke his membership ...

in the United Methodist Church. And Dick Cheney. They are guilty of various offenses: crime, immorality, disobedience to the Order and Discipline of The UMC, and dissemination of doctrine contrary to the established standards of the doctrine of The UMC. You can sign the letter of complaint at theymustrepent.com

The latest word in Dallas is that his Liberry will not be at SMU (thank goodness). It will go to the University of Texas where it can be displayed at various UT campuses across the state.

[leesa]

42. He better be in jail by that time.

[Ilsa]

43. More...Those who do faith-based work should be concerned.

George has been a "miserable failure" at everything he has ever attempted. I see his faith-based works turning into a prison system by the time he gets through putting his evil hands all over it.

I used to live in Dallas. I hate the idea that my old friends will have to put up with his presence there. I'm surprised he doesn't want to live in corporate-fundie Plano. It would suit him better. But yes, Highland Park and Turtle Creek are much prettier.

[Princess Buttercup]

44. Dallas can have it!

Just keep it out of Waco so I won't have to cancel my membership in the Baylor Alumni Association if they put it there.

LE

[jmowreader]

46. How about Huntsville?

Bush has such deep attachments to Huntsville, it's the perfect place.

And maybe, if all works out just right, Bush will even take the needle there.

[napi21]

48. Since he's such good friends with Mexico, why not put it in Nuevo Laredo

or Brownsville? It can welcome all the illegals as they cross the boarder. Maybe he could put some sleeping rooms in it too, just as a place to stop and get refreshed after that long hot trip across the boarder before continuing on to their poverty wage job working for one of Shrubs buddies who hire all those guys at substandard wages...in cash!

[dissent1977]

49. Why are they going to build Bush a library?

It is not like he is going to use it.

[BlueStateGirl]

50. Yeah, he'll do faith based work. Just like Jenna was going to teach in

Harlem.

[Erika]

51. This thread is hilarious

Maybe Bush can spend his time praying for his war victims and for how he has destroyed this country. Faith based initiatives? His translation is probably to open a donation fund to the corporate globalists by working Americans in return for the globalists opening their pipeline to God. Get real.

[arikara]

52. Chimpy* doesn't need a libary...

He can fit a copy of Hungry Catapiller into a kiosk the size of a hot dog cart and set it up right in front of a bible store in a little strip mall .

[daleo]

53. He should be stacking books in the prison library in The Hague.

For launching an illegal war that has killed over one hundred thousand innocent people.

[Contrary1]

54. Just how many editions of "The Pet Goat" are there?

"Reading is the basics for all learning." George W. Bush - March 28, 2000

[pstokely]

55. should we start raising money for the Counter-Chimp library?

assuming the Counter-Clinton Library ever opens?

[Chicago1]

56. I don't know how you can have a library when....

YOU'RE SITTING ON DEATH ROW FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?????????????????????????????????

The only place he's going to be sitting is in jail waiting for the sentence of the death penalty to be carried out!!!


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