GWB Presidential Library land flap brewing...

[stevedeshazer]

Land acquisition no walk in park for SMU

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/090406dnmetsmupark.3374641.html

Purchase of tract near probable Bush library site requires UP vote

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A tiny sliver of city-owned land near Southern Methodist University has become a high-profile player – and potential design glitch – in the university's bid for the George W. Bush Presidential Library.

SMU wants to buy the Potomac Park tract from University Park, which values it at $1.6 million – a patchwork of land on less than one acre that might be pieced together for the presidential library. But it won't be as easy as cutting a check to the city.

University Park residents recently adopted a charter amendment requiring voter approval if the city wants to use more than 5,000 square feet of parkland for non-park purposes.

But the earliest the matter could be put to a vote is May, and some wonder whether failure at the polls could disrupt SMU's library plans.

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Even Bush's supporters are afraid for this to go to a vote...in his own back yard in Houston!

[tanyev]

1. Crap. Crap. Crap.

SMU is in Dallas, just a few miles down the road from me. I was really hoping they would put that abomination in Midland. Now my best hope is Waco. (Sorry, Waco area DUers.) Seriously, the SMU area is already hugely congested. It does not need a presidential library of any sort there.

[spanone]

2. It's ludicrous to think that this mindless idiot will have a library

of all things named after him. An afront to any 'reading' person in this nation.

[Historic NY]

8. Wait he has to have some shelf space for "My pet goat"..........

and the crib notes for books he supposedly is reading. He was amazed that people were still writing about George Washington.

[Skidmore]

12. And Camus....

All thin volumes. A shelf at the University library should have been overly sufficient. But I guess you need at least an acre to house the ego.

[hootinholler]

13. Do presidential libraries accept book donations?

We could all make sure there is a copy.

:evilgrin:

-Hoot

[cornermouse]

3. GWB could build his library near wherever he plans to live

post 2008. Even better he could put it on his own property, using his own funds, and demonstrate some of that personal responsibility that he keeps pushing on the rest of us.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Oh, that's okay. * will use eminent domain to take the land.

Nope, on second thought, maybe not. That trick only works on private property, not with snatching already public land.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Seems they wouldn't need much room

Three "Shakespeares" and "The Pet Goat" and the daily presidential brifing of August 6, 2001.

[SpiralHawk]

6. Shouldn't this be in Connecticut?

I mean, we all know Bush pretends to be a Texan.

But he is -- in fact -- a Connecticut preppy cheerleader who deserted TANG, and was the frat boy extraordinaire at connecticut based Ivy League Yale.

In the interest of truth, this monstrosity ought to be constucted in Connecticut....

Nutmeggers of the world unite...

[ClintonTyree]

7. Just what the hell could be IN a GWB Presidential Library?

"My Pet Goat"? The latest propaganda to the contrary, GWB isn't known as a great reader and he CERTAINLY isn't a writer. The books GWB has read wouldn't fill a laundry hamper let alone an entire Library. :eyes: The stupidest President this country has ever had and there's a dispute about his "Presidential Library"......... yeah, that makes sense.

They should set up an abandoned refrigerator box on the street somewhere, label it "The George Walker Bush Presidential Library" and let to go from there. It's all the pinhead deserves.

[tanyev]

9. An enormous vault to lock up all the papers

that they will never, ever release to the public.

[Cassandra]

11. Shrink wrapped and covered in ductape.

The point of having a presidential library is giving scholars leisurely access to the papers. Since they're not going to want to open up on anything, why bother?

[A Simple Game]

14. And the winner is... Number 9!

Exactly, this library will not be about access, it will be about control.

[Lisa]

22. "The GWB Presidential Library" -- a delightful oxymoron ...

though oddly appropriate, since he certainly comes across as a moron!

ClintonTyree, you must have the world's tiniest laundry hamper! I had been thinking that a breadbox would be more than sufficient to hold George's books (even including the "autobiography" which Karen Hughes wrote for him).

There would be plenty of room for an entire Wonder loaf, plus some muffins as well.

p.s. regarding his administration's sealed papers ... knowing how secretive this lot are, my suspicion is that they won't even want those records around in a welded-shut vault, to embarrass them in future decades. What bets there are some "mysterious" fires which spontanously occur at a bunch of widely-separated sites, on the night of January 19th, 2009?

[Joanne98]

10. He never won a Presidential election. He stole them. He's NOT getting

a library. Remember to tear it down when after we get our country back.

[Berry Cool]

15. How much room could they possibly need for

a couple of Archie comic books and three Shakespeares?

[Joanne98]

17. They need a lot of room to store the crime files!

[IChing]

16. I wonder if the Netherlands would be willing to give up land

Right next to The Hague?

[TahitiNut]

19. Storage for the war crimes evidence. Good idea.

[TahitiNut]

18. It should be a maximum security prison for 50 inmates, not a library.

Use it to imprison the senior members of this regime for 20 years to life in solitary confinement.

[kineneb]

20. His library should fit in this.

With room (ahem) to spare.

[LTR]

21. Why doesn't he just build it on the location of his phony ranch?

Doubt he'll use it once he's out of office and doesn't need it anymore for photo ops.