[Dialogue] Bush Library by Hightower

[Jim Baumbach]

There must be something pretty special about George W. Bush, the most 
impeachable unimpeached man the US has ever tolerated in the role of 
president for 8 long grueling years.  A ruthless, military coward and 
drunken playboy who was able to destroy his own oil company, obliterate 
any semblance of credibility America ever had, openly and defiantly 
flaunt the nation's constitution and laws he signed, lie-cheat-steal the 
Coalition-Of-The-Willing into a preemptive illegal war, cruelly 
slaughter a million or more innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq, 
condone torture and hideous treatment of "enemy combatants,"  and emerge 
the hero of SMU.

He must be God's own chosen...

Maybe there should be a celebration instead of tears???

Jim Baumbach

George Holcombe wrote:
> Andrew Weaver sent me this about the Bush Library.
>
> George Holcombe
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>     A LIBRARY FOR BUSH GROUPIES
>
> /Thursday, March 20, 2008/
> Posted by Jim Hightower
> LISTEN TO THIS COMMENTARY 
> <http://www.jimhightower.com/sites/jimhightower.civicactions.net/files/8_16_rnc.mp3>
>
> “Think tank” is not a concept you would associate with George W – and 
> sure enough, there won’t be much thinking done in the Bush library and 
> think tank to be built at Southern Methodist University.
>
> The Bushites have cut a deal with SMU executives to locate his 
> presidential library on this private campus in one of Dallas’s 
> wealthiest neighborhoods. They’ve targeted some Arab oil kingdoms, 
> corporate chieftains, and wealthy heiresses to be the “megadonors” 
> they need to raise half-a-billion bucks to establish George’s 
> ex-presidential palace.
>
> This one is to be markedly different than the usual complex of 
> library, museum, and policy institute that other presidents have 
> built. First (and unsurprisingly), rather than placing the full 
> archive of the administration’s papers in the SMU complex so 
> historians and others have access, Bush is to have a heavily-censored, 
> anti-academic library. None other that Karl Rove will help with the 
> censoring, making sure that historians only peruse documents that cast 
> the Bush-Cheney regime in a glowing light.
>
> Second, the policy institutes at other presidential libraries are 
> scholarly units of their host universities. The work done in them is 
> judged by normal academic standards, deans are chosen by university 
> presidents, etc. George W’s think tank, however, is to be 
> academically-unattached to SMU and will unabashedly push a partisan, 
> ideological agenda. It will hire conservative acolytes and, as an 
> insider told the New York Daily News, “give them money to write papers 
> and books favorable to the President’s policies.”
>
> /
>
> Bush Library Courts ‘Wealthy Heiress, Arab Nations, Captains of 
> Industry’ To ‘Polish’ History,” www.thinkprogress.org 
> <http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/27/bush-library>, November 27, 2006
>
> “A library Worthy Of The Bush Legacy,” , February 27, 2008
>
> “SMU’s Deal With Bush,” , February 25, 2008
>
> “SMU trustees give final approval for Bush library,” , February 22, 2008
>
> /
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