My deepest sympathy. 
We don’t want it. Put in in Maine.
This reminds me of the controversy over Nixon’s library. He wanted to put it on the Duke campus (where he had attended law school), but the announcement set of a storm of controversy among Duke faculty and alumni, and the library would up in California.
I think GWB is finally realizing the enormity of the disaster he has brought about. i FORSEE A lYNDON jOHNSON-STYLE MELTDOWN, SOMETIME IN 2008! :smack:
I’ve been to the Nixon Library. It’s built around the house where he was born and raised in Yorba Linda, CA. The exhibit cards have nothing but good to say of Nixon, of course, but within that constraint it’s all very tasteful and classy.
I hope we can expect as much of the W Library.
I hope, but I don’t expect.
Hear Hear, he aint from here.
Then I guess it maybe oughta go in the Nutmeg State. From Wikipedia:
*Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Bush was the first child of George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara Bush. His paternal ancestors emigrated from Somerset in the West Country of England in the seventeenth century. Bush’s parents moved from Connecticut to Texas when he was two years old. *
Please, please, not here.
Instead, how about smack dab in the middle of Sadr City?
How about Yucca Mountain?
My vote is Guantanamo Bay.
(Either the detainment camp, or the actual bay. Either one works for me.)
Seriously, Bushco is aiming at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas, as the site for his library.
Anyway The New York Times has an article about the Bush Library in today’s paper. The headline runs almost the full width of page 22 and reads: “A Discordant Chorus Questions Visions for a Bush Library at Southern Methodist”.
As you’d expect from the header, there are a lot of negative quotes in the article.
One, is from an email message written by a guy named Sam Boyd to Mayor Laura Miller of Dallas. A long time neighbor Of SMU, Boyd is a trial lawyer and a former Green Beret. He wrote, “Once completed, the $500 million George Bush Library will become the number one (#1) US edifice terror target in the world.”
He just might be right.
Here’s a link to the NYT article. You may have to register to read it, but it’s free: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/us/14library.html
Thanks, Elendil. I should have provided the link but was too lazy/stupid to find it.
The only reason I could see visiting would be to thumb through it’s custom dictionary.
As a Baylor grad twice over, one of the three schools in the running for it’s location, most other BU grads I talk to aren’t interested in it coming to our campus either. We don’t hate Bush and I believe he was well-intentioned but I simply can’t see any reason why we should choose to associate ourselves with a disasterous presidency, especially just since we’re the closest major university to Crawford. So what.
In that case we’d better put it someplace we can get along without and won’t much miss if it’s gone. Let’s see . . . Dallas? Houston? So many choices . . .
What about repurposing this project? I’m certain the place would be packed daily with locals expressing their gratitude to the president.
Washington DC.
His wife prefers plague books. Ne shitteth vous pas – for a cite, read or listen to her authorized biography “Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady.”
There’s the truly sad thing – in Texas Bush and his primary teacher/librarian wife were truly concerned about improving literacy, but he was not able to move beyond that sort of issue. He should have stayed a governor rather than move onto the national and international stage, for which he has proven himself to be so ill equipped. He could have done some good had he stayed at the “My Pet Goat” level back in Texas. Instead, he has caused the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and made the USA an object of derision for much of the world. Truly a pity.
You know, while there are few that embrace the right to an occasional outlandish comment more than me, this is just fucking stupid. BrainGlutton, you’re not retarded… so don’t be.
[Martin Riggs]
Ubiquitous and a bigot? Bummer.
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