Well, you'll never believe what I got in the mail today--a fundraising letter from George W. Bush himself, asking for support for his Presidential Library. He must be really hard up for cash if he's asking me for money.
"Dear Friend," it starts...
Throughout our time in the White House, Laura and I were sustained by support from friends like you...
Boy, did he get a wrong number. I guess he didn't see my artwork on display at the Farewell Shoes for Bush show. I know he didn't see me standing on the road in Crawford with Cindy Sheehan, 'cause he avoided that situation like the plague.
I wondered how my name ended up on the list of supporters for the lie-brary, so I'm using their postage-paid envelope to ask that very question...
The oversized envelope included a novelty certificate with my name on it, citing me as a charter member of the Bush Center. I ran that through the shredder and made confetti out of it, which will go into the postage paid envelope with this reply, written on the back of the fundraising portion of the package from the Charter Member Acceptance committee:
I'm trying to imagine how my name ended up on your list. Maybe you got my name and address from one of the many petitions I've signed over the years to have Bush impeached, indicted, or extradited to a country with the guts to try him for war crimes. Or maybe you got my name from one of the many letters I wrote protesting putting the library and "think tank" on the SMU campus. It certainly wasn't from a list of supporters, because I am not now, nor have I ever been, a supporter of President Bush, Governor Bush or even baseball-team-owner Bush.
So you can remove my name from your list. Be assured that when the library opens, I'll be there--standing outside with all the other protesters.
Oh, wait. Now I remember. Back in 2005, I
submitted a design for the library. That's probably how I ended up on the supporter's list. :)