He may be a certified lame duck now,but President Bush and his truest believersare about to launch their final campaign - an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library.
Eager to begin refurbishing his tattered legacy, the President hopes to raise $500 million to build his library and a think tank at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Bush lived in Dallas until he was elected governor of Texas in 1995.
Bush sources with direct knowledge of library plans told the Daily News that SMU and Bush fund-raisers hope to get half of the half billion from what they call "megadonations" of $10 million to $20 million a pop. Bush loyalists have already identified wealthy heiresses, Arab nations and captains of industry as potential "mega" donors and are pressing for a formal site announcement - now expected early in the new year.
Ok, may I make the first "My Pet Goat" being the only booked in the library joke? Now that this is out of the way. This kind of sounds absurd and frightening all at the same time. This administration has classified just about everything including the Chimp's lunch menus. What in the hell are they planning on putting in this alleged library and why do they need $500,000,000 to pay for it? Unless they have got the greatest video game system either for times when the President wants to hang out and not get bored by all the books Condi told him to read that he never got around to, this seems to be a bit of an extravagence.
The plans to hit up Saudi oil interests don't strike me that well either. Bush is a very unpopular guy right now. What exactly is he going to have to do and promise to get people kicking in $20,000,000 at a turn? Is it for past favors given, or for things that he plans on doling out over the next two years of lame duckitude?
This is the greatest amount of money by far for a Presidential library and the irony is quite amazing. Yes Laura was a librarian in a past life before becoming a Stepford, but George W. Bush of the non-coherent, non literate variety is getting $500,000,000 for a library that represents his "leadership" and "scholarship" as president.
I leave it to you all. What will be in this library? What SHOULD be in the library? Do the words George Bush and library paired together give you the giggles too? Enquiring minds want to know.