Freedom!
The George Dubya Bush “Library” is set to open on the campus of Southern Methodist University on May 1st.
Everything in the library is named Freedom.
The three-story complex will include Freedom Hall, which features a 360-degree high-definition video wall, and Freedom Plaza — a courtyard and fountain.
Other attractions will include a 14,000-square-foot permanent exhibit, a restaurant, classrooms, research rooms, offices, seminar rooms, an auditorium and a presidential suite.
There is also the Freedom Bathroom, the Freedom Bookshelf, the Freedom drinking fountain ….
The red brick-and-limestone building features signature architecture such as Freedom Hall, whose 67-foot tower has a lantern that glows at night.
Oh cool, betcha it’s neon.
I think there’s also The Tomb of the Unknown Jewish Florida Voter and a whole section devoted to Kathryn Harris’s lipstick.
No, I am not going to the opening. I don’t trust that sumbitch not to start a war with TCU.
I bet the elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.
1Please, please, please decorate some of those Freedom Facilities with these original works of art by GW Bush himself, even if it’s just all of the dogs he’s painted over the last year:
2http://gawker.com/5991732/a-watermelon-a-golf-course-a-horse-and-monstrous-dogs-12-new-paintings-from-george-w-bush
Methinks these library folk doth protest too much. (Or maybe that should be “proclaim.” At any rate, its like bragging about your sex life. Those who do probably don’t have much of a sex life.)
3Paint-by-numbers? He’s not any good at painting, either. So far, old George has proven to be a failure at everything he’s been sober enough to try, it appears.
4The only book in the entire library is “My Pet Goat”
5The library even has a shelf for all of the WMDs we found in Iraq. It is a short shelf.
6The freedom shelf in freedom hall in the freedom library only has room for the freedom bible… but you’ll have to pay for the one space in freedom parking lot.
7@Mule Breath:
“. . . but you’ll have to pay for the one space in freedom parking lot.”
Freedom is not free, you damned dirty hippie.
8I spoofed that library a few years back in our Village 4th of July parade that’s a spoof of 4th of July parades. Wired a napkin holder on the hood of the riding mower, put in 3 paperbacks. Even the Republican’s laughed.
9The most extensive collection may be found in the Freedom Bathroom, considering what passed for Intelligence.
10There will be a counter-protest at the opening. It’s entitled “the people’s response.” You too can be a part! See http://www.thepeoplesresponse.org.
11I got nuttin’. ‘Cept a sigh.
12As an atheist, I must ask God’s Chosen Warrior:
You speak of freedom.
Freedom for whom to do what?
13I got an email a while back telling me about the flood waters that wiped out both books in that library. You know “he” was devastated; he’d only finished the first coloring book.
(I’m gonna pay for that one, I know)
14They must have Freedom Fries and the Freedom from stupidity room. Oh, wait. The first one is possible but the second; never going to happen.
15Rick, I have to say I’m not impressed with the visual acuity and biological knowledge of the person who called that paint donkey a horse. I’d say it’s the best painting of the lot, which isn’t saying much, actually, but it’s a better donkey than the dogs are dogs. (OTOH, if it’s supposed to be a paint horse, then no, it’s not better, it’s worse.)
As for the GWB Memorial Library…if it has books in it, it’s another lie, because I don’t think that man ever read a whole book in his adult life.
16P.S.: Jesus’ General had a blog entry up a few years ago detailing the floor plan of the library:
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2010/11/inside-george-w-bush-library.html
They’re breaking the ground on Our Glorious Leader’s library. Some of you may not know I designed it. I’m reposting a walk-through I wrote back in March 2004, so you can feel like you’re a part of His magnificent presidency, even if you’re only part of the 98% of our population that serves as a natural resource to be mined and exploited for the greater good of our betters.
First Floor (First Term)
The George W. Bush Presidential Library will be composed of five sections: the Entrance/Election Room, the Rotunda of Blame, the Archives, and the Economic and Security Wings.
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17As with a certain Schicklgruber; might we have been better off if somebody had pursued a career painting?
18Ha! I’d pay good American money to see a war between SMU and TCU!
19I wonder if they’re going to offer Freedom Crayons to visitors.
20Is it FREE???
21I encourage all of you to visit the place;
22I plan to visit it myself, sheerly for the pleasure of signing the guestbook, glomming some visitor feedback cards so that I can contribute my suggestions, and dumping the blood from a hundred thousand gratuitously-dead Iraqis in the foyer.
It’s lie-berry not library.
23They better have Freedom Fries.
Else I’m not going.
Who am I kidding? I wouldn’t go if somebody paid me.
I have a feeling that history will not be kind to this poor excuse for a POTUS.
24I want a picture of myself throwing a shoe at the building.
25I suppose the library will be filled with GI Joe figures and a lot of comic books to put his intellectual side on display.
26Is it free to “visit” or do they charge for entrance, as they do for his dad’s library at Texas A&M? When I ‘”visited” dad’s library I asked why a “visitor” is charged admission when the LBJ library in Austin is free? Didn’t the Bushes and the GOP have more money than the Democrats? Oddly, I received no response — but her face went red while her lips went white from being pressed together in an unnatural way.
27So, to ask again, will there be an admission charge for “visitors” at TCU to see this architectural wonder and the twisted history?
Tony, If it comes about put your money on TCU. They got some people there, meaner than snakes. The effete preppies thirty miles down river would need to use daddies money to hire someone to do their fighting for them.
28Uhh, make that daddy’s money.
29The only volumes required will be a couple of coloring books and a copy of “Jokes For The John”, all kept in the bathroom.
30Poor SMU, does it get ANY more degrading than having Dub’s (short for W) “think tank and one-stop history-rewrite center” Libarary crammed down (up?) your throat?
I have to admit that I would HAVE to see this if in town. But I would make sure I knew where the Freedom Bathroom was at all times, cause I have something to leave.
If my memory serves, the POWER’s that be were VERY heavy handed in relocating some alumni who had bought condo’s in this “Libarary’s”, footprint, shamefully so.
PS Susan, LOVE the TomDelay district nuttier-than-squirrel poop description. Gruesome.
31So on May First, they are unveiling the Dick Cheney Presidential Library, only they’re calling it something different. George was allowed to stock some of the stacks in the lie-bary, and boy, howdy! Who knew there were so many Archie comics?
The fountain and reflective pool will spout pure oil.
32I bet it’ll have the most extensive collection of coloring books in the land!
33Message scrawled in the stall: “Mission Accomplished!”
34“The Bush Library Fire – All 3 books were destroyed, including one which hadn’t been colored yet!”
35(Or has this joke been made enough already)
Do something positive! Donate a book! I’d suggest anything by Michael Moore, Al Franken, Molly Ivins, Garrison Keillor or any book from the Amazon list “Cabal of anti-Bush Books”. Maybe we could just discretely add one or two every time we visit…
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