Bush uses library to try to rewrite history

Bush uses library to try to rewrite history

Former President George W. Bush is preparing to unveil his $500 million presidential library next month in Dallas, and it sounds like the former president is hoping he can rewrite history to help rehabilitate his tarnished image.

Bush has a plan to distract everyone from the more negative aspects of his legacy. As one Bush acquaintance told the National Journal, “He’s convinced his achievement in keeping the country safe after 9/11 will get the attention it deserves as the years roll on,” which is why the library’s signature exhibit will be “a 17-foot, two-ton twisted piece of steel from the World Trade Center.” (It’s a strange quirk of historical memory–almost a form of intellectual jujitsu–that Bush has successfully branded himself as the leader who kept us safe, when in fact he’s the president who disregarded an August 2001 memo warning that Osama bin Laden was planning an attack on America.)

“It looks like a theme park as much as it is a library,” according to Lou Dubose, co-author of “Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America.” Dubose points out the library also includes "Freedom tower", a "Freedom plaza", a "Decision Points" library, the bullhorn Bush used to talk to first responders from ground zero, and even Saddam Hussein’s pistol.

“It’s kind of a parentheses around one of the greatest foreign policy blunders in our country’s history and they’re pretty shameless about it.”

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/29/omission ... l-library/

Yes... "He kept us safe"---(if you ignore 9/11 ... and the 4,800+ U.S. soldiers killed, and 32,000 wounded in two unnecessary wars)

But it's nice to know they put it in Dallas, at S.M.U. The top two floors are no doubt the large-print, and comic/coloring-book sections; and the small print stuff is in Room B-23, in the basement... But you can see the building from "Freedom Plaza"... :rofllol

Yes, I am sure Bill Clinton had a major section devoted to Monica Lewinsky, White Water, and his impeachment. Of course, they are going to put thier best foot forward.
Why are we still building these presidential libraries? Right now Chicago and Hawaii are bidding to get Obama's. Do people actually visit these? And how much does it cost to run them? Would be a lot cheaper to put their historical writings up on the web for scholars.

Just so you won't be kept up at night wondering who pays for them, it's NOT with taxpayer funds...

Gee, another Rightie-rant about about "government waste and abuse" down the tubes. I guess if the Bush-loving Kool-Aid drinkers want to build a monument to the village-idiot, it's their money...

I know they are privately funded, but you have to wonder what influence you would get ponying up the money to buy these ego trips for former presidents.

Might as well put the name of the donors on, like the Monsanto Barack Hussein Obama Presidential Library.

I'm sure they did on the Reagan library, and both of the Bush Libraries....

I can only imagine what the Reagan Library is like... Do they have one whole room dedicated to the Iran-Contra and arms-for-hostages deals? And another room to commemorate the fact that he raised taxes 12 times?

LadyJazzer wrote: I'm sure they did on the Reagan library, and both of the Bush Libraries....

I can only imagine what the Reagan Library is like... Do they have one whole room dedicated to the Iran-Contra and arms-for-hostages deals? And another room to commemorate the fact that he raised taxes 12 times?

Hmm, I thought that liberals considered taxes as a wonderful thing. Why are you praising Reagan?