Bush library and ‘Freedom Institute’ to be housed in same building.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/10/library-freedom-same/

Bush library and ‘Freedom Institute’ to be housed in same building.»

President Bush has repeatedly insisted that his think tank, or “Freedom Institute,” “won’t be used to promote a whitewashed perspective on his presidency.” Original plan, in fact, had his library and Freedom Institute as two separate buildings at Southern Methodist University. However, today the Dallas Morning News reports that they will actually be housed in the same building:

But in a White House interview this week, Laura Bush said the library design committee she chairs has moved away from its original plan.

She said the lone building will probably have separate wings and design elements to make the functions “distinct from each other.” <…>

“It will be cool-looking,” President Bush said.

This announcement reinforces concerns that the Freedom Institute will “celebrate” Bush, rather than promote “dispassionate inquiry.”

[MADem]

1. How very oxymoronic!!! nt

[tularetom]

2. Why does this make me think of the Mythbusters episode

where they polished a turd?

"Freedom Institute" sheeee-it.

[Occam Bandage]

3. Given how bipartisan and intellectually rigorous Bush has been throughout his Presidency,

I don't know what the problem is.

[panader0]

4. What is it with libraries?

A library is not something you'd associate with bush, unless it had only one book 'My Pet Goat'. A sewage treatment plant, like the one in the bay area would be much more appropriate.

[tritsofme]

5. And poor President Obama will to travel out there

and give a flowery speech about Bush when it opens.

[babylonsister]

7. Maybe Obama will be too busy quashing all the fires idiot son set off. nt

[dkofos]

6. I would think they could fit it in the same closet.

[NOW tense]

8. I would like to see GW with the scale model of this building

because I think he is about as smart as Zoolander.

[Poiuyt]

9. Maybe he could go to the Derek Zoolander school for Children Who Cant Read Good

And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.

[NOW tense]

10. He needs to go, but he would fail.

He fails at everything.