US News: Bush is Fundraising Personally for His Library

[sabra]

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/2/14/george-w-bush-is-fundraising-personally-for-his-library.html

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Don't say that former President Bush hasn't been hit by the crumbling economy he handed off to President Obama. Friends tell us that it has slowed the drive to raise some $500 million to build and endow the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Dallas's Southern Methodist University. "It's a bad environment," says one. Bush is taking no chances: He's making donor calls himself, and even his dad, the 41st president, is helping out, as are former aides like Karl Rove. In the future, say associates, look for Bush to host fundraising events in order to meet a goal of completing construction in 2013. But for now, "he's laying low," says one.

[joanski0]

1. Now there's something that I would

never contribute to. He doesn't need a library if he's shredded all of his papers.

[Beetwasher]

2. They've Had To Scale Down Their Plans (PIC!)

[Hawkeye-X]

6. Naw, they can't even afford THAT..

That's what they can afford:



See, it's even for rent!!!11

[Lochloosa]

11. ...

[fascisthunter]

3. lol...pathetic...

[alsame]

4. Even without the 'bad environment' for fundraising, I'd bet he

would have trouble raising money for the shrine to his nightmare regime.

[Hawkeye-X]

5. I'll take a jarful of pennies

and throw each penny to him. Whatever he can find he can keep.

They are all 2008 Dubya pennies.

Hawkeye-X

[liberalmuse]

8. I think we should fundraise for our own shrine to the Bush years.

I'd slap pictures of the Abu Ghraib torture all over the walls, and pictures of the decimated war dead from his 'Shock and Awe' campaigns. There would be a graveyard representing all the soldiers killed and also a memorial to all of the wounded and those who committed suicide. There would be simultaneous clips of the 9/11 attacks and him reading, "My Pet Goat". There would be Iraq "Before" and "After" pics, along with information on how much war profiteers made in KB&R, Blackwater and Halliburton. I'd also post very graphic pics from the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. One wall would be covered with The Constitution, with all the parts his administration violated crossed out, or highlighted, and another wall listing all the international laws he disregarded and/or violated. It would be HUGH!!!

[dembotoz]

7. a panhandle panhandler

[DFW]

9. Well, finally, after eight yeras as titular president...........

Bush finally finds a difficult task, an uphill battle, with little chance of success,
that no one else is willing to undertake, and yet he does because there is no one else
left to do it. What guts! What courage! What leadership!

[Flying Dream Blues]

12. Right, the first thing he's been willing to work for in his life, apparently. Blecch. nt

[MidwestTransplant]

10. With the price of oil the what it is, his Saudi benefactors probably aren't feeling too rich.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Boy, I know how that feels.

I bought my first bookcase, all for myself for my own bedroom, by mowing lawns.

Of course, gas was a lot cheaper then.