Monday, February 5, 2007
swarming
(Update: There are some interesting comments after this, including Texas Scribler's factual and logical explanation (much more so than my rant) of the SMU / Bush Library mess.)
Those who would follow he who is in the White House now had best remember that some people, once pissed off, become bees and carpenter ants and wasps only thinly disguised as adult human beings. They swarm and buzz ever louder once they feel their tiny piece of entitlement slipping away. Anyway, those noted today, are (some?) methodists who are proclaiming their disaffection for putting Bush-43's library at SMU. Gosh, why? you ask, isn't that where Laura Bush quite successfully got her undergraduate degree? Well yes it is. But these people say that they don't want the library there because GWB isn't living up to methodist principles, among which they mention that he isn't steadfastly avoiding war. Excuse me? Since when are methodists pacifists? Of course, what they mean is that they're jumping on the bds bandwagon because they're annoyed at him for not sticking hook-line-and-sinker to the agenda they wanted and expected him to follow. They'll show him, oboyoboy. Anyway, bottom line what's really being shown - as fanatical middle-easterners demonstrate and to which women can hold only a tiny proverbial candle - is that hell hath not one recognizable bit of fury like a scorned religious zealot.
Those who would follow he who is in the White House now had best remember that some people, once pissed off, become bees and carpenter ants and wasps only thinly disguised as adult human beings. They swarm and buzz ever louder once they feel their tiny piece of entitlement slipping away. Anyway, those noted today, are (some?) methodists who are proclaiming their disaffection for putting Bush-43's library at SMU. Gosh, why? you ask, isn't that where Laura Bush quite successfully got her undergraduate degree? Well yes it is. But these people say that they don't want the library there because GWB isn't living up to methodist principles, among which they mention that he isn't steadfastly avoiding war. Excuse me? Since when are methodists pacifists? Of course, what they mean is that they're jumping on the bds bandwagon because they're annoyed at him for not sticking hook-line-and-sinker to the agenda they wanted and expected him to follow. They'll show him, oboyoboy. Anyway, bottom line what's really being shown - as fanatical middle-easterners demonstrate and to which women can hold only a tiny proverbial candle - is that hell hath not one recognizable bit of fury like a scorned religious zealot.
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| posted by jau at 3:03 PM
Laura — at 1:28 AM, February 06, 2007:
jau — at 8:59 AM, February 06, 2007:
Laura — at 1:23 PM, February 06, 2007:
Dick Stanley — at 10:48 PM, February 06, 2007:
| posted by jau at 3:03 PM
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Laura — at 1:28 AM, February 06, 2007:
PS Your blog is looking great! I haven't had the time or the nerve to upgrade to the new version of Blogger yet (grin). Laura :)
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jau — at 8:59 AM, February 06, 2007:
What a great idea: go to the presidential libraries! Who are the other four that you've seen?? You definitely make a great point about the history that they each will have - living, breathing history.
And thanks for your P.S. It's not bad at all unless you start fussing and even then it's just a steep learning curve.
Best -
Anne
And thanks for your P.S. It's not bad at all unless you start fussing and even then it's just a steep learning curve.
Best -
Anne
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Laura — at 1:23 PM, February 06, 2007:
I've also been to Reagan, Kennedy, Truman and Eisenhower. The last two were when I was in my early teens but I still have some vivid memories of things like Eisenhower's jeep, the Potsdam table, and their burial sites. I hope to visit more in years to come! Best wishes, Laura
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Dick Stanley — at 10:48 PM, February 06, 2007:
The LBJ Library in Austin doesn't gloss over the Vietnam war, or his other problems, but then he died soon after it was completed. Otherwise it is a shining monument to a liberal Democrat who wanted to cure poverty and created the alphabet soup of federal agencies to do it, most of them defunct. He did help create Medicare and Medicaid, however, both still rolling. Bush's library presumably would be mostly about the Long War and his intentions for Iraq, whatever the outcome of it is.As far as I can see SMU's disagreement with Bush is not religion at all, except that the Methodist's are super liberals and so, for the most part, anti-Bush, but the usual lefty academic rant against anyone who doesn't play the game their way. They would love to have LBJ's library, for instance, but when he died SMU was rather more known as a rich kid's playschool. It still has that aura about it. Bush's library really should be at Baylor U. in Waco, which would be much more receptive (as well as more conservative) but Laura, as you note, went to SMU, which it is said is why he went along with trying to put it there, in the first place. That plus a lot of his big campaign contributors are from Dallas. Otherwise he has no connection with Dallas at all.
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I've been to five Presidential libraries thus far (3 Republicans, 2 Democrats, grin) and the best one, in my view, was...Richard Nixon's. Not because he was a great President, but the library was fabulous, beautifully designed, didn't hide the ball on Watergate but did put it in context with the rest of his life. Having his birthplace on the site, as well as being his burial site, added an extra measure of interest.
Best wishes, Laura
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