Design submitted by Colt 45. Click to enlarge for best viewThe Chronicle of Higher Education asked readers to submit there designs for the future George W. Bush Presidential Library. The only stipulation: The design must fit on the back of an envelope.
The response:
“About 120 people sent in sketches that were good, bad, serious, humorous, abstract, or really angry. Their designs took the form of toilets, bunkers, crosses, and W’s, some crudely drawn and some very elegant.”
The Chronicle Review has just posted a sampling of the designs and a video:
The actual library will be built at Southern Methodist University, in a building designed by Robert A.M. Stern.
The circumstances surrounding the choice of SMU reek of typical George W. Bush cronyism.
Since December of 2006 SMU was the lone finalist for the library as chosen by the Bush Library Site Selection Committee. In September of 2006 word got out that Dallas oilman Ray Hunt gave SMU a $35 million gift. “The gift, according to the Dallas Morning News, was used to purchase a shopping center that could become the library site. The extraordinary gift was made last fall but curiously remains unannounced by university officials.”
I wonder if this gift had any effect on the Administration’s decision not to build that immigration fence on Hunt’s property that borders Mexico. Yep, the fence will come right up to Hunt’s property, stop, and continue on the other side.
Rev. Andrew J. Weaver has taken to calling SMU – Southern Halliburton University and his piece at mediatransparency.org is a must read. It provides an in-depth background on SMU and the Bush family. Did you know that 61 percent of the trustees of SMU have personal, financial, and/or political relationships with Bush and that Karl Rove has been traveling the country looking for potential Bush Institute fellows and “seems to know exactly what the square footage is of the building that will be at SMU and where it will be located on campus.”
In a letter to the President of SMU R. Gerald Turner Bush says:
“I look forward to the day when both the general public and scholars come and explore the important and challenging issues our nation has faced during my presidency—from economic and homeland security to fighting terrorism and promoting freedom and democracy.”
and Mr. President we look forward to the day when your reign is over.