How Can We Nip Bush's so-called "Legacy" in the Bud?

[Mike03]

Tuesday night on XM's POTUS channel, some dude was boasting about how his university had won the bid to host the G.W. Bush Presidential Center (i.e. Library). The cost will be about $250 Million.

Then, also this week, there was a news sound byte on ABC radio explaining that Bush believes that it will take about fifty years for Americans to realize that his presidency was a Great Presidency, and that he was a Great President, if not the greatest President ever, in the history of our nation.

As all of you can plainly see, this is not just horse shit, but it is beyond the pale.

What infuriates me about this is that Bush can't be proved wrong about his prediction that he will be viewed as great, because in fifty years he will be deceased, as will most people over the age of thirty (statistically, at least).

In other words, whenever he dies, he will die believing that he was the greatest president ever! He will perish knowing that his $250 million dollar library is the most expensive ever, and he will be completely confident that future generations will regard him as a genius.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

What can we do to prevent Bush from ever, ever believing that he was a great president, or that his wars were brilliant, etc...?

I acknowledge that there are more important issues, but this whole "legacy"/"Library" fiasco really has obsessed and enraged me. I can't accept that Bush could ever think he was a great president, and those precious $250 million dollars could be better spent.

A G.W. Bush Library, IMO, would be a staggering humiliation to the United States of America. We should not allow it within our borders.

[tekisui]

1. Oh, it's nipped.

[Botany]

2. It is being built by secret donors and Saudi Money

The Library will be a joke .... even bush knows that.

[GoreVidalIsGod]

3. We can nip it effectively and forever by nominating

a candidate who opposed the war from the beginning.

[lisa58]

4. $250 Million...

...I got "The Pet Goat" for about $30.00 on ebay.

[El Supremo]

5. By sending him and Cheney to the War Crimes Tribunal.

But even then, some people will think he waa a martyr.

[ProgressiveFool]

6. Bush's true legacy will be that whichever Democrat follows him

will be viewed forever as one of our "Great" presidents, like Lincoln, FDR, etc. Provided they clean up the mess properly.

[bluestateguy]

7. A Counter Bush Library

Perhaps in Austin.

Efforts to build a Counter Clinton Library in Little Rock failed, so we'd have to learn from what those people did wrong before proceeding with plans for a Counter Bush Library.

[guitar man]

8. It's easy

Let's just take up a donation for a plaque dedicating the men's restroom in the library to Larry Craig :rofl:

[lisa58]

9. like it...

...how about an Abramoff exhibit?

[guitar man]

10. yeah, sounds good

if people want to know about what went on during the * presidency, it should be in his library....

[ThomWV]

11. By Impeaching him, there's still plenty of time left.

It took 6 weeks, start to fininsh, to write and pass the Patriot Act. That certainly couldn't have been any more difficult than getting him off the throne.