Disputed Bush library: Southern Methodist U.

[babylonsister]

Disputed Bush library: Southern Methodist U.
By Mark Silva



It’s official.

The George W. Bush Presidential Library will be built at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, alma mater of First Lady Laura Bush.

It’s also still controversial.

Bishops and retired bishops within the Methodist Church who parted ways with President Bush over the war in Iraq, and some members of the SMU faculty as well, have opposed the placement of the Bush library at the campus because of the research institute that will be attached to it – a think tank pursuing the philosophies of the 43rd president.

“When he dedicated the first presidential library,’’ Bush said of Franklin Delano Roosevelt today, in a letter to SMU President Gerald Turner, Roosevelt said “he hoped the public would use it to ‘learn from the past’ and ‘gain judgment in creating their own future.’ I hope the same will be true of this library.’’

Yet many academicians at the Methodist Church-owned university worry that some of the lessons of the Bush administration’s past pursued in future studies at the new Bush institute will tarnish their own reputation for independent scholarship and forever associate the school as a sponsor of the controversial Bush administration’s ideologies.

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[Bill McBlueState]

1. a think tank?

More like a septic tank.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

2. Sad isn't it?

$100.00 cover charge and three forms of id and sign a pledge that your a "W" supporter JUST to get in!!