Monday, November 27, 2006

Does the Prez use Lemon Pledge to polish his legacy?

According to the fine folks at the New York Daily News, George W. Bush and his supporters are attempting to gin up some donations for a super-mega-presidential library in Dallas. Better than the average prez library, the so-called "Institute for Democracy" will be for the express purpose of "legacy polishing." Main targets of the fundraising efforts are ritzy "heiresses, Arab nations, and captains of industry." (These folks are said to be able to pony up "10 to 20 million" a piece.) Other smaller donations are also expected (in thousands instead of millions). Here's a quote from one of the story's sources: "It's so much bigger than anything that's been tried before. But the more you have, the more influence [on history] you can exert." The ultimate goal is for "Bush partisans...determined to have a massive pile of endowment cash to spread the gospel of a presidency that for now gets poor marks from many scholars and a majority of Americans." Ahh....more wonders of the faith-based presidency. You know, I wonder...the product certainly didn't sell this fall....why do they think that it'll sell now? That is one seriously past-date product, and it won't pass the sniff test.

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