That`s some metaphor.....
To me it looks just like......
Posted on 11/15/2004 1:29:25 PM PST by Imaverygooddriver
Clinton Library Features Impeachment Area
Nov 14, 8:07 PM (ET)
By DAVID HAMMER
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - As Bill Clinton's library is unveiled at a gala opening this week, one thing is certain: His messy legacy will be on full display.
One alcove will be dedicated to impeachment, and organizers have promised not to sidestep even Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones. The 58-year-old political superstar is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to his library.
"Bill Clinton is a rock star," said Skip Rutherford, head of Clinton's nonprofit foundation that built the $165 million library. "He is Elvis."
The William J. Clinton Presidential Center, a metaphorical "bridge to the 21st century" cantilevered out over the bank of the Arkansas River, opens Thursday as the highlight of a week of programs, exhibits and symposiums.
The week will include an Aretha Franklin concert, a science discussion by astronaut and former Democratic Sen. John Glenn, dedication of new sculptures on the riverfront and at the airport, and a reception to which Whoopi Goldberg, Cicely Tyson and Quincy Jones have been invited.
At Thursday morning's grand opening, speakers will include Clinton, his wife Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Bush, former President Bush and former President Carter. Some 30,000 guests have been invited to gather on the library lawn and U2's Bono and The Edge will perform.
Visitors to the 150,000-square-foot glass and steel center designed by architect James Polshek will get to see how Clinton, his closest advisers and exhibit designer Ralph Appelbaum tell Clinton's story.
Clinton has promised to give scholars early access to previously private policy advice and other documents he isn't required to release until 2006. He already has written about the Lewinsky and Jones sex scandals, impeachment and his political missteps in his memoir, "My Life."
Hillary Rodham Clinton has said controversial subjects shouldn't be kept out of the library because "this is part of history." On Friday, she said the library would be "a comprehensive accurate story of the eight years of the Clinton administration."
(AP) Landscape lights illuminate the Clinton Presidential Library building on the banks of the Arkansas...
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Because Clinton is still so topical, Rutherford believes the nation's 12th presidential library will establish a new model for presidential libraries. Officials hope the center will draw more than 300,000 visitors a year to Little Rock and help drive the area's economy.
Other presidential libraries have struggled to draw admission-paying visitors. Rutherford said that's because they are either in sentimental locations too far off the beaten path or are lost in larger metropolises. Downtown Little Rock is a happy medium, he said.
The library has already had an economic impact. Since the site was chosen in 1997, the depressed surrounding warehouse district has been reinvigorated and downtown Little Rock is suddenly the place to be, with shiny new condos, hip renovated lofts and swanky restaurants.
The library has directly or indirectly inspired $800 million in new downtown development, 2,000 new or refurbished hotel rooms, cultural events in the nearby River Market District, a streetcar line that opened Nov. 1, and the selection of Alltel Arena as an opening-round venue for the 2008 NCAA basketball tournament. There are plans for a new minor-league ballpark, talk of a $100 million arts and entertainment district and efforts to start a nonprofit corridor.
That`s some metaphor.....
To me it looks just like......
the design is clinton's thumbing his nose at the state of arkansas. he's showing his contempt for his roots.
>>One alcove will be dedicated to impeachment, and organizers have promised not to sidestep even Monica Lewinsky
Devil with the blue dress, blue dress on
She's the devil with the blue dress on...
Will the dress be there?
From Wonkette.com
Clinton Flight Manifest
Hey everybody! We got a copy of the passenger manifest for the chartered plane from Dulles to Little Rock for the Clinton library opening! Dude! It's a veritable who's who of kinda famous for DC -- people like. . . like. . . uhm. . . We'll find a name we recognize on here somewhere. . . John Podesta! He runs that place! And Dee Dee Myers! She's on the TV. Ooo! Ooo! There's J-Lo! (The other one.) Pretty fucking exciting, right?
Seriously, this thing is totally making the rounds for reasons we can't begin to fathom. It's like getting a peak at the guest list -- the partial guest list -- for a Counting Crows reunion show. Sure, they were big in the day, but . . . Whatever. Leiby might get an item out of it.
Enthusiasts of 90s political trivia take note: List after the jump.
Little Rock Charter Manifest
LAST, FIRST
ALSWANG, RALPH
ANDERS, MARY
ANGEL, ERIC
BANDLER, DONALD
BARTLEY, ANNE
BENNETT, MATT
BILMORIA, NATASHA
BLANCHARD, JAMES
BLANCHARD, JANET
BLINKEN, TONY
BONNER, MARY PAT
BOORSTIN, ROBERT
BRAIN, CHUCK
BRAIN, MAUREEN
BREUER, LANNY
BROPHY, SUSAN
BROWN, ELIZABETH "LISA"
BROWNLOW, DENA
BUENO, IRENE
BURTON, MICHAEL
BYRNE, CATHERINE
CAPLAN, PHILLIP
CAPPS, LAURA
CASSTEVENS, KAY
CHEEK-JONES, ELIZABETH
COHEN, DELIA
CONEY, BEVERLY
COOPERSMITH, CONNIE
COOPERSMITH, ESTHER
CUTLER, LYNN
DAUGHTRY, LEAH
DAVIS, LANNY
ERHMAN, SARAH
ESCHEW, CARTER
FAIRBANKS, C. TUTTY
FAIRBANKS, BERNIE
FELDMAN, MICHAEL
FRAGA, JOSEPH
FRAMPTON, GEORGE
FURMAN, JASON
GEORGES, GIGI
GERBER, EVE
GOLODNER, ADAM
GORMAN, MATTHEW
GORMAN, PATRICK
GREEN, DEMETRA
GREEN, VALERIE
GREEN, MELISSA
GRIFFITH, MAXINE
HAAS, LARRY
HALPERIN, DAVID
HERNANDEZ, IDA
HERNANDEZ, MARIA
HOCHBERG, FRED
HYUN, CARRIE
JAMESON, CONNIE
JENNINGS, CHRISTOPHER
JOHNSTONE, MARTHA "Matty"
JOLIN, MICHELE
KATZEN, SALLY
KENNEDY, BRIAN
KENNEDY, ELIZABETH
KNIGHT, LAURIE
KOHLENBERGER, JIM
KOUNTOUPES, LISA
KOVNER, SARAH
KREISS, MICHELLE
LAMBERT, DAVID
LAMBREW, JEANNE
LAPETINA, CHRIS
LATTIMORE, PATRICIA
LAVERY, CHRIS
LEAVY, DAVID
LEEDS, ROBIN
LEVINE, ANNE
LEVY, THEODORA "TEDDI"
LOCKHART, JOE
LONDON, PAUL
LUDOLPH, CHARLES
LUDOLPH, JOSEPHINE
MARSHALL, THURGOOD
MAZUR, MARK
MCAFEE, FLOYDETTA
MCCOWN, ROSEMARY GAYNOR
MCDERMOTT, PATRICK
MCFADDEN, NANCY
MCGINN, DANIEL
MCHUGH-WYTKIND, LORRIE
MCKIERNAN, KATHY
MCMILLEN, C. THOMAS
MELLODY, APRIL
MERCER, DAVID
MINSK, RONALD
MOORE, MINYON
MYERS, BETSY
MYERS, DEE DEE
NEUWIRTH, NATALY
NEUWIRTH, STEPHEN
ORSZAG, JONATHAN
ORSZAG, RICA
O'TOOLE, EVE MALDONADO
O'TOOLE, PETER
PAKULNIEWICZ, TRACY
PALMIERI, JENNIFER
PAOLINO, JR., JOSEPH
PAOLINO, SR., JOSEPH
PANASITI, LISA
PANERALI, KRISTEN
PELOSI, CHRISTINE
PISAR, LEAH
PODESTA, JOHN
PODESTA, MARY
POWELL, GLENN
POWELL, RONDA
RAFFAELLI, JOHN
REICHERT, JENNIFER
REICHERT, PAUL
REIF, JACOB
RICHARDSON, MARGARET "PEGGY"
RICCHETTI, STEVE
RILEY, HEATHER
RING, RENEE
ROHDE, GREGORY
ROMANOFF, EDWARD
RUDMAN, MARA
RYAN, EVAN
SAKOL, JODI
SATTERFIELD, LEE
SAVA, JACK
SCHILLER, LAURA
SCHLOSS, HOWARD
SCHNEIDER, CYNTHIA
SCHNUR, JON
SCHUKER, JILL
SCULL, DAVID
SEIDMAN, RICKI
SELMON, ISABELLA
SELMON, JAMES
SHAH, SONAL
SHERBURNE, JANE
SIMONE, HANNAH
SLOAN, CLIFF
SMITH, CHIP
SMITH, GREGORY
SMITH, MARY
SONENSHINE, TARA
SPANG, THOMAS
SPERLING, GENE
STEEL, PATRICK
STERN, PAULA
STOCK, ANN
SUTPHEN, MONA
TATE, DAN
TEAS, MOLLY
THORNTON, LESLIE
TOIV, BARRY
TREES, SUSAN
VARNEY, CHRISTINE
VARNEY, KEVIN
WARNATH, STEPHEN
WARTELL, ELEANOR (4 yrs old)
WARTELL, SARAH
WARTELL, THEODORE
WERTMAN, JOHN
WHYMAN, BILL
WIDMER, EDWARD "TED"
WILLIAMS, CLYDE
WILSON, KIRSTEN
WILSON, SARAH
WYMAN, LUCIA
What is that thing suppose to be anyway? It looks JUST like an unhitched trailer!
Clinton's Elvis?
Well, like the King, he's bloated, done drugs, likes young women and prostitutes, is overrated...
Hmmmm. THats what he is. I always knew he wasn't a President or Commander in Chief.
that is my point. he spent all his time in the white house disparging people from his hoem state as trailer park trash, then when he leaves and has this library built he makes sure it looks like a trailer. bet that's part of the specs.
just to tick them off and leave them with a bad taste intheir mouths - fro the sin of electing him gov.
I understand they are reserving a lot of square footage for the condom dispensers.
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!
Here in Cincinnati, we have a wonderful Children's Museum and Historical Museum in the beautiful art-deco old Union Terminal train station. It is educational, pretty, useful, always full of kids on field trips...and it still needs to be subsidized with my tax dollars. I suspect that this tin-pot monument to Bubba's total incompetence and lusts will be an anchor around the necks of the city "officials", and will have to have regular infusions of "Hollywood money" in order to even stay open.
For that matter, my Enlightened City has just opened a Slavery Museum (excuse me, "Underground Railroad Museum") that I guarantee is never going to be self-sufficient, but should do a bang up job of giving several more generations of Americans something to drag back into the present and be pi$$ed about. What kind of mindset do you need to spend vacation dollars visiting the bad things in America's past? I don't get it.
I wonder if we can find the papers Sandy Berger stole from the Archives in there?
That was the problem. We needed a commander in chief.
Do you suppose the gift shop sells 'Monica Brand' kneepads?
The Black historical landmark that was torn down to build the Clintoon Liebrary
No cigar section?
not only will the library have an impeachment area, but it will also have a back room for lap dances from interns (hand-picked by clinton)
I figured Cox was dumb as a rock. She meant "peek", of course.
Not that I don't make typos when dashing off a note on FR. I do it all the time (and I usually correct myself). But if I were posting a blurb to my own website I'd take care to check my spelling before posting (but she got the f word right. Way to go, Ana!).
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