Steve Blow: Bush library – it's not exactly academic

The Dallas Morning News ^ | March 26, 2006 | Steve Blow

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Heaven help me, with all the talk about the George W. Bush Presidential Library, a question keeps coming to mind:

What's it going to have? Coloring books?

Now, don't get all defensive on me. We can tease because he's one of us, right?

And you have to admit: There's something ironic about building a library for a guy who has never been in one.

Oh, maybe not "never." He did marry a librarian. There may have been some "research" in the stacks back in the day.

Go ahead, add the rim shot.

Yet here in Dallas and down in Waco, folks are falling all over themselves to build a fancy-schmancy library for a guy who clearly would much rather be out chopping cedar.

Could this highly sought prize end up as a national joke? The Millard Fillmore of presidential libraries?

I didn't say they were good jokes.

But I come back to my original question: Exactly what is going to be in this library? What's going to make it the big tourist draw everyone seems to expect?

E-mail sblow@dallasnews.com

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This guy thinks he's funny.

I'd like to disabuse him of that notion.

[Abcdefg]

Steve Blows (and sucks, too). Local loon for the DMN.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

With his name he should stick to writing about the Clinton library!

[TheForceOfOne]

Steve, is that your last name or what you do?

[Dog Gone]

Where did Blow get his MBA?

Oh, he didn't?

[manwiththehands]

Every president has a library. And I wonder what this guy thinks of the Clinton library, you know, the library in Arkansas that looks like a double-wide trailer. He might have made a point if he had asked exactly "who" was helping to pay for Bush's library. That would make for interesting reading.

[darkwing104]

It won't be the porn mags that are featured in the Clinton Library...

[Shqipo]

....He graduated from Yale....
....He graduated from Harvard....
....He flew military jets....
....He is THE PRESIDENT, stupid....

--Not a bad bumper sticker for blow-hards like this douche.

[Dutch Boy]

He's trying to be provocative. In the absence of talent he resorts to a hit peace. They did this with Reagan too. Then they found out how brilliant he actually was. I think the same will happen with GWB. Little of the behind the scene truth ever gets out while the president is still in office. It will be revealed over the next few decades when historians examine documents in detail.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

I used to (past tense) think he wrote some kinda funny stuff...

[Psycho_Bunny]

What's funny is someone who's apparently incapable of writing paragraphs longer than one or two sentences, making fun of someone else's literary skills.

 

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! I dare you to contact Mr.Blows and convey your thoughts! Very Funny and appropriate as well! :)

[Al Simmons]

Did Blow fly an F-4 or an A-5?

Oh, he didn't do that either?

[AmericanChef]

Let's ask another question: If Steve Blow wrote a real news story, what would it have?

Content?

Facts?

Photos of Blow picking his nose?

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Intellectuals only exist if you want them to.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

LOL! I dare you to contact Mr.Blows and convey your thoughts! Very Funny and appropriate as well! :)

I'm sure his mailbox is swelling with replies from San Fran.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Intellectuals. They only exist if you want them to.

[Larry Lucido]

It will be stocked with opened and unopened cans of Whupass.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"Steve, is that your last name or what you do?"

He's certainly not the President of the most powerful nation on Earth and he's a liberal.

Who's the intelligent one, Steve?

Michael Frazier