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- graysilver, on 07/13/2008, -5/+109Pitty his legacy will be founded on bribery and corruption. Fitting though.
- hoghug, on 07/13/2008, -4/+95I wonder if it's gonna be called the "Bush Li-berry"... And they're taking a minimum of 200 grand bribes? Man! I bet you can buy some kick-ass coloring books with that scratch.
Seriously, though, wouldn't it be neat if this were actually paid attention to by the media for more than a passing mention? My guess is that in a couple days this will all have been neatly swept under the carpet.
Of course we'll still be hearing how Jesse Jackson whispered the word "nuts" until the leaves change color. - thomasnikl, on 07/13/2008, -2/+59Why build Bush a library? It's not like he can read. Build him a memorial gas station or something.
- Rotzooi, on 07/13/2008, -3/+53The Republicans are making America resemble a banana republic. Disgusting.
- chrome327, on 07/13/2008, -4/+54It's his newest educatin' program - "No Minion Left Behind".
- greenfyre, on 07/13/2008, -1/+48or steal the book
- lazerus9, on 07/13/2008, -4/+51...The best government money can buy!
- pintomp3, on 07/13/2008, -1/+47but then he'll never know how "my pet goat" ended.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+40How about naming it the George W. Bush Lie-Bribery.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -4/+36I guess bribery isn't newsworthy anymore since Bush became President. Do you remember the stink about the Lincoln bedroom?
This also brings up the issue of donations to the Clinton Library. Do you remember when Obama made an issue about the secrecy of donors to the Clinton Library? That was eons ago.
From the Washington Post:
"Clinton Library Got Funds From Abroad - Saudis Said to Have Given $10 Million"
"Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has made an issue of the large yet unidentified contributors to presidential libraries, saying that he wants to avoid even the appearance of impropriety in such donations. Obama has introduced legislation that would require disclosure of all contributions to presidential libraries, including Clinton's, and Congress has actively debated such a proposal. Unlike campaign donations, money given to presidential libraries is often done with limited or no disclosure."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
I wonder whatever happened to that bill? I wonder what the Saudis got in exchange for their millions? The latest US fighter planes and ...? - codyjohnle, on 07/13/2008, -15/+46someone should bomb that library
- Fracture98, on 07/13/2008, -0/+28It's kind of embarrassing to be a founding member of "The Bush Memorial Pop-Up-Book Repository".
- RetardoCrisp, on 07/13/2008, -2/+29And he is still the President....Christ
- AutumnElayne, on 07/13/2008, -4/+30I wonder if "Met Pet Goat" will be in the library.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -3/+28Info on Stephen Payne from the Department of "Homeland Security" webpage:
"The Homeland Security Advisory Council is the Secretary's primary advisory body and is comprised of experts from state and local governments, terrorism prevention and response communities, academia and the private sector. The council provides advice to Secretary Chertoff and the department's leadership on homeland security issues."
"His extensive clientele roster ranges from large international corporations, including Morgan-Stanley, Nextel Communications, Yukos Oil, Boeing and Lockheed Martin; to serving NASA as a Senior Advisor; to guiding diplomatic negotiations for foreign heads of state in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Payne has established strong diplomatic relationships with top officials in the U.S. and internationally, with particular emphasis on relations with and projects in Pakistan, U.A.E., Iraq, Libya, Turkey, Azerbaijan, India, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Russia and China as well as leading energy security talks for the NATO Summitt. Mr. Payne also serves as Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Latvia."
http://www.dhs.gov/xinfoshare/committees/general_1 ...
BTW, Yukos Oil was a Russian Oil company that was controlled by oligarchs which were threatened with arrest by Putin and then fled to Israel.
The really strange thing that I find about this story is that the taping was done by Murdoch owned Sunday Times, and in a search on Google News the only other MSM outlet that has picked up this story is Murdoch owned Fox News. This suggests that Murdoch is out to get this guy or expose this story, but why? It's no secret that Murdoch backs the Bush Administration, yet this could be extremely damaging to Bush if only the rest of the MSM would pick up on the story. Where's Woodward and Bernstein now? - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -3/+28The original story from the Sunday Times:
"President George W Bush lobbyist in ‘cash for access’ row"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and ...
Follow up story in the Sunday Times:
"Stephen Payne: a hotshot lobbyist who can get you into White House"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and ...
Fox News version of the article:
"White House Lobbyist Reportedly Offered to Trade Access to Top Administration Officials for Cash Donations"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381341,00.html
Notice that the Fox News story starts with the classic "The Sunday Times of London reported...". That's how Murdoch spreads his stories internationally and gives them "credibility" to an unsuspecting public. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+24Classic American foreign policy for sale, only this administration seems to have taken it to a whole new level. It really is an insult to me as an American citizen that Bush is going to have a library, and that anyone would think of contribution funds to the cause for any reason.
If we wish to commemorate the Bush administration the only appropriate memorial I can think of would be a whitewashed tomb.
Disgusting!!! - kcapxis, on 07/13/2008, -0/+21This is not only illegal, it's punishable by death. Taking money from a foreign operative for personal gain while bending foreign policy to suit the will of the foreign operative is the very definition of treason. However high this goes, there should be hangings all around.
- inajeep, on 07/13/2008, -2/+20Unbelievable. On tape finally.
- CanIGetAWitness, on 07/13/2008, -2/+19Bush was for sale long before the prez, he was for sale to become the prez, he is for sale as the prez and he will still be for sale after the prez.
- MorganMghee, on 07/13/2008, -7/+23Doesn't money normally FLOOD in for those sorts of things? Founding contributor to a facility dedicated to and named for a US president, that's what we're talking about here right? I bet you didn't see that comin'.
- T8erT0T, on 07/13/2008, -2/+18Exactly what the ***** is going to be in the Bush library? The Pet Goat he attempted to read to the class of first graders? The Constitution he never read in his life? The 5 People You Meet In Hell?
- rald84, on 07/13/2008, -0/+15there's a ballot measure in san francisco to rename the city's "Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant" to "George W. Bush Sewage Plant"
- dipdog21, on 07/13/2008, -0/+14Hey I just took a look at CNN and FOX's headline updates on tv and I did not see a peep about this but guess what... Angelina Jolie gives birth to twins. This country is so *****!
- rvandy, on 07/13/2008, -1/+15If the Saudis gave Clinton 10 million, just think how much they have tucked away for their close personal friend W. They'd probably be willing to build him a 150 story, rotating, all-glass skyscraper library.
- mikesoba, on 07/13/2008, -1/+15He says a third of the payola will go the library . . . and where does the rest go, to his "company"?
Makes my stomach turn. Where's the FBI? - RHandler, on 07/13/2008, -1/+15"private *library* being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency”
isn't that a little like "commemorating" Gandhi's life with a huge gun collection? - Sil369, on 07/13/2008, -1/+14*tear
- scabbers, on 07/13/2008, -0/+13"Each book in the Bush commerative library will be bound with the skin of an Iraqi child, and contain nothing above a kindergarten reading level".
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+14And even though what I read here in these comments, this being probably the 80% prevailing sentiment in the US and 95% in the rest of the world, the Bush psychotic sons of a bitch fascists will denounce this is liberal far left clap.
We'll see how he sings when he's behind bars for 230 years. - digitalhair, on 07/13/2008, -1/+12Perhaps this is a subversive way to get the word out that they're accepting donations in exchange for access. ...Free web 2.0 advertising.
They have obviously thrown public opinion to the wind at this point.
I guess that's what happens when the entire Justice Department has become somebody's personal bitch - Bulldogge16, on 07/13/2008, -5/+16Surprised?....Sadly there is nothing new or shocking to me here.
- Yage2006, on 07/13/2008, -0/+11"commemorate Bush’s presidency" ?????
WTF!!! - VitriolAndAngst, on 07/13/2008, -0/+11Slavery never ended in America -- it just got pushed offshores to countries like Mexico and China.
And the Mob never got ended in America. They just started making bigger money and became the CIA and the Republican party. Bush's family, as head of all three organizations, is the Capo de Capo. People like John Gotti are the lower rungs who can operate as long as they keep the status quo.
This should be no surprise. There is no national security -- just competing money interests. - d1gp1g, on 07/13/2008, -0/+10I'm betting that the "George W. Bush Memorial Library" will be full of coloring books.
- brightlight4, on 07/13/2008, -0/+10Nah, I think it should be left to show exactly what happened over these years, adding the truth to the library as a contrast.
- phantomex, on 07/13/2008, -0/+10Forget the library. How about the George W. Bush Center for Corruption & Deceit. It would make more sense. :|
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+11What's the point of a Bush Library for someone who can't read?
- gordonrp, on 07/13/2008, -0/+9The bribe asked for was ~650,000 if you watch the video. Only about a third was to go to the library, some to the guys firm, and the rest probably to his pocket. Watch the video it is quite interesting.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/times_online ... - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+9 Sad, sad Presidency.
- S7aind, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8It will be filled completely with kid's books.
- kingUssop, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8We're living in the land of the racket. This has already been leaked into the realm of public knowledge for decades and decades. Read the things Major General Smedley Butler had to say in the 1930's !
"Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
Funny that we're still knee-deep in the *****. - mikesoba, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8Maybe you didn't listen to the video form the Times of London (still owned by Murdoch I believe, the owner of Fox). In it, 1/3 will go to the library, his "company" will retain the balance. All this so the US will say "nice" things about the ex-president of K-stan. I hope this is not normal.
- TBITS, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7Bush and library should never be in the same sentence, except when informing people of such. I would also like to say that DHS is really doing a crackerjack job. I am so glad they exist because we all know that the FBI, NSA, and CIA just didn't cut it.
- HappyScrappy, on 07/13/2008, -1/+8The article acknowledges that. But now would be a great time to bring this to an end for ALL administrations. Take your outrage elsewhere.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7Infiltrating peace organizations. Posing as al Qaeda and recruiting disenfranchised youth, so that they can use them as dupes. The usual.
- icewater, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7George W Bush Presidential Liebrary. I can see many people adding that "e" to the sign that will be erected.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7And Bush's approval ratings are... ? Gotta agree with your last comment though.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6It would make sense if 90% of the books in the Bush Library were "eyes only." And that you signed a loyalty oath to read them. The 10% that average folks could read, would be Maxim and Glamour Magazines. And everything too old for a Dr.s office, of course.
- addicted68098, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6Am I the only one who finds the concept of a George W. Bush Library kind of funny?
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