Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 15, 2009
Transcript:
Zonker: Wonder what my legacy will be...probably something to do with my legendary krispie treats! Rev. Sloan: SMU ought to be ashamed of itself! Zonker: You said it! Remind me why? Sloan: The Bush library! What serious institution of higher learning gets behind a $300 million propaganda shrine! Zonker: I dunno, I like presidential libraries. His dad's has this really cool exhibit of declassified thank-you notes. To be honest, it was a real eye-opener! You never know how you'll be affected, Rev. You might go into dubya's library thinking, "Worst president ever!"...but come out thinking like...like... Sloan: Like what? Zonker: Like, "Wow, look what I found on sale at the souvenir shop!" Sloan: You're right. I should keep an open mind.
pouncingtiger over 15 years ago
Every clout has a silver lining.. (malaprop intended)
James7344 over 15 years ago
Bush classified his papers. What’s left to go in the library?
laughaday over 15 years ago
$300 million for a library with one book: “My Pet Goat”.
Radical-Knight over 15 years ago
One book? There’s gonna be a whole section devoted to coloring books and a video room that has special daily showings of “Monster Inc”
Durak Premium Member over 15 years ago
At +4: Can we really count some of those as seperate administrations? Nixon and Ford, for instance? Should we count the Cheney administration? All joking aside, you have a point, it should be 8, not 7.
At Radical Knight: I think Bush was more of a ‘Finding Nemo’ kind of guy. His favorite charactor? Dori. “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming”
DesultoryPhillipic over 15 years ago
Would you be saying the same thing about Gore or Kerry if they had won? After all Bush’s GPA at Yale was higher than Gore’s at Harvard and virtually identical with Kerry’s at Yale. “W” was a puppet just like all the presidents since the creation of the federal reserve. Sadly, it will continue to be so.
cleokaya over 15 years ago
I’m sure the Bush library will have the entire collection of books from George’s lookalike brother, Alfred E. Newman.
William Sutton Premium Member over 15 years ago
It will probably have Mrs Bush’s memoir in it when it’s published. Letterman says it will be called “I’m With Stupid”.
Paudil over 15 years ago
Nah, there’ll be books… but they’ll be upside-down.
bubbie7 over 15 years ago
for sure they’ll have the book he was reading to the kids when he froze for 7 minutes on 9/11
Wildmustang1262 over 15 years ago
On the comic strip of Doonesbury, Rev said, “the Bush Library! What serious institution of higher elarning gets behind a $300 million progaganda shrine!” $300 million dollars for the Bush Library?! What’s a joke!
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 15 years ago
Maybe the library will contain some papers and info on the advances the Bush administration made against AIDS and HIV in Africa. Or doesn’t that count with you far left liberal wing nuts?
BlueRaven over 15 years ago
Dee, a couple of things…
1) A broken clock is right twice a day. However, the AIDS advancements you speak of were horribly impeded by an administration too far into the pockets of the Religious Right to allow a saner approach to things like condom usage.
2) Insulting people in the name of a discussion really, truly does not work. I realize your rhetorical style was likely developed by listening to Rush Limbaugh, but some of us do prefer to not be called names.
RonBerg13 Premium Member over 15 years ago
Like they said on 60 minutes once, “If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, and looks like a duck, well, then it must be a duck!”
And I stopped listening to Rush when he stone walled on the drug charges (what a let down for conservatives that was) - don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
missbdiamond over 15 years ago
…it takes the same sort of mind to sustain focus on 43 as it does to keep one’s thoughts on Paris Hilton. Why not mix it up once in a while, just to break up the monotony?
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
Desultory Phillipic, how do we know that Dubya wasn’t just better at copying homework and cheating on tests than Kerry and Gore were? Maybe it’s different in other majors, but I can tell you that engineering homework is usually a collective effort…
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
Zonker is obviously maturing… expecting to be remembered for his Krispie Treats, instead of for beating George Hamilton in a tanning competition? How the mighty have fallen.
Sternvogel over 15 years ago
bubbie7: The book Bush was reading to the kids on 9/11 was “The Pet Goat” (not “My Pet Goat”, although laughaday’s error is a common one):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThePetGoat
Chriss65 about 10 years ago
As it turned out, his paintings are actually quite good.