On the Bush Library

The Smirking Chimp:
"Bob Patterson: 'What will be displayed at the Bush Presidential Library?'
Posted on Monday, April 24 @ 09:18:24 EDT (20 reads)
'Sometimes, nothing is a real cool hand.'

Bob Patterson

The Chimp is a lame duck and so the time is rapidly approaching when the pundits who delight in Bush bashing will have to consign him to the history books and let the historians debate Bush's ranking in the record books. Those scholars who relish the prospect of conducting a painstakingly minute autopsy of Bush's presidency will (eventually) have the answer to one question that now gnaws away at the spirit of conjecture and that is: What will be in the Bush Presidential Library?

Will Bush's military records be available at the Presidential Library? Will skeptical pundits be willing to do the research which might once and for all end the questioning of the future president's accomplishments in the Air National Guard? Did the young officer flunk out of basic pilot training and get assigned to one particular unit that used an aircraft that was being obsoleted? Did he float around as a non entity in bureaucratic limbo for a few years? Extensive documentation, such as the kind that other presidential library provide, might give pundits a lead on where they could track down folks who knew him well during that period of his life. What would a crew chief, who was responsible for the maintenance of the F-102 used by the son of a Texas congressman (George H. W. Bush), have to say about how the weekend warrior treated the machinery entrusted to him for use when his unit would gather to practice their military skills? Presumably the answer to such questions will be available in the material which will be stored in the Chimpster's Presidential Library. . ."

Furthermore, where will it be? Fantasyland? Wal-Mart? On the Exxon Valdez?