In Book, Bush Peeks Ahead to His Legacy - New York Times

Link: In Book, Bush Peeks Ahead to His Legacy: He says he will have a "Fantastic Freedom Institute" in Dallas.

I want to nominate Spencer Ackerman to be the first permanent Cheney-Halliburton Institute Fellow at the George W. Bush Fantastic Freedom Institute.

When I think of the words "fantastic," "freedom," and "institution," I think of nobody more than Spencer Ackerman. How could I not?

Comments

[christofay]

When Pres Bush says that he is looking for future historians to validate his strategies, he must be speaking to his audience that will blame democrats in the future for not fully supporting his approach. It is another parallel to the Vietnam war when some Americans ask who lost the Vietnam war and answer democrats. Ditto Iraq.

[save_the_rustbelt]

Scariest quote of the year....

"For now, though, Mr. Bush told the author, Robert Draper, in a later session, “I’m playing for October-November.” That is when he hopes the Iraq troop increase will finally show enough results to help him achieve the central goal of his remaining time in office: “To get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence,” and, he said later, “stay longer.”

[Bruce Moomaw]

Well, of course, by "Fantastic Freedom Institute", he may simply mean it in the old sense of "freedom that exists only in fantasy", which seems to be the guiding philosophy of this administration. (In this connection, note Hilzoy's juxtaposition tonight -- over on Andrew Sullivan's blog -- of past and present quotes from the US regarding al-Maliki's unquestionably elected government.)

[Ereshkigal]

All of the key Bush people will work for the Fantastic Freedom Institute, because they're Superheroes.

The Institute will be housed in a fabulous building where secrecy is maintained through extensive electronic surveillance. All of the architecture and furnishings will be constructed on the aesthetic of the new Oil Mean of 9:11, replacing the ancient Greek Golden Mean -- just as the outdated Greek concept of democracy has been supplanted by Cheney-Bush democracy.

The FFI Superheroes will convene whenever a party loyalist is imperiled or whenever a party line seems to be fraying. Each will rush to the FFI after hearing the secret signal over Fox News. The signal itself will consist of a high-frequency distortion, unintelligible except to the specially-adapted human ear and to vampire bats, that can even penetrate Cheney's undisclosed Fortress of Surliness.

This is all going to take a lot of spandex.

[Jim]

What Bush intends to do after his destructive presidency:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2161205,00.html

Selfish, stupid, disgusting, but we already knew that by 2004, didn't we?

[wood turtle]

Well, I am sure I am in a definite minority, but when I see the words "fantastic", "freedom", and "institute" it makes me think that they just came up with something new at Dairy Queen.