23/05: Maybe He Should Have Chosen Baylor
Category: Religion & Public Policy
Posted by: an okie gardener
George Bush has chosen Southern Methodist University, in the Dallas area, as the site of his presidential library. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth further south on I-35 when Baylor University learned it had lost the competition to host the library.
From the time that SMU began to compete for the library, some faculty, students, and assorted Methodists, begin a counter-campaign to oppose any link between George Bush and SMU.
While locating the library at SMU is probably a done deal, a group of diehard Methodists is still fighting to prevent it. Story here.
I am beginning to think that Bush hatred may be stronger than the Reagan hatred I remember from the 80s.
From the time that SMU began to compete for the library, some faculty, students, and assorted Methodists, begin a counter-campaign to oppose any link between George Bush and SMU.
While locating the library at SMU is probably a done deal, a group of diehard Methodists is still fighting to prevent it. Story here.
I am beginning to think that Bush hatred may be stronger than the Reagan hatred I remember from the 80s.
A Waco Farmer wrote:
I think this incident is less faculty-driven than the protest going on at Furman: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/...
Hating Bush seems to be a badge of honor for the proponents of tolerance and open-mindedness.
A connected thought: sometimes academics connected with institutions contaminated with the specter of conservatism must go above and beyond to prove that they really do get it. Look, we are as smart as the people at Harvard. We have enough intelligence and savvy to hate Bush too!