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George W. Bush is Fundraising Personally for His Library

By Paul Bedard

February 14, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

Don't say that former President Bush hasn't been hit by the crumbling economy he handed off to President Obama. Friends tell us that it has slowed the drive to raise some $500 million to build and endow the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Dallas's Southern Methodist University. "It's a bad environment," says one. Bush is taking no chances: He's making donor calls himself, and even his dad, the 41st president, is helping out, as are former aides like Karl Rove. In the future, say associates, look for Bush to host fundraising events in order to meet a goal of completing construction in 2013. But for now, "he's laying low," says one.

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I'd REALLY LOVE to hear your reasons!

shrinkess of KS 5:14PM November 26, 2009

The lady who filed Rape charges against George W. Bush in 1999 was Margie Schoendinger. sorry for the typo

Myra Kinderknecht of NC 10:55AM September 22, 2009

First Lieutenant George W. Bush REFUSED AN ORDER to accomplish his Annual MANDATORY military medical exam in 1972. He performed no duty for pay from 1972 until a visit from the Honorable Discharge Fairy in 1974. 1st Lt?? How many pilots served 6 years and only got one promotion. Anyone who would LIE about fulfilling their military obligation will lie about anything. This has always concerned me. Dan Rather got fired for reporting facts only 'someone' changed the signature on the 'memo' to give the illusion Bush's military service was honorable; all else Rather reported was fact.

I read where in 1999 Margie Schoending filed claim in court of law that George W. Bush raped her. It didn't get to trial because she was shot in the head and killed.

The media chose NOT to reveal Bush's real military service and NOT to broadcast Schoendinger's rape charge.

It's difficult to believe what is happening today in the USA-- we are evolving backwards in time. We TORTURE PEOPLE. We interrogate IRAQIS and give billions in arms to Saudis.

I think George Orwell was as much a prophet as he was an author.

God Bless Planet Earth and all its' truthful and honest inhabitants.

Myra Kinderknecht of NC 10:52AM September 22, 2009

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