Bush Think Tank Opponents Mount Final Offensive
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(July 16, 2008)--Some ministers and professors opposed to a think tank planned as part of the president’s library complex at Southern Methodist University mounted a final offensive Wednesday.

The critics pleaded their case to 290 delegates in the church's South Central Jurisdiction.

The delegates are scheduled to vote on a smaller church group's decision last year to allow the school in Dallas to lease land for the project.

Valerie Karras, an associate professor of church history at SMU's Perkins School of Theology, says SMU has faculty and research fellows who represent a wide diversity of ideological and political views.

She says that's undermined when you have an institute on campus that promotes one particular ideology.

SMU officials say the library complex is a done deal.

In March 2007, the Methodist church's mission council gave its blessing for SMU to lease the land for 99 years to the Bush Foundation.

The president and first lady chose SMU as the site for the library and think tank over the two other finalists, the University of Dallas, which later withdrew its bid, and Baylor University.

SMU Web Site
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Posted by: Jim Beam Whiskey on Jul 17, 2008 at 11:29 AM
This think tank would be dedicated to promoting the failed ideologies and policies of the Bush administration. That is why many folks are against it. Most folks aren't against the library itself because it is important to learn from the many failures of this administration. It is just bad to have a center set up that is dedicated to coming up with ideas that want to continue the disaster.
Posted by: LN Location: Robinson on Jul 17, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Why would I want to sign a petition AGAINST a think tank at the Bush library? I happen to think it's a good idea. And as a Methodist I am thrilled the library is going to SMU. These people complaining are really nothing more than a liberal fringe group within the system who want nothing to do with Bush anyway and have fought the library since it's inception.
Posted by: me Location: copperas cove on Jul 17, 2008 at 09:00 AM
what is a think tank? And why is it bad?
Posted by: Jim Beam Whiskey on Jul 17, 2008 at 07:56 AM
If you look hard enough online you can find a petition against allowing this think tank at SMU. Give it a try.
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