The president could probably learn a few things

July 8, 2006

Yesterday, Bush held a rare solo press conference in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. A few hours later, at a fundraiser for Illinois gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka, the president mentioned how much he liked the museum.

“By the way, if you go to the Science Museum, take your kids, it is a special place. I know there are some members of the board who are here — it is really great. And I’m looking forward to shedding my entourage one of these days and spending a little quality time there at the museum.”

You know, that’s a great idea (not shedding the entourage; spending time at the museum). In fact, I checked out the museum’s website this morning and found that one of the lead exhibits, right now, is about “evolution in action.”

So, Mr. President, go right ahead and spend as much “quality time” at the Museum of Science and Industry as you can. There might even be an exhibit on global warming in there somewhere….

He probably was amazed to find out Man had landed on the moon, and that it wasn’t made of cheese.

  • He probably wants to visit the U-505 and imagine himself as a U-boat commander, or look at the Stuka and fantasize he’s lifelong-Nazi, the late Hans Ulrich Rudel (and the best-known Stuka pilot of the war).

    Evolution? Boy George is proof that not all the competing hominids died out when they were bested by Homo Sapiens. Boy George belongs to that sub-species, Homo Sap.

  • “See, there’s a debate. I appreciate that there’s a debate and I understand that people who have different ideas will be different. I call it debatolution, the debate over evolution, and the American people need to know I’m having it. These things take time but I’m going to settle it. You can believe whatever you want but it’s not true. See? I was a C student and he’s a professor, and look at us now. Blah, blah..”

  • Maybe I am getting cynical but I think he said that sh** because it is expected. Bush doing something, anything that might however tangentially, educate him in some way? I think not. And, this is science related which we all know, republicans despise (at least until the commerical applications can bring in the big bucks).

  • Many years ago Mort Sahl did a comedy bit about evolution. It went something like this. During the revolution America had leaders like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin etc. Today we are faced with a choice between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. What can we learn from ths? Darwin was wrong!
    Funny Then. True today!

  • “And I’m looking forward to shedding my entourage…”

    Sorry Jackass…
    You are wrong about that too.

    That burdensome entourage is going to follow you for the rest of your life…

    You will never be free of it…

    Even your dummy ranch in Crawford is going to be crawling with agents.

    Forever.

    A quite frankly Dummy… I’m glad.
    You’ve earned the inconvience of it–> TIMES TEN.

    I hope you end up cursing your lot a hundred thousand times…

    But even so,– It won’t begin to pay for the misery you caused the World..

  • Frankly, I would prefer Bush not shed anything. The thought of him and lump-in-the-bed naked is almost more than the mind can bear.

    However, I imagine that in the final days there will be a lot of shredding going on…..

  • Somehow, I can’t see Dubya reading a book and I can’t see him actually visiting a museum. He puts the “duh” in Dubya!

  • Just an fyi from someone who happened to visit this museum recently… The “industry” section of the museum is practically a glorification of capitalist markets, corporate business management theory, and BIG OIL. The museum gives no attention to forward-looking alternative and renewable energy sources and development. Instead, it celebrates the history of petroleum in US industry, gives an element of scientific wonder to its complex refinement processes, and catalogues its remarkable achievements. All of this is presented unproblematically, without any cognizance of the disastrous ecological peril we now face thanks to our continuing dependence on petroleum. This should help to explain Bush’s otherwise inexplicable curiosity in an educational context, as it almost places his oil background in an illustrious American tradition, rather than framing that tradition as the cause of one of our most pressing problems.

    Of course, I may be wrong, as Bush has recently boasted that he’s currently solving global warming. (War is peace, after all…)
    (http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/07/president-bush-says-hes-solving-global-warming-60th-birthday-photo-op/)

  • Larry G.:

    That was one of Mort Sahl’s greatist lines; I still use it in all sorts of situations. But, if memory serves, he made the joke during the Nixon administration (I heard it on an album called, “Sing a Song of Watergate, Apocryphal of Lies”). And the comparison he made was between those Founding Fathers and Nixon’s advisors, Haldeman and Ehrlichman — not Reagan and Carter. In fact, I think I heard Sahl tell Imus about ten years ago that he voted for Reagan. So go figure.

  • Bush is as qualified in science knowlege
    as Britany Spears is in world literature.
    He would do well to play with the children’s exhibits, because
    understandin’ scientific concepts from books is hard work.
    I hope there is a hands on display where he can push buttons, turn cranks, and see how global climate change related to global warming.

  • I was impressed that they extended the range on his back pack radio to almost give the impression of normal speech at times.

  • For once in his miserable life George Bush is right about something!
    The Museum of Science and Industry is a fantastic place to visit and
    learn something. The Great Train Story is almost worth the price of
    admission all by itself. So what if it is a paen to capitalism. It’s a damn
    fine place to lose oneself for a few hours or days. Maybe he should
    be forced to stay there for an extended period of time and catch up on
    all the things he missed in college while he was hanging out at the
    frat house instead of going to class. Maybe then he can have an
    appreciation for the complexities of life instead of the simplistic drivel he
    now believes in.
    To anyone reading this, the next time you are in Chicago make cetain you go to the Museum of Science and Industry. It is really worth seeing.

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