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Post Your Personal Farewell Message To George W. Bush

By Steve Foley - Posted on July 1st, 2008
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From Farewell 43.com

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Post Your Personal Farewell Message To George W. Bush And Be Part Of The Book The Whole World Is Writing.

Farewell 43 is the inaugural Presidential Farewell Gift Book where, between now and the next inauguration, anyone, anywhere can post his or her personal farewell message to the departing 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. Messages will then be culled into a printed gift book and given to Mr. Bush as a parting gift from We the People. So take a moment, be a patriot, and write a message to your departing President. Everyone is encouraged to participate.

Don't let this book be dominated by lefty haters write your farewell message today!

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DocJ's picture
Stupidest. Idea. Ever.
Submitted by DocJ on Tue, 2008-07-01 14:46.

We're talking Obama-supporter stupid. Ninth circle of stupid. Stupid to the stupid power. Take your pick.

Unless you want the extemporaneous ramblings of Toofers, CodePinkers, MoveOn.orgers and others suffering from advanced and terminal BDS recorded for all time, I have no idea what other purpose such an exercise in websterbation could serve.

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Oh, never mind.
Submitted by DocJ on Tue, 2008-07-01 14:54.

This is nothing more than a bunch of lefties websterbating. Nothing to see here folks - move along.

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AEKowalski's picture
Don't think too hard...
Submitted by AEKowalski on Tue, 2008-07-01 15:03.

It'll make your head hurt. Farewell43.com is registred in California:

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=farewell43.com

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DocJ's picture
Shocking. (nt)
Submitted by DocJ on Tue, 2008-07-01 15:08.

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You can call them!
Submitted by AEKowalski on Tue, 2008-07-01 15:10.

Farewell43 actually lists a phone number:

All Farewell 43 Press Releases as well as the Farewell 43 Media Kit are available for download on this page at all times. If you’re a member of the Media and you would like to receive an email notification whenever a new press release or other important information becomes available, please join our media contact list. For more information or answers to specific questions please contact us via email or call Farewell 43 Media Relations at 310-980-4821.
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AEKowalski's picture
Hey, it's a Carbon Neutral website
Submitted by AEKowalski on Tue, 2008-07-01 14:55.

But I agree, it's really, really dumb. I prefer the term:

"So stupid, it's not even wrong." -- but that's just me.

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On the other hand
Submitted by AEKowalski on Tue, 2008-07-01 15:58.

That's California, baby. I actually had a fun time talking with the guy who made the website, who doesn't seem preternaturally unhinged at all.

The idea itself, however will be an interesting story in a year or so. I told him I wished him luck as he watched the site evolve. I honestly think he just had an idea and decided to put it out there, no malice aforethought.

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I just spoke to the site's creator
Submitted by AEKowalski on Tue, 2008-07-01 15:31.

And I'm fairly well convinced that he's just a guy who had an original idea about having a goodbye site for the President for the first time in the history of the Internet. I spoke with him for about 10 minutes and he assured me that he created the site himself, with all his own effort, and was just sincere in having it be a forum for people to express their goodbye messages -- not directly affiliated with any party.

Seemed like a nice guy on the phone. I think he's going to have a lot of trouble dealing with the demands of the people who post to the site, though. Good luck! The site is nicely designed.

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DocJ's picture
Swell.
Submitted by DocJ on Tue, 2008-07-01 16:41.

I don't doubt the sincerity of this seemingly OK but ludicrously naive guy. But I don't think he has any idea whatsoever the magnitude of the stench that is going to start eminating from his site now that the lefty sewer pipe has started to dump onto it.

Whatever his initial intentions, it's the moonbats' baby now.

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[Sigh] I guess he's going to have to find that out
Submitted by AEKowalski on Tue, 2008-07-01 16:47.

I guess he's going to have to discover that for himself. I know you're right -- you know you're right. I just wanted to try and discover whether or not his site was something other than what he purported it to be.

He seems like a pretty nice, kind of dorky guy (and I mean that in a good way) from California who is looking for a revenue stream based on advertisements, and a little notoriety. Oh well, nothing wrong with that. It will be what it will be.

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DocJ's picture
No worries, Alex.
Submitted by DocJ on Tue, 2008-07-01 17:04.

And good iDetective 101 work there - good info to add to the discussion.

Cheers -

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Please crosspost this at Redstate....I have read some of those
Submitted by Jaded on Tue, 2008-07-01 16:28.

messages and they are disgusting....spread this all over every right of center blog...please!

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

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Hello and Thanks
Submitted by Farewell 43 on Tue, 2008-07-01 19:04.

Hello Minority Reporters,

I just wanted to take a second and say thanks for the mention. And also, do what I can to assure some of you that the Farewell 43 project is indeed what it states – a politically neutral project with no affiliations or agendas, political or otherwise.

The idea for Farewell 43 came at the beginning of the primary season when it occurred to me that never in the 219 years of U.S. Presidential politics, has there ever been a means for "We the People" to say farewell to the person who has run the country on our behalf – whether that farewell mean saying "thank you very much" for some, or saying "thanks not-so-much" for others.

The goal of the Farewell project was to create a 100% neutral free-speech forum. This was so vigorously pursued that even neurolinguistics were considered when writing copy in order to assure, as best we could, that nothing would influence what someone might choose to say in their message. Still, even though the Farewell 43 project is completely neutral and unbiased, all contributors are free to express what they wish.

Farewell 43 is quite a new website. At this stage, whether incoming messages are predominantly thumbs up, thumbs down, or somewhere in between, is pretty much determined by who first gets word of the website, and then, more importantly, who feels inclined to write a message.

As it turns out, many of the initial Farewell 43 messages were thumbs down, though not exclusively. Because of this, I was particularly delighted to receive a phone call today from AEKowalski, a Minority Report contributor, inquiring about Farewell 43. To learn that Farewell 43 was mentioned on The Minority Report and that it is now beginning to generate interest from both sides of the aisle is great news to me, great news for the project, and exactly what I had hoped for when I first envisioned it.

I sincerely hope that many of you will take a moment to write your own farewell messages and share your parting thoughts with the President. It is precisely why I created the Farewell project – not for the left, not for the right, but for Americans to have a chance to communicate with their President a little more directly.

Thank you again for the mention. And thank you for your interest. Please tell your friends. As I say at the Farewell 43 website, everyone is encouraged to participate.

All the best,

The Editor
Farewell43.com

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Farewell 43 is the inaugural Presidential Farewell Gift Book where, between now and the next inauguration, anyone, anywhere can post his or her personal farewell message to the departing 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.

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AEKowalski's picture
You've studied your neurolinguistics pretty well
Submitted by AEKowalski on Wed, 2008-07-02 04:17.

From what I could gather from our phone conversation yesterday, even the rationale you expressed to me during the call was assiduously neutral, and on that basis I think you've got an interesting "civilian experiment" in the works there. Must be one of those jobs people thought Americans wouldn't do. ;)

It will be interesting in a year's time to look back over the messages the site has received and subject them to different types of analysis and conjecture. My interest (as a partisan Republican) was piqued because I was first of all intrigued by the novelty of the site; secondly I was interested to hear a little more about the motivation and the people behind it. I was impressed that you answered the phone yourself -- in person -- and told me your name and took my questions with a good sense of humor about them. That takes some guts, I think, in a hyperpartisan political environment like the one we're living in right now.

You've got one of those interesting sociological experiments on your hands now, and it'll be interesting to see how it pans out. If you have any kind of a background in neurolinguistics I'm sure you're aware that there are people in the field who will be able to suggest ways to analyze the posts, in the fullness of time.

In any case I'm on your media update list and I'll be thinking about the site from time to time as it develops.

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Farewell 43 I would suggest that you definitely define....
Submitted by Jaded on Wed, 2008-07-02 19:28.

and separate the thumbs up from the thumbs down so that readers such as myself do not have to read the rantings of the insane.

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

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