[PhiKapMom]

Leave it to Reuters to point our some negatives. Do they EVER write anything positive about President Bush?

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[Williams]

I swear you could print this article in Mad magazine as a satire of how biased the press is. Let me try to distill what this article's message is: "Give Bush no credit for his phoney speech on slavery, blacks hate him and he rounded them up as slaves and they know that Clinton is their real friend and Bush is a racist bastard who they despise!"

I think if anything I toned down the article.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

White House officials said the decision to remove the locals was taken by Senegalese authorities. But there was no doubt who the residents blamed.

Did Reuters actually ask the WH if it was the WH's decision to move the people? Do they understand that the Bush Administration is not in power in Senegal? Filing their reports must be really difficult, if they cannot keep these simple facts straight.

[RedwM]

obviously Al Gore's ancient ancestral homeland.

[dirtbiker]

Many residents compared Bush's hour-long visit unfavourably to the island tour by former President Bill Clinton in 1998. "When Clinton came, he shook hands, people danced," said former Mayor Urbain Alexandre Diagne.

Several things these backward, third-world people need to realize: 1) Clinton was a hustler, he wanted, he HAD to be liked by all, Bush is a real man, he could care less what you think about him, 2) These people are probably mad because Bush is the first American offical that didn't apologize for slavery, nevermind the fact it was their OWN people, even kinfolk, that sold them into bondage in the first place, 3) The decendants of those slaves now in this country need to get down on their knees and thank God every day for taking them from their backward hellhole and bringing them to America!

[razorback-bert]

N'diaye, hiking her loose gown onto her shoulders with a frown.

I am guessing that it been gov clinton, she would have been hiking her gown with a smile.

[isthisnickcool]

They must love Bush. They must love the most powerful man on Earth. They have to accept Bush because he is a beige guy. Don't they know what "diversity" is? They can't speak this way!

[FairOpinion]

This is why the residents were kept away:

Protesters demonstrate against Bush visit
July 9 2003
By Dakar

Protesters shouting "George Bush, assassin, George Bush, criminal" marched slowly through rush-hour traffic in Senegal's capital, Dakar, yesterday, protesting against the US President's visit to West Africa.

Their grievances ranged from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to US involvement in the Middle East to frustration at security measures taken in the mainly Muslim country before Mr Bush's arrival last night.

The protesters numbered only about 50, but they voiced some of the concerns in the poverty-stricken continent, where Mr Bush will spend five days.

"Bush is a man of war," said Seydina Sarr, who held a white sheet with "Bush butcher. Make tea not war" scribbled on it. He said: "We don't want to be Bush's trampoline even if he does give us millions of dollars."

Mr Bush will not even venture into Dakar. Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade and several other African heads of state will visit him near the airport.

The US President will go to Goree Island where 400 residents have been told to close their homes until Mr Bush has left.


http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/08/1057430201632.html