A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos) - 11.20.03

Yahoo.com | 11-20-03 | ohioWfan

[ohioWfan]

The President had a busy day in London today, with a visit with Laura to Westminster Abbey, and a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, a meeting at 10 Downing Street with Tony and Cherie Blair, a joint press conference with the two strongest leaders in the world, and a visit to a London school for a Shakespearian production by the children for the First Ladies, and a tour of the Faberge items at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace.

There are more than a hundred photos out there today, and even with culling a bit, I will be posting many!

Enjoy your (massive) Daily Dose of Dubya!!

[GretchenEE]

Today is your blessed day. I had this stored on my PC.
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President Bush Speaks at Goree Island in Senegal
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030708-1.html
July 8, 2003

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President and Madam First Lady, distinguished guests and residents of Goree Island, citizens of Senegal, I'm honored to begin my visit to Africa in your beautiful country.

For hundreds of years on this island peoples of different continents met in fear and cruelty. Today we gather in respect and friendship, mindful of past wrongs and dedicated to the advance of human liberty.

At this place, liberty and life were stolen and sold. Human beings were delivered and sorted, and weighed, and branded with the marks of commercial enterprises, and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return. One of the largest migrations of history was also one of the greatest crimes of history.

Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea. Some refused to eat, preferring death to any future their captors might prepare for them. Some who were sick were thrown over the side. Some rose up in violent rebellion, delivering the closest thing to justice on a slave ship. Many acts of defiance and bravery are recorded. Countless others, we will never know.

Those who lived to see land again were displayed, examined, and sold at auctions across nations in the Western Hemisphere. They entered societies indifferent to their anguish and made prosperous by their unpaid labor. There was a time in my country's history when one in every seven human beings was the property of another. In law, they were regarded only as articles of commerce, having no right to travel, or to marry, or to own possessions. Because families were often separated, many denied even the comfort of suffering together.

For 250 years the captives endured an assault on their culture and their dignity. The spirit of Africans in America did not break. Yet the spirit of their captors was corrupted. Small men took on the powers and airs of tyrants and masters. Years of unpunished brutality and bullying and rape produced a dullness and hardness of conscience. Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice. A republic founded on equality for all became a prison for millions. And yet in the words of the African proverb, "no fist is big enough to hide the sky." All the generations of oppression under the laws of man could not crush the hope of freedom and defeat the purposes of God.

In America, enslaved Africans learned the story of the exodus from Egypt and set their own hearts on a promised land of freedom. Enslaved Africans discovered a suffering Savior and found he was more like themselves than their masters. Enslaved Africans heard the ringing promises of the Declaration of Independence and asked the self-evident question, then why not me?

In the year of America's founding, a man named Olaudah Equiano was taken in bondage to the New World. He witnessed all of slavery's cruelties, the ruthless and the petty. He also saw beyond the slave-holding piety of the time to a higher standard of humanity. "God tells us," wrote Equiano, "that the oppressor and the oppressed are both in His hands. And if these are not the poor, the broken-hearted, the blind, the captive, the bruised which our Savior speaks of, who are they?"

Down through the years, African Americans have upheld the ideals of America by exposing laws and habits contradicting those ideals. The rights of African Americans were not the gift of those in authority. Those rights were granted by the Author of Life, and regained by the persistence and courage of African Americans, themselves.

Among those Americans was Phyllis Wheatley, who was dragged from her home here in West Africa in 1761, at the age of seven. In my country, she became a poet, and the first noted black author in our nation's history. Phyllis Wheatley said, "In every human breast, God has implanted a principle which we call love of freedom. It is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance."

That deliverance was demanded by escaped slaves named Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, educators named Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and ministers of the Gospel named Leon Sullivan and Martin Luther King, Jr. At every turn, the struggle for equality was resisted by many of the powerful. And some have said we should not judge their failures by the standards of a later time. Yet, in every time, there were men and women who clearly saw this sin and called it by name.

We can fairly judge the past by the standards of President John Adams, who called slavery "an evil of colossal magnitude." We can discern eternal standards in the deeds of William Wilberforce and John Quincy Adams, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln. These men and women, black and white, burned with a zeal for freedom, and they left behind a different and better nation. Their moral vision caused Americans to examine our hearts, to correct our Constitution, and to teach our children the dignity and equality of every person of every race. By a plan known only to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped to set America free.

My nation's journey toward justice has not been easy and it is not over. The racial bigotry fed by slavery did not end with slavery or with segregation. And many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: liberty and justice for all.

In the struggle of the centuries, America learned that freedom is not the possession of one race. We know with equal certainty that freedom is not the possession of one nation. This belief in the natural rights of man, this conviction that justice should reach wherever the sun passes leads America into the world.

With the power and resources given to us, the United States seeks to bring peace where there is conflict, hope where there is suffering, and liberty where there is tyranny. And these commitments bring me and other distinguished leaders of my government across the Atlantic to Africa.

African peoples are now writing your own story of liberty. Africans have overcome the arrogance of colonial powers, overturned the cruelties of apartheid, and made it clear that dictatorship is not the future of any nation on this continent. In the process, Africa has produced heroes of liberation -- leaders like Mandela, Senghor, Nkrumah, Kenyatta, Selassie and Sadat. And many visionary African leaders, such as my friend, have grasped the power of economic and political freedom to lift whole nations and put forth bold plans for Africa's development.

Because Africans and Americans share a belief in the values of liberty and dignity, we must share in the labor of advancing those values. In a time of growing commerce across the globe, we will ensure that the nations of Africa are full partners in the trade and prosperity of the world. Against the waste and violence of civil war, we will stand together for peace. Against the merciless terrorists who threaten every nation, we will wage an unrelenting campaign of justice. Confronted with desperate hunger, we will answer with human compassion and the tools of human technology. In the face of spreading disease, we will join with you in turning the tide against AIDS in Africa.

We know that these challenges can be overcome, because history moves in the direction of justice. The evils of slavery were accepted and unchanged for centuries. Yet, eventually, the human heart would not abide them. There is a voice of conscience and hope in every man and woman that will not be silenced -- what Martin Luther King called a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. That flame could not be extinguished at the Birmingham jail. It could not be stamped out at Robben Island Prison. It was seen in the darkness here at Goree Island, where no chain could bind the soul. This untamed fire of justice continues to burn in the affairs of man, and it lights the way before us.

May God bless you all. (Applause.) # # #

[MJY1288]

Good Night ohioWfan, Thanks so much for a great thread tonight, after seeing all the pictures tonight, and all the comments. I take it back, I wish I could have posted the "Dose" tonight. I'm bookmarking this one

Thanks Again, Sleep Well and until tomorrow.....

See ya!

Mike

[GretchenEE]

Thanks for typing up that excerpt with Gen. Franks. It's awesome!

[ohioWfan]

RATS! Well, they've said they're going to show it on Cspan after this house stuff is over.

I'll wait for a while, but it doesn't sound like it's winding down at all yet.

I want to SEE this Press Conference, not just read it!

I hate Cspan!

[ohioWfan]

G'nite Mike!

I'll see if the girls leave the room long enough to check out the Dose tomorrow!

Thanks again for switching.

[Wphile]

WOW! Lots of pictures. I've been out of power for two days and have missed the Dose, the trip to England and just about everything. I was absolutely horrified to see the video of those blasted idiots tearing down a statue of our president! Man was I livid when I saw that. I hope to God that rankles every Americans. AND THEN I HEARD THAT IDIOT REPORTER ASK OUR PRESIDENT WHY IT IS THAT PEOPLE HATE HIM SO MUCH? I couldn't believe it. The gaul! AAARRRGHHH. W handled it with aplomb, of course, but oh...THE NERVE!!

Okay, where are the photos of W in the tux? Must be Tuesday night I'm thinking.

[SevenofNine]

Rackkkkk the photos

Hey guys did you hear maybe UK Mirror might be in trouble with Scotland Yard over having one of their reporter post as Betty footman BUSTED ITTT

Guys did you watch O'Reilly Factor Bill has a dude on that claim that these protesters are losers in Brit Muslum community and Far Left in UK

BETTY SMILE MORE


I got question did Betty alow Corgis sleep with Dubya and Laura

[SevenofNine]

I don't know if you know this

Today is Queen and Prince Phillip anniversarry they were marry on this day in November 1947

RACK ITTT

[hoosiermama]

I think Laura may wear the fabric of the country she's visiting. SIlk in the orient, wool tweed in Great Britain. It's her way of complementing her hosts.

[hoosiermama]

I do believe that the Queen is smitten by our President as well....... :o)

IF "W" can handle his mother, the queen should be a piece of cake.

[ohioWfan]

There are some here on this thread, Wphile........just keep going! It's loooooong! :o)

[ohioWfan]

Wonder if there's any way we can find out if the royal doggies slept with the President and First Lady........

[ohioWfan]

I dunno, hoosier.......from what I've heard, the President's MOM still handles HIM!

[ohioWfan]

Oh yeah......there are pictures of the President in white tie and TAILS last night.

Make sure you check THAT out! Whew!!

[MJY1288]

Have you forgotten.....?

The Media elite's told us that President Bush is a bumbling fool who can't deliver a cogent sentence, let alone a captivating speech. He is void of sophistication and short of intellect. The World will only tolerate such a man like President Bush, after all... He's a Cowboy, not a leader.

I remember all too well these same kind of comments made by these same media elites about Ronald Reagan, and he delivered speeches that many around the world, will never forget. He made fools of the liberals by his convictions and his clear understanding of the difference between right from wrong. This president has these qualities and just like Ronnie, many of his speeches will become historic. GWB is often underestimated and ridiculed, just as Ronnie was. If there is one thing Ronald W. Reagan and George W. Bush have in common, it's their deep faith in the Lord. Although Ronald Reagan didn't wear his faith and heart on his sleeve like George W. Bush does, they both were based in it.

[prairiebreeze]

I hadn't heard about the anniversary. That makes 56 years. wow

Prairie

[republicanwizard]

I like to think of our great GOP triumverate-Lincoln, Reagan, and Bush as three Westerners whom the elites thought to be stupid but in difficult moments, in their homespun manners, asserted great moral leadership. Yet none ever lost or has lost his common touch.

[prairiebreeze]

I just found a website with some cool Reagan pix I hadn't seen before. Looks like it's copyrighted so I'll just post the link.

http://www.musarium.com/stories/reagan/

Prairie

[republicanwizard]

Perhaps I should include TR in that list considering his Western values.

The other GOP greats-McKinley and Eisenhower were men of military heroism whose charm and gentle personalities made them so popular and beloved.

[RoseofTexas]

Good evening folks! Just get in a while ago and barely catching up with the latest news. Can anyone here post the number of BASTARDLY protesters that were in the streets today? Were there 200,000 as the BASTARDLY media WHORES predicted? Second question, which by the way I'm PISSED AS HELL, who the FU**ING hell was that bastard reporter who had the audacity to ask our president WHY they HATE him!! I AM 0UTRAGED AT THIS F**KING ANIMAL!! We need to get his ass fired, let's bombard his place of work with EMAIL and start some type of petition going. ENUFF!! THAT WAS THE LAST STRAW!! Please post the paper's email if you know it! Thanks!