Posted on 12/23/2004 3:07:47 PM PST by Rastus
Text of President Bush's Kwanzaa 2004 message:
I send greetings to those observing Kwanzaa.
During Kwanzaa, millions of African Americans and people of African descent gather to celebrate their heritage and ancestry. Kwanzaa celebrations provide an opportunity to focus on the importance of family, community, and history, and to reflect on the Nguzo Saba or seven principles of African culture.
These principles emphasize unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. Kwanzaa strengthens the ties that bind communities across America and around the world and reflects the great promise and diversity of America.
Laura joins me in sending our best wishes for a joyous Kwanzaa.
You know he can't ignore it. He probably had to think on it though.
There are times the President has me doing nothing but shake my head in bewilderment.
You think he knows what a soldering iron is?
P-u-k-e on Kwanzaa!
LOL, he probably didn't have to think very hard.
He probably spent more time throwing darts at the poster of Clinton in the Oval Office, cursing that poor excuse of an ex-President for recognizing the made up holiday.
Does Bush think he can run for a third term? If not, why all this pandering with a bogus holiday?
If he can have a Kwanzaa message, why not a Festivus message too? After all they are both made-up holidays.
That would be funny. Seeing that dart board.
LOL, how would you like to be the lowly White House speechwriter intern who has to produce this kind of crap?
It's not like he ever gained anything with this anyway. I'm not going to bother trotting out the annual Tony Snow/Ann Coulter columns that totally nuke Kwanzaa, but suffice it to say--it has nothing to do with authentic African heritage. It's probably fair to say that most black Americans celebrating Kwanzaa are not Marxists and don't know the history of the thing, but that doesn't mean it ought to be validated.
Maybe not, but the inventor of this "holiday" certainly does.
If I could make one, I'd send a customized dart board to his ranch, for Christmas. =)
Maybe one with Usama, and Saddam too...
I can ignore it just fine but there is now way the President can. If he said nothing of Kwanzaa, then the tiny percentage of blacks (and whites) who celebrate Kwanzaa (and would never in a million years vote for a republican) would have roasted him over the coals.
Better to offer some mealy-mouthed recognizion of this sham holiday than face the wrath of the media.
What's next? George Bush issues Festivus holiday message?
A yes, the "tradition" of Kwanzaa. Ever since .... the 1970s! A yes, what a great ethnic "tradition" - invented by yet another tin pot Marxist from the post modern American liberal intellectual cesspool.
I musta missed something. Quite a bit actually, as I don't pay any attention to made up holidays. But you've piqued my interest. What does a soldering iron have to do with qwanza? (I can spell it however I want. There is no "real" spelling for a fake holiday.)
My brother drinks a 40 oz'er every year at this time.
Am I missing something? A "heartfelt freebie" over soldering irons and vises?
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