Bush Reflects on the Progress He Has Seen In Africa
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Merle D. Kellerhals Jr., America.gov, November 13, 2008
President Bush says he has experienced a number of uplifting moments during his two-term presidency, but none more powerful that witnessing a new and more hopeful era dawning in Africa.
“Over the past eight years, it’s been moving to watch courageous Africans root out corruption, and open up their economies, and invest in the prosperity of their people,” Bush said at a November 12 charity dinner. “The United States stands with these leaders as partners and friends and allies in hope through the work of the Millennium Challenge Account.”
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At the 2008 Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner, Africare awarded its Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award to Bush for the work done for Africa by his administration and family as “a labor of love.” The award and dinner are in memory of Bishop John T. Walker, the first African-American Episcopal bishop of Washington and a longtime chairman of Africare’s board.
The annual dinner is held to benefit Africare, a U.S.-based charity that works to improve the lives and livelihoods of Africans by addressing needs in food security, agriculture, health and HIV/AIDS.
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Bush emphasized that Kikwete [President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania] said the compact made it possible for the Tanzanian people to chart their own future.
“It’s uplifting to see people freed from hunger and thirst,” Bush said.
[Editor’s Note: The full text of President Bush’s speech can be read here.]
  The Rt. Rev. John T. Walker (PECUSA), 1925–1989. |
(Posted on November 20, 2008)
Comments
If President Bush were President of a country in Africa, then I could fully understand and rationalize him saying that the “progress” in Africa is one of the most uplifting features of his legacy. But in the country where he is President, things have gotten worse over his time as President. A lot of it is not his fault, but a lot of it is his fault.
Posted by Question Diversity at 6:32 PM on November 20
“BUSH!” Where do you even begin with this guy? I voted for him in 2000. How was I to know? I voted for Kerry in 2004, not because I had any desire to see him as the president, it was a vote AGAINST Bush. For the last eight years I have looked at this guy, (I can’t, won’t call him presi…you know) and have marveled at just how removed he is from reality. He became my icon for all that is wrong with white Americans today. I’m frustrated and sicked by what I see happening to America. I’ve lost my love and respect for this country and I don’t know if I’ll get it back before I die. I’m, we’re running out of time.
Bill Mulder
Posted by Bill Mulder at 7:02 PM on November 20
Yes, and they are still abducting african albinos to ward off witches. And 40% of women and girls are being raped in South Africa. Now that’s uplifting progress.
Posted by at 7:13 PM on November 20
President Bush says he has experienced a number of uplifting moments during his two-term presidency, but none more powerful that witnessing a new and more hopeful era dawning in Africa.
This is the way it always is with blacks and the left. There’s always a more hopeful day dawning “in the future.” Change is always “right around the corner.” You can always distract from unending failure by saying that “tomorrow is going to be better.” It’s like any other religion. The second coming is always “any day now.”
Reminds me of Gary, Indiana. Any day the city is going to experience a turnaround. The convention center in downtown Gary was supposed to spark that turnaround. It was even named the “Genesis Center” to symbolize rebirth. That was about 30 years ago. Today, it’s an underutilized white elephant, and Gary continues to decline. Anyone who can afford to move elsewhere does, including blacks.
Posted by Tim in Indiana at 7:13 PM on November 20
Whatever “progress” Africa makes will be set back by a factor of over 10 times by their population growth. Only a bonehead like Bush cannot see that.
Posted by Peejay in Frisco at 7:36 PM on November 20
“Over the past 8 years, it’s been moving to watch courageous Africans root out corruption… and invest in the prosperity of their people.”
He must be referring to a movie or a TV drama because that sure didn’t happen in the real world.
Posted by Madison Grant at 8:32 PM on November 20
I would still bet quite a sum that Rt. Rev. John T. Walker voted for Obama.
But how sad that this is the best that Bush can point to.
How terribly sad. Terribly, terribly sad.
Posted by 666 The Beast 666 at 8:48 PM on November 20
What planet does that fool come from? Where does he get his information? No wonder our country is disappearing. With leadership like his, who needs real enemies?
Posted by Xenophon at 9:21 PM on November 20
Progress? Oh, you must mean Bush is doing something about White genocide in africa.
As far as HIV/AIDS is concerned, while I admit I am not a trained medical professional, I nevertheless do not see how buying african potentates rifles and Rolls has a palliative effect on the HIV virus.
In one hundred years the world will be radically different, in what way, I do not know. I doubt the USA will still be around, but I have no doubt africa will be the same: Barbaric and uncivilized. They may be under Chinese rule, and Whites will have long since left or been murdered, but africa will be rife with disease and poverty.
Posted by Flamethrower at 9:30 PM on November 20
Funny…..because the way I see africa today, it’s far, far worse than it ever has been. And I am outraged that my tax money is being sent over there. I’m particularly angry at the genocide against whites being waged everywhere in africa. And the last straw is a recent lift on the ban of HIV+ immigration to the US.
I look at africa and think, if the chinese wiped those people from the face of the earth and moved into their biological niche, it would make the world alot better place. THAT’S how far africa has fallen.
Posted by at 12:11 AM on November 21
It is well beyond time for Bush to just slink out of office and go away forever…or until his warcrimes trial comes up - whichever comes first.
Posted by HH at 1:35 AM on November 21
“Continent has no reason to be poor”. “Mediocrity, bad governance, lack of respect for the rule of law, injustice and inequality are some of the factors responsible for the underdevelopment of nigeria and african countries alike.” Who said this?? None other than kenyan prime minister Raila Amolo Adinga. He also stated that obama is ‘kenya’s gift to America’. Congratulations America, it is better to give than to receive.
Posted by Yorkshireman at 1:44 AM on November 21
Progress in Africa? The only good thing about Obama being the president elect is that this lip-bibbling idiot George W. Bush will no longer sit in the White House. This man is responsible for the utter destruction of America, for opening the gates to the Vandals. He’s actually managed to surpass Jimmuh Cottuh as the worst president in American history, and at a much more critical juncture in our life as a nation.
Posted by john at 5:57 AM on November 21
Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, Chad … Great progress!
Posted by at 6:29 AM on November 21
My sentiments exactly, Xenophon. It would be best if Bush kept his mouth shut, because every time he opens it, he deeply offends someone. The lies…it’s mind boggling.
Posted by at 9:59 AM on November 21
I don’t think Bush is a machavellian liar. He is a rather conventional product of the class he comes from, the upper reaches of the upper class, which teaches its offspring that it is incumbent on them to do everything in their power to help the lesser breeds. Ergo the seeming insane focus on opening the floodgates to Mexicans and pouring endless dollars down the African sinkhole.
Posted by ricpic at 2:19 PM on November 21
This is the same man who, in the wake of 9-11-01, said “Muslims in America salute our flag”.
Funny how Bush said absolutely nothing Zimbabwe.
Posted by Soprano Fan at 2:55 PM on November 21
A new and more hopeful era? Let’s see:
Zimbabwe: 2000-prosperous and self-sufficient. 2008-economic catastrophe and genocide.
Guinea Bissau: 2000-poor but stable democracy. 2008-Africa’s first narco-state.
Somalia: 2000-violent and chaotic. 2008-even more violent and chaotic.
Kenya: 2000-relatively prosperous and peaceful. 2008-violence and ethnic cleansing after elections.
Congo: 2000-Civil war headed to peace. 2008-peace headed back to civil war. Highest incidence of rape in the world.
Ivory Coast: 2000-one of Africa’s most prosperous states. 2008: civil war breaks out in ‘02; country divided in two. National elections have been postponed for years.
Sudan. Chad. Central African Republic. Nigeria… etc.
Posted by Dave at 3:00 PM on November 21
On the 8th July 2003 the leader of the South African opposition party Freedom Front Plus, Dr. Pieter Mulder, handed over a video regarding the Farm murders and a explanatory letter to a representative of Pres. Bush during his visit to South Africa.
We never heard feedback from Pres. Bush. He should know better. End of story.
Posted by South African at 3:20 PM on November 21
I doubt the probability of Prez Bush believing what he said about Africa. My opinion is that he was reading the script that one of his Diversity appointees wrote for the occasion. Bush has access to accurate reports on Africa:the crime, the corruption, and the savagery. He probably doesn’t care one way or another.
Posted by at 12:13 AM on November 22
It is reassuring to know that one of Bush’s most inspirational moments was when something wonderful happened to a country (in this case a continent) other than his own.
Posted by Courtney at 10:24 PM on November 22
Africa - particularly sub-Saharan Africa - is a basket-case. Always has been. Always will be. What limited accomplishments Africa did achieve (the pyramids in Egypt, the Carthagian civilization in Tunis) were all NORTH of the Sahara.
Posted by at 1:20 AM on November 23
I never thought I’d agree with those people I’ve seen with bumper stickers that say “Can’t Wait Until January 20, 2009.” Never in my life have I been so disappointed by a single politician as I have been with George Bush. I voted for him with such enthusiasm in 2000 and 2004 but after 2003, my enthusiasm slowly developed into utter disgust and downright anger. The only thing I can say about him is that he obviously has been doing something right to protect us from another terrorist attack.
I shudder to think about what’s going to happen in the next 4 years with Obama’s choice of Homeland Security Security - the ex-governor of Louisiana, who couldn’t even get her own citizens out of a flood area but she’s now going to head probably one of the most important departments in this country. This choice of Comrade Obama’s is probably worse than his choice of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Of course, God only knows how much more of the country will be sold down the tubes to foreign countries during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Posted by Gayle Sollenberger at 9:25 PM on November 23
There’s a new and more hopeful day dawning … In Detroit, New Orleans, Camden, Philadelphia and plenty of other black-run US cities. Just don’t hold your breathe while you’re waiting. A week or two ago here in UK we had a documentary on TV about the persecution and killing of child witches in Nigeria. It is rampant and brutal and the show really showed that large segments of these people are truly living back in the Stone Age. Their own religious leaders are making the accusations and making themselves rich by producing videos purporting to rid people of these child witches. Blacks have committed and still are committing far greater crimes against each other than whites ever have.
Posted by at 7:55 PM on November 25
The President clearly either does not care what the truth is, or else lives in a world all his own.
I’d bet on three things:
1. George is off the wagon again.
2. Laura will divorce him once he’s out of office.
3. He’ll be in and out of rehab as often as Britney Speers.
Maybe I should call Vegas and see what odds they’re giving.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 1:28 PM on November 28
Shouldn’t the job of the American president just be to look after the United States? Why is it the job of Emperor Bush to be concerned about Africa? Would the prime minister of Japan be all gushing about Africa? The leader of Russia? I doubt it.
Posted by at 2:03 PM on November 30