"The Slaves came to America to be FREE"

[Sava]

Remarks by the President to Embassy Personnel




July 8, 2003

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT

TO EMBASSY PERSONNEL

Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport

Dakar, Senegal

THE PRESIDENT: I thank you all very much for coming out to say hello. Laura and I are honored to be here with you all. I'm also, as you could see, traveling with quite distinguished company -- our great Secretary of State Colin Powell is with us, as well. (Applause.) I want to thank Ambassador Roth and his wife, Carol, for their service to our country.

I'm here to thank our fellow citizens who are serving a great land. Thank you for your dedication and your love of country. I want to thank the foreign nationals who are helping our fellow citizens make sure the embassy runs so well. (Applause.)

This is an historic trip -- oh, there's the Ambassador. (Applause.) But we are so honored to start our trip to this continent here in Senegal. I had the opportunity to go out to Goree Island and talk about what slavery meant to America. It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America. America is what it is today because of what went on in the past. Yet when I looked out over the sea, it reminded me that we've always got to keep history in mind. And one of the things that we've always got to know about America is that we love freedom, that we love people to be free, that freedom is God's gift to each and every individual. That's what we believe in our country.

I'm here to spread that message of freedom and peace. Where we see suffering, America will act. Where we find the hungry, we will act. We're here not only on a mission of mercy, we're also here on a mission of alliance. And I want to thank you all for helping make that come true.

May God bless you all. And may God continue to bless Senegal and America. Thank you all very much. (Applause.)

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the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom

Is this man absolutely f*cking stupid?

[DinoDoc]

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[Imran Siddiqui]

Hey troll, why don't you bold quote the entire sentance:

It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America.

I know the left likes to selective quote for their own goals, but this is ridiculous.

Btw, he's 100% correct.

[GePap]

I agree, moronic statement: and the sentence does not even make sense: "their steadfast [what??] and their..."

Who writes this tuff?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Hey troll, why don't you bold quote the entire sentance:

It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America.

I know the left likes to selective quote for their own goals, but this is ridiculous.

Btw, he's 100% correct.

Hey Imran..the problem is, the slaves were involuntarilly taken to America.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by GePap
I agree, moronic statement: and the sentence does not even make sense: "their steadfast [what??] and their..."

Who writes this tuff?

How do you write tuff?

[GePap]

Just like that.

You guys aren;t worth spell check, but I would like the Prez. to use better grammar, no, check that, grammar.

[Zylka]

Re: "The Slaves came to America to be FREE"

Originally posted by Sava

Is this man absolutely f*cking stupid?

YOU ARE NOT ME

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hey Imran..the problem is, the slaves were involuntarilly taken to America

No duh... he didn't say they were taken because of all that stuff, he said that that stuff helped change America.

Again:

It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America.

A. It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America,

B. because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America.

I don't see how you can say Bush is saying they left to go to America because of their belief in freedom, unless you are being deliberately foolish.

[GePap]

Either the sentiment is a stupid one, OR ths is yet another Bushism, and wonderful example of Presiential poor grammar, becuase that is exactly how the sentence is constructed:, oh, and "steadfast" is still left orphaned there.

[Kidlicious]

I saw the sound bite on the news. I couldn't help but to think that Dubbya would have been pro-slavery in that era. He's just full of crap.

[Q Classic]

i can say, however, that he needs to find a better speechwriter, one who will not be as prone to make easily botched lines (if that's the case here) or not as ambiguous statements when they're unneeded/uncalled for.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, I never said it was a perfectly grammatical sentance, but Sava is making it out to be that he meant that slaves came over because they wanted to be free .

Because it couldn't be a Bushism, right?

I also think the punctuation is wrong. I'd write it like:

It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America... because of their steadfast... and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America.

With pauses and then starting on a new path... which is sometimes how I speak.

[Sava]

I know the left likes to selective quote for their own goals, but this is ridiculous.

oh bullsh1t... I posted the entire f*cking article. What's next Imran? The left invented slavery, too?

I guess there's no cure for "stupid"....

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I also think the punctuation is wrong. I'd write it like:

It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America... because of their steadfast... and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America.

With pauses and then starting on a new path... which is sometimes how I speak.

Personally I'd consider dropping and thier religion and replacing it with the word faith. That way steadfast doesn't stand out so much.