Video: Honored guest gets just a tiny bit funky in Liberia
posted at 2:28 pm on February 21, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Not the funkiest he’s ever been, but his approval rating back then was a sight higher than it is now.
Verdict: He could hang with Obama, but Gregory would run him off the floor.
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It was a good laugh. Thanks.
tickleddragon on February 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM
I can picture Leno showing that clip for weeks.
Dance Bushy dance!!
Lance Murdock on February 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM
I thought George Bush hated black people.
amerpundit on February 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM
He has got Obama beat.
infidel on February 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM
I loved it.
Sue on February 21, 2008 at 2:34 PM
I can’t wait to see how history judges this man.
I believe favorable.
Kini on February 21, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Better than MC Rove for sure!
JetBoy on February 21, 2008 at 2:38 PM
You see, that’s what he does best. He’s a people kinda guy. Yahoo!
DMeNTe on February 21, 2008 at 2:38 PM
Haha.. what a dork. Cheers, Mr. President. :-D
spmat on February 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM
A sidenote on Liberia. I was listening to Paul Harvey, today, and, after discussing how Liberia had been established by slaves that had been freed in America, he went on to say that, within a year after its creation, the former slaves in Liberia took up trading in slaves.
Assuming this to be factual, it’s the first time that I’ve ever heard of it – and I wonder why? Surely, this has been discussed in today’s “progressive” public schools. ;O)
OhEssYouCowboys on February 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Great, LOL! Look at all the people running to the stage, “Bush is gettin down!”
PattyJ on February 21, 2008 at 2:43 PM
There is a party going on right here… a celebration to last throughout the year, or at least until Jan 2009.
al sends
afterdarknesslight on February 21, 2008 at 2:44 PM
I thought George Bush hated black people.
He does. Don’t let the MSM find out otherwise.
RWLA on February 21, 2008 at 2:48 PM
How funky is your chicken?
Big ups Mr. President. Steady representin’ in the motherland during
Black History Monththe shortest month of the year. Hold me down Homie in Chief.Imma about to raise up out this piece. Hit me on the DL so I can cop that podcast of your weekly radio address.
Air Force One love.
The Race Card on February 21, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Mrs. Bush 43 “Dear God, how many more months?”
Entelechy on February 21, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Glad to see he’s somewhere where people like him.
David Hasselhof has Germany.
George Bush has Liberia.
Tzetzes on February 21, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Heh, good for him.
I have my issues with him but God only knows what he’s been trough these last 7+ years. He should have a good time and bask in some adulation.
Drew on February 21, 2008 at 2:54 PM
OhEssYouCowboys on February 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Had you not mentioned that, I was prepared for an FYI here.
Liberia was created BY AMERICA as the place where we were going to send freed African slaves after the civil war. This was the ‘return to Africa’ plan that seemed feasible seeing as how they had no money, no jobs, no houses, no nothing.
Instead of the ‘back to Africa’ movement as a solution of what to do with this population of people, they set up the Jim Crow laws. So I ask which was better of the three options for the people of the devastated South at the time.
1. Send them all to Liberia and figure out how to farm land with fewer people.
2. Take EVERYTHING away from the white people in the South and give it to the blacks who hadn’t earned it. . . thereby creating a poor but educated white people class and a rich uneducated black people class. . . this is where the ‘40 acres and a mule’ came from.
3. Create Jim Crow laws where everyone was free, could remain in America, but everything was separate. As far as the government was concerned ’separate BUT EQUAL’. The problem was that it wasn’t equal. . . but Jim Crow laws were established to solve an incredibly difficult problem when you have tens of millions of newly free but penniless people.
Take what you will from this post. But if we had done what we had set out to do when America created Liberia, America would be a very different place now. I contend that the ‘victimized’ African Americans here today are very fortunate that we didn’t push harder for the ‘back to Africa’ movement. But I digress as the ‘racist’ historian that I know I’ll be accused of being. . . .
ThackerAgency on February 21, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Cowboy Diplomacy….
I guess record approval ratings in Africa doesn’t make Michelle Obama proud of her country.
jp on February 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM
That’s great! He cracks me up when he dances. I love the trademark head bob. Glad to see him well-received and having a good time. Good for you, Mr. President.
CP on February 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM
So when is his debut on Dancing With The Stars?
Bigfoot on February 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Hold on…
Did I see some pelvis-popping around :30?
Our fearless leader.
socalconservative on February 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM
“Hey y’all, join me in my satellite shoot-down victory dance!”
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 21, 2008 at 3:00 PM
the Sopranos used the older bush dance clip in the last season. AJ was watching it on TV laughing at it…one of many BDS inflicted portions of the last couple seasons of that show.
jp on February 21, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Dear Lord………..
If he were any whiter, he’d be a ghost.
The sad thing is that Liberians love America more than some of our own citizens.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Movie idead:
StellaGeorgie Get His Groove BackDr.Cwac.Cwac on February 21, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Don’t know anything about that, but there was something similar I learned reading Bill Bennett’s terrific “America: The Last Best Hope.” Turns out the mutinous slaves on The Amistad, cause celebre of abolitionists, eloquently defended by John Quincy Adams, and guaranteed their freedom by the Supreme Court, returned to Africa and promptly became slave-traders. I guess I must have left the theater before that little epilogue came up in Spielberg’s version.
AdrianG on February 21, 2008 at 3:03 PM
I am so happy to see people appreciating him, and to see him enjoying himself.
MayBee on February 21, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Gotta disagree. Gregory’s the guy who’s watching himself dance (dance clubs still have lots of mirrors, right?). While the Prez is just groovin’. Plus he’s keeping the beat with the hand claps. Yep, much more fun to dance with W.
KelliD on February 21, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Not again.
baldilocks on February 21, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Didn’t you know? ALL Republicans hate black people. Just ask a leftie.
ihasurnominashun on February 21, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Dear George, please ask the people of Liberia to stop sending me emails telling me I won the lottery over there.
Kini on February 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM
The book version doesn’t gloss over this.
baldilocks on February 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Dear OhEss
The majority of the slaves that ended up in America were bought from blacks. I’ve often wondered if those in favor of reparations want the descendents of these blacks to pay a fair share. Slavery continues in some corners of Africa to this very day. It’s rather like people who endlessly blame Bush for Iraq while every cent to pay for the war since 2006 has been voted by a Democratic congress.
snaggletoothie on February 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM
I thought Harvey said “within a generation” instead of a year, but sad either way…but like you, I don’t really know the details.
CP on February 21, 2008 at 3:26 PM
If you want to read an excellent novel spelling this out, buy (or check out for the library) a book called The Dahomean by Frank Yerby. It was published in 1971.
baldilocks on February 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM
for the library=from the library
baldilocks on February 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM
That Africans enslaved other Africans, who were then injected into the slave trade to the Americas – is common knowledge.
My point was that FORMER SLAVES – WHO HAD BEEN FREED FROM SLAVERY – went on to ENSLAVE others. And, that said point is not a part of today’s “progressive” public school curriculum.
OhEssYouCowboys on February 21, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Atta boy George….show em’ what us Texans are made of!
Good stuff. Don’t agree with you on much these days, but what’s left over seals the deal.
Limerick on February 21, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Limerick, I’d prefer that you use “Baja Oklahoma.”
:OD
OhEssYouCowboys on February 21, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Good, but he’s no MC Rove.
Marc01 on February 21, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Michael Moore has Cuba.
Cindy Sheehan has Venezuela.
John Kerry has France.
B. Obama has all of Europe, except Britain.
H. Clinton has Britain.
Entelechy on February 21, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Correction – s/b “B. Obama has all of (Western) Europe, except Britain”.
Entelechy on February 21, 2008 at 3:51 PM
I wonder what Bush’s approval rating in Africa is compared to his approval rating here.
malan89 on February 21, 2008 at 3:51 PM
I don’t think it ever was. (I’m 46) I learned about it from my parents who kept those sorts of books around the house.
baldilocks on February 21, 2008 at 3:53 PM
Sincere, down to earth, genuine – I really like this guy.
mimi1220 on February 21, 2008 at 3:59 PM
That old boy sure does dance a lot for somebody who is not supposed to like dancing. And he does it on camera too.
George is still the one all of us would rather have a beer with, than any other President in the country. And he didn’t become our favorite party boy because he’s a fun drunk. He’s our favorite party animal because he has a good sense of humor, he is fun to be around, and when it is time for business, he’s all business. When it is time for play, he plays hard. And when it is time to go to war, you never have to guess who’s side he is truly on, or whether you can count on him to stand by you when the bullets fly.
And that is why the troops love him.
Subsunk
Subsunk on February 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM
“I got jiggy with it!”
srhoades on February 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Bush has always loved the “brown sugar” louie, louie, louie, loueye,eye.
2Tru2Tru on February 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM
When I worked in Mali (West Africa not far from Liberia) in 2006, the US and Bush were/are very popular. There were US flag decorations all over, and even some Bush ringtones
firepilot on February 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM
He might’ve said “generation.” I don’t remember. My apologies if I misspoke.
I have a hard time watching anything by Spielberg, for that reason. When a fact becomes inconvenient, it will be introduced to the “memory hole.” Should I ever bother to watch Amistad, I’ll enjoy knowing the truth.
OhEssYouCowboys on February 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM
He’s probably thinkin’
“Woo-HOO! Eleven more months and I git to retire back to my ranch for keeps! Then I can work out and sleep as much as I want!”
Shirotayama on February 21, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Ha! That was great! He reminds me of the “Dancing Airman”.
I’m just glad that Liberia has become safe enough to have the Prez go there for a visit.
Tony737 on February 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM
“We’ll always have Paris.”
Shy Guy on February 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM
The epitome of an honest, honorable, really good man.
Drive on Mr. president.
rplat on February 21, 2008 at 4:24 PM
nicely said subsunk!
cheers!
max1 on February 21, 2008 at 4:37 PM
1st time in my adult life, I am proud of my Country.
Wade on February 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Hard to believe there are people who hate this man more than anything, and wish harm upon him and his family. I’ve always seen him as a decent man doing his best.
joewm315 on February 21, 2008 at 5:00 PM
From dance to another artform, in my opinion the Malinese music scene is the best one in Africa. I haven’t been there, but all the albums I’ve heard (and there are a lot available) are fantastic: rhythms that take you in, really hypnotic stuff.
Check out, for instance, Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabate
The stuff is a real treasure-trove, even though few here know of it.
Tzetzes on February 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Fred wouldn’t do that!
TheSitRep on February 21, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Love the movie, Shy Guy, and would like to visit the city some day.
Entelechy on February 21, 2008 at 5:30 PM
…not Paris, of course, which I visited many times already.
Entelechy on February 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM
GWB43 really is a mis-represented and underestimated person. He’s done some things that have made me mad before, but I can never stay mad at him.
History will be much kinder to him than most of America has been over the last 7 years (I certainly hope.) He’s done more for the environment than any President ever. He’s reserved the largest amount of land for National Parks of any President ever (including Teddy Roosevelt.) He’s protected our country and reversed the decline of our military. He’s created an alternative energy industry. He has changed the perception of Africa concerning America, and has done more to improve the lives of the world’s impoverished than any President ever. And don’t forget — he brought Democracy to the Middle East and forced America to make a sacrifice for the benefit of others.
And we’re witnessing in his visits to Africa and Armenia and Kosavo, some heart felt gratitude towards the United States, and I’m glad for him.
Wise Golden on February 21, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Winning hearts and minds… with a shake of the hip. Hah.
Seixon on February 21, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Only the spoiled, clueless American ones.
SouthernGent on February 21, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Well, here’s another Inconvenient Fact you won’t hear during Black History Month:
Originally, there was an institution of Indentured Servitude, under which someone could pay for his passage to the New World by working as a servant for a certain time. There were indentured servants of all colors. One of them became a successful land owner, and bought out the contract of another servant, then made the claim that he “had ye Negro for his life”. The Virginia court agreed, beginning the institution of chattel slavery in that colony.
The first owner of an black slave in Virginia was himself black
The Monster on February 21, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Yep. All of this type of info is available to the person with his/her eyes open.
baldilocks on February 21, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Correct! Mali has some great musicians, that are world famous. Probably one of the few places in Africa that a white person, or black for that matter, can go walking around at night with no worries.
What was interesting, was that many Malians are french speaking Muslims, but they despise the French and Arabs, and genuinely love America.
firepilot on February 21, 2008 at 6:58 PM
And yes,President Bush can dance,oh and
have fun to!
canopfor on February 21, 2008 at 7:16 PM
That just proves he doesn’t get out much :P
PresidenToor on February 21, 2008 at 7:20 PM
I so admire this man. And I do honestly think history will decide he is indeed the man I believe he is. I love any news we get of him just being himself and enjoying himself. And it seems he does know how to enjoy himself in the most preposterous situations. Good for you Mr. prez!
dustoffmom on February 21, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Ali Farka Toure is flat out awesome. Heard him on the BBC a year ago for the first time and I’ve bought everything I can get my hands on. I only wish he were still alive to make more.
The Apologist on February 22, 2008 at 8:17 AM
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