Bush marks 265th anniversary of birth of Thomas Jefferson
US president George W. Bush yesterday marked the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
At the East room of the White House, Mr Bush made a speech to mark the occasion. Mr. Bush started the speech by discussing Mr. Jefferson. “We’re here tonight to commemorate the 265th birthday of Thomas Jefferson, here in a room where he once walked and in a home where he once lived,” he said.
“In this house, President Jefferson spread the word that liberty was the right of every individual,” continued Mr. Bush.” In this house, Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark off on the mission that helped make America a continental nation.”
Mr. Bush continued his speech by claiming that “with a single sentence, Thomas Jefferson changed the history of the world.” Bush continued, “After countless centuries when the powerful and the privileged governed as they pleased, Jefferson proclaimed as a self-evident truth that liberty was a right given to all people by an Almighty.”
Mr. Bush than said that the ideas of Jefferson were not quickly fulfilled. “Here in America, that truth was not fully realized in Jefferson’s own lifetime. As he observed the condition of slaves in America, Jefferson said, ‘I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just’ and ‘that his justice cannot sleep forever.’ Less than 40 years after his death, justice was awakened in America and a new era of freedom dawned.”
Mrs. Bush also made a speech. “Thomas Jefferson believed that education is the cornerstone of a free society, so it’s therefore little surprise that he viewed the founding of the University of Virginia as one of his top achievements,” she said.
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April 17th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Later today: Reverend Wright will condemn Jefferson as a racist, and no member of the media will confront Obama for a reaction. Bet you $1.
Rather beside the point, but the success of mulattoes such as Barry Obama is in part due to the miscegenation of whites during the last few hundred years. If blacks in this country were “racially pure” (untainted by the inferior white DNA), their mean IQ would be closer to that of their forebears: about 30 points below whites, rather than the mere 15 points they are now.