Press ho's: * is the first GOP pres. to visit sub-Saharan Africa. WTF?

This is a great example of how the press whores for *. They are talking about how * is the first Republican president to visit sub-Saharan Africa. If that is not an example of trying to cast him as some sort of "cutting edge" president, nothing is.

It is totally factually wrong. Check out this snip from a Baltimore Sun article on Chimpy's trip:

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Jimmy Carter was the first serving U.S. president to visit sub-Saharan Africa when he made brief stops in Nigeria and Liberia in 1978. President George Bush made a three-day stop in Somalia in 1993 to visit U.S. troops and relief workers.

In 1998, President Bill Clinton visited Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Botswana, and met with Mandela on Robben Island, where Mandela was long held prisoner.

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Of course the real news is that Mandela is refusing to meet with Bush and criticizes him every chance he gets.

http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.africa07jul07,0,7411546.story?coll=bal-news-nation

Would you expect anything less?

... it was a figment of our imagination? Not only a great example ... they're bald-face lying ...

"President Clinton paid a 12-day state visit to 6 African countries last spring. The trip, to Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Botswana, and Senegal, was the first visit to Africa south of the Sahara by an American President in 20 years and the longest overseas trip to date of the Clinton presidency."
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/curevents/cearchive/fall98/pcva.html

"For the record, only four previous US presidents have visited the African continent: Theodore Roosevelt went game-hunting in Kenya in 1912 (hoisting the stars and stripes wherever he camped); Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped in North Africa during World War II; Jimmy Carter visited Nigeria in 1979; and George Bush stopped briefly in Somalia to greet US troops in 1993."
http://clasnews.clas.ufl.edu/news/clasnotes/9805/chege.html

(like Faux news watchers think there is any other kind), but even if they did, they are still wrong. What a surprise.

This is pure spin. They needed something make this "special" and they said Bush* is the first Republican president to visit sub-Saharan president.

SITTING GOP prez? If so, then perhaps it's legit. Spin, OH HELL YEAH, but not untrue.

when he visited Somalia in Jan. of 1993.

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President George Bush, the current incumbent's father, paid a brief visit to Africa in 1993, using the final days of his presidency to thank US troops engaged in humanitarian work in war-ravaged Somalia, an almost archetypal African tragedy of famine, fear and bloodshed.

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on edit: link - http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featureitems/s896438.htm

but why should we be wasting our time fact checking Faux news? That would be a full time job, and I already have one, thank you.