May God bless and keep her.
Posted on 10/28/2008 7:00:27 AM PDT by marshmallow
She may no longer make speeches, on doctor's orders, but there is no keeping Lady Thatcher away from her public.
From the moment she clambered shakily from the back seat of a black Jaguar, on to the forecourt of the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, this was going to be her night.
At 83, and reportedly suffering from dementia, she makes few public appearances these days.
But this was a special occasion - the 20th anniversary dinner of the Bruges Group, which takes its name from a speech in which she first warned against the creation of a European "super state".
She is still recognisable from her prime ministerial heyday. The extraordinary sweep of back-combed hair is still there - as is the famous handbag - but she is clearly very frail.
She walks with tiny, deliberate steps, all her effort seemingly concentrated on getting from A to B.
But she managed to summon up a hint of the old steel, as she paused at the hotel entrance for the photographers, shooting them a determined glare of the type that once reduced Cabinet ministers - and Brussels bureaucrats - to jelly.
And instead of being shepherded past the crowd of admirers in the bar on her way to the top table, she was thrust straight into the middle of them.
They could hardly believe their good fortune.
"How many times in your life, do you get to meet a legend? She will be remembered for hundreds of years," said Nikki Sinclaire, a UKIP Euro election candidate.
"She is the reason I got involved in politics."
'My heroine'
These are Thatcher's people - true believers who had paid upwards of £125 each for the opportunity to have dinner in her presence, including several current Tory MPs, the novelist Frederick Forsyth ........
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May God bless and keep her.
Wife and I saw Lady Thatcher speak in Minneapolis when she was in good health. This was in early 1990 or so. She absolutely controlled the room.
God Bless Lady Thatcher and may Sarah be an outspoken and steadfast protector of the Reagan/Thatcher legacy.
Sarah has the right instincts.
The last of the great 20th century politicians.
“The Lady’s not for turning.”
Neither Tony Blair nor Gordon Brown (nor virtually any politician in the United States) are fit to carry that woman’s luggage.
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I loathe the Facebook sites application, one was “remember the 80s’” you could select different icons / badges, my niece was showing me one her friends had sent her, like Miami Vice, or Smurfs.One option was an unflattering picture of Margaret Thatcher with the words”Boo Hiss” written across her face.Stupid leftist Sh^ts.
I met Baroness Thatcher when she was on a book tour. I stammered out, "God bless you, Lady Thatcher", then I corrected myself and said, "I mean, may God continue to bestow His blessings upon you, ma'am."
She smiled and commented, "Well said."
Indeed, those were the days.
The Iron Lady in Bronze on the campus of Hillsdale College.
The trio which brought down the USSR
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