Posted on 06/28/2013 4:37:43 PM PDT by drewh
Barack Obama said Friday that he did not need a “photo op” with Nelson Mandela, saying the “last thing” he wanted to do was be intrusive at a time when the anti-apartheid icon’s family are concerned about his health.
However, the president did not rule out a meeting with Mandela, whose ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said Friday had made a “great improvement” compared to a few days ago.
On Tuesday, Mandela's daughter Zindzi said that her father “opened his eyes and gave me a smile” when she told him Obama was coming.
Speaking about her ex-husband Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela says, 'From what he was a few days ago, there is great improvement' in the former South African president's condition. Advertise | AdChoicesSpeaking on Air Force One as he flew to South Africa from Senegal, Obama said that “we’ll see what the situation is when we land.”
“I don't need photo op," he said. "The last thing I want to do is be intrusive at a time when the family is concerned” with Mandela’s condition.
He said the main message he wanted to deliver was “profound gratitude” for Mandela’s leadership and to say that “the thoughts and prayers of the American people are with him, his family and his country.”
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He sure has been intrusive in Egypt. Look what that has done.
Gee, imagine a photo-op of Obama with “Gasoline Necklace” Winnie Mandel, a convicted accessory to the murder of a young boy.
Why not? He’s been surrounded by murderers, wannabe mass murderers, psychopaths, liars, con-artists, and “Good Germans” all his career, esp. in the White House - Bill Ayers, Richard Trumka, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Hillary Clinton, Jim Hansen, Jesse Jackson(s), Eric Holder and his buttboy Perez, etc).
I don’t; need to call a couple of world leaders oh wait I can call the teams owner for taking a dog killer, I can call homosexuals to say well done, I can call , oh wait no I can’t . I can’t call support for dying Americans in Libya.
I can call Gates because the police acted stupidly .
This waste of space is backed by a bunch of turd poking feces sex queers or a community which have racist views and can’t think for themselves past their color, oh and a small % of nutcases who still can’t get it into their thick heads how dumb they are for voting for him and can only repeat talking points and trust me I pull them up when I see their stickers and they are dumb
Obama always lies.
So it IS a photo-op.
Watch for it on the “News”.
Two communist thugs.
You can tell what the phony narcissistic liar is thinking. In other words: “I really want a photo op with that dying old man but will use a lapdog media-generated puff piece story about how wonderful that I used some of my $100,000,000 vacation to visit with a fellow Commie.”
You got to give it to Obama, he’d screw up a wet dream.
Here he has the opportunity to preserve American
friendship for posterity with Africa and he “doesn’t
need a photo Op.”
What about Us, what about Them?
No, he’d rather have his photo taken with Morsi
and the Moslem Brotherhood or Hamas or the PA.
Jerk.
He doesn’t need a photo op with Mandela.
That’s what U.S. troops are for.
At this point Mandela probably looks like a cadaver. When old people die it does not look like it does in the movies. 0bama is an ass to even talk about taking pictures of dying 94 year old.
With her giant leg.
That means it's the first thing on Obama's mind and exactly what he will do. He is intrusive wherever he goes.
Wouldn't it be funny if Obama showed up and Mandela told him to go home? (I know Mandala wouldn't do that; he has class, unlike Mr. Photo-op Obama.)
Bammy needs a photo-op with his Kenyan BC.
[...her father “opened his eyes and gave me a smile”]
According to his nurse, right after she stopped vomiting, said he was smiling because it was his first bowel movement in two months.
“(I know Mandala wouldn’t do that; he has class, unlike Mr. Photo-op Obama.)”
You’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid. Find out for yourself why Mandela was jailed in the first place.
Political drivel about his movements but nothing about the expences he and his entourage are building up while on this $100 million dollar African safari.
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