It was also the first time I had ever seen Bon Homme...and the Bon Homme canes filled with liquor!
Posted on 12/05/2013 2:11:15 PM PST by Red Badger
Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday.
Mandela was 95.
"He is now resting. He is now at peace," Zuma said. "Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father."
"What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human," the president said in his late-night address. "We saw in him what we seek in ourselves."
Mandela will have a state funeral. Zuma ordered all flags in the nation to be flown at half-staff from Friday through that funeral.
Mandela, a former president, battled health issues in recent months, including a recurring lung infection that led to numerous hospitalizations.
With advancing age and bouts of illness, Mandela retreated to a quiet life at his boyhood home in the nation's Eastern Cape Province, where he said he was most at peace.
Despite rare public appearances, he held a special place in the consciousness of the nation and the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Don’t slur the notes! ;’)
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Could we pray they all stay there? Since we all know how awesome and safe South Africa is /mega sarcasm.....
how did he “rise above” anger by being a Marxist terrorist??
he never renounced his terrorism
Someone with an iron constitution should list the sycophantic headlines from Yahoo
Okay...that outright made me nearly have things come out my nose!
Vuvuzela Hero...that was hilarious!
HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK
Sounds like a character that was trying to please everybody, even the evil folks.
I can’t view this thread as anything more than a vehicle for distraction.
The adulation of this person is disturbing. Someone else made a comment about how upsetting it would be if Obama went to Mandela’s funeral in light of the fact that he didn’t go to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral.
I read that and thought “Where have these people been? It doesn’t upset me at all, I fully expect it.”
To be honest, I would have been upset if he soiled Margaret Thatcher’s funeral by attending it. I feel much the same way about the Gettysburg anniversary and Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.
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Good grief. Please look up “necklacing” and see if you still want to defend this vile, sadistic murderous piece of murderous.
Hank
It was also the first time I had ever seen Bon Homme...and the Bon Homme canes filled with liquor!
Mandela had every opportunity to exact revenge and he did not despite many in his inner circle wanting it. How is that not rising above anger? Unfortunately, he also embraced communism. Shades of grey. I can support his desire for freedom for his people even as I understand communism will only change one bondage for another in South Africa.
Our founding fathers rebelled against England and were labeled terrorists by our colonial rulers. They wanted self-determination and were willing to die for it and lose everything. If this sounds familiar great. If not, God bless and each is entitled to his own opinion.
Robert Mugabe is the “father” of modern Zimbabwe, will they cry for him, too?
But IMO as much as I loathe Kennedy there is no comparing him with this piece of crap. And no comparing the media coverage or level of historical revisionism either.
There is a complete and total media blackout in regards to the truth about Mandela. The official line everywhere is that he was a saint, a hero, one of history's great men. It makes me sick.. Kennedy's sins are least occasionally discussed.
Wish I were in Banff right now.
Agreed.
I no longer obsess over what Øbozo will do or say next. I am powerless to change it and only hope that our nation survives his madness. Nothing that he does anymore surprises me - the depths to which he regularly plummets or the insanity he espouses. I share nothing in common with this being and I’m not sure that we even belong to the same species.
he had no desire for freedom, his desire was for communism
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