Mandela impressed me as a man of character. The same way that George Washington does. A different age. A different culture. But still very similar men.
Both are leaders who sacrificed a large part of their lives in service of a great and noble cause. Humble servants of their people, not a self aggrandizing master.
Mandela was an early and ardent communist. He learned as he matured, that communism was an unobtainable lie given the flawed nature of man. He learned that you must extend mercy to obtain it. That to have peace, you have to bind up wounds rather than inflict fresh wounds.
He left in his wake a representative government. Like him flawed, but a hell of a lot better than any other post-colonial country on that hell hole of a continent.
We would do well to have more men like Mandela and Washington, whether as ally or adversary.
Obama cannot learn a thing from Mandela. Mandela had class and character. Obama has neither.
Don’t know that either can be learned. It has to be taught.
I pray every night that Mr. Obama has his Damascus moment.
Knocked on his ass, if not off it, by the illuminating lightening of the Lord God’s humbling Truth.
You should be ashamed.
Washington did not leave the US a hellhole.