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After Snubbing Thatcher Funeral, Obama and Michelle to Visit South Africa for Mandela
Breitbart ^

Posted on 12/06/2013 9:42:24 PM PST by chessplayer

On Friday, the White House announced that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama would travel to South Africa next weeks to pay their respects to Nelson Mandela. Obama has already announced that the White House will fly the flags at half-staff though December 9 in Mandela’s honor.

When former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died, President Obama did not lower the White House flags, nor did he attend her funeral, instead sending ex-Secretaries of State George Shultz and James Baker III.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: anc; bho44; bhoafrica; flotusmichelle; mandela; nelsonmandela; snub; southafrica; thatcher
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1 posted on 12/06/2013 9:42:24 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Six and twelve my presidente’. South Africa is not a Maryland community college.


2 posted on 12/06/2013 9:45:43 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: chessplayer

Okay we all knew they were friggin racists, won’t go to pay respects to a White, woman head of state but are all in for a communist Black head of state.


3 posted on 12/06/2013 9:46:28 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: chessplayer

Race identity polititics....

and turrets....


4 posted on 12/06/2013 9:46:39 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: chessplayer

LOL!
The grifters tried and failed ot get a face to face with Mandela before he died. Now the funeral will be all about the O’bama’s.

me me me I I I I my my my my me me me


5 posted on 12/06/2013 9:48:48 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: chessplayer

I wish they would both were a Mandela Necklace in honor of the occasion.


6 posted on 12/06/2013 9:50:28 PM PST by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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To: chessplayer

Time to glom onto Mandela’s glory Barack?


7 posted on 12/06/2013 9:54:57 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: chessplayer

Baroness Thatcher owned slaves, dontcha know.....


8 posted on 12/06/2013 9:59:50 PM PST by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: chessplayer

I hope no one interprets my comment to mean I supported apartheid. Like Reagan, I despised apartheid and found it utterly repugnant.


Mandela was not fit to shine Thatcher’s shoes!

Why do so many on the left support and even worship Marxist lunatics like Mandela, Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and others of their ilk? Have they no sense at all!?


9 posted on 12/06/2013 10:03:28 PM PST by Bobalu (White Boy Think A Lot)
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To: chessplayer

The GW Bush’s and Clinton’s are also going.


10 posted on 12/06/2013 10:05:25 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Vendome

Pretty much


11 posted on 12/06/2013 10:05:45 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: chessplayer

Heard this on Levin tonight. Never in a million years could I imagine anyone would disgrace the Office like these two clowns are doing - and on a daily basis to boot.


12 posted on 12/06/2013 10:06:13 PM PST by Paulie
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To: chessplayer

SOCIALISTS MOURN SOCIALISTS.


13 posted on 12/06/2013 10:06:20 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: chessplayer

The longer he stays in office, the more he distances himself from us.


14 posted on 12/06/2013 10:06:21 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: chessplayer

Can we pay South Africa to keep them?


15 posted on 12/06/2013 10:06:24 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: laplata

>> The GW Bush’s and Clinton’s are also going.

Dubya is actively involved in the welfare of SA. And he’s modest about it in comparison.


16 posted on 12/06/2013 10:07:46 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Paulie

Majority of the electorate are the true disgrace. Obama is just a symptom of the real disease.


17 posted on 12/06/2013 10:09:42 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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I bet they would have snubbed the Thatcher funeral if she happened to be black. It’s an ideological thing. BOzo is 50% black and 50% white but he’s 100% commie.


18 posted on 12/06/2013 10:10:13 PM PST by Hayride
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To: Bobalu

Mandela was by far the best of these. However, his successors have been men of such low character that I fear that within ten years, all the whites will have disappeared from the country.


19 posted on 12/06/2013 10:11:09 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: rollo tomasi

The real disease has infected our elites. They made this man possible.


20 posted on 12/06/2013 10:13:28 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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