Posted on 12/10/2013 12:57:09 PM PST by Hoodat
A sterling example of the maxim, no good deed goes unpunished.
Former President George W. Bush was booed when he appeared on the video monitor at today’s memorial for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa, according to the White House pool report, which cited local press outlets.
Meanwhile, when the images President Obama and Michelle popped up, there was a 30-second “deafening roar,” the pooler wrote.
How sad. Bush has done an far greater amount for South Africa than Obama. But Obama is much better at crafting his public image and saying the right things.
Bush personally saved the lives of millions of South Africans with his President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, ensuring AIDS drugs are available to South Africa’s impoverished masses.
From a Washington Post piece describing how Bush’s achievements were haunting Obama’s June trip to South Africa:
In South Africa, the success ( of PEPFAR) was extraordinary. AIDS killed roughly 2.3 million in South Africa — once one of the worst-affected countries in the world — and orphaned about a million children there, according to the United Nations. Today, rates of infection have fallen to 30 percent, and nearly 2 million people are on antiretroviral drugs.
AIDS advocates on Sunday said that Obama administration budget cuts that have slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from PEPFAR threaten to turn back years of progress . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehousedossier.com ...
I think President Bush did not go to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, because I obama was not going. I don’t think he wants to appear undermining obama as a President.
Then again, I really don’t know his motives. It is just what I like to believe, and from how he has acted since leaving office.
They were going "Booooooooooooooosh!"
One time I would have welcomed hearing Vuvuzelas.
“Rush today compared these services to those of Paul Wellstone. Didn’t the crowd boo VP Chaney when he paid his respects to the dead? Libs have no manners or decorum.”
V.P. Dick Cheney offered to the Wellstone family to attend the memorial service held at the U of Minnesota. The Wellstone family requested that V.P. Dick Cheney did not attend. Gov. Jesse Ventura did go, and got booed heavily.
“Inability to recognize the enemy.
The Bush family’s most serious problem.”
More like, “Thank you, sir! May I please have another” — “Animal House”
That’s an honor being booed at a LEFTIST EVENT. Same as being booed at the UN.
Bush was foolish to accompany Obama to this funeral. He disappointed me.
On the BBC video you can see some spectators clowning around. That can happen when you make a funeral a mass event. It doesn’t usually happen, but we don’t usually hold funerals in football stadiums.
Bush is white,Obama is black! Man bites dog
I wonder if W learned anything from this experience. I somehow doubt it as he’s seemed to be seeking love and approval from the more liberal folks since leaving office.
“Booing at a funeral-—what a class act!”
Class acts are reserved for humans—not the animals who attended the mandela hoopdedoo.
They booed their own president and cheered wildly for The One.
Astonishing.
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wait until the two obama girls see that groupie pic of their dad and see the angry look on their momma’s face...
obama will pay for that one...
girls will stick by the mom first...
what a disgusting person the current president is...hurry up 2014 turn the Senate.
The reporter here is not, but his information may not be firsthand.
That is because Obama has done a far better job at closing the standard-of-living gap between South Africa and the United States.
Also the Bushes did not attend the Lee Atwater funeral in 1991. They are known for ingratitude.
Much like during the Wellstone Funerally.
GWB will spend the rest of his life trying to get a liberal to say something nice about him.
“Inability to recognize the enemy.
The Bush family’s most serious problem.”
More like, “Thank you, sir! May I please have another” — “Animal House”
Yes, and the same thing can be said for Romney and the rest of the spineless GOP hoity toity, milk and cookies crowd that should have done what is necessary but are above getting down in the mud and kicking the Rats asses.
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