Bush Booed During Mandela Memorial

White House Dossier ^ | 12/10/2013 | Keith Koffler

[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.

Meanwhile, Obama has cut PEPFAR funding and generally been his customary inattentive self. From the same Post piece:

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 . . .

[Peter Libra]

The world had gone totally mad. Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints...

Yes much of our world has gone mad. Just my opinion, but that is a madness driven by some cunning and deviant force. For this is over the death of a man whose time had come. There seems to be a powerful pressure of political correctness at work. Obviously and I include Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper, it was a compulsory ritual. They did not give a rap about Mandela.

I did not hear much of the death of one Doris Lessing in November last. She, along with Nadine Gordimer, was a foremost novelist inveighing against the white regime in South Africa. She was 90 years and deserted her husband and sons to live in London.

Possibly many of the elite do not even realize that they are no more than puppets. They are manipulated by political correctness.

[Romulus]

This is his reward now?

Yes -- and richly deserved for his pathetic pursuit of popularity among the cool kids.

[HiTech RedNeck]

but that is a madness driven by some cunning and deviant force

we normally know this as Satan and the demons

[Cyber Liberty]

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.

The author clearly doesn't get it. Obastard is half-black and they're racists, plain and simple.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Puke.

[Jim Scott]

Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu and 10 other prime ministers including Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former Australian premier John Howard, former US Vice President Dick Cheney, former US state secretary Henry Kissinger but no former U.S. presidents. Considering that it was a full-blown state funeral (Thatcher was British PM for 11 years) and Obama conspicuously stayed away, that former president G.W. Bush did not attend was a disappointment. Fortunately, I got over it.

[Skepolitic]

Inability to recognize the enemy.

The modern conservative’s most serious problem.

Otherwise, RINOs would not get nominated or elected.

[savedbygrace]

Obama is half black, Bush is half Republican.

Do the math.

[KeyLargo]

"I thought there was a lot of poor blacks walking around with placards about Obama drone strike last time he was down there."

If brother George Obama doesn't stop complaining Brother Barry will put a Hellfire up his ass.

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[onyx]

Stay classy, San Diego.

What?

[Rebelbase]

The next world war will straighten out things for a while.

[dartuser]

Was Bill Clinton booed?

[matginzac]

So maybe Dubya and pro-abortion wifey shudda taken a pass on this kabuki display.....?

[Hoodat]

Is the Kennedy Compound dry?

[matginzac]

Bingo....

[logi_cal869]

Class-act.

[Godwin1]

Bush was a sucker to go. What did he expect? Gratitude from these people? This is ALL about race. Bush and wife are very white, Obama’s wife is very Black and he is half Black. End of story.

[RichInOC]

Old conventional wisdom: Barry’s better at presenting the image of competence than he is at being competent.

New conventional wisdom: Oops, he sucks at image, too.

[Fledermaus]

I don’t believe this pool reporter. They are far left sychophants.

[castlegreyskull]

This reminds me of the Paul Wellstone memorial service, that I am embarassed to admit that I attended in 2002. When Govenor Ventura entered the arena the crowd booed heavily. Jesse Ventura left early. Bill, the impeached, Clinton got a rousing standing ovation.