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George W. Bush to attend Mandela funeral with Obama
McClatchy ^ | 12/6/13 | Maria Recio

Posted on 12/07/2013 9:29:02 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Edited on 12/07/2013 9:30:19 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

"President and Mrs. George W. Bush have gratefully accepted the President and Mrs. Obama

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoafrica; bush43; mandela; obamafail; southafrica
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Here is my take on this:

The Clown is NOT liked in South Africa...or much anywhere else on the continent. Bush, because of his efforts to fight AIDS, thirst, and other problems on the continent, IS liked in Africa.

The Clown asked Bush to go with him to save face.

Bush, being a classy man (though I do wish he would fight more), said yes.

1 posted on 12/07/2013 9:29:02 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

“The Clown is NOT liked in South Africa”

I beg to differ, he is not liked anywhere in the world almost.

Meanwhile, Bush always seems to disappoint.


3 posted on 12/07/2013 9:32:42 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

They’re 2 “P’s” (progressives) in a pod.


4 posted on 12/07/2013 9:33:32 AM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Came to this thread for the whining. Left satisfied.


5 posted on 12/07/2013 9:35:35 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: SoFloFreeper
A Politician's Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds


6 posted on 12/07/2013 9:36:11 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

That’s a nice take on it. My first impression: W doesn’t get it, apparent during his socialist administration (although he valiantly defended the U.S. before taking his eye off the ball with Iraq) right through to Obama’s inauguration when W wished him good luck and success in Obama’s goals and objectives.


7 posted on 12/07/2013 9:36:54 AM PST by PapaNew
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To: SoFloFreeper

Not much difference in parties. GWB could have politely said, sorry, I’ve made other arrangements. There is just no justification for GWB, he has been the scapegoat for the Won.


8 posted on 12/07/2013 9:37:45 AM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: SoFloFreeper
George W. Bush is always polite and gracious. I can't see him refusing to attend the funeral even though having to spend several hours in the plane with the Obamas must be a miserable ordeal.

It is interesting that Obama did not invite the Clintons.

9 posted on 12/07/2013 9:40:47 AM PST by detective
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To: Snoopers-868th

It is unsettling that he is willing to lend legitimacy to a Press dent who has been proven a total fraud.


10 posted on 12/07/2013 9:41:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Attending the funeral of the likes of Mandela and Arafat is commendable.

To verify that they’re dead.


11 posted on 12/07/2013 9:41:50 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: Revolting cat!; GeronL
Obama needs someone else to shuck and jive.


12 posted on 12/07/2013 9:41:50 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Tamsanqa Linda, a black South African whose home and small business were burned by ANC goons, flew to the U.S. in advance of the Mandelas to tell people about the ANC’s war on blacks. Linda, a former mayor of a large black township and currently president of an association of 74 township councils, gave a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington on June 22. He said that he was putting his life in danger, but he felt it was necessary to speak up for the people of South Africa “who cannot talk.” He was referring to the millions of black South Africans who don’t like the ANC and its radical policies but who can’t get our media to report their stories.

One of the most horrible but effective terrorist tools the radical blacks have used to eliminate and intimidate those who might stand up against them is “neck lacing.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3099292/posts


13 posted on 12/07/2013 9:42:09 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: detective

The Clintons are still going. Hillary needs to for the support of the black community in her 2016 campaign.


14 posted on 12/07/2013 9:42:37 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: SoFloFreeper

As a rule of thumb, since Democrats for the most part are “meh” about the idea of an afterlife, they tend to approach the funerals of their peers as campaign rallies, and an opportunity for the most powerful living blowhard to steal the spotlight from the decedent.

Even if Republicans do not believe, at least they are polite enough to be agnostic about it, so do not abuse a funeral or memorial by using it for their own ends. They even consider it rude to continue to vote the deceased, something that has never troubled Democrats one bit.


15 posted on 12/07/2013 9:43:05 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Last Obamacare Promise: "If You Like Your Eternal Soul, You Can Keep It.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

I love this. Only the leaders and members of Western Civilization are so degenerate so as to celebrate a man who symbolizes the Third World conquest of the white South African-who ironically occupied the land before any black! Now of course the South African white experiences murder, rape, assault and ever increasing poverty as his property is seized. Give up governance into the hands of those that resent, and probably hate you, and guess what will happen. Check out South Africa, Rhodesia, and at home Detroit. People can add other examples.


16 posted on 12/07/2013 9:43:57 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: SoFloFreeper; Iron Munro

Obama goes to a Communist funeral bad...Outrageous...

Bush goes and a book of excuses is quickly written.


18 posted on 12/07/2013 9:46:58 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obama and Clinton will upstage GW Bush and he’ll just turn the other cheek.


19 posted on 12/07/2013 9:48:50 AM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: ryan71

BUSH-FOUNDER OF DHS. Agency now stacking radical open borders attorneys to enact non-stop amnesty. Thanks Bush


20 posted on 12/07/2013 9:49:05 AM PST by magna carta
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