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Carter: Mandela belongs next to MLK, Gandhi and Mother Teresa
nbcnews.com ^ | December 09, 2013 | Erin McClam

Posted on 12/09/2013 1:23:00 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

Former President Jimmy Carter told NBC News on Monday that he places Nelson Mandela alongside Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa as exemplars of inspiration and moral virtue in world history.

In an interview with Brian Williams from Johannesburg, the 39th president said that Mandela belongs among figures to be looked upon “with a great deal of admiration.”

“They weathered very difficult times, they came through with flying colors, they inspired other people,” Carter said. “I think that Nelson would go down in history as one of the leading people of the century.”

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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

This craziness has to be addressed at some point.


21 posted on 12/09/2013 1:38:08 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Is it because all of their names start with the letter M? lol

Mother Teresa
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr.

:-P


22 posted on 12/09/2013 1:39:40 PM PST by thetallguy24
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To: Tailgunner Joe

No Thanks - I’ll take men like Washington & Henry and many of the other founders as my inspiration and heroes.


23 posted on 12/09/2013 1:40:11 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Tailgunner Joe

To the headline: puke


24 posted on 12/09/2013 1:40:11 PM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: Cicero
Why does Jimmy leave himself out?

He's counting on his sycophants to ask the same question without irony.

Nelson and Winnie might have necklaced Jimmy back in the day, then his buddy Arafat could have blown up his corpse while Chavez took all his belongings.

Jimmy had great friends before they all died.

25 posted on 12/09/2013 1:41:30 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Watch out - Zero and his Holliwierd commies will be on AF-1 as soon as he dies!


26 posted on 12/09/2013 1:41:53 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I wish that man would shut up.


27 posted on 12/09/2013 1:42:23 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Cicero

At this particular moment in time, oscamma belongs RIGHT next to mandela.
(Stated with tongue firmly planted in cheek.)


28 posted on 12/09/2013 1:45:05 PM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“he places Nelson Mandela alongside Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa”

Yeah. They are all D.E.D.


29 posted on 12/09/2013 1:46:52 PM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Democrats always embrace Communist Terrorists.

It goes back to their roots in slavery.


30 posted on 12/09/2013 1:48:14 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Ol PeanutPerson is correct in that Nelson & Winnie Mandela succeeded in placing South Africa on the road to Zimbabwe-hood.

Were there any justice on Earth, Nelson would be stuffed into a stolen tractor tire and “neclaced”.

And, to show both her utter devotion to both her dead husband and true Commie “Multi-Kulti” - why, she should “Suttee” herself.

Good enough for Indians should be good enough for her.

Just sayin’.


31 posted on 12/09/2013 1:49:43 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - Because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Did Ghandi give political opponents flaming necklaces? Mother Theresa?


32 posted on 12/09/2013 1:49:49 PM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad. :()
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well, except for that mother Teresa didnt procure and use weapons from the former Soviet Union. But carter does like to remind how in a different world he lives in

Dope


33 posted on 12/09/2013 1:50:02 PM PST by stanne
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To: Tailgunner Joe

But then again, Carter belongs somewhere between slime molds and garden slugs.


34 posted on 12/09/2013 1:52:21 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Last Obamacare Promise: "If You Like Your Eternal Soul, You Can Keep It.")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I remember an old outhouse on a farm in Missouri, and folks can guess where I think Carter and Obama belong.

Mandela soils the memory of these folks.

Gandhi, Teressa, and King did not participate in bombing commerce centers knowing innocent people would be killed or maimed. Their spouses did not put tires around the necks of their fellow citizens, fill them with gas, and light them on fire.

Carter is a master at outdoing his previous stupid acts and statements.


35 posted on 12/09/2013 1:53:40 PM PST by DoughtyOne (May his name be striken from every tablet stone building and never be said again short of treason!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Carter has his own “Mandela.” That man was named Robert Mugabe.

Carter and Andrew Young were instrumental in turning Rhodesia-Zimbabwe over to Mugabe and his ZANU party. That guy didn’t turn out to be such a hero....

The ONLY thing that made peace in South Africa possible, and the ANC’s peaceful takeover of the government - was the collapse of the Soviet Union.


36 posted on 12/09/2013 1:54:37 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Tailgunner Joe

That’s actually a pretty good list of people not nearly as cool as their PR.


37 posted on 12/09/2013 1:55:00 PM PST by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“Carter: Mandela belongs next to MLK, Gandhi and Mother Teresa”

Wrong, again, Peanut Boy. He belongs next to Castro, Arafat, and Mugabe.


38 posted on 12/09/2013 1:55:08 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

LOL- And Jimmy belongs on Mt. Rushmore,too


39 posted on 12/09/2013 1:55:25 PM PST by rightly_dividing (2 Tim. 2:15)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
"Mandela was a huge supporter of Che."

You can even get a T-shirt.


40 posted on 12/09/2013 1:55:43 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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