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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Well, he is!..................
Jimmy or Billy?
2 out of 3 maybe.
Why does Jimmy leave himself out?
Mandela was offered release many times during his incarceration if he renounced terrorist acts.
Mandela was a huge supporter of Che, no wonder the left adores him so much..I wont shed a tear for a dead Commie..what next, celebrations for when Castro kicks the bucket
More like next to Marx, Lenin, an Idi Amin Dada.
Good heavens, Jimmah. You are such a rube.
Jimmy belongs next to Billy or Miss Lillian.
Jimmy. He’s been drinking too much Billy Beer.
Well Mandela DID open up a box of Cracker Jacks and got his peace prize. Just like everyone else.
So that counts for something, right?
/puke
Maybe we could have the Chinese make another monument to him on the Mall in Washington—we could put it next to the one they built for Sir Winston Churchill. Not!
I would put Mandela alongside Franco and Pinochet. Some good, some bad, in each case it could have been a lot worse.
But I have to wonder what Mandela would have been like if the Soviet Union had not collapsed before he took power. And if all foreign capital had divested, leaving the Mandela unconcerned about the attitudes of other countries.
It strikes me as a very reasonable thing to think that Ronald Reagan may have been the best thing that ever happened to South Africa...
Embalm all of them and get them a display in Red Square next to Lenin.
MLK, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela walk into a bar...
...places Nelson Mandela alongside Gandhi...and Mother Teresa...
I just puked.
MLK, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela walk into a bar...
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