I'm surprised the way freepers react sometimes when a polarizing figure dies.
I'm no Nelson Mandela fan and totally disagree with his leftist beliefs but from the dead Nelson Mandela threads you'd think he was Lucifer incarnate. A lot of the current ANC members are FAR worse than Mandela, who at least sought to be a unifying figure after apartheid. (and "Archbishop Desmond Tutu" is a media creation that has next to no power in South Africa's Christian hiarcy, but gets fawning media coverage because he spouts leftist talking points). The Mandela = Pure Evil stuff was presented as a way to offset the media "portraying Mandela as a saint" (and I agree the media coverage was 100% positive with zero mention of Mandela's negatives).
Then ironically, when Ariel Sharon died, the RIP Sharon threads treated HIM like a 100% perfect saint and gushed about "the lion of judah". Every topic of his life only mentioned his military service and his political career was whitewashed. I guess we were supposed to forget or ignore that he was one of the worst PM's in Israeli history and became a turnout traitor that wanted to cave to Islamists demands and tried to single handily take over the country with a "centrist" party that was the Israel equivalent of John McCain and Joe LIEberman creating a "National Unity Party" to do the bidding of the Washington media. I remember when Sharon was PM and every conservative on here despised him. Then he dies 8 years later after being in a coma and he's suddenly portrayed as a General Patton type universally beloved inspirational hero.
Well I guess Mandela wasn’t “pure” evil, but if were up to me, he and his ex-wife would have been executed a long long time ago. The coverage was just sickening, when Ted Cruz praised him and then said in the same week that he wanted to repeal the 17th amendment that got him elected, I almost plotzed. His successors have been worse, and that’s tremulously sad. Zuma thinks taking a shower after sex can wash the HIV away (that’s what he did after he raped an HIV-positive woman), what a dipstick. Unfortunately I have to conclude the country was better off during apartheid, such is the epic failure of ANC rule.
” Israel equivalent of John McCain and Joe LIEberman creating a “National Unity Party” to do the bidding of the Washington media. “
Yeah, screw him. I mean he I give a “RIP” to but when all was said and done he probably did more bad than good in his life by forming “Kadima”. Being a war hero doesn’t excuse turning into a lousy politician.