Clinton: Mandela Is 'Gift to Humanity'

AP | 7/19/03

[Republican Wildcat]

I'm sure those Iraqis who would have continued to lose loved ones to mass graves would agree. < / sarcasm >

[cricket]

Flying barf and more. . .

Clinton expounding. . .Cannot stand it. . .

Justice has yet to be served upon Bill Clinton. . .waiting. . .waiting. . .

[syriacus]

Can't Clinton be more original? Does he really need to borrow ideas from Bush's speeches?

I wish the AP article included the actual paragraph (or, even, the sentence) in which Clinton said Mandela is a "gift to humanity."

Bush's recent Independence Day speech: (as quoted in the Washington Times)...

America's strength and prosperity are testaments to the enduring power of our founding ideals, among them, that all men are created equal, and that liberty is God's gift to humanity, the birthright of every individual. The American creed remains powerful today because it represents the universal hope of all mankind.

The AP article does not say who Clinton thinks gave us the "gift" of Mandela.

Maybe Clinton was afraid he would be raked over the coals for mentioning God's name, like Bush was.

PRESIDENT BUSH’S ATTEMPTS TO MAKE CHRISTIANITY THE STATE RELIGION

Where once there were only references to good and evil, President Bush’s language has not only become increasingly religious, but also increasingly evangelical. While all of our 43 presidents have thus far been more or less Christian, Bush’s speeches have contained progressively more references to the Christian god, and the evangelical values he purports as a born again Christian, than his modern predecessors.

His 2003 State of the Union Address contain many such references. “The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world; it is God’s gift to humanity.

I have a question: Does Clinton even make a show of carrying his Bible around with him any more?

[CDHart]

Can we give him back to whoever gave him to us?

Carolyn

[Jay D. Dyson]

Mandela a "gift to humanity"?? From what I've learned from people who actually lived in South Africa, Mandela and his type were second-rate terrorists.

Strange days indeed...

-Jay

[cardinal4]

Clinton: Mandela Is 'Gift to Humanity'

Mandela was a Marxist ANC terrorist.

[hgro]

Bill, Hill and Manny - just like three commies in a pod.
Mandela and his former murderous wife, like the Clintons, have a proclivity for losing associates who die before their time.

[Bluntpoint]

Clinton:

"The reservoir tip up political discourse."

[Zipporah]

I saw a picture several years ago.. of Mandela and several others from his party.. they were standing in front of a red flag with a hammer and sickle .. I did a google search but was unable to locate the pic.. THAT image has been cemented into my mind .. everytime I see Mandela being lauded.. I am reminded of that image.

[Zipporah]

In looking for a pic of Mandela.. I found this: THE TRIPARTITE ALLIANCE The ANC is in an alliance with the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Each Alliance partner is an independent organisation with its own constitution, membership and programmes. The Alliance is founded on a common commitment to the objectives of the National Democratic Revolution, and the need to unite the largest possible cross-section of South Africans behind these objectives.

[abclily]

Remember the 'tourist guy' whose picture was inserted into so many news photos after 9/ll? That's who Billy Blythe reminds me of. The dumb tourist guy who seems to be everywhere.

[expatguy]

I think Im gonna be sick.

[clintonh8r]

As far as I'm concerned he's just another white-hating America-trashing criminal. Mandela, too.

[thatdewd]

Nelson and Winnie Mandela alongside KGB colonel and then South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo, giving communist salute.

[Texas Eagle]

Clinton and his wife, Hillary, joined the audience as they sang "Happy Birthday" to the former South African president, who turned 85 on Friday.

Oh, ick. I just had a mental image of Bill Clinton singing to Mandela the way Marilyn Monroe sang to John F. Kennedy.

[Texas Eagle]

Mandela is a scourge to humanity. But then, clinton has never been known for his good taste.

Maybe Clinton meant to say, "Compared to ME, Mandela is a gift to humanity."

[Tripleplay]

How come all the "African Americans" are not joining forces to "save their homeland?

[Texas Eagle]

I don't know. Maybe they're full of s**t.

[Buck W.]

"Mandela Is 'Gift to Humanity'
...a gift I'd gladly return for a full refund!! "

Or, if lacking the receipt, a store credit.

[lowbridge]

Whitewater Stock
(To the Elvis Presley tune Jailhouse Rock)

The taxpayers threw a party as I was hauled to jail.
The welfare queens were there and they began to wail.
The voters were ecstatic and the country began to swing.
You should've heard those knocked up interns sing.
What a shock, everybody, what a shock.
Everybody in the whole cell block was once a dealer in Whitewater stock.

Me and Gore hit up China for a campaign loan,
While Lewinsky was blowin' on my slide trombone.
Craig Livingstone said let's lie, rape, rob,
My whole administration was the Dixie Mob.
What a shock, everybody, What a shock.
Everybody in the whole cell block was once a dealer in Whitewater stock.

As I once said to Chelsea and Hillary:
"What's the harm in a little infidelity.
As a Democrat, laws and morality are not supposed to apply to me,
Don't be like Tripp, you're Democrats, you're supposed commit perjury."
Not a shock, everybody, not a shock.
Everybody in the whole cell block was once a dealer in Whitewater stock.

Now I'm in my cell seekin' satisfaction all alone,
Dreaming of an intern licking an ice cream cone
The warden said, "Hey, buddy, I got a teen daughter, you think I care?
Go take a whizz on the electric chair."
Got a shock, everybody, got a shock.
Everybody in the whole cell block was once a dealer in Whitewater stock.

My cellmate said "Doing time is a piece of cake, 
no one's lookin', now's our chance to make a break."
I turned to my cellmate and said, "Nix nix,
without Hillary, now it's safe to write to chicks"
Not a shock, everybody, Not a shock.
Everybody in the whole cell block was once a dealer in Whitewater stock.