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Bush Booed During Mandela Memorial
White House Dossier ^ | 12/10/2013 | Keith Koffler

Posted on 12/10/2013 12:57:09 PM PST by Hoodat

A sterling example of the maxim, no good deed goes unpunished.

Former President George W. Bush was booed when he appeared on the video monitor at today’s memorial for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa, according to the White House pool report, which cited local press outlets.

Meanwhile, when the images President Obama and Michelle popped up, there was a 30-second “deafening roar,” the pooler wrote.

How sad. Bush has done an far greater amount for South Africa than Obama. But Obama is much better at crafting his public image and saying the right things.

Bush personally saved the lives of millions of South Africans with his President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, ensuring AIDS drugs are available to South Africa’s impoverished masses.

From a Washington Post piece describing how Bush’s achievements were haunting Obama’s June trip to South Africa:

In South Africa, the success ( of PEPFAR) was extraordinary. AIDS killed roughly 2.3 million in South Africa — once one of the worst-affected countries in the world — and orphaned about a million children there, according to the United Nations. Today, rates of infection have fallen to 30 percent, and nearly 2 million people are on antiretroviral drugs.

Meanwhile, Obama has cut PEPFAR funding and generally been his customary inattentive self. From the same Post piece:
AIDS advocates on Sunday said that Obama administration budget cuts that have slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from PEPFAR threaten to turn back years of progress . . .

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; aids; bush; inneedosomerestraint; mandela; obama
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To: Hoodat

I’m sure all the whites suffering in South Africa aren’t even in attendance at the funeral.

Bush should’ve kept him on the terror list. This is his reward now?


21 posted on 12/10/2013 1:07:40 PM PST by Dave346
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To: Hoodat

Consider the source: morons of South Africa. Same mentality as Debbie Wasserman Schmuck and Al Sharpton. Brain dead.


22 posted on 12/10/2013 1:07:40 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Hoodat

Why did Bush even go? What a damned joke.


23 posted on 12/10/2013 1:09:47 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Hoodat

As a conservative, I’m not a big fan of former President George W. Bush and resented that he didn’t attend Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. However, being booed by Africans at Nelson Mandela’s funeral was uncalled for. Not only did the Bush administration do more for Africa than Obama but the fact that Obama received wild applause and cheers just for being black tells me that this is how Obama has glided through life, trading on his skin pigment and receiving kudos for little more than the accident of having a black father.


24 posted on 12/10/2013 1:09:52 PM PST by Jim Scott
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To: Zathras

I could have told Pres. Bush he was going to be booed. If him and Laura could not figure that out....what is there to say? Obama knew he would be applauded, these r the typical L.I.V.


25 posted on 12/10/2013 1:10:41 PM PST by yellowdoghunter (Welcome to Obamastan!)
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To: Hoodat

Stay classy, San Diego.


26 posted on 12/10/2013 1:11:18 PM PST by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: Hoodat
But but butt Bono said they love President Bush and America for all the aid sent over there???

(Next time kindly STFU Bono...we've got enough of our own homegrown idiots to deal with)

27 posted on 12/10/2013 1:14:24 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: Hoodat

Bush has done an far greater amount for South Africa than Obama. But Obama is much better at crafting his public image and saying the right things.
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Doesn’t have a thing to do about it.

Bush———— White——— Get’s Booed
Obama-———Half breed from a black African slave
dealer and a Communist trollop.
Gets Cheered.

They are in Africa , what is so hard to understand?

Of Course the same thing would happen here in a ghetto atmosphere filled with black racists.


28 posted on 12/10/2013 1:16:06 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: vetvetdoug
Bush was a fool for attending the funeral of this glorified Communist terrorist. President Netanyahu of Israel wisely did not attend this memorial service. If a French or German president or prime minister dies during this administration, at most we would see Joe Biden or John Kerry attend. If Queen Elizabeth II or Prince Philip dies during Obama’s tenure, he might send Kathleen Sebelius or Shaun Donovan (maybe) or Bill Clinton (so he can doze off as he did at Reagan's funeral or hit on the Danish prime minister).
29 posted on 12/10/2013 1:16:37 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: KeyLargo

BINGO

Gotta suck up to the Leroy’s.


30 posted on 12/10/2013 1:18:14 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: svcw

Take up the White Man’s burden, The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to naught.

Rudyard Kipling


31 posted on 12/10/2013 1:18:14 PM PST by Hugin
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To: Hoodat

Burn in hell, South Afrika.


32 posted on 12/10/2013 1:19:21 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Venturer

Was Bono there? I’ll bet he would cringe upon hearing Bush got booed. He knows the score.


33 posted on 12/10/2013 1:20:56 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: headstamp 2
All Obama has done for me is cause me to view Negros with caution and distain.
Which I've never done before and never thought would happen to my views of anybody.
The Knockout game started with his being elected and knocking out our economy,
and Obama telling Negros to get in our faces also started major race problems
coming from the Negro side of the tracks. What is happening is the eventual reaction
from any class being attacked for imagined racism.
34 posted on 12/10/2013 1:21:08 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: KeyLargo

I’m trying to give Bush a pass for the Thatcher funeral, he was having heart trouble at the time.


35 posted on 12/10/2013 1:21:24 PM PST by stellaluna
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To: yellowdoghunter

Yep, he fell right into their trap.
Of course setting a political trap for the Bush family isn’t really hard.


36 posted on 12/10/2013 1:22:09 PM PST by Zathras
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To: vetvetdoug

Black, black, black is all they know or care about. Its pointless to waste time worrying about it. In 100 years Africa will still be exactly the same as it is now.


37 posted on 12/10/2013 1:22:39 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Hoodat

Who is Mandela anyway???


38 posted on 12/10/2013 1:24:19 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: Hoodat

Marxist/racist test: was Clintoon booed as well?


39 posted on 12/10/2013 1:25:08 PM PST by leakinInTheBlueSea
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To: 1rudeboy

I would check the South Africa “board” to see if there hass been any recent activity or discussion...


40 posted on 12/10/2013 1:26:40 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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