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.
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 . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehousedossier.com ...
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?
Consider the source: morons of South Africa. Same mentality as Debbie Wasserman Schmuck and Al Sharpton. Brain dead.
Why did Bush even go? What a damned joke.
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.
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.
Stay classy, San Diego.
(Next time kindly STFU Bono...we've got enough of our own homegrown idiots to deal with)
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.
BINGO
Gotta suck up to the Leroy’s.
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
Burn in hell, South Afrika.
Was Bono there? I’ll bet he would cringe upon hearing Bush got booed. He knows the score.
I’m trying to give Bush a pass for the Thatcher funeral, he was having heart trouble at the time.
Yep, he fell right into their trap.
Of course setting a political trap for the Bush family isn’t really hard.
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.
Who is Mandela anyway???
Marxist/racist test: was Clintoon booed as well?
I would check the South Africa “board” to see if there hass been any recent activity or discussion...
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