| Daily show had a clip of this, yes, Bush is just as dumb as he sounds... |
[Sep. 21st, 2007|04:35 pm] |
Mandela still alive after embarrassing Bush remark
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/safrica_mandela_bush_dc;_ylt=AvJn9yC94SM7aul_.Awa_61hr7sF
Fri Sep 21, 8:15 AM ET
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader's death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in Iraq.
"It's out there. All we can do is reassure people, especially South Africans, that President Mandela is alive," Achmat Dangor, chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said as Bush's comments received worldwide coverage.
In a speech defending his administration's Iraq policy, Bush said former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's brutality had made it impossible for a unifying leader to emerge and stop the sectarian violence that has engulfed the Middle Eastern nation.
"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
Jailed for 27 years for fighting white minority rule, Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1994. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for preaching racial harmony and guiding the nation peacefully into the post-apartheid era.
References to his death -- Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail -- are seen as insensitive in South Africa. |
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From: (Anonymous)
2007-09-26 05:07 pm (UTC)
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It's been a week. Surely you know you're wrong about this.
Why should I respond to a cowardly anonymous comment?
Where am I wrong? He is indeed an incomprehensible idiot.
From: (Anonymous)
2007-09-26 06:30 pm (UTC)
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The Daily show clip was shown out of context (satire). You really need to be careful when questioning someone's intelligence to make sure your facts are correct.
From: (Anonymous)
2007-09-26 06:49 pm (UTC)
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get your news.
Solving the world's problems requires more that making smart-a** comments over edited outtakes.
Bush was actually making a very insightful comment on the Iraqi population. That Saddam had long ago killed anybody who might have filled the important role which Mandela held in South Africa.
Of course, Stewart was too busy being the immature smart-a**. Are all "progressives" such immature idiots?
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/67469669/4211483) | From: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) starkzero
2007-09-26 07:17 pm (UTC)
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Which facts are inaccurate o-cowardly anonymous poster who feels like they need to say the same thing three times?
| From: starkzero
2007-09-26 07:20 pm (UTC)
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OK, since this was anonymous my guess is that you wont ever get this, also it is clearly you are psychotic since you made almost the same comment three times-but anway-
Dear God you are a fucking idiot. The article clearly states word for word his in ability to be coherent and what he was actually trying to say. But you are too fucking stupid to read past, what the headline?
ok, that's it, no more TROLLS!!! | |
