South African Non-Aggressor Still Alive Despite Bush Idiotic Remark

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Hueij
From the OP:

"Where's Mandela? Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."

Don't know about you all (looking at you Sloww), but this looks straight forward to me. Mandela is dead and Saddam killed him.

Or maybe my English teacher from way back then was worse than I thought him to be?

He was speaking figuratively. He wasn't meaning "the" Mandela.

As I said, it was poorly worded.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Wezil
As I said, it was poorly worded.

Nah, the problem is that it's a rightwing religious looney that said it - if a left wing noob had said it, everyone would have understood the meaning .

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Hueij
From the OP:

"Where's Mandela? Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."

Don't know about you all (looking at you Sloww), but this looks straight forward to me. Mandela is dead and Saddam killed him.

Or maybe my English teacher from way back then was worse than I thought him to be?

The clue that it's figurative (apart from the fact that he's bringing up Mandela re: Iraq) is the plural - there isn't some clone army of Nelson Mandelas.

[Dr Strangelove]

Well does anyone have any info about the Iraqi Mandelas?

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Well does anyone have any info about the Iraqi Mandelas?

They are either dead or scared to show themself (if the latter case, they probably isn't real Mandelas).

[Winston]

Man, this is the stupidest thing I've seen in quite a while.

Hueij

Where's a leftist with an actual clue? Well, he's dead because knee-jerk hatred of anything President Bush will do or say has caused leftists to completely lose their minds.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


The clue that it's figurative (apart from the fact that he's bringing up Mandela re: Iraq) is the plural - there isn't some clone army of Nelson Mandelas.

Not yet.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Well does anyone have any info about the Iraqi Mandelas?

i'm pretty sure bush or his writers dont have any info at all....

[Dracon II]

I was on a leftist blog recently that poked fun at Bush for this... but its really only a stupid comment if you automatically consider Bush to be an idiot and take everything he says literally... which is a stupid stance to take in the first place.

Given the context of the statement (i.e. the question to which he was responding), the statement was perfectly reasonable.

[Wezil]

Y, there are far better 'Bushisms' if you want to laugh at the man. This was minor.

[dannubis]

Well, I am surprised Bush even knows Mandela. Cool.

[DaShi]

I think all Bushisms are fair game to laugh at.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Dracon II
I was on a leftist blog recently that poked fun at Bush for this... but its really only a stupid comment if you automatically consider Bush to be an idiot and take everything he says literally... which is a stupid stance to take in the first place.

Given the context of the statement (i.e. the question to which he was responding), the statement was perfectly reasonable.

QFT

I'm not a Bush fan, but I think that the uproar over this comment is particularly unwarranted.

[DaShi]

In times like this, we need all the laughter we can get. That is Bush's legacy.

[Kataphraktoi]

Mr. Bush said the brutality of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had made it impossible for a unifying leader to emerge to stop the violence. He went on to say: "Where's Mandela? Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."

People need to read this again, maybe 3 or 10 times. This can be taken literally because he is referring to Mandela as a type, like a Gandhi. He is wondering where iraq's mendela is and says saddam killed him already. He even uses the term ''The mandela''.