All Hail the All-knowing Priest-King!
Tuesday, 30th March 2010
On the other hand, this tripe is also ridiculous:
Pass the sick bag, please. How can anyone, even Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, produce such guff?It is impossible to write about Nelson Mandela these days and not compare him to another potentially transformational black leader, Barack Obama. The parallels are many. ... And while it took twenty-seven years in prison to mold the Nelson Mandela we know, the forty-eight-year-old American president seems to have achieved a Mandela-like temperament without the long years of sacrifice.
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Zoo keeper (Elephant House)
March 30th, 2010 7:18pm Report this commentWithout bothering to read any "tripe", Time Magazine has been producing "guff" for at least 40 years.
Believe me...
CIA propaganda.
Snowman
March 30th, 2010 9:11pm Report this commentGood to know the cult of personality is well and kicking. Somebody should dig out Stalin, he would be pleased.
Noa Zrk
March 30th, 2010 11:37pm Report this commentIf you know what's good for you Alex, you'll start writing in similar laudatory terms about another Nelson....
JohnBUK
March 31st, 2010 9:40am Report this commentSnowman - "somebody should dig out Stalin..." maybe he's the wrong colour so can't be a saint?
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