Thread: Nelson Mandela's Dead!

Mandela still alive despite Bush remark

Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by US 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.

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.

Yeah, I know...too easy, considering Bush's utter irrelevance. But still, I enjoy a good Bushism.

I read this on Yahoo 3 times loking for the part where he made a msitake.

I think this is streatching it a bit. It's perfecty clear what he meant. He didn't think, say or even insinuate that Mandela was actualy dead. It's a metaphor. Picking on him when he makes sense takes away form the fun when he genuinely doesn't.

Sometimes I think he's like the guy on home improvement. He hears someone say something... likes it.. but when he repeats it it loses something in the translation.

Originally Posted by Dr.Knuckles

I read this on Yahoo 3 times loking for the part where he made a msitake.

I think this is streatching it a bit. It's perfecty clear what he meant. He didn't think, say or even insinuate that Mandela was actualy dead. It's a metaphor. Picking on him when he makes sense takes away form the fun when he genuinely doesn't.

Sometimes I think he's like the guy on home improvement. He hears someone say something... likes it.. but when he repeats it it loses something in the translation.

I agree it's probably a metaphor, but that's why it was taken out of context.
Metaphors are reserved for wise people.

I really think you're misunderestimating him, Inks.

Originally Posted by Dr.Knuckles

I really think you're misunderestimating him, Inks.

You're right, Bush is a real Brainiac. I think you're Misunderstanding him, like everybody else within earshot.

Originally Posted by Shadowman

Mandela still alive despite Bush remark
"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.

What a friggin' maroon!:dunno:

Originally Posted by Dr.Knuckles

I really think you're misunderestimating him, Inks.

Shadowman or Bush? Or was that a statement
that needed this-----} :sarcasm:

A few people in California are convinced Mandela died in '99...no matter how much I prove to them he didn't, they still believe he is dead.

Hmmm. Maybe Bush should start reading some newspapers. lol.

I think he was just saying the Mandelas of Iraq were killed.