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I was asked in a couple of emails why I haven’t commented on Nelson Mandela…

It’s simple, I don’t know enough TO comment, and I learned a long time ago to keep my mouth shut if I couldn’t offer an informed opinion…

I would point you to Peter at BRM.  He was there, lived it, and knows the players…

As a buddy who’s a judge told me once, there are THREE sides to every story.  The prosecution, the defense, and the truth…  And seldom does the truth ever have a chance…

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  1. Same reason the only thing I’ve said was “Rest in peace.” South Africa is one of a million subjects that could be explored in detail but there’s only so many hours in a day.

  2. Many of the successful people simply left the country.

    And SA still struggles with many daunting issues.

    Mandela was a player on the stage and now he’s gone.

  3. That’s how I feel. I don’t know enough, except when influential people die, the vacuum of power sucks up all kinds of riff-raff.

    South Africa seems to be a boiling pot of discontent and I don’t think this will turn out well.

  4. Ed- Yep

    PH- Good point

    LL- True, but I just don’t feel like jumping into that ‘pool’

    Jess- I don’t know either, but depending on ‘which’ news you believe, they are either in the toilet or heading for the top…

  5. Amen.
    Seeing as I am entirely too young to say anything otherwise; from reading, mostly Peter, Mandela strikes me as one of those men about whom none of us have enough information to judge (do we ever?) and therefore for whom the epithet ‘Rest in Peace’ (with all of its old Christian overtones in effect, i.e. it’s a prayer not a guarantee) is about the only appropriate response.

  6. All I do know for sure is, regardless of the MSM, Obama is not Mandela. On the day of his death the WH tweeted a picture of Obie in Mandela’s cell. On who was a very good man, the other a POS.