Mandela still alive after embarrassing Bush remark

Over 100 million people voted for George W. Bush to be the leader of the free world, not once, but twice. You’d think I’d be used to this nearly seven years into his presidency. I still cringe…

UPDATE To be fair to President Bush, he was trying to imply that Iraq had no Mandela-like figure because Saddam had had all the Mandela-like figures killed. I’ll do better next time to find an asinine quote from Bush that hasn’t been taken out of context. It shouldn’t be terribly difficult.

UPDATE Here we go…from the 2004 campaign:

[link]