Leid Stories - 12/11/13

Obama Discovers Ubuntu, Then Proves He Just Doesn’t Have It

The quasi-preacher cadence and tone President Obama adopts when he believes he’s making history were in full effect yesterday at the massive memorial service for the world-revered Nelson Mandela. Obama’s 18-minute eulogy did its magic – not so much on the almost 100 heads of state and high-profile people (they are used to this sort of thing), but on the estimated 50,000 attendees who crammed the First National Bank Stadium in Johannesburg. The U.S. political rock star rocked ’em! – there, and all over the televised world.

Leid Stories disassembles Obama’s speech, a huge eye opener about the president himself – chiefly, his discomfort with his African identity; his revisionism of a people’s war against European invasion and supremacy and of ubuntu, the sociopolitical philosophy that kept the spirit of freedom burning throughout Africa; his outrageous claim that Mandela benefited from being imprisoned for 27 years because it helped him focus and think; and his intolerable insinuation that he has been trying to walk in Mandela’s path.