John, I must say you missed the mark on this one and seem to be creating situations out of thin air when there are plenty of real gaffs to poke at. You lose credibility when you do this. Your quotes below call your own intellect into question. Sorry to say this, but you make us look bad. Sure Bush has had some classic gaffs but you seriously can't believe this was a mistake. Can you understand context my friend?

Hold yourself to a higher standard otherwise you are just another acidic partisan spew factory.

Be careful, you will one day be applying for a job or perhaps a political position and your over the top childish posts will come back to bite you. Employers today do a quick google on potential hires and you have already done yourself a diservice.

"You are talking about a dumb, stupid, man who has the cognitive abilities of a rock and the intellectual curiosity of an amoeba."

"Just remember as you sit there alone tonight in your rat infested tenement in Brooklyn pleasuring yourself to pictures of Joe Lieberman in a thong"

this guy supposedly graduated from Yale University! Bush Sr obviously bought his HS and College Diplomas! or Yale is the Easiest college to graduate!

I never wanted this waste of life in the Capitol, let alone the White House! He's unfit mentally to lead a country and Cheney is too evil. We need these guys out of a place they should have never been to begin with.

If I was Bush Sr. I'd be too embarrassed to have this continue to exist after being dropped on his head or finding him high one too many times. I'd keep him outside of the public spotlight and wasting away in a Mental Hospital!

It offends me that my fellow Americans worship this President that makes us the laughing stock of the world. Being an incompetent President should be Treason and Congress allowing it should be Treason as well. 9/11/01 shows everyone in the World having our current leadership is the worst thing we could possibly have to National Security!

Bush wouldn't know what to do if he was told he was sitting on an A-Bomb and it would be 5 hours till detonation. If that isn't a threat to National Security, I don't know what is...

Now I understand why Miss South Carolina was talking about The Iraq and The South Africa in her pagent response. Only she and Bush knew that Hussein was responsible for Nelson Mandela's death!

Yes, George HW Bush is still alive. The Panamanians he had slaughtered are not.
A monkey-muzzle is a fine start.
Do you think Junior plays Texas Hold'em on his computer? I'll bet he has a kick-ass computer. I know he likes to ride his bike. What kind of pills might he be taking? Is he a napper? Does he smoke weed? never? I don't think he is really the Decider. He's faking it. Where is Rove?
Where are all the Roves? Where's my Captain's Wafer. How did all these people get into my room?

This is totally outragious! What an ignorant buffoon he is! He should have been impeached. Why has this country tolerated such a monster for so long? He has to go now!

AMERICANS COME ON WAKE UP.I HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS HAS UR CITIZEN,U ARE NOT KNOWN TO BE FOOLISH NOW!THE PRESIDENT ONLY MADE A METAPHORIC STATEMENT CONCERNING FALLIN HEROES ,THAT ARE NEEDED AT THIS PRESENT TIME,LIKE ,ROBBIE WILLIAMS, "she's madonna",he was just using the song title to refer to an icon,soooooo did BUSH do to MANDELA,HATE IT OR LOVE IT,GOD put BUSH there.

that dreadful man, is still alive?

George H W Bush should be held to account for his moron son. Dubya should have been drowned at birth to save the world from the shit we are currently subjected to.

Dubya is obviously suffering from oxygen starvation; having had his head jambed up his own
arse (ass) for an extended period of time.

Dubya; would you please suffocate and die quickly, so as to save what little credibilty and dignity The USA has left.

it had to be a all american comment.
americans should put someone else as a president and stop being embarrased by him.

Maybe I don't understand... Perhaps he meant "Mandela is dead and all the Mandelas are dead" as a metaphor? I just can't believe what I saw and heard. There has to be an explanation...

Why oh why do his handlers let him loose?
Muzzle this monkey! His neurons only fire properly in Texas and we are not all "americuns" in the US, really!
Sandra- San Francisco, CA. USA

You are right on. Unfortunately we have fifteen more months of this despotic moron to contend with. Here's hoping we survive.

Bush is one seriously disturbed puppy. He is the poster-boy for cocaine abuse. And for alcoholic beverage abuse. His brain is fried, he is incompetent, and ultimately pathetic. A daddy's boy on crack.

Reports of MY Demise were Greatly Exaggerated,
says Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela has been reassuring his supporters that he is not dead. Nelson Mandela, who became South Africa's first Black President, after apartheid, is certainly still alive.

Read the rest and check out my videos or Live radio Show about Islam in America!

http://www.hotconflict.com/blog/2007/09/bush-says-mande.html

Sarcastic, serious, allegorical, joking, whatever; Bush is an idiot. Be my guest and accord him credit if you so choose; I call it as I see it.

It's not a question of "giving him the benefit of the doubt" - there is no doubt.

anyone who believes there is, is dumber than Bush (well done, previously thought impossible)

if you REALLY need a translation, here you go ~

Reporter: Where is [the equivalent to] Mandela [in Iraq]?
Bush: [the equivalent to] Mandela is dead, Saddam killed all the [people who could have been equivalent to] Mandela.

I can't stand Bush, I think he is the biggest threat to world peace on the planet, but we really don't need to make up stuff about him, the moron will make mistakes and will makes enough gaffes without people inventing issues.

I saw this on the daily show and my immediate reaction was that of John's. I laughed very hard.

But they cut immediately after the Mandela is dead statement.

Now that I see the events in more context, (thank you for posting this John) I'm laughing very hard again, this time at John.

Keep it up John, you crack me up fella.

You guys are funny. You are talking about a dumb, stupid, man who has the cognitive abilities of a rock and the intellectual curiosity of an amoeba. He has made hundreds of moronic, childish, ignorant, asinine comments and you are giving him the benefit of the doubt on this one?

The same retarded idiot who when sitting with the president of Brazil said, "you have blacks in Brazil"?

It is REALLY obvious that he is NOT talking about Nelson Mandela, I mean come on guys, Bush makes enough mistakes and causes enough problems globally that you don't have to go making stuff up.

The president's quote - is usually something someone else wrote. He blew the set-up and the delivery wasn't quite right. And, bada-boom, Mandela's dead. When our chief is out there practicing his love on the world, he doesn't have as much time as he may need to practice his speeches. I nominate Tool for Man on Mars.

How embarrasing for you. The President's quote was a compliment to Mandela. A leader during tyranny who comes out the other side to lead his nation out of darkness. A moral man. None exist in Iraq. Saddam had them killed. That's Bush's point. He did not say Mandela has passed. It's respectful to wish there was a Mandela in Iraq. Should we just not bring his name up until the 89 year old passes away? The original question that the President was referring to was someone asking: "Where is this region's (middle east) Mandela?" Is that person to be derided as someone who mistakenly thought that a frail 89 year-old Mandela was making the rounds, dodging jihadists in Iraq? I really can't believe that someone would have misunderstood the President's evoking of Mandela's name in his statement. I can believe this though:

As one of the legions of faceless, nameless, wise-ass, know-it-all bloggers to get yet another shot in at George Bush... you should be embarrased. You should be embarrased that you're among a generation of kids who are getting their "news" snippets from YouTube, the daily show, and fellow bloggers.

Chris you are no liberal. What's wrong with you can you see and read? Bush said it and he can spin it any way he wants but those of us that have seen 7 years of his ignorant gaffs damn well know he meant it. LOL liberal, right.

In light of your "John is my hero" comment, I made the logical assumption that you were his butt-boy. Sorry if I read too much into your post.

Copious apologies, your honor. And thanks for the love.

Otis, I find it rather funny that you seem to have be humouring the idea of a man's penis inside of the mouth of another man. To me this appears as an insecurity on your part, that is, the inability to accept a certain practice that is done by predominantly the homosexual population.

You seem to be more of a closed off, afraid, and hyper-masculine conservative male than a mature and insightful contributor to the commenting community.

I find it interesting that you find it necessary to be taking such a hostile approach in response to my harmless comment giving constructive and supportive feedback to the comment thread. Yes, I made a stereotype by suggesting that all Jews like NY drive a Maserati, and that he should 'rot' in it, and I am at least man enough to say that I feel good about what I said because it shows NY that he (much like you) needs to stop going around pretending that he has some divine right to over-analyse a situation and contribute a trite and idealist thought that does nothing except encourage other users such as yourself to stand up for your little NY homie.

And I am bilingual.

Have a great day. I love you.

This story is why people don't trust us liberals. Do your homework before you make the rest of us seem dumber than a box of rock.

"I really think that John should be the only one allowed to talk from this point on."

Just curious Trevor, is it difficult to type with John's flacid little Vienna suasage in your mouth, or are you Bilingual. Too bad you can't chew gum with his wee wee in there too. Talk about a neato parlor trick, huh?

"Where Are all the Mandelas"...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/30/iraq/main538607.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0510-02.htm

An opinion from Hitchens:

http://www.slate.com/id/2078003/

The rest of the world points and laughs again.
How long will America accept the tyranny of its government? At least if its people are willing to accept the erosion of their rights, the christianification of the state and the libertarian nonsense that will leave whole generations in an unbreakable poverty loop, at least if they can accept that they should pick a leader with half a brain and with some charisma to spoon feed the lies and baby formula to them.

I really think that John should be the only one allowed to talk from this point on.

NY Yanks, go rot in your Maserati.

LOL You are some representative of orthodox Judaism! Vulgarity, insults, what a guy! You might make me ashamed to be Jewish, but I know you are the exception not the rule.

Just remember as you sit there alone tonight in your rat infested tenement in Brooklyn pleasuring yourself to pictures of Joe Lieberman in a thong . . . right-wing and conservative are now dirty words and the policies that you espouse have been rejected by America. Come November 8th, 2007 they will be relegated to the smouldering dung heap of failed political history.

I'm done with you. Go sit shiva for the death of your ideology.

You are one hopelessly pathetic person. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. I see you are conserving yours for a sometime in the future.

Schmuck.

LMAO! Right! You would defend Bush if you had pictures of him molesting a child wouldn't you?

You dumb ass. Even you are not so stupid that you don't understand what the President was saying, are you? I guess you are as dumb as I thought. Allow me to explain-

Someone asked, 'Where are all the Mandelas", as in "where are the martyrs willing to die for freedom". The presidents reply was actually quite effective.

Sorry you didn't understand.

Schmuck.