Following in Mandela's footsteps: Barack Obama and Michelle make poignant pilgrimage to the island where South African leader was imprisoned for 18 years

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351892/Locked-thought-Obama-Michelle-pay-poignant-visit-prison-Mandela-held-18-years-South-Africa.html

Photos at link, scroll fast and you won't see them....


I only post this article because the comment section is really worth the read.

Here is a sample of comments....

his man makes me sick. Anything for a photo shoot and all this while his country is going down the tubes.- Dave, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 30/6/2013 14:25.... Deal with your native country imbecile!

- Amazonking , Laguna Beach, United States, 30/6/2013 22:59


The bloke is still alive. Surely this is poor taste -like he was invited to the funeral and no one told him it was cancelled

- Stephanie , Milton keynes, 30/6/2013 22:58
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Obama promised to fight terrorism and now he is condoning and aligning himself with one. Big mistake.- Annette, Birmingham, 30/6/2013 16:45...... Uneducated woman! Kitchen.

- Amazonking , Laguna Beach, United States, 30/6/2013 22:55
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Should have closed the cell door while he was in for the most useless,divisive,buck passing President the USA has endured for many a year.A level for speeches but Z level for content.

- L Varley , Leeds, 30/6/2013 22:55
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The Truth , st.louis, United States, 30/6/2013 21:37 And you're just another uneducated low information voter (unfortunately you can vote). Obama can't hold a candle to George Bush as so many are beginning to realise.....Obama will go down in history as the WORST President in ANY capacity this Republic has ever known. You're just too ignorant to realise it.....and we're all going to be paying for it in the years to come.- cayman214 , anywhere USA, 30/6/2013 22:32.......... Bush is the worst president ever right wing fool! No one will ever take that spot from him!

- Amazonking , Laguna Beach, United States, 30/6/2013 22:51
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Obama promised to fight terrorism and now he is condoning and aligning himself with one. Big mistake.

- Annette , Birmingham, 30/6/2013 22:45

- cayman214 , anywhere USA, 30/6/2013 22:32


i still cannot understand how he won the nobel peace prize he had only been there a little while and i still don't see much peace making, also why does the whole family have to travel inclunding mother wife daughters and some niece or something surely even in america you need to cut back on costs

- mylife somewhere , liverpool, 30/6/2013 22:28

Another desperate person hitching their star to Mandela's wagon ...

- Dee , Midlands, United Kingdom, 30/6/2013 22:28


]He would have been released a lot earlier if he has agreed to renounce violence. But he refused. Some role model, eh ?

- Graham, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 30/6/2013 8:00

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The trouble with a president who has absolutely no sense of who HE really is  - he is always trying to wrap himself up in being someone else - be it Lincoln, Reagan, Washington or Mandella.

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He could be Madella and be imprisoned 18 years or even more if our Congress had any balls.

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He could be Madella and be imprisoned 18 years or even more if our Congress had any balls.