On the other hand, this tripe is also ridiculous:
Pass the sick bag, please. How can anyone, even Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, produce such guff?It is impossible to write about Nelson Mandela these days and not compare him to another potentially transformational black leader, Barack Obama. The parallels are many. … And while it took twenty-seven years in prison to mold the Nelson Mandela we know, the forty-eight-year-old American president seems to have achieved a Mandela-like temperament without the long years of sacrifice.
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