Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Time Mag Chief Stengel: Obama a Mandela for the 21st Century, Mandela’s ‘True Successor’

[Meanwhile, in our professional media...]

Time magazine Managing Editor Richard Stengel, who will be part of the roundtable on Sunday's Meet the Press, wrote in a new book released on Tuesday:

“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.

"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...

“Whatever Mandela may or may not think of the new American President, Obama is in many ways his true successor on the world stage...”

[It's Time.]






























































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