President Obama hails Thatcher as "great champion of freedom."
Source: The Guardian
Barack Obama led tributes from the United States to the former British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, whose death on Friday led to an outpouring of remembrances that went well beyond normal courtesies.
Obama described Thatcher as "one of the great champions of freedom and liberty" and a true friend to the US. Former president George HW Bush and the Republican House speaker John Boehner also paid generous tributes.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-dies-tributes-obama
Are you bloody kidding me, Mr. President??
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Put it on with a trowel, why not, Mr. President?
but saying that she was "great champion of freedom" is a huge stretch.
Gee...........
I don't... 
Thatcher and Reagan may have coaxed it along, but it was Gorbachev and the people of Eastern Europe who were ready for a change. In other words, the Soviet Union would have collapsed without these two neocon's help.
Haven't studied history much, have ya, sparky?
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"Baroness Thatcher was a great and effective champion of the causes for which she stood." It's perfectly respectful, while remaining utterly neutral on the question of whether the things she stood for were good or bad.
It's rather like a comment I use when I know a person is expecting me to say something positive about something I don't necessarily like or agree with: "It's an excellent example of its kind."
And I would tell anyone else the same thing. 
RL
Obsessed much?
Deal with it.
RL
Mr. President, you just need to be quiet. 
I'm thinking of fasting for the next week because the piling on of Maggot Thatcher's attributes is gonna make it hard to keep my food down.
He's kissing ass to one of his neo liberal idols.
People of Quality, most un-Democratic.
He died at 91. Unfortunately, that was a privilege denied to Salvador Allende and thousands of his supporters.
Hey Maggie, say hello to Augusto.
General Pinochet at the Bookstore
Santiago, Chile, July 2004
The general’s limo parked at the corner of San Diego street
and his bodyguard escorted him to the bookstore
called La Oportunidad, so he could browse
for rare works of history.
There were no bloody fingerprints left on the pages.
No books turned to ash at his touch.
He did not track the soil of mass graves on his shoes,
nor did his eyes glow red with a demon’s heat.
Worse: His hands were scrubbed, and his eyes were blue,
and the dementia that raged in his head like a demon,
making the general’s trial impossible, had disappeared.
Desaparecido: like thousands dead but not dead,
as the crowd reminded the general,
gathered outside the bookstore to jeer
when he scurried away with his bodyguards,
so much smaller in person.
-- Martín Espada
Pinochet was vile.
blind? THAT freedom and liberty?
Why thank you, Sir! At least I know who's side you are on, without a doubt now.
I don't know why I expect better of him.
