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| Margaret Thatcher dies |
| 2013-04-08 |
| Baroness Thatcher, Britain's greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced. Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning. Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning.A further statement will be made later." Known as the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher governed Britain from 1979 to 1990. She will go down in history not only as Britain's first female prime minister, but as the woman who transformed Britain's economy in addition to being a formidable rival on the international stage. Lady Thatcher was the only British prime minister to leave behind a set of ideas about the role of the state which other leaders and nations strove to copy and apply. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #17 FYI late 1950's + early 1960's teen heartthrob ANNETTE FUNICELLO, from Walt Disney's "Mickey Mouse Club" + "Beach" Movies" + "Frankie [Avalon]-n-Annette" fame, has also passed on, from MS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-08 19:47 |
| #16 "When will the US have its first Female POTUS - IT CAN'T, BECAUSE MAGGIE THATCHER IS BRITISH"!? Stayed true even thru Bush 41 + POTUS Billary first-term. Thus began America's own search for its own Femme Pol equivalent - 1960's = 1980's MTV MADONNA AKA "MADGE" NOTWITHSTANDING. I suspect the very strong character of the Femme US SecState taken hostage by rogue Korean terrorists in "OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN" is a [pro-Hillary?] composite which includes but isn't limited to the persona of Madge/Maggie Thatcher??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-08 19:42 |
| #15 Check out, esp. photo #16. The look of pride on President Reagans face could never be duplicated by the poser we now call CIC.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-04-08 19:21 |
| #14 "Zero must show." Gawd, I hope not. Mrs. Thatcher deserves better than that. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-04-08 19:20 |
| #13 He might be busy at a ceremony for Chavez... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-04-08 19:18 |
| #12 Zero must show. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-04-08 17:01 |
| #11 What Alan said. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-04-08 16:05 |
| #10 The best foreign leader in my lifetime. RIP Lady Thatcher. Tell Ronald that we miss you both. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-04-08 13:57 |
| #9 see who Champ sends to the funeral to see his true feelings for the Brits. The only reason he might go is of there is a really good photo op and fundraising gig. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2013-04-08 13:28 |
| #8 The empty suit in the oval office would be better served if he would put down Saul Alinsky and read a little Margaret Thatcher. WE would be better served if he did. Too bad we can't seem to find a leader like her or Ron right now, we really need one. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-04-08 12:19 |
| #7 Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and John Paul II -- thank goodness they were there where and when we needed them. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2013-04-08 12:03 |
| #6 Rest in Peace good lady. Her and Regan were stalwart defenders of their countries to the end. Sad to see so much of their work going to waste. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2013-04-08 09:43 |
| #5 I was born during her and Reagan's tenure. May both of those blessed souls be having a Scotch in Heaven, talking about old times. |
| Posted by: Charles 2013-04-08 09:41 |
| #4 May she rest in the peace she deserves. A once-in-a-generation leader. We're due - will anyone recognize her when she comes? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-04-08 09:11 |
| #3 FT obit She changed us all. We went from being a people who saw ourselves as eternally on the downward slide to a nation that was proud to be British again. On the world stage too, she made Britain count once more. She was a startling presence who brought a strong and controversial style to our diplomacy after years of Foreign Office blandness. The words are those of Charles Powell, one of the closest aides of the “iron lady” during her time in power. Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday aged 87, not only revolutionised the social order in her own country but did much to reshape world politics amid the crumbling of the Soviet empire. The developed world’s first woman prime minister transformed a sclerotic UK economy, all but neutered the trade unions and endeavoured “to roll back the frontiers of the state” with a policy of offloading the great nationalised industries and selling council houses to their occupants. Abroad, she was the indomitable leader who won victory over Argentina in the Falklands war, who decided that Mikhail Gorbachev was a Soviet leader she could “do business with” and who inspired a respect for “Thatcherism” as a political philosophy that was never quite matched on the domestic front. |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-04-08 08:36 |
| #2 My condolences to Carol and the family, less the evil twin of course. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-08 08:28 |
| #1 more brains and balls than our current Lyin' King |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-04-08 08:21 |