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Margaret Thatcher dead at 87
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN

London (CNN) - Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a towering figure in post-war British and world politics, and the first woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87, her spokeswoman said Monday.

Thatcher served from 1979 to 1990 as leader of the Conservative Party. She was called the "Iron Lady" for her personal and political toughness.

Thatcher retired from public life after a stroke in 2002 and suffered several strokes after that.

She made few public appearances in her final months, missing a reception marking her 85th birthday hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron in October 2010. She also skipped the July 2011 unveiling of a statue honoring her old friend Ronald Reagan in London.

In December 2012, she was hospitalized after a procedure to remove a growth in her bladder.

Thatcher made history

Thatcher won the nation's top job only six years after declaring in a television interview, "I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime."

During her time at the helm of the British government, she emphasized moral absolutism, nationalism, and the rights of the individual versus that of the state -- famously declaring, "There is no such thing as society" in 1987.

Nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by the Soviet press after a 1976 speech declaring that "the Russians are bent on world dominance," Thatcher later enjoyed a close working relationship with U.S. President Reagan, with whom she shared similar conservative views.

But the British cold warrior played a key role in ending the conflict by giving her stamp of approval to Soviet Communist reformer Mikhail Gorbachev shortly before he came to power.

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Probably the most successful woman ever.
She couldn't even dunk!

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rogers park bryan wrote:
Probably the most successful woman ever.
She couldn't even dunk!

:lol: Goddamn BRick is a pisser.

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She was awesome as the mayor in The Naked Gun.

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She wasn't dead already?

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She wasn't dead already?


No.

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 Post subject: Re: Margaret Thatcher
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She wasn't dead already?


No.

She is now though.

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Hawg Ass wrote:
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She wasn't dead already?


No.

She is now though.

Yes.

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 Post subject: Re: Margaret Thatcher
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Anytime there is mention of how strong a woman Hilary is, anybody with an IQ over 90 should just say "Margaret Thatcher", then calmly walk away.

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Lady Olenna Redwyne was based on her.

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Anytime there is mention of how strong a woman Hilary is, anybody with an IQ over 90 should just say "Margaret Thatcher", then calmly walk away.

Fuckin Peggy never cried on the campaign trail!!!

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 Post subject: Re: Margaret Thatcher
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Anytime there is mention of how strong a woman Hilary is, anybody with an IQ over 90 should just say "Margaret Thatcher", then calmly walk away.


I'll trump your Iron Lady with an Eleanor Roosevelt. Worse on the eyes, yes, but bringing the UN about & pushing for racial equality in the US trumps fighting a bum of the month tour over the Falkland Islands(or otherwise parroting Reagan) in my book.

GHW Bush made her look tougher than she deserved to be considered.

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Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen to others.

Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor and did nothing at all to help them, she hated Greenpeace and environmental protectionists, she was the only European political leader who opposed a ban on the Ivory Trade, she had no wit and no warmth and even her own Cabinet booted her out. She gave the order to blow up The Belgrano even though it was outside of the Malvinas Exclusion Zone - and was sailing AWAY from the islands! When the young Argentinean boys aboard The Belgrano had suffered a most appalling and unjust death, Thatcher gave the thumbs up sign for the British press.

Iron? No. Barbaric? Yes. She hated feminists even though it was largely due to the progression of the women's movement that the British people allowed themselves to accept that a Prime Minister could actually be female. But because of Thatcher, there will never again be another woman in power in British politics, and rather than opening that particular door for other women, she closed it.

Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity.

MORRISSEY.



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She wasn't dead already?


No.

She is now though.

Yes.

Confirmed.

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 Post subject: Re: Margaret Thatcher
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RIP Iron Lady

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The kind people
Have a wonderful dream
Margaret on the guillotine
Cause people like you
Make me feel so tired
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?
When will you die ?

And people like you
Make me feel so old inside
Please die


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Make the dream real
Make the dream real
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 Post subject: Re: Margaret Thatcher
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In terms of "tough ladies",

1. Indira Ghandi
2. Golda Meier
3. Corazone Aquino (what the hell, Imelda Marcos, too.)
4. Evita Peron
5. Thatcher

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In terms of "tough ladies",

1. Indira Ghandi
2. Golda Meier
3. Corazone Aquino (what the hell, Imelda Marcos, too.)
4. Evita Peron
5. Thatcher

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I was gonna go with the Fabulous Moolah but Richter will work.


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