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Friday, October 09, 2009

On Obama's Peace Prize

UPDATE: Tom Lehrer said when Henry Kissinger got the Nobel: "Irony has died." The PULSE blog says it has died again. Here's the kind of diplomacy which Nobel seem to like:



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From on-point:

Khaled Al-Batsh, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad in Gaza, condemned the award, saying it “shows these prizes are political, not governed by the principles of credibility, values and morals,” Reuters reported. “Why should Obama be given a peace prize while his country owns the largest nuclear arsenal on earth and his soldiers continue to shed innocent blood in Iraq and Afghanistan?”
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/world-reaction-to-a-nobel-surprise/?hp

Another on-point:
myron c.
nh
October 9th, 2009
6:27 am

John Prine was wrong. A flag decal will get you into heaven.

Do people not realize that President Obama is the Commander in Chief of a military action against two countries? Is war truly peace?
To (justifiable) ridicule:

moose6 wrote:
heathergreeneyes wrote:
Didn't Obama just bomb the moon too?////

Well to be fair the moon had it coming. Sitting up there in the heavens. Looking down on us smugly. Controlling the tides. He needed to get taken down a peg or two. No celestial body should have that much power. ;)

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