Bob Dylan, John Glenn, Madeleine Albright To Get Highest US Honor

hispanicbusiness.com ^ | April 26, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

A diverse group of figures, including music legend Bob Dylan and astronaut John Glenn, will receive the nation's highest civilian honour from US President Barack Obama, the White House said Thursday.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded for contributions to US interests, world peace or cultural endeavours. The White House tapped 13 recipients from the world of diplomacy, arts sports and sciences.

Madeleine Albright, who served as the first female secretary of state under president Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, and Israeli President Shimon Peres are to be honoured for their contributions to foreign policy.

[The Sons of Liberty]

I lost all respect for John Glen when he sold his vote not to remove the impeached rapist for a ride on The Space Shuttle.

[BenLurkin]

A diverse group of figures lefties...

[Happy Rain]

Dylan Glen and Albright?

An over hyped proto-hippie, an old liberal fool astronaut and a mud fence in skirts running after the King terrorist Arafat?

Sounds like a club Groucho would join.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Is somebody going to set these ignoramuses straight about Dylan? I don't have the energy.

[EveningStar]

ping

[greyfoxx39]

A diverse group of figures liberals...THESE are "American Heroes"? Puke!

[TwelveOfTwenty]

The White House tapped 13 recipients from the world of diplomacy

Madeleine Albright Defends Mass-Murder of Iraqi Children (500,000 Children dead).

And someone like this gets an award for diplomacy?

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Dylan is, by far, the closest to conservative in that group.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Dylan is a conservative. Check this out.

About your tag line, it's sad to see the party of Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, and MLK stooping to this low.

[dead]

In March 1998, William Jefferson Clinton and the First Lady arrived in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The hundreds of thousands of corpses had been somehow removed, and the president of the United States told the dignitaries greeting him at the airport:

"It may seem strange to you here, especially the many of you who lost members of your family, but all over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror."

On the contrary, word of the coming terror had reached the White House— and the State Department and the Defense Department and the UN— as early as 1989. But the warnings were ignored.

Clinton's culpability in this holocaust is not an impeachable offense, but it is the single most repellent charge against him and his administration.

In his extraordinarily detailed and probing book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998), Philip Gourevitch says plainly that "throughout the entire period" of the genocide, the Clinton administration's approach was not a failure to intervene but "a success of a policy not to intervene." (Emphasis added.)

Carrying out the Clinton policy of letting the killing continue was Madeleine Albright, then our ambassador to the United Nations. Says Gourevitch:

"Her name is rarely associated with Rwanda, but ducking and pressuring others to duck— as the death toll leapt from thousands to tens of thousands— was the absolute low point in her career as a stateswoman."

A Holocaust We Could Have Stopped
Nat Hentoff
published: February 23, 1999

[dfwgator]

I hate that bitch with every fiber of my being....for Rwanda, and for her glee at bombing the Serbs.

[I still care]

Diverse? They are all Dems.

[Lazlo in PA]

The first two I can see getting an award, but Madeleine Albright? That woman caused more damage to this country than even Hitlery. She should be deported to her favorite brutal regime.

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[Gay State Conservative]

Sorry,can’t agree with any of them.Dylan was certainly a genius as a songwriter but his work didn’t rise to this level,IMO.Madeline Dimbulb,half Jewish,half moslem,half lesbian,half African...are you joking me? And John Glenn? I lost ALL respect for him when he agreed to keep Clinton’s a$$ in office by stonewalling the banking scandal investigation.And his reward was a trip into space.He sure sells his honor pretty cheap.

[Road Glide]

“Dylan is, by far, the closest to conservative in that group.”

And the only one who deserves the award!

(Well, maybe Glenn, but not on the same stage as Dylan!)

[Reo]

The winners need to be reminded that ....the first one now will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

[dfwgator]

Albright should be parachuted right into the heart of downtown Belgrade.

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