Posted on 09/24/2007 6:59:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I am occasionally asked why it is that so many Europeans display reflexive anti-Americanism, and I force myself to choose from a salad of possible answers. One of these is the resentment that I can remember feeling myself when I lived in England in the 1970s: the sheer brute fact that American voters who knew nothing about Europe (and cared less) could pick a president who had more clout than any of our elected prime ministers could exert. America could change our economic climate by means of the Federal Reserve, could use bases in Britain to forward its policies in Asia or the Middle East, and all the rest of it. Americans could also choose a complete crook like Richard Nixon, or a complete moron like Jimmy Carter, and we still had to watch our local politicians genuflect to the so-called Atlantic alliance.
Nowadays, this bothers me slightly less than it used to do. (George Bush at his worst is preferable to Gerhard Schröder or Jacques Chirac—politicians who put their own countries in pawn to Putin and the Chinese and the Saudis.) But I can still feel the old pang gnawing away. And I can still sense the European instinct for revenge or, to phrase it another way, for the chance to influence U.S. politics in return. One of the ways in which this influence can be exerted is the award of the Nobel Peace Prize. (And not just the peace prize, either; the so-called "prize" for literature has been awarded quite openly to figures who earned their reputations as enemies of the American imperium, just as the laurels bestowed on Jimmy Carter were accompanied by explicit remarks from Scandinavia to the effect that this might put a spoke in Bush's wheel.)
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Old habits on the left never die
His son has 5 arrests over recent years
algore is not lookin’ to healthy to me
But it will not matter - It was widely known algore was stokin’ while in the Senate and is accepted by the left as normal
three days out of every month Hitchens is a lively mind and on the other days he reverts....
sad
[is accepted by the left as normal]
I guess no one would tell even if they watched him do it. I know his son has a bad record.
Well, he is the only possible candidate who could stop her and I hope he would choose to run whether he gets the Nobel or not.
Christopher Hitchens, I assume you are talking about? That is very sad.
Takes a lot of money to keep up that habit and when your mind isn’t right you can’t make the money!
Unless you write a psychedelic book......lol!
I've heard Rush Limbaugh has been nominated.
From NobelPrize.org
What about the rumours circling around the world about certain people being nominated for the Nobel Prize this year?
Well, either it's just a rumour, or someone among the invited nominators has leaked information. Since the nominations are kept secret for 50 years, you'll have to wait until then to find out.
And -
Was Stalin ever nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Joseph Stalin, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end World War II. Jane Addams was nominated 91 times between 1916 and 1931, when she was finally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. By contrast Emily Green Balch, Fridtjof Nansen and Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize the first year they were nominated.
Jack, you are 10 years too late. The last conservative in Norway was, shot, cooked, and eaten by Muslim immigrants last week. The Norwegian police got a tip and immediately apprehended the disaffected youths at table in a luxurious apartment paid for by Norsk Welfare, but immediately released them, pointing out that the now deceased and consumed conservative had been acting in a provocative manner that offended the sensibilities of those who believe in Shar'ia.
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