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“Turn it down! Politely decline. Say he’s honored but he hasn’t had the time yet to accomplish what he wants to accomplish,” writes Mickey Kaus, a liberal-ish blogger for Slate. “And the downside is … what? That the Nobel Committee feels dissed?” Kaus reasons that the nod will distract the president at a crucial policy-making time over “another grand speech” and does nothing to help him move his domestic agenda.
1 posted on 10/09/2009 11:25:22 AM PDT by swheats
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To: swheats
The Nobel peace prize committee has jumped the shark.

2 posted on 10/09/2009 11:27:23 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (SPENDING without representation is tyranny. To represent us you have to READ THE BILLS.)
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To: swheats; wagglebee

Barack Hussein Obama is no Mother Teresa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa

In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, “for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace.” She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India,[67] stating that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her help the world’s needy. When Mother Teresa received the prize, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?” She answered “Go home and love your family.” Building on this theme in her Nobel Lecture, she said: “Around the world, not only in the poor countries, but I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society—that poverty is so hurtable [sic] and so much, and I find that very difficult.” She also singled out abortion as ‘the greatest destroyer of peace in the world’.[68]


3 posted on 10/09/2009 11:27:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Rush Limbaugh: "Obama's head is now so big, his ears fit!")
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To: swheats

The Continentals are now openly mocking Barry by awarding him the worthless Nobel Peace Prize.

Of course he should turn it down...


4 posted on 10/09/2009 11:28:45 AM PDT by telebob
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To: swheats

There is a big cash award($1.4 Mil.). Obama will take the prize. Michelle needs new sneakers.


5 posted on 10/09/2009 11:31:03 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: swheats

No. I disagree. He must accept it.

If Gore accepted it, and Carter accepted it, and Arafat accepted it, Obama can do no less.


9 posted on 10/09/2009 11:39:10 AM PDT by marron
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To: swheats

Obvious, but the World has officially turned upside down. Evil is now considered good, nothing is considered something, property is bad, taking others property is good. Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!


10 posted on 10/09/2009 11:41:14 AM PDT by steve0 (My plan B: christianexodus.org/)
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To: swheats

I hope he doesn’t turn it down. If he did he would keep the honor of its awarding and look reasonable, classy and above it all. For those reasons and his own vanity he will in fact accept the neville medal.


13 posted on 10/09/2009 11:49:35 AM PDT by steve0 (My plan B: christianexodus.org/)
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To: swheats

I’ve been thinking the same thing, but his arrogance and sense of entitlement will not let him.


15 posted on 10/09/2009 12:03:40 PM PDT by CaptRon
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Turning it down would be the most difficult thing he ever did.


17 posted on 10/09/2009 12:30:54 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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