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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: a fool in paradise

As I’ve mentioned on a couple other threads, the people who are probably the most pissed right now are the Clintons.

All this proves is what a joke the Nobel Peace Prize has become.


11 posted on 10/09/2009 11:42:22 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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