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Fidel Castro lauds Nobel prize for Obama
Reuters ^ | October 10, 2009 | Jeff Franks

Posted on 10/10/2009 7:05:30 AM PDT by myknowledge

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro lauded the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, saying on Saturday it was "a positive measure" that was more a criticism of past U.S. policies than a recognition of Obama's accomplishments.

Castro said the prize made up for the blow Obama suffered last week when the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2016 Summer Games to Rio de Janeiro after Obama had flown to Copenhagen to pitch for Chicago, his adoptive hometown.

The Nobel Committee announced on Friday that Obama had won the peace price for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

The decision prompted surprise in many quarters and anger from Obama's conservative foes in the United States.

But Castro, who has generally written positively about Obama, was pleased at the decision by the committee.

"I don't always share the positions of that institution but I'm obligated to recognize that in this instance it was, in my judgment, a positive measure," Castro wrote in a column published in state-run media.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allbarackedup; fidelcastro; humbledandsuprised; humbledandweeweed; nobelfalsepeaceprize; obama; obamanobelprize; surprisedandhumbled; undeservedaward
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Even Fidel Castro is lauding at Obama's undeserved Nobel False Peace prize.

1 posted on 10/10/2009 7:05:31 AM PDT by myknowledge
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To: myknowledge

Think the sheeple are seeing a PROBLEM when Castro is PLEASED that Obama won this farce of an award?

Sickened.


2 posted on 10/10/2009 7:07:08 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: myknowledge

Tells me all I suspected was justified.


3 posted on 10/10/2009 7:09:22 AM PDT by thoolou ("I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." - David Bradley, inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Del)
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To: myknowledge

Incredable endorsment! Now I feel better.


4 posted on 10/10/2009 7:11:05 AM PDT by exnavy (GOD save the republic)
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To: myknowledge
Fidel, you're not dead yet? You do know Satan is waiting for you, and it is not a good idea to keep him waiting.

5.56mm

5 posted on 10/10/2009 7:12:06 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe
No, he's just resting.
Here he is enjoying his morning paper:


6 posted on 10/10/2009 7:14:34 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: myknowledge

Breaking: Obama Wins Dumb-bell Prize for Economics!


7 posted on 10/10/2009 7:15:37 AM PDT by TheLafferCurve (Peter Lawford and his baggage)
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To: myknowledge
that was more a criticism of past U.S. policies than a recognition of Obama's accomplishments.

I agree with Castro for once! The Nobel Committee was sending a message that they're happy Bush is no longer President. It has nothing to do with Obama.

8 posted on 10/10/2009 7:16:01 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: myknowledge

Maybe Fidel willl have a shot at next years’ Nobel Peace Prize. Unless he is beat by Mugabe or Kim Chong Il.


9 posted on 10/10/2009 7:19:29 AM PDT by silverleaf (If we are astroturf, why are the democrats trying to mow us?)
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To: Alter Kaker

Bingo. This whole fiasco was all a repudiation of GWB.


10 posted on 10/10/2009 7:20:55 AM PDT by animal172 (Fire the Johnson City Mall management)
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To: myknowledge

The old camel probably nominated Obama for the award.


11 posted on 10/10/2009 7:21:33 AM PDT by madison10
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To: MaryFromMichigan

haha...I like his red, white, and blue sweats....seems a little out of place on him....


12 posted on 10/10/2009 7:21:44 AM PDT by Mopp4
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To: MaryFromMichigan

LOL - castro wearing an Addidas jacket. He sure hates that capitalism crap!


13 posted on 10/10/2009 7:21:50 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: MaryFromMichigan
That looks like a still shot from the movie "Weekend at Bernie's."

5.56mm

14 posted on 10/10/2009 7:22:42 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: MaryFromMichigan

I would think he is starting to get stinky by now!


15 posted on 10/10/2009 7:25:04 AM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: myknowledge

If Obama isn’t embarrassing himself . . .which he usually does

Then the Nobel Committee will

Then throw in Castro too . . . what an endorsement!

ROFL at these TOTAL IDIOTS


16 posted on 10/10/2009 7:25:11 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: myknowledge

Castro happy, republicans not.

What part of this equation surprises anyone?


17 posted on 10/10/2009 7:26:19 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: myknowledge

This is further proof of how absurd the “Peace Prize” has become.

People are not fooled. They see right through this.


18 posted on 10/10/2009 7:38:57 AM PDT by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: M Kehoe

Ain’t it the truth?

All those who loathe human freedom LOVE this award for the Zero who similarly hates freedom!


19 posted on 10/10/2009 7:42:05 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt (Obama's Deathcare ---- many will suffer and/or die unnecessarily.)
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To: myknowledge

Well yeah, Obama is one of his students. Fidel’s prized pupil.


20 posted on 10/10/2009 7:55:47 AM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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