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rhuSo I've been thinking. How many disastrous decisions have been made by presidents hoping to win a Nobel Peace Prize? But now, Obama has his. Sure, he'll still have to worry about the verdict of history, but just imagine....
He has to decide whether or not to invade Pakistan after the Taliban complete their takeover, and he looks around the situation room at Secretary Clinton, General Jones, and Admiral Mullen, and he says, "I already have my Nobel Prize. Screw it --- blast the bastards to hell!"
He gets Netanyahu and Abbas in a room together and says, "Listen, guys, I already have a Nobel Prize. You guys want yours, you gotta figure this one out."
Oh, and about that nice gesture of donating the $1.4M to charity --- my guess is that it would be illegal for him to keep it anyway. And I hope for his sake the medal itself isn't worth more than $200.
He has to decide whether or not to invade Pakistan after the Taliban complete their takeover, and he looks around the situation room at Secretary Clinton, General Jones, and Admiral Mullen, and he says, "I already have my Nobel Prize. Screw it --- blast the bastards to hell!"
He gets Netanyahu and Abbas in a room together and says, "Listen, guys, I already have a Nobel Prize. You guys want yours, you gotta figure this one out."
Oh, and about that nice gesture of donating the $1.4M to charity --- my guess is that it would be illegal for him to keep it anyway. And I hope for his sake the medal itself isn't worth more than $200.
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Date: 2009-10-15 11:15 pm (UTC)My answer to that is, we, the People, should get the award then, as it is the Constitution that prevented a third term. Votes chose between Obama and McCain; it wasn't Obama's choice to be President...
After 40 years of cognizance regarding the political scene, (for me, it started with Eisenhower) I see a growing trend to "political self importance". They despise us, as individuals. We have lost the "We the People" and have gravitated to "let them eat cake"!
:)