legalinsurrection.blogspot.com - 10/9/2009
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Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. For what? Peace in Afghanistan ? Peace in Iraq? Peace in the Middle East? Nope. How about peace in Chicago, Honduras, Detroit, or somewhere? Nope. What a joke. Was Chris Matthews on the committee? What an embarrassment to the Nobel Peace Prize legacy. How ...
news.com.au - 10/13/2009
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news.com.au —
The Democrat said he had contacted Mr Tsvangirai
"to share my deep concern for the way his...
supporters are being targeted by the regime, and to express my admiration for his efforts to ensure that the will of the Zimbabwean people is finally ...
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Obama in touch with Tsvangirai
whitehouse.gov - 10/13/2009
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 12, 2009 REMARKS BY...
PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRIME MINISTER TSVANGIRAI OF ZIMBABWE AFTER MEETING Oval Office 4:04 P.M. ...
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PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
... President.
“It’s almost as if they’re saying, ‘We’re giving you this prize for winning the election,’” said Schieffer.
This, too, strikes me as being great deal of the reasoning.
Of course, apart from trying to figure out what the Nobel committee was thinking, the reactions to the award are going to be highly political in the US (as was the case with the Olympics business). Two quick examples here and here.
But, of course, the award itself is (by definition) political.
KOOL-AID DRINKING NOBEL COMMITTTEE JUMPS SHARK, GIVES OBAMA PEACE PRIZE!
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americasfuture.org 10/13/2009 — I’m guessing he wouldn’t answer that question, but I hope his answer would be Morgan Tsavngirai, leader of a peaceful effort to bring democracy and human rights to Zimbabwe, which has been terrorized and impoverished by the Mugabe ...