>Nobel Prize Committee with an accolade previously awarded to doves like Yassar Arafat, Kissinger and Begin?
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>You're right. Maybe it was a typo and they meant Obama to present the Nobel peace prize not get the prize !. I think it was meant to go to Donald Rumsfeld who contributed to world peace by not sending enough soldiers and not having a clue what to do with them once they got there and had won.
Rumsfeld is truly a classic example of hubris, pig-headedness and blatant disregard of the facts. Snatched disaster from the jaws of victory.
Wonder who gives a prize for that?
Obama is good at winning popularity contests. But I don't think he carries any real weight with Putin, the Chinese, the Iranians, the Israelis, or the Saudis, who live in a less popularity poll driven universe.
That said, Hillary is probably a big asset, in that I don't thing any of them question her toughness.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
