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Yeah, but Obama won a *Nobel Prize* and it is unlikely the magnitude of his achievements in accomplishing that will ever be equaled. >
>I am brazen enough to say that either...
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>a) he is undeserving (I ask...what has the man DONE to deserve it?)
>b) the fact that he won it, denigrates the concept
But the fact that he could accept it with a straight face raises chuztpah to an art-form <s>
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.
