Cheer up Right Wingers, you have more company! : KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban mocked the award of a Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday… LINK
In other news, President Obama ate a BLT sandwich today. Conservatives immediately move to have bacon banned. Rv- –
So, good thing he was killed, you're saying?
Daniel DID do drugs. Report below shows he had METH in his system and an extensive criminal history that included…
Greg, You can think what you want. Criminals, illegal immigration and neighboring countries can all erode countries sovereignty. But war…
My definition is ... irrelevant to this discussion, counselor. (I'd look up case law if I needed one.) You're the…
Wait what is your definition of sovereign nation? And I don’t think you understand what independence is. Entering into treaties…
But maybe you did mean (1) "Completely independent" and (2) "authority over its borders" as two separate things. In that…
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Completely independent and authority over its borders. That sounds about right. Not wrapped in tin foil.
What exactly do you think that the word "sovereign" means? Maybe we're getting to the root of the problem here.
If it can’t guarantee its own safety it is not much of a sovereign nation is it?
Obama went overseas and was greeted by hundreds of thousands of cheering Europeans – BAD BAD BAD
Obama went overseas to fight for Chicago 2016 and lost – GOOD GOOD GOOD
Obama won the Nobel prize – BAD BAD BAD
God bless Limbaugh, the Taliban!!! May he die and be greeted by 72 liberal virgins.
Lam,
Now that Rush is into the Rams, it would be great for him to be greeted in the afterlife by the aged Georgia Frontiere…
Here’s Michael Moore’s take on the Peace Prize:
From: Michael Moore
Date: 10/9/2009 3:49:18 PM
To: signslimited@triad.rr.com
Subject: Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize — Now Please Earn it!
Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize — Now Please Earn it!
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Dear President Obama,
How outstanding that you’ve been recognized today as a man of peace. Your swift, early pronouncements — you will close Guantanamo, you will bring the troops home from Iraq, you want a nuclear weapon-free world, you admitted to the Iranians that we overthrew their democratically-elected president in 1953, you made that great speech to the Islamic world in Cairo, you’ve eliminated that useless term “The War on Terror,” you’ve put an end to torture — these have all made us and the rest of the world feel a bit more safe considering the disaster of the past eight years. In eight months you have done an about face and taken this country in a much more sane direction.
But…
The irony that you have been awarded this prize on the 2nd day of the ninth year of our War in Afghanistan is not lost on anyone. You are truly at a crossroads now. You can listen to the generals and expand the war (only to result in a far-too-predictable defeat) or you can declare Bush’s Wars over, and bring all the troops home. Now. That’s what a true man of peace would do.
There is nothing wrong with you doing what the last guy failed to do — capture the man or men responsible for the mass murder of 3,000 people on 9/11. BUT YOU CANNOT DO THAT WITH TANKS AND TROOPS. You are pursuing a criminal, not an army. You do not use a stick of dynamite to get rid of a mouse.
The Taliban is another matter. That is a problem for the people of Afghanistan to resolve — just as we did in 1776, the French did in 1789, the Cubans did in 1959, the Nicaraguans did in 1979 and the people of East Berlin did in 1989. One thing is certain through all revolutions by people who wish to be free — they ultimately have to bring about that freedom themselves. Others can be supportive, but freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else’s Humvee.
You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don’t, you’ll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
P.S. Your opposition has spent the morning attacking you for bringing such good will to this country. Why do they hate America so much? I get the feeling that if you found the cure for cancer this afternoon they’d be denouncing you for destroying free enterprise because cancer centers would have to close. There are those who say you’ve done nothing yet to deserve this award. As far as I’m concerned, the very fact that you’ve offered to walk into the minefield of hate and try to undo the irreparable damage the last president did is not only appreciated by me and millions of others, it is also an act of true bravery. That’s why you got the prize. The whole world is depending on the U.S. — and you — to literally save this planet. Let’s not let them down.
I am surprised the Obama won it. But winning the election here and changing the image of the US has hopefully contributed to the possiblity of peace so I can understand thier thinking.
We need to stand firm in Afganistan and if we need more troops so be it. Our allies need to put some more in also, if not lets take some troops out of thier countries if needed.
Well, Lookie, Lookie…. Turkey and Armenia are signing a historic accord to establish diplomatic relations after a CENTURY of deadlock. Nice work, secretary of state, Clinton! Looks like old Hillary is getting in line for the next round of Nobel Peace award contestants.
Yep. All this peace stuff is just nonsense, isn’t it, obamaopposers?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_turkey_armenia
Russia is claiming that Obama has prevented a second cold war:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1009/p06s13-woeu.html
Moscow – Russia is one place where US President Barack Obama’s influence has perceptibly moved the needle away from Bush-era frostiness, dubbed by some a ‘second cold war’, toward a new dialogue and hopes for better cooperation.
In Moscow, the reaction to the news of Mr. Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize was surprised, but welcoming.
“It’s hard to see how he’s done anything in a few months that merits a Nobel Prize,” says Pavel Zolotaryov, deputy director of the official Institute of USA-Canada Studies in Moscow. “Yet it seems logical. It reflects the world’s support for his promises to move in a new direction, and hope that he will have the strength to see it through.”
Obama has convinced Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to sign on to his vision of working toward a nuclear weapons free world, and the two have pledged to deliver a major new strategic arms reduction treaty by the end of this year. At a Kremlin summit meeting in July, the two leaders hit it off and agreed to a full “reset” of the vexed US-Russia relationship. And last month, Obama appeared to deliver on that pledge by unilaterally shelving Bush-era plans to station antimissile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic, which had for several years been the single biggest strategic irritant between Moscow and Washington.
“In recent years, our relations had just been getting worse and worse; it was like a dialogue between the blind and the deaf,” says Elina Kirichenko, a North America expert at the official Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. “But Obama has turned that around. At least he stopped making harsh statements that anger Moscow, and made an effort to understand Russia’s feelings and concerns.”