Posted on 10/09/2009 8:24:46 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
(CNN) — Arizona Sen. John McCain said Friday the Nobel Committee's decision to award President Obama the Peace Prize was likely based on expectations, not accomplishments.
"I can't divine all their intentions, but I think part of their decision-making was expectations," McCain told CNN's John King. "And I'm sure the president understands that he now has even more to live up to."
But Obama's former rival for the White House said he was happy with the decision.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Where’s Ronald Reagan’s prize for ending the Cold War?
I think he must have drank the whole case and went back for another.
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I guess it does prove the point what a worthless thing that prize is now.
Can I get a raise based on my bosses expectations rather than what I actually do???
I think I will nominate Ho Chi Mihn for a postumous award next year!
Sometimes I forget how much I disliked McCain then he reminds me again.
McCain is such a RINO LOSER! I deserve the Nobel in Physics. I have “expectations” of coming up with a major breakthrough in string theory in the next year.
Silly you. The nobel peace prize isn’t for bringing peace to the world. It’s for advancing failed left wing policies.
Some Republican should introduce a bill re-naming the Washington Monument the Obamument. After all George Washington is just some old white founding father while Obama is the first Black president to win a Nobel Prize. Anyone who objects to this is obviously a racist.
“Where’s Ronald Reagan’s prize for ending the Cold War?”
...and without a war with the USSR which would have cost millions of lives. Shame on the Leftist monkeys in Norway who don’t know a real leader for peace when they see one, and insist on spending their dynamite-sponsored prize money on peaceniks and appeasers, while war rages and true human rights champions suffer in terrorist strongholds around the world.
...and freeing Eastern Europe from the tyranny of the USSR?
I imagine they will all sayn something similar or say nothing at all.
Wow, Mac really was tortured out of his mind in Nam.
McCain has officially lost his frigging mind.
As much as I hate Dear Leader 0bamessiah The Most Merciful(Peace Be Upon Him), John McCain would not have been much better.
Hussein won for one reason and one reason only. He’s part black.
DEAR PEOPLE OF ARIZONA:
Please re-start your McCain RECALL campaign that you droped after 9/11.
My daughter was just awarded her PhD in Mathamatics during her first year of Algebra based on future expectations.
John McCain is an embarrassment.
Mccain, the other Soros candidate
Shaddup, McLame. I voted for Sarah!
John McCain - CNN’s favorite Republican. They know they can always go to him for a quote.
McCain....the man most responsible for giving us “President” Obama
lolol
I thought they proved it with Al Gore.
Nobel Committee is corrupt as he!!. What a joke.
Lets give Tiger Woods next years championship, not to the person who actually win the award, because we view that he has the best chance of doing well next year and need encouragement
And people are complaining in here about Beck saying McCain was Obama-Lite.
Well, DUH!
Johnny Mac, this is the last straw. It’s time for the people of Arizona to vote Simcox in the 2010 GOP primary and get rid of this a$$%^&* once and for all.
John...even puppies and kittens don’t like you very much.
So which is more pointless, the Nobel “Peace Prize” or John McCain?”
Oh Brother! McCain keeps proving Beck right. McCain is as bad or worse than Obama. STFU McCain.
don’t forget he’s NOT GW Bush!
Yeah, he would be pleased. Cretins!
LOL. Actually , I think ‘foo;’ is a better description of Massive Meghan’s daddy.
“Shaddup, McLame. I voted for Sarah!”
I did too. Before Sarah I was seriously considering voting third party. I didn’t even vote for McLame in the primary. I’m tired of the myth that says Sarah cost the GOP votes. No, it was McLame that did. If it weren’t for Sarah, BO would have won in a complete landslide. It’s amazing thinking back a year ago that it even was THAT close. We don’t need McLame trying to go out there and “reshape” the Republican Party into the RINO Party. The conservative base, the Constitutionalists, the disenchanted Obama voters and even some libertarians are going to reshape this party. Johnny Mac, just go away!
another reminder why the Noble Peace prize is a joke...
Irena Sendler v. Al Gore
http://www.merlinsilk.com/2009/09/04/irena-sendler-v-al-gore/
Irena Sendler, born in 1910, was raised by her Catholic parents to respect and love people regardless of their ethnicity or social status. Her father, a physician, died from typhus that he contracted during an epidemic in 1917. He was the only doctor in his town near Warsaw who would treat the poor, mostly Jewish victims of this tragic disease. As he was dying, he told 7-year-old Irena, “If you see someone drowning you must try to rescue them, even if you cannot swim.” In 1939 the Nazis swept through Poland and imprisoned the Jews in ghettos where they were first starved to death and then systematically murdered in killing camps. Irena, by than a social worker in Warsaw, saw the Jewish people drowning and resolved to do what she could to rescue as many as possible, especially the children. Working with a network of other social workers and brave Poles, mostly women, she smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto and hid them safely until the end of the war. Sendler took great risks - obtaining forged papers for the children, disguising herself as an infection control nurse, diverting German occupation funds for the support of children in hiding. She entered the Warsaw ghetto, sometimes two and three times a day, and talked Jewish parents into giving up their children. Sendler drugged the babies with sedatives and smuggled them past Nazi guards in gunny sacks, boxes and coffins. She helped the older ones escape through the sewers, through secret openings in the wall, through the courthouse, through churches, any clever way she and her network could evade the Nazis. Once outside the ghetto walls, Sendler gave the children false names and documents and placed them in convents, orphanages and with Polish families. In 1942 the Polish underground organization ZEGOTA recruited her to lead their Children’s Division, providing her with money and support. Her hope was that after the war she could reunite the children with surviving relatives, or at least return their Jewish identities. To that end she kept thin tissue paper lists of each child’s Jewish name, their Polish name and address. She hid the precious lists in glass jars buried under an apple tree in the back yard of one of her co-conspirators. In 1943 Irena Sendler was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death by firing squad. She never divulged the location of the lists or her Polish underground contacts. At the last moment she was saved by ZEGOTA which bribed a guard to secure her freedom. She still bears the scars and disability of her torture.
As a post script, I wanted to point out some of the major media outlets in our nation that boycotted her nomination. A search of LexisNexis identified the following: The New York Times; USA Today; The Los Angeles Times; The Chicago Tribune; The San Francisco Chronicle; The Miami Herald; CNN (Beck’s report was on CNN Headline News); MSNBC; CBS; Fox News (only Prime Time broadcasts and Fox News Sunday are transcribed).
Obviously, there are many more that ignored Sendler. In fact, as I analyze this further, most of the 107 reports were from foreign media sources, not American ones.
Why might that be?
LOL!
Hey, typos can lead to new meanings. :)
He is and always was delusional..
“Peace Prize was likely based on expectations”
I am expecting to adopt all the orphans in Africa. Give me the prize. Actually, just give me the cash and you can keep the medal.
I’m thinking that a major part of being one of McCain’s aids is making sure his briefcase always has a large supply of Vaseline.
What kind of prize is that? My grandson could be awarded it at age 5 because one day I hope he saves the world is about as true an argument as that.
This prize was worthless back when Arafat got it for promising to make nice with Israel.
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