Posted on 12/09/2009 1:18:29 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Finally some Europeans are angry with Obama—the very ones who are awarding him his Nobel. Katarina Andersson on the president's decision to decline lunch with King Harald and skip his own Nobel exhibit.
A day before President Obama receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the president’s treatment of his Norwegian hosts has become hot news across Scandinavia.
News outlets across the region are calling Obama arrogant for slashing some of the prize winners’ traditional duties from his schedule. “Everybody wants to visit the Peace Center except Obama,” sniped the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, amid reports the president would snub his own exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center. “A bit arrogant—a bit bad,” proclaimed another Aftenposten headline.
“It’s very sad,” said Nobel Peace Center Director Bente Erichsen of the news that Obama would skip the peace center exhibit. Prize winners traditionally open the exhibitions about their work that accompany the Nobel festivities. “I totally understand why the Norwegian public is upset. If I could get a few minutes with the president, I’d say, ‘To walk through the exhibition wouldn’t take long, and I’m sure you would love the show. You have no idea what you are missing.’”
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Guess this one’s not royal enough or powerful enough to bow too.
BTTT
Hey dummies give him another Piss, er, Peace Prize, why dont’cha? After all, it’s predicated on what you try to believe he’ll do in the future. Now he’s shown you, for weeks.
Obama knows the “Peace Center” is crap also, and as President, he feels he doesn’t need to bother with it.
You can take the Kenyan out of a mud hut village but...
The list, ping
Screw em. They deserve their mistake to be handed to them right in their faces. Ain’t liberal white guilt grand?
You know, I think he should start wearing some robes or a military uniform covered with medals... Maybe a head dress, or a cape like Karzai.
Well heck, I hoped they would keep him.
If the king wasn’t so dog-gone WHITE, Obama would have bowed to him instead of snubbing him.
The man is clearly a recist!
;-)
...or brown enough...
Buyer’s remorse
May Barry just has a sore back.
Not moslem enough.
What don't these Norwegians understanding about nothing? Oh wait, they gave the Peace Prize for nothing and now they are surprised 0bama has nothing to exhibit. Maybe Afghanistan. Heh.
He won’t go see the exhibit because it’s not about him.
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