Obama wants to give away the Nobel False Peace Prize for a total of $1.4 million.
That's a drop in a swimming pool compared to the trillions he and his cronies siphoned off the U.S. economy.
Posted on 03/11/2010 5:30:22 PM PST by myknowledge
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans' families and survivors of Haiti's earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said "do extraordinary work."
Obama is giving a total of $750,000 to six groups that help kids go to college. Fisher House, which provides housing for families with loved ones at Veterans Administration hospitals, will receive $250,000, the White House said Thursday. And the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, for which two former presidents are raising money to rebuild earthquake-ravaged Haiti, will receive $200,000.
"These organizations do extraordinary work in the United States and abroad helping students, veterans and countless others in need," Obama said in a statement. "I'm proud to support their work."
Obama was chosen for the Nobel award more for his aspirations and approach than his accomplishments thus far. The Nobel committee honored him for changing the tenor of international politics and for pursuing goals Obama says will require worldwide effort, such as nuclear disarmament and reversing global warming.
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Obama wants to give away the Nobel False Peace Prize for a total of $1.4 million.
That's a drop in a swimming pool compared to the trillions he and his cronies siphoned off the U.S. economy.
(Do I need to attach a sarcasm tag to this post?)
Guilty conscience?
Never his to begin with. He’s a phoney and a fraud and will go down in history as tied w/Carter for worst prez ever.
Yea, never earned it anyways
Please!
catchin my breath...more to come
bet this nearly killed the sob
As if I give a milli-sh*t.
He should give it to Bill&Melinda Gates to blow. They’re experts at it
Well there's a surprise.
I wouldn't have thought it of him.
I hope 0bama is the worst president ever! How could we begin to survive a worse one? Once all the illegals can safely vote, and it is comming soon...say ByeBye to the USA!
Rush Limbaugh Speech at the Warner Theatre November 16, 2006
""As you know, this event is cosponsored by the Heritage Foundation, and the beneficiary tonight is the Fisher House. (applause) To show you how slow the mind can be sometimes, when I was told that the beneficiary for the proceeds tonight would be the Fisher House and was told what the Fisher House does, it should have clicked immediately who it was, that it was Zack Fisher. I do a lot of work with the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation in fund-raising, attending their annual ball every April in New York, and Zack Fisher and his brother had made that organization, and they practically gave every charitable dollar they gave, to the military in one form or another. For some reason it didn't click 'til I got out there today. I went out there today to the Fisher House at Walter Reed, and when I walked in and I said, "Wait, wait, wait," because I knew Zack.
I'd had dinner with him a couple or three times, and I can't say we were friends, but I was acquainted with him, and it all started to make sense. I got a tour of the place. It was just astounding. There were two guys, one missing his right arm, flicking around watching television, and here we come trooping in. I think the only thing that was on was The View, so he wasn't missing anything. (laughter) Another guy in a wheelchair, and their families were there. So the whole purpose of the Fisher House was on display. I got to see it. I talked to those guys, and then they took us up to the actual hospital, the Army hospital for the rehabilitation ward for amputees. We got up there, and we had an entourage of about five or six people. We got up there, and right as we got to the corner, we're going to have to turn to go in the room, there was a stop put on future forward motion.
We sat there and we waited for five minutes, and I figured they were just checking to make sure that nobody would jump out the windows when I walked in. So I was given the all-clear, we walked in -- and, folks, I have to tell you. I did a troop visit to Afghanistan, it will be two years ago in February. The members of this Armed Services -- all of them; I shouldn't single these people out -- they're a different breed of people. They're a different breed of cat. They volunteer to protect and defend the country. Ninety-nine percent of us wouldn't do it. Ninety-nine percent of us don't think about it. They do. Thank God for them, and God bless them -- and look what happens to them when they do. (applause)""
This is consistent with what we know about Obama.
He’s an expert at giving away other people’s money.
Disagree!
Carter was bad but let us know who he was, Bohama does not tell you who he is, what he believes in, or even if he, in fact, was born here!!!!!!
I'm not impressed.
Impeach 0bama! Sooner vs later!!!!
I guess Hispanics don’t cut it with Obama. Haiti gets the cash, Chile gets zilch!!! Who’d have thunk it???
Obama was chosen for the Nobel award more for his aspirations and approach than his accomplishments thus far
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OUCH
I read that legally Barry couldn’t keep the prize money.
The Nobel Foundation donated to the Fisher House, not Barry.
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