Posted on 09/16/2013 1:28:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Last Friday, just as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov were working out the final details of an agreement on the Syrian crisis, the Russian media went into high gear starting its drive for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
PravdaTV, a media outlet friendly to the Kremlin, produced and distributed a video clip opening with a scene of Putin tenderly caring for a Siberian tiger cub while the narrator says, “What does a peace prize mean, if not the prevention of war.” Scenes of Putin on location in the Middle East follow. A rhetorical question with a bit of an edge ends the video: “We must remember that in 2009 Barack Obama got the prize, in 1990, Gorbachev, so why not Putin?”
As the Kremlin-driven lobbying effort and petition drive to award Putin the prize heats up, my advice to the Nobel Committee is to remember a line from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”: “If gold rusts, what shall iron do?”
However, we can both retain our reservations about Putin’s nomination for the Nobel Prize and also admit that Putin’s on a roll.
The week before last, he upstaged President Obama at the St. Petersburg G20 summit. Last week, he stole a throw-away idea Kerry had half-heartedly tossed about in London and turned it into a diplomatic breakthrough that has averted what was potentially the most dangerous confrontation between the United States and Russia since the Cuban Missile Crisis 51 years ago.
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Give him Zero’s. Neither one would have “earned” it.
Yeah, I know, but it pains me to see our Country humiliated by this muzzie pos.
Obama does a good enough job looking like a fool, on his own.
Well, Hitler never did anything good and neither has Obama.
I can't celebrate a commie getting the best of our Country and making us look like fools.
I love seeing Obama humiliated on one hand but ultimately it is this Country that is paying the price....that really pisses me off.
The pos should have been impeached long ago....as well as the spineless Congress that won't stand up to him or do it (impeach).
Comrade Dictator Obama’s the one being humiliated. He hates America. Does not represent patriotic Americans at all. Obama’s on his own on this one. He drew the line. Chose his allies (the Muslim Brotherhood and al Quaeda terrorists). Made his threats against Syria, against the congress and against the constitution. And now Putin is rubbing his nose in it. Obama is a traitor to America and I have no sympathy for him. Obama is a shame and disgrace.
I agree with you 100%, unfortunately, he represents this Country and is dragging us down with him....I hope some how we'll be able to recover from it.
The prize has become such a joke. I predict it will go to Putin and Kerry.
Obama is a TRAITOR and should face the Constitutional procedure and penalty.
I don't know who to hold more in disdain.
This whole debacle is driving me nuffing futs.
I don’t know, the Adolph did paint some pretty pictures. He even tried out for art school but got edged out by the competition. History might have been a bit more pleasant had he made it into art school.
Yes! Putin earned that Super Bowl Ring abount as much as Obama earn his peace prize. At least the super Bowl Ring has value. Nobel not so much.
He count paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! TWO COATS!
Putin deserves it WAY more than al Gore did.
Nobel Prize for promoting a scam?!?!?!?!
The dad from Paper Moon should’ve gotten a prize too.
well.. to be honest... at least he’s done things.
they handed barry the cracker jack prize for literally showing up
May as well give one to Assad too.
May as well give one to Assad too.
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