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PR campaign gears up to get Nobel Peace Prize for Putin
MinnPost ^ | Sept 16, 2013 | By Nick Hayes

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; peaceprize; putin
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To: Jim Robinson

Give him Zero’s. Neither one would have “earned” it.


21 posted on 09/16/2013 2:07:55 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Jim Robinson
Who’s rooting? But it’s certainly ironic to see a Russian eating the Marxist’s lunch.

Yeah, I know, but it pains me to see our Country humiliated by this muzzie pos.

22 posted on 09/16/2013 2:09:32 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Steely Tom
Why not. Dilutes the value of the Nobel prize, and makes Obama look like a fool.

Obama does a good enough job looking like a fool, on his own.

23 posted on 09/16/2013 2:09:44 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Well, we’re really rooting for good sense and truth. That’s a winner anywhere. If Hitler ever did something good it would remain something good.

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).

24 posted on 09/16/2013 2:13:52 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

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.


25 posted on 09/16/2013 2:18:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
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.

26 posted on 09/16/2013 2:23:42 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Jim Robinson

The prize has become such a joke. I predict it will go to Putin and Kerry.


27 posted on 09/16/2013 2:24:50 PM PDT by JoeRed
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To: Jim Robinson

Obama is a TRAITOR and should face the Constitutional procedure and penalty.


28 posted on 09/16/2013 2:25:29 PM PDT by lightman (Prosecute the heresies; pity the heretics.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Meant to add: Where is our spineless "representatives" and why are they not impeaching this commie traitor in office?

I don't know who to hold more in disdain.

This whole debacle is driving me nuffing futs.

29 posted on 09/16/2013 2:27:09 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

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.


30 posted on 09/16/2013 2:46:51 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: dfwgator

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.


31 posted on 09/16/2013 2:49:58 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
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.

He count paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! TWO COATS!

32 posted on 09/16/2013 2:53:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Standing Wolf
*The Nobel “peace” prize is worth a dollar and eleventy-nineteen cents. I’d say Putin is as deserving as anyone else.*

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.

33 posted on 09/16/2013 3:17:46 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Jim Robinson

well.. to be honest... at least he’s done things.

they handed barry the cracker jack prize for literally showing up


34 posted on 09/16/2013 3:58:54 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Jim Robinson

May as well give one to Assad too.


35 posted on 09/16/2013 7:35:46 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Jim Robinson

May as well give one to Assad too.


36 posted on 09/16/2013 7:35:59 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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