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Obama to receive JFK "Profile in Courage" award
Washington Times ^ | Thursday, March 2, 2017 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 03/02/2017 9:52:45 AM PST by gattaca

Former President Barack Obama was named Thursday as the winner of the 2017 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award.

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation said Mr. Obama is being honored “for his enduring commitment to democratic ideals and elevating the standard of political courage in a new century.”

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, and her son, Jack Schlossberg, will present Mr. Obama with the award on May 7 in Boston.

Mr. Obama said on Twitter that he is “humbled to be recognized by a family with a legacy of service.”

The foundation said Mr. Obama’s presidency “consistently reflected in so many ways, big and small, the definition of courage” cited by JFK in his 1957 book, “Profiles in Courage.”

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To: gattaca
A fake award from one fake president to another.

Profiles In Courage was a BS book written by someone else for JFK. Thus the award should be given to Bill Ayers.

61 posted on 03/02/2017 10:48:50 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: gattaca
Mr. Obama said on Twitter that he is “humbled to be recognized by a family with a legacy of service.”

Is that screaming "Service! Service!" as the bartender says "Last Call"?

62 posted on 03/02/2017 10:49:04 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Jess Kitting

[[What has Obama ever done that was courageous?]]

Why he courageously braved appearances in front of adoring loving coddling main stream media, and he courageously violated the constitution many times, and he courageously ignored the law when enacting rules and regulations and agreements that required congressional approval- silly


63 posted on 03/02/2017 10:52:40 AM PST by Bob434
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To: gattaca

He deserves this as much as the Nobel Peace Prize.


64 posted on 03/02/2017 10:52:49 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (There will come a time when those screaming Fascists are in fact the actual Facists. W Churchill)
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To: Leep

[[but he had a LOT of nerve.]]

Nah- he didn’t have a lot of nerve- he is a coward who wouldn’t confront the enemy, and he had a fawning coddling press corp to protect his every move- Donald has a lot of nerve- knowing that everything he does is going to be ripped to shreds by the left and the msm, and because he’s willing to confront the enemy instead of baking them a cake-


65 posted on 03/02/2017 10:56:32 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Montaignes Cat
One thing he and Kennedy have in common is that both had an unattributed author write the book that made their reputations.

Yep, Obama should have won the Profile in Courage award for The Audacity of Hope, or whatever book Bill Ayers wrote for him (all of them?).

66 posted on 03/02/2017 10:58:54 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: gattaca
Teddy's concept of "service" is identical to that a bull renders to a heifer!
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Someone really ought to erect a statue on the Mall to Mary Jo for keeping this reprobate out of the White House. She really DID give her life for her country.


67 posted on 03/02/2017 11:14:16 AM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. DIDN'T WE IMPRISON TOKYO ROSE???)
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To: litehaus

Papa Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger. The Kennedy clan comes from stellar stock.


68 posted on 03/02/2017 11:14:39 AM PST by Ciexyz (Happy days are here again, with Trump/Pence!)
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To: Jess Kitting
0bama and Courage in the same sentence?

No Freaking Way!!!!

69 posted on 03/02/2017 11:31:33 AM PST by TYVets
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To: dfwgator

I don’t think so. Democrats from that era were more conservative then, yes there were Liberals but hard to compare them with today’s Ilk.

In 1972 the radical members of the SDS and others Leftists took control of the party through the Convention that year.

Since then the party has moved into it’s present form freezing out and forcing anyone moderate or conservative out.


70 posted on 03/02/2017 11:32:21 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: americas.best.days...
He also deserved the Cy Young Award for his opening day prowess.

A Cy Young Award for a 45 foot "fast ball"?

71 posted on 03/02/2017 11:35:23 AM PST by TYVets
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To: Montaignes Cat
One thing he and Kennedy have in common is that both had an unattributed author write the book that made their reputations.

From what I read Ted Sorenson wrote Kennedy'S Profiles in Courage

Phony JFK accepted the Pulitzer prize
72 posted on 03/02/2017 11:40:10 AM PST by uncbob
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To: TYVets

Yes. And if you don’t give it to him you’re RACIST!! Lol.


73 posted on 03/02/2017 11:47:42 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: Yaelle

He devolved on the issue of same sex shackup.


74 posted on 03/02/2017 11:49:18 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Jess Kitting
What has Obama ever done that was courageous?

Ever see a pic of his spouse?

75 posted on 03/02/2017 11:51:58 AM PST by jimbug
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To: gattaca

What b.s. The award should be to President Trump, obviously, for showing vastly more courage than any Democrap in standing up for the AMERICAN people, against all the lying globalist elites aka Democraps, RINOs, and MSMscum.


76 posted on 03/02/2017 11:54:39 AM PST by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: Ciexyz

“Papa Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger. The Kennedy clan comes from stellar stock”.

And I thought that when I got that degree from “The Kennedy School of Driving and Diving”, That was Teddy’s big thing you know, I’d be set for life......


77 posted on 03/02/2017 12:53:39 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: gattaca

I am presenting pResident Obama with the first lifetime achievement award for learning to throw a baseball like a girl. Sorry, girls... that was wrong, I know.


78 posted on 03/02/2017 1:35:15 PM PST by ataDude (.)
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To: Bob434
What do they got that i ain't got? Image result for cowardly lion Image result for obama sissy
79 posted on 03/03/2017 6:26:07 AM PST by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: gattaca
The foundation said Mr. Obama’s presidency “consistently reflected in so many ways, big and small, the definition of courage” cited by JFK in his 1957 book, “Profiles in Courage.”

How much courage did it take to send the Mexican Drug Cartels 2,000 firearms for the soul purpose of trying to gin up support for a domestic "assault weapon" ban?

80 posted on 03/03/2017 6:33:53 AM PST by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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