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The Affirmative Action Nobel

Akagi2 Wrote: Oct 14, 2009 10:27 AM

Also note that after the embassy was burned on November 21, 1979 onward the US still had formal diplomatic relations with Pakistan, the US ambassador in 1979 Arthur W. Hummel, didn't leave his post until July 1981 and he was replaced in October of 1981 by Robert Spiers. The 3 month lag a normal span to give the president time to nominate and have him confirmed by the Senate. Spier's replacement in 1983 Deane Hinton took nearly as long to replace him as it took him to replace Hummel. By the way I dispise Hummel--Panda hugging S*B, but he is dead, so thanks for small favors I guess.

But even if you were right, it doesn't matter. There is no prohibition to serve as President of the United States as a dual-national, only that...

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The Affirmative Action Nobel

All my life, said Voltaire, I have had but one prayer: "O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous. And God granted it."

In awarding the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama, the Nobel committee has just made itself look ridiculous.

Consider. Though they had lead roles in ending a Cold War lasting half a century, between a nuclear-armed Soviet Empire and the West, neither Ronald Reagan nor John Paul II ever got a Nobel Prize.