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A Conciliatory Consolation Prize

ApolloSpeaks18 Wrote: Oct 16, 2009 7:29 AM
If John McCain had beaten Barack Obama for the presidency last year who would have been the likely winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009? Click my name and read my piece "The Final Word on Obama's Nobel Prize" for the shocking answer

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama was so enigmatic that it skipped bad and went to laughable ... a punch line to a joke.

Part of the humor is due to the timing. A week before, on Friday, Oct. 2, the International Olympic Committee in the first round of voting had eliminated Chicago from the list of cities it was considering for the 2016 games. It was breathtaking, inexplicable and unimaginable -- a rebuke to the American president who had gone to pitch his adopted city to the IOC and come home empty-handed.

Going Rogue by...
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