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Selective Thoughts #5

Brian H Wrote: Mar 22, 2010 8:35 AM
Actually, the Peace Prize is awarded by a very leftist political body in Europe, not some impartial committee. It has no connection to the other Nobel Prizes.

President Obama has often been accused of acting professorial. More importantly, it appears he thinks that he is running a college campus where all the appointees are tenured employees. Maybe he does not understand that he can fire someone.

Certainly, at minimum, John Brennan, the Deputy National Security Adviser, should get the ax. There are multiple reasons why he should be shown the door, but his recent comment that the recidivism rate of terrorists released from Guantanamo is better than that of common criminals released from American prisons may be the single stupidest thing I have ever heard an Administration...