His wife is not a stylish person !!
What? no comments . He physically accepted the award this morning. No comments about his speech, his handshake, or his wife?
"....... where organizers replaced him with an Obama cardboard cutout".
President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech Thursday is drawing praise from some unlikely quarters – conservative Republicans – who likened Obama’s defense of “just wars” to the worldview of his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush.
The remarks drew immediate praise from a host of conservatives, including former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
“I liked what he said," Palin told USA Today. "Of course, war is the last thing I believe any American wants to engage in, but it's necessary. We have to stop these terrorists."
Gingrich told The Takeaway, a national morning drive show from WNYC and Public Radio International, “He clearly understood that he had been given the prize prematurely, but he used it as an occasion to remind people, first of all, as he said: that there is evil in the world."
“I think having a liberal president who goes to Oslo on behalf of a peace prize and reminds the committee that they would not be free, they wouldn't be able to have a peace prize, without having [the ability to use] force,” Gingrich said. “I thought in some ways it's a very historic speech.”
“The irony is that George W. Bush could have delivered the very same speech. It was a truly an American president's message to the world,” said Bradley A. Blakeman, a Republican strategist and CEO of Kent Strategies LLC who worked in the Bush White House.
“Wow. what a shift of emphasis,” said Robert Kagan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a former policy advisor to McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. Kagan said. “I don't know what to say about an ‘Obama doctrine,’ because based on this speech, I think we are witnessing a substantial shift, back in the direction of a more muscular moralism, ala, Truman, Reagan.”
Nothing ever really changes around this placeConservative praise for Nobel speech
Nothing ever really changes around this place
Most have their opinion, I have mine. I’ll take Obama over what came before any day of the week. An across-the-board disaster that Obama has to waste valuable capital undoing and making up for. The fundamental character & way of life of the US was abruptly changed, but at the same time it can be influenced by its leadership... some agree with the former admin, most with the current. If you cling to anger over Obama as some sort of ideological life raft, make your claim w/o envoking birth certs, college records, teleprompters, bowing or any other ridiculus conspiracy theory. The fact is, the world came to loathe and reject Bush because he seemed to so completely turn his back on American values in the name of corporate giveaways and murderous neocon fantasy... Obama represents a return in unlike Bush fashion - though whether he can actually deliver is a question. Escalation in Afgh is a similarity problem for me with the Bush Adm, however, in un-Bush-like manner, a controversial time table was set, the Generals seemed pleased at the new strategy, and it's not like he broke a campaign promise. He did say he was going to ease out of Iraq and turn up the heat in Afgh. This unending and knee-jerk hostility towards Obama paints the opposition's party, of a dead and discredited ideology, as well as another of those Tea-Parties of negativity the right seems to brew so well with mis-information....Wkmac, seems to bring the strongest arguement in molding Bush and Obama, as one of the same, in his own (Ron Jeremy--Conrad Dobler) unique way, and IMO, a l'il over the top. That's the only thing Dick Cheney and myself would agree on, "That Obama fellow is no George Bush!"....
Obama quietly authorises expansion of war in Pakistan
President Barack Obama has quietly authorised an expansion of war against terrorism in Pakistan under which CIA would widen its campaign of strikes against militants by unmanned drones.
The expanded operations by the CIA could include drone strikes in the southern province of Baluchistan, where senior Afghan Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding, New York Times reported today quoting officials.
CIA has submitted its plan to widen its campaign in Pakistan to the White House and has asked for commitment to jack up the agency's budget for operations inside the country.
CIA also wants to send more spies into the terrorist infested areas in Pakistan's tribal belt to try to infiltrate into groups like Taliban and other foreign militant groups.
But the Times said, Obama Administration was aware that any expansion of overt American presence in Pakistan could fuel anti-Americanism in a country that fears that US is plotting to run its government and seize its nuclear weapons.
So, the paper said Obama officials were working to get a weak, divided and suspicious Pakistani government to agree to the terms.
New York Times quoting US officials said that authorising drone strikes in Baluchistan was also planned as Americans believe that it is from there that top Taliban leaders direct many of the attacks on their troops in Afghanistan and that these are likely to increase as more US troops pour into the country.
Dude you had to be drunk when you typed this?