tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post9143959727863590834..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Regrets, They Had a Few...Karen Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-42022215614022387302014-09-16T17:06:54.825-04:002014-09-16T17:06:54.825-04:00So, You are saying that he is being forced to do i...So, You are saying that he is being forced to do immoral things and there is no way out of this predicament? That he cannot make a resignation speech and just resign? Perhaps the powers that control him have threatened to kill him and his family?Eric Veltrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-76441439888355042212014-09-16T06:41:08.190-04:002014-09-16T06:41:08.190-04:00I remember my husband telling me on the morning th...I remember my husband telling me on the morning that Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. I seriously thought he was joking around. It totally cheapens what should be an incredible honour and commission, as MLK saw it, for the worthy recipients when politicians like Kissinger and Obama are given the prize. I mean, why not give it to Bush?<br /><br />And I am with JayOttawa. I don't think Obama has any problem sleeping at night. If you want to see a president who agonized over decisions about what was best for America, take a look at photos of Jimmy Carter. THAT was a Nobel Prize Winner deserving of the honour.Valerie Long Tweedienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-32789930512562012432014-09-14T13:40:16.837-04:002014-09-14T13:40:16.837-04:00How does he sleep nights?
He must be getting enou...How does he sleep nights?<br /><br />He must be getting enough unbothered sleep, somehow. Otherwise, he would not be able to get up every morning year after year to face the world with a bright smile to carry on with betrayal, murder, deception and reliable service as the chief governmental accessory to grand theft by plutocrats at home and abroad.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-73851243013284172842014-09-14T11:05:36.921-04:002014-09-14T11:05:36.921-04:00My comment is about Obama putatively 'sleeping...My comment is about Obama putatively 'sleeping the sleep of the unbothered.' I think this is needlessly pejorative as I think it is evident that the President is one agonizing soul struggling with contradictions and conundrums the likes of which you and I will never have to face. It is rather clear that he is bothered, but he can't do....nothing. I think, rather, that whatever he does or does not, he sleeps the sleep of the damned.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04505526012134089666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-44261864782872770922014-09-13T09:40:12.878-04:002014-09-13T09:40:12.878-04:00Since the Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1...Since the Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901, the Nobel Committee has been at a total loss on 19 occasions to find a worthy brow upon which to rest its laurels. You might then say, I suppose, that nobodies win the prize quite often. At least 19 times so far.<br /><br />Try to understand the pressures on the Nobel Committee. Every year you’ve got the whole world to choose from and you still have to fuggedaboutit. A peaceable anybody anywhere is hard to find –– as we ourselves must surely know from personal experience.<br /><br />So, give the Nobel Committee a break. We (who are peaceable types) should be more sympathetic and indulgent when the Committee, instead of voting yet again for another nobody, decides instead to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with an almost nobody like Kissinger and Obama.<br /><br />Alfred Nobel made his fortune blowing up things (to include people) better than other arms manufacturers of his day. Great men and women of our time, in the spirit of ‘do as I do’ not ‘do as I say,’ carry on that Nobel tradition.<br /><br />Now do you see the rapport between Alfie, Super K and BO? Hillaryhawk may soon be allowed to join that same club of almost nobodies.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-57142001810398728852014-09-12T13:21:20.192-04:002014-09-12T13:21:20.192-04:00As I read your essay I was thinking that the end o...As I read your essay I was thinking that the end of your sentence (instead of the Tim Lehrer quote) would be:<br /><br />"made any candidate ever being awarded this honor in the future only depict themselves as charlatans more than ready to follow orders for war-making without restraint or ethical boundaries."<br /><br />Because who would ever trust these guys' judgment again?<br /><br /><i> Kissinger and Obama being honored as peacenicks have, in the words of Tim Lehrer, "made political satire obsolete."</i>Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.com