Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said that Republicans had a lot of very good ideas for health reform. But he failed to mention any, and he said he wasn’t sure it’s a fact that people die for lack of health insurance.
Meanwhile, Sean Hannity — the SYPHILIS at Fox ‘News’ advocated that George W. Bush, the worst war criminal in the 21st century and Bullshit-Artist, be awarded the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, instead of President Obama. Hannity also boasted that his idea of peace is to “[blow an enemy into tiny little pieces]” [ SEE VIDEO BELOW ]
Yep, this goon-moron is syphilitic alright!
Senate Minority Whip John Kyl: People Don’t Die Because The Have No Health Insurance
Glenn Beck: “Nobel Peace Prize should be turned down by Barack Obama and given … to the Tea Party goers and the 9-12 Project.”
Rush Limbaugh: “Something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn’t deserve the award.”
Bill Kristol suggested that Obama will be defeated in 2012, because Mikhail Gorbachev won a Nobel Peace Prize, and the Soviet Union collapsed a year later.
Some radio thug suggested that it was an “Affirmative Action” award.
“I think the Nobel Committee couldn’t vote in our election in 2008, so they decided to vote this year,” said Bush GOON John Bolton, who served as ambassador to the U.N. under Bush. “It’s high-minded Europeans talking down to hayseed Americans, saying this is the way you ought to be.”
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy: “The award marks America’s return to the heart of the people of the world.” That deserves a prize. Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, defended the decision. “The question we have to ask is who has done the most in the previous year to enhance peace in the world,” Jagland said. “Who has done more than Barack Obama?“
MediaMatters: Reminiscent of the Friday Freakout that followed the glorious news that Chicago, and the United States, had been denied the honor of hosing the Summer Olympic Games (Hallelujah!), the same Obama-hating voices in the right-wing media are outraged that the President of the United States has won the Nobel Prize. In other words, Obama/America loses = good. Obama/America wins = bad. [ READ MORE ] [ READ MORE [2] ]
Limbaugh: “We all agree with the Taliban and Iran” that Obama does not deserve Nobel
In his latest rant Dick Morris fear-mongers: “Europe wants to reverse the American Revolution and re-colonize us and it sees in Obama a kindred spirit willing to do its bidding.” “……All this heavy lifting, this conversion of America into a European state, deserves a reward. And what is a more fitting one than to give Obama than the Nobel Peace Prize? He obviously doesn’t deserve the award for economics or, given his health care ideas, for medicine. But the Peace Prize expresses Europe’s longing: to take back the nation its overly ambitious and uppity children founded.”
Statement of The Democratic National Committee: The GOP sides with the terrorists.
“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” wrote DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse.
“Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party.
The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim.”
By: Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez Over the past several months, conservatives seemingly made headway convincing a good portion of the U.S. public that Congress may not be able to produce a national health care plan that will not bust the budget – something that president Barack Obama has promised not to sign. And then came Afghanistan.
Conservatives almost had the nation convinced that despite the laudable goal of improving the overall health of the nation, insuring everyone is simply too costly. There’s no money to save lives, to prolong life or to heal those who would otherwise die or live in deteriorating health, but out of the blue, there will be money for Afghanistan just as every year our brave and courageous political leaders of both parties manage to find hundreds of billions for the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
So here’s the equation: Money to save lives? NO! Money to kill? YES!
As is well-known, in this recession and in this economy, the biggest losers are the young because the similar equation is at work: No money for education, but plenty of money for war and more war. Plenty of money for bombs, but not books.
How did the values of this nation get this skewered? The truth is, more than oil, the nation’s leaders are spiritually addicted to war.
Always have been, i.e. Providence, Manifest Destiny and Divine Mission. However, war in this country has always also had its secular counterpart – the idea of U.S. exceptionalism and its need to spread “democracy.” It has also always been aided by linguistic jujitsu: war is actually peace. This is not a page from former president George W.
Bush warped lexicon. Truthfully, all of history’s despots have made the same claim; the more war, the more peace. Thus the nation inherits not simply an insatiable thirst for war, but a spiritual imprimatur to go with it.
At the core of this ideology is dehumanization. As long as U.S. lives are kept to a minimum, the nation’s leaders do not have to account for the killing of hundreds of thousands of the “enemy.” The loss of life is irrelevant – especially with the use of drone technology – as long as leaders employ the use of phrases such as peace, democracy and national security.
But dehumanization is old news. Back to the economic argument about the nation being too broke to afford health care or it being a crime to saddle the next generation with permanent debt because of Obama’s intent to impose a government-run socialized and rationed health care system.
As tempting as it is to call it Bush-logic or Bush-Math or the world according to Bush-Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice, the truth is, we are now long-past that era. Yet, under president Obama – and despite his Nobel Peace Prize – we continue to live under the same nonsensical policies that have brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. Worse, this administration continues to support virtually all of the Bush-Cheney war policies. This includes defending the unchecked right of the executive to trample upon the Constitution – all under the guise of national security and “keeping the nation safe.” This also includes shirking from his Constitutional responsibilities in terms of holding the former administration legally accountable for foisting upon the world a clearly illegal war.
It defies logic how the nation’s political class manages to discuss the war(s) and health care reform as though they were unrelated. The actual price tag (more than a trillion dollars) on both wars has already far exceeded the projected cost of the president’s health care reform. That does not take into account all the added costs from the tens of thousands of veterans who are returning with permanent physical and psychological injuries that in many cases will require lifetime medical care.
Beyond the moral and political arguments, it makes perfect economic sense to stop both wars. It would be nice if the same politicians who invoke economic arguments regarding the un-affordability of health care reform used the same logic for fighting wars. Perhaps a fiscally conservative Congressional bill is in order: the United States shall not engage in war unless it is fully paid for; the United States shall not engage in war if it contributes to the nation’s deficit.
Regardless of what the insurance and pharmaceutical industries have to say in regards to health care reform, the majority of the U.S. public still wants the Democrats to find their backbones. The majority will now also hope [push] that president Obama use the moral power of his Nobel to actually end both wars.
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Like a pack of blood-thirsty, hungry hyena’s, Republicans have not wasted time in pouncing on President Obama’s prestigious award by the Nobel Committee. Led by their de facto leader — Rush FAT Limbaugh, the goons got out of bed early in the morning, mouths un-washed, sexual orifices leaking of the “condiments” of interrupted “family value” sexual orgies, and rushed to their radio/TV stations …..spitting BLOOD and POISONED TEABAGS!.
The despicable sell-out, black token figure-head of the Republican National Council, UNCLE Michael Steele issued a statement this morning saying, “The real question Americans are asking is, What has President Obama actually accomplished?” Butt-Licking Ass-Hole!
Politico: Conservatives pounced on the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, with talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh calling it a “greater embarrassment” than losing the Olympics.
“This fully exposes the illusion that is Barack Obama,” Limbaugh told POLITICO in an e-mail. “And with this ‘award’ the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan, not take action against Iran and its nuclear program and to basically continue his intentions to emasculate the United States.”
Limbaugh continued: “They love a weakened, neutered U.S and this is their way of promoting that concept. I think God has a great sense of humor, too.” [ READ MORE ]
“Stunned” Fox & Friends attack Obama over Nobel Peace Prize
Kilmeade asks whether Obama delayed decision on Afghanistan troop request in order to receive Nobel Peace Prize
FNC’s Gallagher uses Obama’s Nobel Prize win to bring back the “apology tour“
Mandela Day launched as anti-apartheid icon turns 91
By Sibongile Khumalo
JOHANNESBURG — Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, celebrated his 91st birthday on Saturday with the launch of a special day for good deeds to be done in his name.
Surrounded by family and anti-apartheid stalwarts at his home in Johannesburg, the increasingly frail elder statesman was showered with messages of goodwill from world leaders to ordinary South Africans.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon led the international plaudits by describing Mandela as “a living embodiment of the highest values of the United Nations.”
“His commitment to a democratic, multi-racial South Africa, his steadfast pursuit of justice, his willingness to reconcile with those who persecuted him most — these are just some of the hallmarks of a remarkable man,” Ban said.
91 Years Birthday Tribute to Nelson Mandela
All South Africans Proudly celebrate 91 Years of a true Blessing. Their Father of Freedom and the victorious Struggle against hared and indifference. A man who lead the way and made the sacrifice that all South Africans may be finally equal.HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADIBA
The charitable foundation of the former South African leader called on people around the world to do good deeds on Saturday as it launched an official day in Mandela’s honour.
“Mandela Day is an annual celebration of Nelson Mandela’s life and a global call to action for people to recognize their individual power to make an imprint and change the world around them,” his foundation said.
The initiative received backing from senior UN figures.
“I warmly welcome the global campaign to recognize the birthday of Nelson Mandela, July 18, as an annual opportunity to celebrate this great man and the values and principles that he has come personify over the past seven decades,” said president of the UN General Assembly Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann.
“I hope that Mandela Day will eventually be celebrated as a United Nations international day to serve as an inspiration, in particularly to our young people, and as invitation to join forces in the ever-more complex and urgent campaigns against poverty, racism, ignorance and violence.”
Celebrations were to be held in Mandela’s honour from Johannesburg to New York, where Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was to join a glittering line-up led by Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder.
It will be the first time France’s 41-year-old first lady, a former model and musician, has performed in public since marrying President Nicolas Sarkozy in January 2008.
Throughout the day there was a steady trickle of well-wishers through Mandela’s home in Johannesburg’s well-heeled northern suburb of Houghton, where a white marquee had been erected next to the house, behind tall security walls.
Actress and co-founder of ‘Artists for a New South Africa,‘ Alfre Woodard talks about ‘Nelson Mandela Day‘ on July 18th and a special concert at Radio City Music Hall to celebrate Mandela’s 91st birthday.
Former African heads of state, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia and Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania were among the few invited guests who came to wish Mandela well.
“It is always a great honour to see him, he is one of the great African leaders,” said Kaunda.
Renditions of “Happy Birthday” were heard, sung in English and Mandela’s own Xhosa tongue.
South African President Jacob Zuma praised Mandela as a beacon of hope, saying it had taken too long for the country to celebrate “this gold that is Nelson Mandela”.
Family also paid tribute to their beloved Madiba — the clan title by which Mandela is affectionately known.
“Granddad is in great spirits and enjoying the day, he is so happy to be surrounded by friends and family and the entire leadership of the ruling party,” said eldest grandson Mandla Zwelivelile. “It is a great day for him.”
This year’s birthday marks the inaugural Mandela Day, initiated by his charitable foundation in honour of the much-loved icon.
People around the world are being urged to dedicate 67 minutes of their day to volunteer their time for community service. The number reflects the number of years since Mandela took up the struggle for equality in South Africa.
Mandela was jailed for 27 years by the apartheid state but emerged from Robben Island prison in 1990 committed to democracy and negotiated a deal that led to universal suffrage and him becoming the country’s first black president.
In 1993 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with South Africa’s then white president F.W. de Klerk.
Mandela served only one term as president during which he was seen as a multi-racial unifier amidst South Africa’s post-apartheid uncertainty.
He still campaigns extensively for children and AIDS awareness and is seen as one of the world’s most respected elder statesmen, despite having officially retired from public duty in 2004.
