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Will Obama’s Nobel Prize Backfire on Peace Efforts?
Written by Arieh O’Sullivan

Even as the Nobel Peace Prize was being announced, Obama’s own special Mideast envoy was in Jerusalem holding intensive meetings with Israelis and Palestinians, trying to restart peace talks.

Yet, George Mitchell’s shuttle diplomacy in the region, now boosted by the fact that he not only represents a determined American President, but also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate-designate, was still being seen as a failure.

After nine months and one uncomfortable summit of leaders, American diplomacy in the Middle East is no closer to its goal of brokering peace between Israel and the Palestinians within two years.

Reuven Rivlin, the Speaker of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, said he believed that the Nobel prize would cause Obama to step up the pressure on Israel. Echoing a concern among many Israelis, Rivlin said Obama is now going to want to prove that he was deserving of the prize.

So what does this say? President Obama is pushing for peace by having Mitchell start up the talks then how is the peace prize a problem?
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Talk show host Rush Limbaugh's website featured the headline "Our president is a laughingstock" and portrayed Obama as the darling of "European leftist elites."

Rush is so damned jealous her can't remember who our allies are anymore. I'd like to know who Rush is allied with if not Europe? Perhaps Rush doesn't need allies since he couldn't get any if he tried other than those who hate this country and our elected government. Anarchy sucks Rush.

BARACK Obama should have been "man enough" to refuse the Nobel Peace Prize, former foreign minister Alexander Downer writes today.

Alexander Downer won't ever have to worry about turning down the peace prize. What a downer


The president should use the acceptance ceremony in December “to remind the Nobel Committee that each one of them sleeps soundly at night because of the U.S. armed forces,” she said. So instead of attending the ceremony himself — which she said would only “add to the farce” — Obama should “send the mother of a fallen American soldier to accept the prize on behalf of the U.S. military,” Cheney said.

Liz Cheney is proof of nature over nurture or any combination thereof, personally I sleep a heck of a lot better knowing Dick and George are out of office and I'm sure 80% of the world is sleeping better today.

Conservative columnist George Will said “The Nobel Prize committee would with this decision have forfeited its reputation for seriousness if it had a reputation for seriousness,”

I wonder if George Will would feel the same if George Bush or Dick Cheney or Ronald Reagan or Dick Nixon had gotten the peace prize instead of Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore. Maybe your guys are not working very hard for peace George

William Kristol said, “This is an anti-American committee,” Kristol said on Fox. Mr. Obama should have turned down the prize, Kristol insisted. But barring that, “the second-best thing would be to go over and give a pro-American speech” at the acceptance ceremony.

Oh sure Bill, giving The Nobel Peace Prize to the American President is the most blatant Anti-American act a committee could do - are you stupid or stupefied.