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The Nation
And so concludes another interlude of navel-gazing in the
company
of columnist Patricia J. Williams, Obamamaniac:
So Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is something all Americans should
feel good about, a reassurance that we are moving toward a light, a
globally hailed goal of prosperity and nuclear disarmament. It
speaks to the unfortunate power of our “It’s a Good Thing! It’s an
Evil Thing! Slimeball! Sucker!” habits of thinking, however, that
not a single US newspaper I could find had a headline with anything
as simple as “Congratulations, Mr. President! Congratulations to
Us, Every One!”
(November 9, 2009)
The Great Books Series
Conservatism’s mortician, Sam Tanenhaus, serving as the Prophet
Obama’s cosmetician, and rendering him a “centrist, nonideological
presidential candidate,” via Botox and a few nips and
tucks:
The primary dynamic of American politics, normally described as
a continual friction between the two major parties, is equally in
our time a competition between the liberal idea of consensus and
the conservative idea of orthodoxy. We see it in the Democratic
Party’s recent history of choosing centrist, explicitly
nonideological presidential candidates (Kennedy, Johnson, Carter,
Clinton, Obama),
as contrasted with the Republicans’ preference for ideologically
committed ones (Goldwater, Reagan, George W. Bush).
(From The Death of Conservatism, by Sam Tanenhaus,
Random House, 144 pages, $17)
Los Angeles Times
A great metropolitan daily publishes an unforgettable excerpt
from psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Davis’s probation report on Mr. Roman
Polanski, the dream beau of 13-year-olds everywhere. Dr. Davis is
speaking of the “creative minds” whose intellectual and artistic
lineage traces back directly to Mr. John Wilkes Booth,
idealist:
Possibly not since Renaissance Italy has there been such a
gathering of creative minds in one locale as there has been in Los
Angeles County during the past half century….While enriching the
community with their presence, they have brought with them the
manners and mores of their native lands which in rare instances
have been at variance with those of their adoptive land.
(October 25, 2009)
The Cavalier Daily
In the “Health & Science” column of the newspaper of the
University of Virginia, useful information to go along with the
average undergraduate’s courses in sex education and anger
management:
Gas can be embarrassing, noisy, smelly — and perfectly normal. Most of us pass gas anywhere from 13 to 21 times a day. There are two main gas-related complaints: excessive burping and excessive flatus, each of which has a number of causes.
Excessive burping: Burping results from swallowed air or from gas generated by consuming carbonated drinks. We all unknowingly swallow a little bit of air while eating or drinking. The amount of swallowed air increases if you eat or drink rapidly, don’t chew your food completely, chew gum, drink through a straw, suck on candies or smoke cigarettes, among other things. Most of the swallowed air escapes through your mouth as a burp. A small amount, however, makes it to the intestines. Once there, it is either absorbed by the small intestines or makes its way to the large intestine to be released through the rectum (and we all know what results).
Excessive flatus: Your food is normally digested in your
small….[Let us pass on]
(October 28, 2009)
Art Works
(Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the
Arts)
An ardent adherent to the Obama cult gibbers, illogically,
incoherently, and ignorantly, from his perch at the National
Endowment for the Arts, perhaps a year before he is carted off to
the booby hatch:
…My answer is pretty simple. There is a new president and a
new NEA. The president first. This is the first president that
actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably
the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept
the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful
country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer
since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for America.
(October 19, 2009)
The Progressive
Poor Comrade Obama. In nine delirious months he bankrupts the
United States, transforms it into a non-aligned power, and declares
war on Honduras. Nonetheless, this is the thanks he gets from the
pajama-clad editor of TheProg, young Matthew Rothschild:
Across the progressive community, there is a widespread feeling
of disappointment and disenchantment with President Obama — even a
sense of betrayal. The high hopes that he created on the campaign
trail have given way to the cold realization that he may not be as
progressive as he seemed — or as many had wished. When the moment
called for extraordinary boldness, he balked. When the moment
called for a head-on ideological confrontation, he blinked. When
the moment called for mass mobilization, he preferred to chase
after the phantom of bi-partisanship.
(October 2009)
New York
Review of Books
America on the brink, as seen by the fans of innumerable
marches on Washington and maybe even an occasional suicide bomber
over at the venerable NYRB:
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Alan Brooks| 12.30.09 @ 7:39PM
But, putting aside the bauble called Nobel Prize, it is such a relief Bush is gone. He was acceptable, strong under pressure, but he and his family want power almost as much as the Kennedys-- and that is very bad. Power is positive only in moderation.
You all saw what power did to the Kennedys, why do have you enabled the Bushes so much?
Who in Reagan's family is or was power-mad like the Kennedys and Bushes are/were?
The Reagan family has a smart but modest, son, on the radio. That's it.
More amd more I trust conservatism; less and less I trust the GOP.
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Well Obama's Noble Prize is becoming a controversial issue after the news about nuclear weapons. Its a great honor to get a noble prize but still a lot of efforts required from President Obama to maintain peace. I hope they will be doing.
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it is a good choice and a welcome acclaim to the policies and goals he endorses,however it maybe a good but a rather premature call:)
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BarryMartin| 3.2.10 @ 5:49PM
Did Obama really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? I'm not quite sure we have any more peace now than we did with Bush. With the wars still going on and with our new war with Afghanistan, more lives will continue to be lost. Although I did benefit from
Obama college grants, wars shouldn't need to be fought just for oil and stopping the Taliban.
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Dale | 3.5.10 @ 12:17PM
After the Bushes, a lot of people put too much hopes in Obama. I guess did promise a lot of things during the campaign but no one's really a miracle worker! The Bushes probably just did a lot more damage than everyone realized! The mess they left can't be cleaned up overnight!
BestBingoSpots | 3.5.10 @ 12:49PM
Wow, I am surprised to see that he won it. I am not exactly sure what he has been doing.
Vince | 3.7.10 @ 11:22AM
I believe someone else could have done with the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Obama .. as pointed out before, I am not even aware of any activities he has undertaken to promote peace. What about the war-fare going in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran .. and Syria. Lebanon / Israel, what exactly has Obama done to promote peace in these regions? Uganda .. The north, Kony, ... etc, so many examples could be cited.
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collingwood | 3.9.10 @ 12:51PM
Thanks Ms. Williams for these disparate observations of our interesting times.
Gold | 3.10.10 @ 9:57AM
THX for this impressive indroduction. Cheers!
JadaT | 3.11.10 @ 2:55PM
I knew that everyone passed gas but I didn't think that it would be as much as 13 to 21 times a day! If only there was a way to convert that to usable energy!
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The Bushes probably just did a lot more damage than everyone realized. The mess they left can't be cleaned up overnight. After the Bushes, a lot of people put too much hopes in Obama. I guess did promise a lot of things during the campaign but no one's really a miracle worker.
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Document Management System | 3.14.10 @ 2:56PM
Obama's winning of the Noble Prize is certainly a great achievement for him and the nation. It shows not only Obama is doing great for the country, but for the first time in a log period it seems that an US president is also getting appreciation and respect from the rest of the world.
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I think Obama's Nobel Price is like winning a Gold Medal for the country. I hope he can continue his work and prevent future crisis.