[quote=briansd1]Allan, you’re entitled to your opinion.
But if you think that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee made a mistake, you should blame them. Nothing to do with Obama.
If, as you claim, the Peace Prize has already been diminished in your eyes by the awards to Arafat and Carter, then what’s your beef? By that standard, Obama got a “worthless” prize.[/quote]
Brian: This is what you keep missing: I don’t have a beef. I could honestly care less about Obama winning the prize, anymore than I gave a shit about Chicago not winning their Olympic bid (no, as a conservative, I did not revel in this defeat).
Nope, not so much. My point has been to point out the obvious: Obama has done little, if anything, either domestically or internationally (that SNL skit, by the way, was hilarious). For him to be lauded as he has is nonsensical and this prize merely proves that point.
However, watching the liberal-left trying to spin various events as positive has proved far more enjoyable.
My current favorite? Afghanistan. The “war of choice” and the “war we must win” (both according to Obama), has now morphed into the “war we’d rather forget about or ignore”.
Obama’s stern declarations regarding expelling the bad guys from Afghanistan has now moved to his willingness to not only allow the Taliban back in, but allow a power sharing arrangement with them.
You know as well I that Obama will not give McChrystal the necessary forces to prosecute the war the way McChrystal wants and Joe Biden has now gone on record supporting a policy that is a clear loser (drawing force levels down and relying on Special Operations forces and drones) in the eyes of McChrystal (the US Army’s leading expert on counter-terrorism), Petraeus (the US Army’s leading expert on counterinsurgency) and Jim Jones, his National Security Advisor and a former Marine general.
How do you spin this, Brian? He has clearly gone back on his word, he will not prosecute the war in Afghanistan as he repeatedly promised he would and is dithering while American soldiers die in the field.
Moreover, all of this universal “love” for Obama has not crystallized into real support, especially from the Europeans, who refuse to commit additional and very necessary troops to the effort in Afghanistan.
