I must admit, I was a bit surprised to hear that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but the announcement seems to have really tweaked the wingnuts, so I’m pretty much down with it. To be fair, the more “grown up” GOPers seem to smart enough not to make fools of themselves, but the loudmouth “pundits” (and idiot token Michael Steele, of course) just can’t seem to help themselves. Much like their reaction to Chicago losing the Olympics, I don’t really understand the whole “rooting against the home team” thing. Rush Limbaugh actually said he found it hysterical that he agrees with the Taliban and Iran. I mean, really? Isn’t that aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of war or something? I did like the statement from State Department Spokesperson PJ Crowley, though:
“Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum — when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes.”
Granny is off to Albany this morning for the Single Payer NY/PNHP Fall Meeting. Hopefully she won’t catch Swine Flu from any of the dirty disease vectors in attendance. Here, the dogs and I are eagerly awaiting the noon kickoff of the SU – West Virginia game (well, OK, the dogs are actually eagerly awaiting a trip to the park). After a disappointing loss last week to USF (a game we really could have won, were it not for seven – count ’em, seven turnovers), we’re hoping (though not actually expecting) for a win today. Part of our many years of shame here is the fact that we haven’t beaten WV since 2001, so it’s not only to get a win, but to take back the Schwartzwalder Trophy (named for Ben, a West Virginia native, who was center and captain of the WV football team back in leather helmet days, and is SU’s winningest – yes, that’s a real word; I looked it up – all-time coach, having racked up 153 wins in his 25 years, including our only national championship fifty years ago). Speaking of the 1959 team, they’ll be renaming the football field “Ernie Davis Legends Field” today (about friggin’ time) during the game (Ernie, the first black guy to win the Heisman Trophy, died of leukemia at the age of 23).
The game’s on at least three of my channels today, but I’m not sure if it’s blacked out around here or not (the local Time Warner cable station has it, but I don’t have cable). Fortunately, you can find almost everything on the Internet these days, and there’s always the radio. Of course, I’m fully expecting another disappointment (as an SU and Jets fan, I’ve become accustomed to disappointment), but, hey, you never know, right?
Oh well, I guess I’d better go find my power cord, ‘cuz my laptop battery is just about dead here. Have a good one.
Yesterday I briefly turned on Morning Joe to find them all bemoaning the idea that there could be no upside to the Nobel Peace Prize for Obama. Then they bemoaned the idea that Obama would find a way to accept the prize that would deflect the criticism.
Personally, I kinda like the idea that an American preznit has peace associated with his name and isn’t stomping around claiming that he’s a war president which gives him license to so any lousy thing that Dick “The Crazy” Chaney thinks up.
Just because brush limpdick is acting predictably can’t change my view that the Nobel prize committee have fallen in love with an image and that if ‘bama wanted to show some true humility he’d gracefully turn it down at least until he’d gotten some real progress as far as getting the Israelis the fuck out of the settlement building buisness or dissassociating himself from the completely corrupt Karzai government or you know, done something substancial to bring true peace to the world.
You don’t get a Nobel for being the non-Bush
I guess i may have to try to find that game myself, pj. Glad you got back in one piece.
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I was trying to post a video of Congressman Grayson doing a great job. What appeared was the gobbledeegook of #4. The Jenn called and I got involved editing her paper …so I’m sorry’
Here’s a link to the video if you miussed it on Countdown:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/10/791730/-Unapologetic
and the classic
Thanks, Vernon. Sometimes these computers just outsmart me.
Cornel West on Obama’s peace prize:
“It’s gonna be hard to be a war president with a peace prize. Gonna be difficult. Very, very difficult. And so I think he knows that and we as fellow citizens have to, um, as brother Tavis would say in his wonderful book Accountability, keep him accountable and loving and self critical, not self-righteous way. I think it’s very difficult for any head of an empire to be under the pressure of peace. ‘Cause you’re head of the largest military in the world, you got over a thousand military installments on the globe, you got ships in every sea. It’s very difficult. And I think following brother Martin King, we know that peace is not the absence of conflict, peace is the presence of justice. So They go hand in hand…”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/10/cornel-west-comments-on-o_n_316476.html
In NYC:
After last night’s showing of the new Yes Men film, a crowd of moviegoers stormed over to the Whole Foods on Houston Street and staged their own protest against corporations and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. (Photos, too)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/yes-men-storm-whole-foods_n_316042.html