Dayton peace museum angles for Obama's Nobel prize money | The ...

A fledging museum devoted to the pursuit of peace is hoping its mission is just what President Barack Obama is looking for when he decides what to do with the $1.4 million cash award that comes with his Nobel Peace Prize.

[Bob]

Maybe the money would be better spent on caskets for those murdered in Chicago. Obama could not even influence the youth of Chicago while he was doing his community organizing, how did he deserve the Nobel ?
Where is the hope for his homies ?

[Dirk]

yay, more $$ for a museum. Why not add this to the $20 Million for the Sen Edward Kennedy museum? LMAO

[CHUCKO]

Giving obama the nobel was the bastardazation of the honor. It was a political move. Now to perpetuate this miscarriage of honor, we need to look away, and not recognise this sham!

[Publius]

I hope our peaceful friends realize and recognize that the Dayton Accords were only possible due to about 3 weeks of non-stop NATO bombing. I wonder too, whether their Hiroshima Exhibit is situated anywhere near their Nanking exhibit?

http://nanking-massacre.com/

[Balls Deep]

Good luck keeping that money out of Chicago.

[Old Cold Warrior]

ME! ME! ME! GIVE IT TO ME! DESPITE ME BEING A MAN WHO DON'T HAVE TO SQUAT TO PEE!

[Old Cold Warrior]

Publius wrote:

I hope our peaceful friends realize and recognize that the Dayton Accords were only possible due to about 3 weeks of non-stop NATO bombing. I wonder too, whether their Hiroshima Exhibit is situated anywhere near their Nanking exhibit?
http://nanking-massacre.com/

The Serbian civilians of Yugoslavia are more hateful than grateful because it was none of our damned business. It is long past time for us to get out of Europe and NATO and go, and for the American Empire to retire and expire before it collapses like the British and the Soviet ones did.

[Thinker]

What a waste of the money. Let me get this right, a peace museum created after a trip to the United Nations - an organization know for its incompetence and ineffectiveness!

Maybe this museum should show letters from victims of ruthless regimes the UN has ignored, instead of the typical US bashing.

[Thinker]

Publius wrote:

I hope our peaceful friends realize and recognize that the Dayton Accords were only possible due to about 3 weeks of non-stop NATO bombing. I wonder too, whether their Hiroshima Exhibit is situated anywhere near their Nanking exhibit?
http://nanking-massacre.com/

I agree, I was going to cover the rape of Nanking in my post!

[Jeffery Wright]

Speaking of undeserving adulation:

Rocco Landesman, PBO's handpicked chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, displays the verbal butt-kissery that won him his position.

"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 American artists."

Scott Johnson of Powerline notes that not only is this ridiculous praise, it's also inaccurate.

Several presidents since Teddy Roosevelt have written books, including Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and B.J. Clinton.

But this is the kind of accuracy one has come to expect from the community-based reality.

In other news, Home Depot is adding a new color to its paint selection: Rocco Landesman's Nose Brown.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10...

[The Duke of Hazard]

Oh, how we have learned, about how to take and waste and spend money that is unearned.

[Publius]

"He (Ralph) was a conscientious objector during the Korean War".

That means that there are 48 million free and prosperous South Koreans that owe him not a single once of gratitude.

[BDD]

I just got my Nobel Peace Price in my Happy Meal. I also hear that Barry is going to win the Heisman - he watched a footbal game.

[Meathead123]

YEAH!!! We can build it right next to Riverscape & the wonderful fountains of youth. Great idea guys! Let's "invest" MORE money into an idea that no one will care about in 6 months.

[samtone]

Balls Deep wrote:

Good luck keeping that money out of Chicago.

There you go! That is so true.