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Hey, Right Wingers: You're Hanoi Jane Now

Folks attacking Obama over Peace Prize are the America haters

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 13, 2009 11:11 AM CDT
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(Newser) – “Why, oh why, do conservatives hate America so?” One might get that idea, Eugene Robinson writes, when the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the RNC rush to join the Taliban in denouncing President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. These people are “exhibiting what they, in a different context, surely would describe as ‘Hanoi Jane’ behavior.” And what’s worse? It doesn’t make a shred of sense.

It’s not the fault of the “addlebrained Obama-rejectionists,” Robinson writes in the Washington Post. They don’t think the president could “possibly do anything right.” The real problem is that “otherwise sane commentators” are suggesting the honor might sway Obama’s decisions. That’s phooey, Robinson writes. “Nothing, not even the Nobel Peace Prize, can set the bar any higher for President Obama than he's already set it for himself.”

Visitors look at a sand sculpture of President Barak Obama with a Nobel Prize medal, created by sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik on the Golden Sea beach in Puri, India.
Visitors look at a sand sculpture of President Barak Obama with a Nobel Prize medal, created by sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik on the Golden Sea beach in Puri, India.   (AP Photo)
President Barack Obama speaks about winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
President Barack Obama speaks about winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.   (AP Photo)
Former President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize.
Former President Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize.   (AP Photo)
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He hardly needs to be reminded of his philosophy of international relations—or that he once called Afghanistan a "war of necessity." Threading that needle is not made any easier or harder by the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision. - Eugene Robinson

As Republican leaders—except RNC Chairman Michael Steele—are beginning to realize, "I'm With the Taliban Against America" is not likely to be a winning slogan. - Eugene Robinson

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acerbus80
Oct 14, 2009 12:51 PM CDT
How ironic that before the election, Hamas, the Taliban, and Al Quada all supported Obama in the election. I suppose that makes all those that voted for Obama haters of America as well?
yummines
Oct 14, 2009 12:43 PM CDT
well Obama received about 3 million right? maybe he could put that money to good use. that is what i would like to see, what Obama does with that money. But it is true that Republicans hate Obama for either ridiculous reasons or unknown pretenses. it is not smart to play the race card, and it is obvious that republicans hate democrats. i never understand why instead of spewing hatred they actually try to work with Obama, to give constructive criticism and ideas on how to fix the economy or health care. instead they just sit back and try to make Obama a scapegoat for all of the problems the US is facing. what kind of mindset do these crazies have?
Rocket448
Oct 14, 2009 7:15 AM CDT
Here's kudos to Ultramarine, as well. It's well that the real failures of the GW Bush administration are held up for comparison to the imagined failures of President Obama's.
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Rush Limbaugh • Glenn Beck • Nobel Peace Prize • Afghanistan war • President Obama • Michael Steele • Republican National Committee • Eugene Robinson • Hanoi Jane

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