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3 hours ago ago from explore. dream. discover.
Photo by Beth Rankin on Flickr With Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize (and all its criticism: Peace?! How can someone who wages war win an award for peace?!), I thought it would be the perfect time to share this GQ article about the president's writing background. Instead of arguing for or against this prize and whether Afghanistan is a just war, I'd rather talk about his speech, which, in all its six-page splendor on the NYT , ...
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6 hours ago ago from The Volokh Conspiracy
For his very good speech accepting the Nobel Prize. Our President affirmed the principle of “just war,” and the righteousness of sometimes using unilateral force against tyranny, for “There will be times when nations–acting individually or in concert — will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.” In words reminiscent of John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan, President Obama continued: I face the world as it is, and ...
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3 hours ago ago from Anderson Valley Advertiser
Ritual trumphalism about America’s righteous mission in the closing sentences of his speech did not dispel the distinct impression during President Obama’s 33-minute address to cadets at West Point Tuesday night that we were listening to a man defeated by the challenge of justifying the dispatch of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Contrary to the hackneyed references to his “soaring rhetoric”, the speech was earth-bound and mechanically ...
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4 hours ago ago from Nick Morgan - Public Speaking Advice and Commentary
Great speechmaking is rare, and recent great speechmaking (in this soundbite-driven age) is rarer still. All the more reason to celebrate, then, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. This speech is an instant masterpiece. Obama’s genius comes in his willingness to speak the unvarnished truth in three primary ways. First, he confronts directly the controversies surrounding his award. Obama says: In part, this is ...
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7 hours ago ago from Political Punch
ABC News Sunlen Miller reports: OSLO, NORWAY -- Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan called President Obama s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech appalling, while demonstrating against his new war strategy for Afghanistan from the streets of Oslo, Norway today. I was appalled by the speech of Obama and the speech of the chairman of the Nobel Peace Committee because the speeches were telling us that the only way to peace is through war, ...
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1 hour, 30 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
The man (and his wordsmiths) can write. President Obama's acceptance speech in Oslo was elegant, nuanced, and intelligent. Faced with accepting a peace prize while waging war, he chose not to salute his predecessor Henry Kissinger and leave it at that, but he dove instead into the intellectual thicket of defending warlike means to achieve peaceful ends. He also took the time to rebut the previous Administration's approach to the issue: I ...
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12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
TomDispatch : In his Afghan "surge" speech at West Point last week, President Obama offered Americans some specifics to back up his new "way forward in Afghanistan." He spoke of the "additional 30,000 U.S. troops" he was sending into that country over the next six months. He brought up the "roughly $30 billion" it would cost us to get them there and support them for a year. And finally, he spoke of beginning to bring them home by July 2011. ...
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10 hours ago ago from U.S. News
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Short stay miffs Norwegians OSLO (AP) -- President Barack Obama's decision to break with tradition and not follow the lead of past Nobel Peace Prize winners bewildered some Norwegians. Others thought he was being impolite. Obama had quite a whirlwind day Thursday - he signed the Nobel guest book, huddled with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, met with King Harald V and Queen Sonja, and delivered an acceptance speech ...
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10 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Susan Davis President Barack Obama delivered a 35-minute lecture, A Just and Lasting Peace, today in Oslo on his Nobel Peace Prize win where he discussed the irony of a war-time president accepting a peace prize and what it means to fight a just war and seek peace. For more, read this Wall Street Journal story . Here is a roundup of analysis and reactions to the presidents remarks: Rick Klein , ABCs The Note : It comes at what can ...
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12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Pundits have begun reacting to President Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. On MSNBC's Morning Joe the hosts were surprised that the President defended the use of force to the extent that he did considering he was accepting a peace prize. On the panel to offer their thoughts were Tom Brokaw and Tom Friedman. Brokaw thought the speech was "as close as we've had to an Obama Doctrine": I think this is as close as we've had to an ...
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