John McCain Dodges Obama Nobel Bullet: “I’m sure the President understands that he now has even more to live up to”

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by Rachel Sklar | 12:23 pm, October 11th, 2009

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Screen shot 2009-10-11 at 11.46.41 AM Did President Barack Obama deserve his Nobel Peace Prize? That question was put bluntly to his former rival, John McCain, by John King on CNN’s “State of the Union” today.

“The President of the United States — who a year ago this weekend was your campaign rival heading into the final month of the campaign — is the Nobel Peace Laureate for 2009. Deserved?”

Pause. Then, diplomatically:

“I’m sure that the President is very honored to receive this award, and…the Nobel committee, I can’t divine all of their intentions, but I think part of their decision making was expectations, and I’m sure the President understands that he now has even more to live up to.” He went on, speaking the not-so-obvious given the past few days: “As Americans, we’re proud when our President receives an award of that prestigious category…I think all of us were surprised at the decision, but I think Americans are always pleased when the President is recognized by something on this order.”

Er…right, that’s definitely been the impression. Take it from
Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney on on FNC this morning: She called it a “farce” and he said “President Obama and I have done about the same amount to bring about world peace.” Which I guess is his way of saying that Obama didn’t deserve the award. Watch the Cheney/Kristol video here. McCain below:

Nachi

McCain has “dodged” a great number of things in life. A C-F student in most of the 34+ schools he attended and where he was referred to as, “jerk, punk,” etc. Responsibility for consistently ratting-out upper classmen at Annapolis – always getting bailed out by Dada & Grandpa. “One of the worst candidates I’ve seen in my 1o years as a lead flight instructor at Pensacola NAS. No one wants to fly w him!” Destruction of 3 multi-zillion dollar U.S.aircraft due to “incompetence”: (sic). (Philadelphia, Corpus Christi, Italy). Violating direct orders by “failing to take evasive action to avoid a missle fired at him” over Vietnam. A complete lifetime of “dodging” responsibility. But hungrily accepting/feeding upon the shallow, emty, fraudulent “hero” status thrust upon him. Yup. A real Repub.
Ben Linus

Nachi
Olbermann? Is that you? I’m sorry nobody watches your show, maybe you should go back to ESPN.
Good luck, Olby.
ImNotBlue

Nope… it’s not KO. But just like KO and ESPN, nobody wants Nachi around either.