Cinie’s World:

Barack Obama’s performance [in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize] only highlighted the mass of contradictions one can only be when one’s entire raison d’être is to hoodwink and bamboozle, to sell ice to Eskimos, snake oil to snake charmers, and yet more treaties to Natives. “Now you see it, now you don’t. I don’t think I said what you think you heard, and if I did, you know I thought I meant it, sometimes. Hello, I must be going.”

Joseph Cannon:

That’s how he won the office, and that’s how he’ll lose. Double-talk is a good starter, but a bad finisher.

More from Cinie:

Pretendident Obama is America’s abusive boyfriend in a dysfunctional relationship; so charming and attentive at first, publicly saying all the right things, privately doing all the wrong ones…  And, as when the willingly blindfolded members of her own family sympathize with her abuser when confronted with evidence of her bruises, ignore her silently pleading, helpless eyes,  and chalk the cuts and contusions she sports up to her tendency to stumble based upon their shared knowledge of her childhood bumps and scrapes, the American media make similar excuses for this president…

And so, the guy who promised all along to end one war only to escalate another, is being praised for asserting his right to make war in defense of a past action and the potential of a possible future one as he accepts his award for peace, hailed not as a warmonger, but a peacemaker…

If the man had any integrity, was a true leader and not a self-serving, pretentious blowhard…

… he’d have, when the prize was announced, politely thanked the committee and politely declined the award.