"14 others awarded medals for efforts; Bush among those with ties to Mass." by Associated Press / February 16, 2011
WASHINGTON — Besides Celtics legend Bill Russell, 14 other Americans including former president George H.W. Bush were honored yesterday by President Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for contributions to society that he said speak to “who we are as a people.’’
Not for me he doesn't!!! I'm not a lying, conniving, criminal, mass-murdering PoS!
This year’s recipients “reveal the best of who we are and who we aspire to be,’’ Obama said at a White House ceremony.
You are definitely NOT speaking for me!!!
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor. It is given in recognition of contributions to national security, world peace, culture, or other significant public or private endeavors. Yesterday’s medals were the second set Obama has awarded....
Some of the loudest applause was reserved for Bush, the former Republican president who has devoted nearly 70 of his 86 years to public service, starting when he joined the Navy on his 18th birthday. He served as a congressman from Texas, UN ambassador, Republican Party chairman, US envoy to China, CIA director, a two-term vice president, and one term as the 41st president.
The recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom included former president George H.W. Bush. (Pablo Martinez Monsalves/Associated Press)
“His life is a testament that public service is a noble calling,’’ Obama said.
So when is he going to do some?
Bush’s wife, Barbara, and their children listened from the front row.
So his LYING, MASS-MURDERING, TORTURING SON was there and he wasn't arrested, huh?
Another robust round of applause went to Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia. Lewis was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and helped organize the first sit-ins at lunch counters that refused to serve blacks. In 1965, he led a march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., and was nearly beaten to death along with others in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.’’
Lewis said later that the award was all the more special coming from Obama, the nation’s first black president.
“If someone had told me that one day I would be standing in the White House and an African-American president would be presenting me the Medal of Freedom I would say, ‘Are you crazy? Are you out of your mind?’ ’’ Lewis said.
A particularly touching moment occurred during the presentation for Dr. Tom Little, an optometrist who was murdered by the Taliban last August in Afghanistan. His wife, Libby, accepted.
See: Aid Workers Killed in Afghanistan
Murdered by who?
The other medal recipients are:
■ John H. Adams, cofounder of Natural Resources Defense Council.
■ Maya Angelou, an author and poet.
■ Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.
■ Jasper Johns, an artist considered a major influence on pop, minimalist, and conceptual art.
■ Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor and author who founded Citizenship Counts, an organization that teaches students to cherish being American citizens.
■ Sylvia Mendez, a civil rights activist of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent.
■ Angela Merkel, the first woman and first East German to serve as chancellor of a unified Germany. She did not attend.
■ Stan Musial, Hall of Fame baseball player who spent 22 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals.
■ John J. Sweeney, president emeritus of the AFL-CIO.
No offense, but as I read the roster of recipients I am reminded of how worthless these awards are -- much like the Nobel Prize awarded to Obama for peace. It's all New World Order (Bush's phrase) and global government types patting themselves on the bank.
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And like the dutiful servant he is the neo-con program is advanced:
"Obama describes ‘tough choices’ in budget proposal; Spending freezes, higher tax rates for rich featured" by Ben Feller, Associated Press / February 16, 2011
WASHINGTON — President Obama also addressed several questions on the protests rippling across North Africa and the Middle East. He said that governments in the vital, volatile region are learning they “can’t maintain power through coercion.’’ He slammed Iran as an exception, accusing the US foe of beating and shooting protesters.
The public uprisings that toppled the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia have ignited protests and violent clashes in Bahrain, Yemen, and Iran. With strategic US interests in each of those countries, Obama conceded he is concerned about the region’s stability. And he encouraged governments to get out ahead of the change.
In his most expansive comments yet about the unrest, Obama signaled that he would stick with his Egyptian model: Prod governments to allow peaceful protests and to respond to grievances, but stay silent about who should run the countries or what change should look like.
Excuse me? HIS MODEL?
The Egyptian experience has cemented Obama’s doctrine of dealing with countries grappling with upheaval: direction that falls short of dictates. He said the lesson for all the nations is that they will only see lasting change, and gain both international and internal support for it, when it comes through “moral force.’’
See: Sunday Globe Special: Bush Brought Egyptians Democracy
I thought that spin was sickening and now I see this hidden in the back end of a budget article?
Obama singled out Iran, where lawmakers are calling for the country’s opposition leaders to face trial and be put to death.
“I find it ironic that you’ve got the Iranian regime pretending to celebrate what happened in Egypt when, in fact, they have acted in direct contrast to what happened in Egypt by gunning down and beating people who were trying to express themselves peacefully in Iran,’’ he said.
IF ANYONE EVER had ANY DOUBT this guy is a TOOL of ISRAEL and EMPIRE it JUST WASHED AWAY with these COMMENTS!!
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So WHEN DOES CHICAGO GO UP in a FALSE-FLAG NUCLEAR EXPLOSION?
It will be just like the good old days, right?
WRONG!
I, for one, will NOT BE BUYING the COVER STORY BS from the mouthpiece media the next time out.
And shutting down blogs or the Internet will not matter, either. Once you know who controls the agenda-pushing, war-promoting AmeriKan media and who it represents it is easy to decipher -- if one bothers to watch or read it at all. What I have done is spend the last two hours listening to the radio after looking at the front page.
