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Obama Nobel Peace Prize: A surprise, Olympic-size consolation prize

Cheers, Mr. President Barack Obama couldn’t convince the IOC to award Chicago the 2016 Olympics but somehow managed to sway the Nobel Committee to declare our freshman president deserving of the most distinguished peace prize in the world. Wow. After catching the news on my Blackberry, and my breath, I popped out of bed to... Read more »

By Fernando Diaz,
October 9, 2009 at 7:24 am

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