There was no plagiarism. Dog-faced idiots who do nothing but bark endlessly will be ignored.
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MADDOW: President Obama, the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate has Sasha and Malia to keep things in perspective for him.
The rest of us? Turns out we‘re not so lucky.
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MADDOW: You know, in George W. Bush‘s first term as president, the conservative “Washington Post” columnist Charles Krauthammer coins the phrase “Bush derangement syndrome,” accusing Bush administration critics of reflexively opposing the president no matter what he did. Bush critics would say things like he started two wars he didn‘t win. He didn‘t get the people who attacked us on 9/11 -- 9/11, New Orleans, the demolition of the financial system, the collapse of the economy, torture and secret prisons, the biggest gap between rich and poor since the Gilded Age, turning a huge surplus into a deficit four times its size.
Critics would say things like that about the Bush record, and the Bush defenders would say, “Bush derangement syndrome. You‘re crazy. You just hate the guy for no reason.”
The idea of “Bush derangement syndrome” stuck. Well, now, in the Obama era, this president‘s critics are delighted that the U.S. lost our bid for the Olympics because President Obama played a part in the country seeking that bid.
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MADDOW: Yay! America lost! That will put Obama in his place!
Yet today, President Obama‘s critics expressed outrage that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that it wasn‘t deserved, that he hadn‘t achieved anything that warranted it.
In 1984, the Nobel committee gave the Peace Prize to Archbishop Desmond Tutu for his, as yet, unsuccessful efforts to topple apartheid in South America. Apartheid didn‘t fall for another 10 years after that award.
I suppose they could have waited until 1994 to see how the fight over apartheid turned doubt and then awarded the prize based on that achievement then. But that‘s not actually the way the Nobel Peace Prize always works.
In 1935, the Nobel committee gave the Peace Prize to a journalist named Carl von Ossietzky, because he symbolized domestic opposition to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. I suppose they could have waited to see whether or not domestic opposition to Hitler in Germany toppled him, whether it worked out for them, and then they could have awarded the prize based on that achievement. But, A, that never happened, and B, that‘s the way the Nobel Peace Prize always works.
President Jimmy Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his dogged pursuit of Mideast peace. I suppose they could have waited for Mideast peace to break out and then awarded the prize based on that achievement, but that‘s not the way the Nobel Peace Prize always works.
Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize without toppling the Burmese military junta, which is still in control.
Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize without ending tyranny in Iran. President Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the League of Nations and his work on the Treaty of Versailles in the end of the World War I, though neither of those things lived up to their promise of preventing future wars.
The Nobel Peace Prize not always but often awards effort. It
recognizes people trying in big ways to get the world on a more peaceful
path. The deadline for nominations for the prize is February 1st of the
year in which it‘s awarded. President Obama‘s critics say that by February
1st, he should not have been nominated. He had done nothing by then and,
by the way, he‘s done nothing since to deserve it.
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MADDOW: Before he was nominated for the Nobel, Mr. Obama had persuaded the people of the most powerful nation on Earth to choose him and his vision of strength through diplomacy, instead of the division offered by his rival for the presidency.
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MADDOW: Anyway.
Before he was nominated for the Nobel, Mr. Obama persuaded the people of the most powerful nations on Earth, the only nation to have ever used a nuclear weapon in war, the holder of the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons on Earth, he persuaded the people of that country that the next president of the United States should try to abolish nuclear weapons worldwide.
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MADDOW: Before he was nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mr. Obama decided that the most powerful nation on Earth would try again to work with other countries through international institutions. This reflected quite a change from the way things had been going.
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MADDOW: The last American president, he picked that guy to represent us at the United Nations. He was the top diplomat.
Before he was nominated for the Nobel, Mr. Obama declared that the most powerful nation on Earth would close its secret prisons and the prison it offshored in Cuba to avoid our own Constitution. And he declared that the United States government would no longer support a policy of torture.
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MADDOW: That was Mr. Obama‘s track record before February 1st, before the deadline for the nominations of the Nobel Peace Prize this year. When we accepted it today, he said that he felt that he did not deserve it.
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MADDOW: And he says the young woman who marches silently in the streets, he‘s talking about Neda Agha Soltan, who‘s, of course, martyred in the Iranian opposition movement. When he talks about the leader imprisoned in her own home, he‘s presumably talking about Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition to the military junta in Burma. When he says the soldier who sacrifices on behalf of someone half a world away, he‘s presumably talking about the American soldier.
President Obama‘s critics railed today that winning the Nobel Peace Prize is somehow an insult. That international encouragement and hope for success for an American president is something to be ashamed of. I never that I would quote Charles Krauthammer, but “Obama derangement syndrome” appears to be on us.
The American president just won the Nobel Peace Prize—by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud."
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Obama Derangement Syndrome Back in the dark days of George W. Bush's first administration right wing pundit, Charles Krauthammer coined the term "Bush Derangement Syndrome". He defined it as, "...the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of George W. Bush". This in reaction to justified and well founded criticism of Bush leading this nation into an unjustifiable war of choice against a nation which posed no credible threat to anyone outside its own borders.
When critics of the Bush administration would mutter darkly about the failures of the Bush administration in finding the WMD's that were the justification for the invasion of Iraq, failing to capture the perpetrators of 9/11, 9/11, New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the moribund US economy...in fact, any rational, fact based criticism of the Bush administration was dismissed as the "Bush Derangement Syndrome" of said critics.
Starting from day one of his administration, we have seen the onset of acute paranoia in America's right wing political establishment, right wing punditocracy and its slavish, benighted follower in reaction "to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of" Barack H. Obama. This reflexive and irrational hatred of President Obama was highlighted earlier this week when Chicago failed to get the nod for the Olympics. The airwaves, blogosphere and print media were filled with the howls of glee at the news that Obama's presence failed to secure a Chicago venue for the Olympics. It was only a short time before that that Congressman Joe Wilson astounded America by shouting "You lie!" at the President during an address to Congress, to the unbridled delight of the GOP's right wing-nut base.
And now we see the nearly fulminant outrage and ire on the right at Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. When any rational person would set aside their prejudices a feel a swell of pride for their country and their President, the right wing noise machine explodes in fury. With the likes of Rush Limbaugh stating that "we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn't deserve the award...". Why do you hate America Rush?
We see America's right wing fully and deeply in the grip of an irrational and "acute paranoia in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of" Barack H. Obama. They are caught fully and inextricably in the hall of mirrors that is Obama Derangement Syndrome.
