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11:57 AM Oct 9th: My own take on the Obama Nobel Prize–balanced equally between the good and the bad: http://bit.ly/GLDP0
12:00 PM Oct 9th: Obama is being nominated for lots of other things today: the Heisman, Cy Young, MacArthur genius grant, Pulitzer, several more Oscars, etc.
12:11 PM Oct 9th: Republicans have a legitimate beef about Nobel Peace Prize committee. Gore, Carter, now Obama…there’s a pattern here any idiot can see.
1:24 PM Oct 11th: After 3 days it’s obvious that the Nobel Prize has backfired on POTUS. His opponents are enraged. His supporters admit award was premature.
1:26 PM Oct 11th: I’ve always thought politics and physics were alike in this Newtonian law: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
1:31 PM Oct 11th: Beware Norwegians bearing gifts.
8:01 PM Oct 12th: Watched VA GOV debate. Let’s just put it this way: I saw nothing that would change the direction of this election.
8:05 PM Oct 12th: I’ve been at this a long time. What candidates say in debates and what they do in office are two different things.
8:07 PM Oct 12th: Economic/fiscal conditions will be rotten for at least the first half of the next GOV’s term. They can’t do a fraction of what they propose.