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Political statement in Obama's Nobel Prize takes a jolt

11/15/2010
by Bob Tippee, EditorThe eminences who convey the Nobel Peace Prize have taken a jolt from America.In 2009, they gave US President Barack Obama their esteemed honor "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."He had been in office less than a year, but never mind: He wasn't George w. Bush, whose staunch Americanism always chafed Old World sensitivities.Obligingly, the Nobel laureate in the White House has tried on many fronts to expand government toward proportions characteristic of countries in Europe and Scandinavia.On Nov. 2, Americans told their president what they think of this liberal veer. They voted Republicans ba...
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