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Obama honors Tutu, Kennedy and others with freedom medal
Aug 12, 2009, 23:38 GMT
Washington - US President Barack Obama bestowed the highest US civilian honor to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and US Senator Edward Kennedy and 14 others at the White House Wednesday.
'Let them stand as an example here in the United States and around the world of what we can achieve in our lives,' Obama said during a ceremony to hand out the Medal of Freedom.
Obama honoured South Africa's Tutu for his life-long stand against apartheid, British physicist Stephen Hawking for his advancements, as well as Billie Jean King, the tennis star who forever altered the role of woman in sports, and African American actor Sidney Poitier.
'The men and women we honor today have led very different lives and assumed many different careers,' Obama said.
The other recipients included micro-banking founder Mohammed Yunus; Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland; and Sandra Day O'Connor, the former US Supreme Court justice who became the first woman to serve on the bench.
More than 20,000 people have been awarded the Medal of Freedom since it was created by former president Harry Truman in 1945.
Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected politician in the United States, and former Republican congressman and vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp were honoured posthumously.
Other recipients include US health-care advocates, an American- Indian tribal chief and the Hispanic actress Chita Rivera. Long- time US civil rights leader Reverend Joseph Lowery was honoured.
Nancy Goodman Brinker, whose organization is the largest breast cancer awareness group, as well as Doctor Pedro Jose Greer and American Indian chief Joe Medicine Crow-High Bird, were given medals.
Doctor Janet Davison Rowley, whose breakthrough in determining a key cause of leukemia and other cancers was among the most important medical breakthroughs of the past century, also received a Medal of Freedom.
Kennedy, whose sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver died on Tuesday, did not attend the ceremony.
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'I'm St Peter. How was the trip?...yeah...clearly better with alchohol...to be sure. Well, sit and let's review....let's see here....pampered eastern wannabe blueblood....daddy got you into the ivy league....endless drink and fornication....oh yes...here it is...dead white chick from a drunken joy ride and fornication fest....no Senator..more than you'd think...well, maybe not for a politician....let's see...no admission of guilt...family bought off.....back to business as usual....I notice some remorse...more drinking....a call for nationalized health care...numerous laws to help your fellow man....more fornicating...threw girl on table in DC resuraunt trying to pork her...family gagged that too...more drinking....more fornicating...honestly senator...I cannot figure out where mortals find the time!'
Yep....we pretty much have it all Senator....here's your file....the big guy is next...try not to talk too much...after all...it's not like he's going to buy it....by the way...your not jewish, are you?...ha ha...just kidding!'
We had a bet going about what SP would post. I said he'd post some crap about Mary Jo. Sure enough SP pee'd on the floor, again. Sh*tPile 4 is so predictable. What a moron.
..are the chuckleheads who got this award like the President of Ireland, Jack Kemp, etc., against folks who have done far more for their nation.
What this is really about is that this fluff news is far better than letting the press gravitate to:
A losing Afghan war
A Gitmo still open
See sawing finaincial markets
the reviving of inflation
The GM fool's errand
Hillary blowing her friggin ovaries on national TV at some goat herd (classic!)
A health care bill that, for whatever reason, the nutless metrosexuals on the left, cannot manage to pass while holding majorities in both houses of Congress.
With all that I think that if I were president I'd give that boozer Kennedy an award too...ever wonder why Kennedy backed him to begin with? Now we know.
Thank you SP4 for proving my earlier posts to be correct.You only need to see the name Obama to trigger your reflex .It' s simply is beyond your own control :you just have to spout your rantings .Who programmed or conditioned you ?
Thank you SP4 for proving my earlier posts to be correct.You only need to see the name Obama to trigger your reflex .It' s simply is beyond your own control :you just have to spout your rantings .Who programmed or conditioned you ?
I fully expected to see a comment from SP regarding Eunice Shriver stating something to the fact 'good, now there is one less Democrat.'
all would just ignore SP4 he would go away. He just lovet to pull your chains. No one as illeterate as he is could possibly have anything good to say. Eventually the negetive attitude will get him.
His heros are now starting to throw each other under the bus. Cheney's book will confirm everything we already knew about GWB-the main fact is that he had no clue.
Wrong, old and stupid, I love the representation for the conservatives on this board.
...I'm 'illeterate'
Is that anything like 'Lvack'?
oh...god....classic!
As for Mrs. Shriver, no one has it harder than a Kennedy woman. Now run along and get 'leterate'.
No, don't ignore the ignorant little savage from the backwoods of Oregon. Join the 'Ban SP4 Crusade' and report everything to the editors. Demand he be banned for the simple reason he cannot act like a civilized person. On one thread alone he had 3 posts removed for obscenity/profanity. He's had countless posts removed because the ignorant drug addict simply cannot pull his head out of his arse and behave like a normal human being. He is one fin American ambassador to the world.
'peckerwood jackass libnazi metrosexual'
For Christ's sake, editors, ENOUGH of this jackanapes sexual references. ENOUGH of his profanity. ENOUGH of his personal assaults. ENOUGH of SP4. BAN HIM NOW! He does nothing positive for your reputation. In fact, he drags M&C down into the gutter with him. Earn your pay. Ban him.
...a little agitator, faced with a real intellect, he runs away to the insult, or wishes to hide behind a press willing to lap his privates. Like a true liberal nazi, he measures himself by a different yardstick than he measures everyone else. Monkey boy.....who else?
a new word to play with. 'metrosexual' Of course they are leftwing libnazi metrosexuals. The right wing doesn't have that sort of thing. No, Not at all. They have plain old normal pig f*cking, c*rnholing, toe-tapping, racist, drug addicted mad dogs like SP4.
Sounds like the local bars closed.
...the gay bars...
let SP4 rant. It shows just how out of focus the right is. I love the fact that the right is represented by someone of SP4's caliber. Old, stupid and wrong, what a great thing to represent the right wing. Go SP4.
'yeah.... ...the gay bars..'
Oh, what a disappointment to SP. The favorite playground of the GOP, closed. I guess he'll have to go back to porking the crack-ho he rode in on.
How's your family dog, EssPee? Is it still trying to hump some brains into your left ear?
..we once had an Arkansas governor who had a girl delivered by the state police to a hotel room where he touched her against her will and exposed himself. The libnazis elected him president of the United States where he proceeded to fire the prosecutors investigating White Water, lied to a federal judge, had impeachment proceedings brought and lost his law license.
SP:4 can crawl back up G.W.Bush's arsehole where he normally resides to take up his old post as an intestinal worm. Now we know where G.W.Bush heard the 'Voice of God' from.........that explains a LOT.
How's your family dog, EssPee? Is it still trying to hump some brains into your left ear?
His response?
'SP4: I know what you mean'
I guess the dog has not been successful in the brain injection treatment.
'..we once had an Arkansas governor who had a girl delivered by the state police to a hotel room where he touched her against her will and exposed himself. The libnazis elected him president of the United States where he proceeded to fire the prosecutors investigating White Water, lied to a federal judge, had impeachment proceedings brought and lost his law license.'
'We' since when did you live in Arkansas?
I guess the Governor should have done the Republicant thing, bring a man to the hotel room, or a little boy, or another man's wife? That would have been the conservative thing to do.
You are a liar, he did not fire the prosecutors investigating White Water, you idiots on the right spent millions of dollars investigation a normal business transaction, that in the end proved the Clinton's actually lost money on the White Water investment. Guess they did not teach you that in the 4th grade?
I am so glad you finally quit lying about the 'impeachment' of Clinton and finally told the truth that impeachment proceedings brought against him, but in fact the proceedings never made it to the floor of the house or senate, so 'brought' is also a lie. The idiots on the right talked about bringing impeachment proceedings against Clinton, but his approval rating was so high the people would not allow that---dam the liars on the right failed again. He lost his law license for lying to a judge, so what? His approval ratings to this day are at least twice as high as George Bushs' when he left office.
God a whole post without 'prose', good job your such a 'big-boy'.
another one bites the dust after wading through these constant brainless
posts that usually have nothing at all to do with the article. It's just a site for all those depraved, so-called immature 'boys' to vent all their
disgusting words and descriptions back and forth to each other for lack of anything intelligent to say.
See? See it, anyone that has read this far, how bickerings between the respectively half-minded 'Left' and 'Right' have ruined this forum?
Trust me, they won't stop on account of this lone protest.
(Let the insults fly)
It's about the sane against the insane,please do not confound.
Whenever there are differences of opinion,as there should be,we all get confronted with one guy revising history to protect a bunch of thiefs and liars .The poor sod is forced to dig back 20 years into the past and rake up old lies in order to divert attention from contemporary facts .there is little we can do about it,except not giving up .Never leave the arena to the lunatic fringe because before you know it you are locked up in some dungeon which you helped construct with your own indifference .
One only has to look at what is happening with the health care debate .The overwhelming majority of the people want it,but will they get it ?
Probably not ,only because a lunatic fringe whipped up by morons such as Palin and Limbaugh are spreading vile lies,just as the local neocon SP4 does here .
good comes from lack of discussion.
Agree with above statement if agreements are done in a half-way civil manner without all the ugly name calling and x-rated remarks. That just shows a complete lack of any intelligence on the subject, and even if there are some good points mixed in among the crap, it's cancelled out because of it. Then the next thing you know, the subject matter has been completely ignored, and the so-called 'crap' continues.
to BAN SP4. Then this site will return to being a place of civilized, somewhat intelligent discourse. He is the root cause of all the turmoil. The blame also lies squarely on the shoulders of the Editors and James Wray(the owner of this site) for not caring one bit about their site and cleaning it up by flushing Sh*tPile4 down the old crapper.
....'Sh*tPile4' a breach of site rules, too?
Nonetheless, I am happy to let this little band of metrosexual weaklings who constantly do this, proceed. I am a fan of his insults. He is speaking his..or in his case...her mind...his/her stinted, libnazi automaton mind...which is fine with me. After all, this is all these little girls have and I'd never wish for them to lose the only remaining half of their wits they have left.
SP reads everyone's posts, and will never advocate for anyone here to be silenced. Besides, none of this makes me wrong anyways. Clinton was impeached but not removed, and monkeyboy is still a dildo.
A refreshing breeze in this stagnated site. Unfortunately I doubt if John Wray will lift a finger.M&C used to be a superb site years ago, with so much interesting postings, most ofwhich were once weeks, if not months, in front of media information through the WWW.
THANK YOU SP:4 .
NUMPTY.
try NUMPTY in Search.
SP proves the point of the 'crap' being thrown around on this site. He just can't stop. And Mary Jo isn't crying in the afterlife - all the crying is done on earth, the afterlife is without sorrow.
...she weeps in the afterlife, brought on by a lifetime remake of a bad man's image. What a sham this award is now, dishonored by this little agitator president using it for his transient political goals. After all, you don't really think Kennedy backed him because he thought Barak was better, do you? Ted got what he was after, and so did Barak. Sleep tight Mary Jo, none of us are fooled and Ted has an appointment with The Man coming. he's not jewish..is he?...ha ha..just kidding!
Hey stupid have you noticed nothing has been given to George W. Bush except the finger. I guess an approval rating of 26% will do that to you. Even his 'butt buddy' 'The Dick' is turning on him.
Old, stupid and wrong, I love your posts SP4.
...none of that makes me wrong, either, stupid. If Bush wanted to win an award, he'd have licked the ass of the liberal intelliguista raw just like this failure above, who got it the same way. Instead he freed 50 millin people from the bonds of the worst oppressors on the planet a job that, so far, Obama is failing at as per his commanding General's comments, and spending more money than Bush did doing so.
Now run along, inform yourself and find out who killed all the antiwar libnazis. God, when was the last time you heard from them.....before Jan 20th, right?
Mary Jo does NOT weep in the afterlife - no one does where she went.
'...none of that makes me wrong, either, stupid. If Bush wanted to win an award, he'd have licked the ass of the liberal intelliguista raw just like this failure above, who got it the same way. Instead he freed 50 millin people from the bonds of the worst oppressors on the planet a job that, so far, Obama is failing at as per his commanding General's comments, and spending more money than Bush did doing so.'
No all of it makes you wrong idiots stick, don't you get it. Obama has had to come in and mop up after the worst administration in modern times (probably since Andrew Johnson). Obama is getting us out of Iraq, something GWB had no idea how to. Now he is taking it to the Taliban and killing more of them than GWB or 'The Dick' ever thought of in the country where we should have been out of 2 years after we went in. Again with the lies, Obama's Generals are not saying we are losing, they are saying it is 'tough going' and if we don't put more into it we could lose---that is why more troops have been sent. He HAD to spend more money with the mess that the Bush administration left. A bit different than the crap (lies) you spout.
'Now run along, inform yourself and find out who killed all the antiwar libnazis. God, when was the last time you heard from them.....before Jan 20th, right?'
They are there idiots stick, why do you thing we are coming out of Iraq. God so stupid it is unbelievable. They are still there and are winning---you and you type are losing.
Old stupid and wrong, just like I like my conservatives. Please remind us who 'Kin' is again I think we forgot....
'intelliguista'
I do believe the word that sh*t-for-brains was looking for is intelligentsia. Of course SP wouldn't know that because he is not a member of the educated class. In fact he is totally classless. No brains. No scruples. No morals. Yup, a perfect GOP poster butt.
...I meant 'Intelliguista'...maybe is something to you like 'lvack'
Be sure to get back to us on that...
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SP4: Mary JoAug 13th, 2009 - 01:19:18
...weeps in the afterlife...
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