At least one Republican says he liked President Obama’s speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, Thursday.
"I thought the speech was actually very good,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on WNYC radio.
“And he clearly understood that he had been given the prize prematurely, but he used it as an occasion to remind people, first of all, as he said: that there is evil in the world. I think having a liberal president who goes to Oslo on behalf of a peace prize and reminds the committee that they would not be free, they wouldn't be able to have a peace prize, without having force... I thought in some ways it's a very historic speech.
“And the President, I think, did a very good job of representing the role of America which has been that of -- at the risk of lives of young Americans -- creating the fabric of security within which you could have a Martin Luther King Jr. or you could have a Mahatma Gandhi."
He went on to say, “If you look, for example, at Afghanistan, he has followed up his statement about the importance of defeating evil with what had to be one of the hardest decisions of his presidency so far. And I think that in that sense, he's lived up to it.”
I love America which says In God we Trust and killed 5 million godless human being.I will support America in getting rid of godless people
Posted by: sean | December 13, 2009 at 01:07 PM
the peace prize is just what it implies not to be awarded to countries leaders who send our youth in harms way for economic,political and strategic gains.
Posted by: david | December 11, 2009 at 08:02 AM
Obama's speech with a good delivery was similar to his ongoing campaign for the office that he already holds. Full of rhetoric and hype but with one glaring lie.
His statement {America has never fought a war against a democracy and our closest friends are governments that protect the rights of their citizens} that America never declared war or fought a democratic country was a lie.
In 1812 and 1813 the Americans declared war on Canada and Britain and indeed actually invaded Canada.
Posted by: peterclarke | December 10, 2009 at 12:05 PM