Gallup: 64% Oppose Obama on Closing Gitmo
Clarification: two-thirds of Americans oppose closing Gitmo; Gallup’s sample did not include Nobel committee members:
Support is 8% among Republicans, 28% among independents, and 50% among Democrats
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Russian Rocket Fail Turns into Nobel Peace Prize Fireworks Display
Just in time for the President’s big speech, as it turns out.
MOSCOW - The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway, analysts said Thursday.
Russia’s defense ministry said a Bulava missile was launched Wednesday by a nuclear submarine [...]
Currying foreign favor brings Obama a prize, but no favors for the U.S.
E.J. Dionne claims he perceives a contradiction between conservative reaction to the IOC’s rebuff of President Obama’s plea to hold the Olympics in Chicago and the Nobel committee’s decision to grant him its Peace Prize. Dionne wonders how conservatives can argue that the IOC’s decision demonstrated that the administration has not improved America’s [...]
Nobel Prize Fails to Impress
Scott Rasmussen finds that Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize has had zero impact on Americans’ view of his performance in office: his overall approval rating among likely voters stood at 49% before the award, and 49% after. Rasmussen does find an uptick in voter intensity, with “strong approval” up three points and “strong disapproval” [...]
Paul Rahe: Has Obama earned that prize?
Professor Paul Rahe writes:
Next to no one has responded to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama with anything but disbelief, followed by embarrassed laughter and dismay.
There is, however, at least one exception to the rule — Steven Clemons who directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation — and [...]
Nobel Laureate Knocked by Human Rights Groups
Eli Lake reports:
Human rights groups are beginning to question President Obama’s commitment to their issue as the administration engages authoritarian regimes, retains the option of sending terrorist suspects abroad to places where they might be tortured and puts off a presidential meeting with [fellow Nobel laureate and actual deity incarnate --.ed] the Dalai Lama….
Tom Malinowski, [...]
