In reference to Obama returning the prize, I suspect he wishes he could. It’s not that simple. Mother Theresa tried desperately to refuse it, finally she just gave the money to charity, as Obama is doing. For the President of the US, or any country for that matter, to refuse it would be an international insult. And the radical right would criticize him just as much for doing that.
fbjsr, you want to help the uninsured but not forced on you. You want freedom of choice. Hmmm…have you ever looked up the word OPTION in the dictionary? That’s what we bleeding heart tree huggers are asking for, a Public OPTION. As in CHOICE. Why don’t conservatives understand that?
The only thing missing in Wiley’s strip is the sharks from the health insurance companies. And, Lewreader, there’s nothing wrong with an honest profit. There is something terribly and immorally wrong with OBSCENE profits gauged out of the backs of hard-working Americans and their families!
Have you seen the Kenyan BC that’s floating around? It is so obviously fake, it’s from the Republic of Kenya, which didn’t exist at the time of his birth, and one of the officials that signed it is actually a laundry detergent!
@Joe Allen Doty, do you have a source for the connection between YWAM and the Fellowship Foundation? I’ve seen a few people mention it, but can’t find anything concrete to connect the two organizations.
In reference to Obama returning the prize, I suspect he wishes he could. It’s not that simple. Mother Theresa tried desperately to refuse it, finally she just gave the money to charity, as Obama is doing. For the President of the US, or any country for that matter, to refuse it would be an international insult. And the radical right would criticize him just as much for doing that.