A Study in Contrasts (and Brains)

First, from the Toronto Red Star: Obama's aspirational Nobel by ????? (Sounds like Antonia Zerbisias , aka Zer-biases, though, who consistently demonstrates a profound lack of intellect.)

"But back in reality, I'm still a little bewildered. It's as if the Nobel committee gave Obama the award for behaving like a normal American president, instead of like a clueless corrupt cowboy."

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"I could go on: fully closing the Guantanamo prison and restoring civil liberties and compliance with the Geneva Conventions; negotiating with Iran in good faith; withdrawing from Iraq and, of course, withdrawal from Afghanistan. Escalation, or even maintaining the status quo there, would alone discredit this award in history's eyes."

Second, from Pajamas Media: Barack Alone by John Rosenthal, who has the courage to sign his name.

"Some six and a half years after the start of the Iraq war, continental Europe’s three largest and most powerful countries are all led by politicians who more or less openly supported the war and/or severely criticized the Franco-German efforts to prevent it."

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"But notwithstanding the Nobel committee’s condescending pat on the back for their disciple, Obama’s European role models are all gone. He is on his own now and should his pursuit of “peaceful dialogue” give rise to a nuclear Iran and threats of greater and more terrible wars, this will be his responsibility."

Read each of them in their entirety, then tell me which one has a full grasp on the realities of real politik.