Obama’s acceptance speech

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Media Matters published this video illustrating Republican hypocrisy

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Radio presenter Rush Limbaugh said:

The Nobel gang just suicide bombed themselves. Gore, Carter, Obama, soon Bill Clinton. See a pattern here? They are all leftist sell-outs. George Bush liberates 50 million Muslims in Iraq, Reagan liberates hundreds of millions of Europeans and saves parts of Latin America. Any awards?” Limbaugh says “Obama gives speeches trashing his own country and for that gets a prize, which is now worth as much as whatever prizes they are putting in Cracker Jacks these days.

Conservative commentators also attacked Republicans for criticising Obama

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But Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com is not happy about it. Neither is Mehdi Hasan at the New Statesman.

Sunder Katwala at Next Left thinks the Nobel and the complaining about Obama is both overblown.

At the popular blog FiveThirtyEight, Renard Sexton came out in support:

The justification for the prize, while certainly unexpected and a bit tenuous, is indeed rooted in fact. Obama has long been a booster for non-proliferation, and his speech and lobbying at the UN General Assembly and Security Council proved to be quite successful.

On climate change, the Obama administration has taken the toughest line against carbon emissions of any White House so far in terms of concrete regulations by Federal agencies. The September announcement by the EPA that the agency would begin to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, verified by the Supreme Court in 2007, was a major step towards US action on the climate change issue. Though cap-and-trade or other large scale programmes are clearly the purvue of Congress, the executive branch’s efforts in the realm are likely to be a major portion of the US effort.

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