Nobel Ceremony beginning; Prez speaks about 7:30 edt.

[elleng]

[malaise]

1. Watching

I hate when pundits try to anticipate the content of a speech.
Fugg David Gregory.

[malaise]

2. Here we go

Why couldn't they shut up and let us hear the pianist. :puke:
Obama is receiving the medal now.

[hlthe2b]

3. I guess I missed it? CSPANII has some female jazz performer??

DAMN

[elleng]

4. He RECEIVED the award itself, but has not spoken yet.

[malaise]

5. He hasn't spoken yet

Esperanza Spalding is performing at the ceremony

[malaise]

6. On now

GObama! Congrats.

[malaise]

7. Obama has so much class that he takes on the

controversy head on.
War and peace!!!

[hlthe2b]

8. damn hormones... he has me tearing up already...

Especially with his addressing directly the paradox of MLK and Gandhi in terms of his influences, with his own current decisions.

[elleng]

9. Yup!

[malaise]

10. He has to walk the walk

Bush and Cheney violated those said standards. None of this has meaning if no one pays for those war crimes.

[cali]

11. I don't agree with much of what he's saying but you're right

it's admirable that he's taking this on in a straight forward manner.

I hate what he just said "we're confronting a vicious adversary who abides by no rules". It's completely bushian.

[chimpymustgo]

12. "1984". He needs to end this tortured logic.

[Skidmore]

13. Please tell me what rules are being followed by someone who

drives a bomb laden car into a marketplace and detonates it. Or, a plane into a building. As much as I hate these wars, I understand that this behavior is beyond the reach of normal rules of engagement reached by nation states.

[elleng]

14. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation.