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Peace Prize Surprise

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Peace Prize Surprise

Published: Mon, 12 Oct 2009

Description: How did Obama win Nobel honor after 12 days in office?

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" Hi -- the third time in history a sitting president of the United States has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But I'd like president Woodrow Wilson a Teddy Roosevelt Barack Obama was nominated for the award less than two weeks after he took office. And that's our headline tonight the twelve days of Barack Obama. Now according to the Nobel Foundation the president won a prize for quote his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy. But what exactly will those extraordinary efforts we'll hear just a few highlights from the first twelve days in office on day one. After taking the -- it was tied to take in the traditional inauguration day parade. Followed by several not so extraordinary black tie parties with a supporters now jump today three when the president vowed to close gitmo within the year. -- promised the administration now acknowledges will likely be broken. Then -- stay for when he reversed a Bush Administration executive order. -- US money from going -- foreign groups that perform abortions. That's diplomatic. And on his first Sunday in office while the president's -- church at that time he is still looking for a replacement for his old pal reverend Jeremiah Wright. And that on the twelfth eight Obama once again skip church and hosted a Super Bowl bash at the White House -- haven't. The fast track to winning the Nobel Peace Prize joining me now reaction is the author of the New York Times number one best seller. Fox's contributor Dick Morris is here --"

" John cut him a break he couldn't give a tomb for economics. And a fan and I -- you probably couldn't give it to them for health -- either -- It's patient -- are -- Hudson so if you spent all weekend sticking up that want."

" How -- could be nominated twelve days I don't look twelve days into. His office what was this a broader context of this."

" This is part of Europe's effort to colonize the United States to reverse the effects of the American revolution. We talked about it a week or two ago about the G-20. And the inroads into our economic sovereignty. And this along with each prize for gore in the prize to Carter after he opposed the Iraq War. Those are all attempts by the Norwegian parliament a group of socialists in Norway who make these decisions. To influence American politics and it really represents. America as they wanted to be in the same sense that when Gorbachev was running Russia. They gave him the Nobel prize because that was Russia as Norway wanted it to be. And -- you have to see this is something akin to a New York Times editorial endorsement. Not some prize descended from Mount Olympus."

" but aren't. Dick it's it seems to -- we'll get into this in our next signal Marc Stein and allow more detail I think if you apologize for America you call country arrogant. I think that contributed a lot to the perception they have of him if you believe the UN can can solve the world's problems and you wanna talk to Adolf junior academic job. I think that's part of it right here this is a crucial week as it relates to the health care debate and an all lot of people. I may have been part of the strategy of the Democrats to inundate the American people with figures and numbers and bills. Where it's hard for people to really comprehend at all but this is the -- right but I."

" I think it's worse than that first -- let me just say that I think the reason that Obama was delaying the decision to commit troops to Afghanistan is because he won this prize."

" And -- probably knew he was nominated for a he knew roughly when the decision is being made and I don't think he's gonna send troops into laughter that award is safely in his pocket."

" But we come back to the point you're making bad health care it's worse than that."

" They are trying to distract the American people so we don't think about health care."

" We talk about the Olympics we talked about not -- job in guide Qaddafi in their 1010 that the UN speech we talked about. The Nobel prize we talked about Afghanistan. We talk about everything except the deformity of our most fundamental system on in our country the health care system. While this village merrily making its way through congress but then the more I studied what bill the worse it gets."

" Well -- and that and that's support wanna get to the problem is you can't study this bill. This bill is not even written yet and they have a vote in the finance committee tomorrow and they got a vote on the bill."

" There's not going to be anything written for anybody to believe. Accident --"

" Almost like the British constitution to unwritten. Look is this something McCain activity that really was incredible. You look at the concept of helping the uninsured."

" Now imagine that you're young healthy individual or member of a childless family. And you have a choice do you wanna spend 8% of your income paying for health insurance policy you basically don't think you need. Which would cost you if you make 60000 a year would cost you were. 5004000. Dollars or pay a 1000 dollar fine he gonna pay the fine."

" Then when you get sick you'll go he'll sign up for the policy. And the insurance companies gonna have to give it to you because the Obama bill obliges them to. So basically none of these people argument sign up for this insurance. And what can happen is they'll sign up immediately if -- when they ever need it."

" The premium will be much higher than but it subsidized by a -- so it's not going to be any skin off them."

" And then the medical costs get paid by all the rest of us who have insurance policies are the insurance institute estimates. That this bill will cost us each."

" 2000 dollars extra in premiums for health and actually -- and that if you're low enough not to be in the 40% tax bracket. Of the more expensive policy a little bit as the bill looks to promote health insurance is gonna make health insurance 2000 dollars more expensive per family."

" Actually 2300 dollars because what it actually says that I know the analysis you're talking about -- the in the nine years in the process. The typical family. It's gonna see under this program they're gonna pay 20700. Dollars more than they would under the current system that works out to be about 2300 dollars a year. -- what are the political ramifications of this Harry Reid is now down. According to a poll by with one challenger by double digits and he's also -- and the head to head match up against another challenger. Would be down I think five. What of the political implications of this especially unemployment stays -- you know around 10%. What I've."

" I always felt charm and I've said it often on the show that the Republicans can do. Very well in the 2010 election neither actually take back control or functionally deny any. Real power to the Democrats by the margin be narrow enough."

" The question is do we have a health care system by the time this happens to have a manufacturing based we have."

" Voting rolls flooded with people living here illegally is a question those of the questions and and that can only be stopped. By mobilizing over the next three or four weeks that's right."

" When people go to Dick Morris dot com and give us money to run ads to defeat."

" This thing probably got that you look at what's happening in Virginia you've got McDonnell the Republicans gonna win in Virginia you got -- the Republican has a very good shot at winning in the in the state of New Jersey. So the question is on the blue dog Democrats gonna walk off the plane can sacrifice their profession their careers. Because of political -- political party pressure by Pelosi and Reid and Obama are they gonna do that well."

" At this moment yes they are at this moment obamas are higher unpopularity is job approvals over fifty. The Nobel Prizes gonna give -- 45 points I would imagine and this they sense that Obama has kind of getting it together after a terrible some."

" But if we can change that dynamic picture shows like this from through publicity. And through focusing on that through breaking through this clutter."

" The administration's putting out there we can create an environment. In which the blue dogs do not give him the votes that he."

" I think that it they that a vote on this tomorrow it's not that are already nothing written as of yet. They're not gonna give the American people -- tomorrow in the committee and the committees the started the fight not the end of the night while being nice a lot more ammo and a lot more week I'll get it. Anybody hope for something they can't read its mind numbing but we gotta run Dick good to see -- appreciate it thank."

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