{"id":1764,"date":"2009-10-09T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T11:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/09\/the-world-is-truly-obama-mad\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T11:11:52","slug":"the-world-is-truly-obama-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/09\/the-world-is-truly-obama-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"The world is truly Obama mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really don\u2019t know where to begin with this one.  President Obama was just awarded this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/10\/09\/president-barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/10\/09\/president-barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize\/', 'Nobel Peace Prize');\" target=\"new\">Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama\u2019s name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an American I want to be proud, and certainly not be disrespectful to <em>my<\/em> President, even I disagree with his politics and policies.  With that said, how does President Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize based on his portfolio of work as the current President of the United States of America?  Is this now a lifetime achievement award?<\/p>\n<p>Shocking is the only way to describe this tomfoolery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don\u2019t know where to begin with this one. President Obama was just awarded this year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize. The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/09\/the-world-is-truly-obama-mad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The world is truly Obama mad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}