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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Personally I don't understand the criteria for picking the Nobel Prize laureates. I find it equal to the decision making process as the MTV Movie Awards best kiss. It's just picked by a group of people who deem it so.
But c'mon are you serious host, posting the MSN.COM internet vote? Is it a popularity contest? So if next year they put up Britney Spears that's agreeable to you?
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....the MSNBC poll was linked on the Feb., 2007 Gore Nomination article....it is certainly more "weighty" than anything contained in the negative posts about Gore's peace prize....and it was one part of a two part example of how to support (briefly....in fact...) a posted opinion, thereby demonstrating that an opinion is influenced by....whatever.......
Back to replying to the Carter trashing....what is the basis for your negative opinions? I don't see it, because you won't post anything that I can verify or challenge.....
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http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/...70121020.shtml
Carter gave up re-election hopes to level inflation, adviser says
Domestic policy II
By Blake Aued | blake.aued@onlineathens.com | Story updated at 4:23 AM on Sunday, January 21, 2007
Jimmy Carter's appointment of Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve saved the country from runaway inflation, but cost Carter a re-election, Carter's chief domestic policy adviser said Saturday....
....But Carter also knew Volcker's plans probably would seal his defeat in the 1980 election, Eizenstat said.
"This was the ultimate sacrifice President Carter made for the American people," he said.....
....But Carter's commitment to social issues led to political trouble. When Bakke v. Regents, a reverse discrimination case challenging a California university's lower standards for black students, came before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978, the Department of Justice advised Carter to submit a brief opposing affirmative action, Eizenstat said.
The case put Carter in a tough spot, Eizenstat said. If he supported affirmative action, he would alienate Southern whites, but if he opposed it, he would lose black votes. He ended up going with his conscience and supporting affirmative action, but received a lot of blame and little credit, Eizenstat said.
"It was an extremely difficult choice," he said........
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...57C0A967958260
The Election Story of the Decade
By GARY SICK;
Published: April 15, 1991
.....In the course of hundreds of interviews, in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, I have been told repeatedly that individuals associated with the Reagan-Bush campaign of 1980 met secretly with Iranian officials to delay the release of the American hostages until after the Presidential election. For this favor, Iran was rewarded with a substantial supply of arms from Israel........
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