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cali (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:11 AMOriginal message Obama Cannot Accept Nobel Prize Without Congress' Consent, Three House Republicans Claim In a letter penned to President Obama on Monday, Florida Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite claims Obama is obligated under the U.S. Constitution to obtain Congress' approval before he formally accepts the prize.As critics continue to mull over whether President Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite says the U.S. Constitution does not allow him to accept the award without the consent of Congress.In a letter to Obama delivered on Monday, Brown-Waite, R-Fla., along with Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, claim the president is obligated under the Constitution to obtain Congress' approval before he formally accepts the prize.Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, the emolument clause, states: "And no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state."The five-member Nobel commission, which awarded Obama the prize earlier this month, is elected by the Norwegian Parliament -- the Storting. The award is therefore made by a group representing a foreign state, the writers argued."As the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway, the Storting, the prize is clearly subject to the requirements set forth in Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution. Obtaining permission from Congress should be straightforward," Brown-Waite wrote in the letter."I urge President Obama to affirm his devotion to our Constitution and seek the consent of Congress before accepting the award in Oslo, Norway, on December 10," she said.>snip> http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/27/obama-accept...
goclark (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:15 AMResponse to Original message 1. Amazing ~ why don't they spend their time working for something positive?Nevermind ~ they are crazy!
billybob537 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:24 AMResponse to Reply #1 8. Repukes hate amurka! Hate olympicsLove Joe Lieberman!
RiseInside (11 posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:15 AMResponse to Original message 2. Wow. This seems a little petty to me. Whether we agree that Obama should have won the Nobel Peace Prize.....seriously? Wow. I wonder what the decision would be.
Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:19 AMResponse to Original message 3. I' not a constitional scholar but if it turns out that they are right, then, yes (oh yes yes yes), Obama should go in front of Congress. The minority that vote no will become a historical laughing stock. And I don't even believe Obama deserves the prize!
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:22 AMResponse to Original message 5. And they are all three wrong. The Nobel prize money comes from the estate of Alfred Nobel, not from any government.A committee of 5, selected by but independent from the Norwegian parliament, is in charge of deciding who receives the prize, and it is physically handed out by the head of the committee. No king, prince, or foreign state awards this prize.Here is the background of the current committee, from Wikipedia. They are all former -- not current -- members of parliament.Thorbjørn Jagland (chair, born 1950), former Member of Parliament and President of the Storting and former Prime Minister for the Labour Party, current Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Member and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2009.Kaci Kullmann Five (deputy chair, born 1951), former member of Parliament and cabinet minister for the Conservative Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2003, deputy chair since 2009.Sissel Rønbeck (born 1950), deputy director, Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren), former member of parliament and cabinet minister for the Labour Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1994.Inger-Marie Ytterhorn (born 1941), former member of Parliament for the Progress Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2000.Ågot Valle (born 1945), former member of parliament for the Socialist Left Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2009.
flor de jasmim (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:23 AMResponse to Original message 6. Accepting the HONOR should be OK, the $$ may be questionable (but I'm not a lawyer)
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:29 AMResponse to Reply #6 9. Obama's already said he'll be donating the money.
saracat (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:24 AMResponse to Original message 7. nutz as they are, they may be right. But noone in Congress is batshit crazy enough to vote against awarding the prize to the president. That would prove them certifiable!
RiseInside (11 posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:15 AMResponse to Original message 2. Wow. This seems a little petty to me.
saracat (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-29-09 05:24 AMBut noone in Congress is batshit crazy enough to vote against awarding the prize to the president.
He needs to give the money to the Wounded Warriors Fund....
Riiiight. That money will either go into his stash, or to Acorn (which is the same as his stash). Maybe ELF.
It's the mental case primitive, the mdmc primitive, who's running for the Newburgh city council.