oped: How long must we suffer from this abomination of a POTUS/CIC...he gives out awards not because they are deserving but as candy/payback to his Liberal Progressive base...for simply political support/gain and those so important political donations !...Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Davis Obama or whatever his real name is...is a embarrassment to our once great nation...just *SMH* in disgust!
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By NEDRA PICKLER
President Barack Obama speaks before awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON (AP) — President
Barack Obama said this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of
Freedom made the world stronger, wiser, more beautiful and more humane.
Obama praised
the 18 artists, activists and lawmakers receiving the award at a White
House ceremony on Monday. Among the recipients are Ethel Kennedy,
actress Meryl Streep and singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder.
Obama said Streep's talent is so immense that she "has no peers." He praised her work to promote empathy on and off the screen.
He called Wonder a musical prodigy whose warmth and humanity can be heard in every note of his music.
Others
receiving the award included NBC journalist Tom Brokaw, author Isabel
Allende and Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., the longest-serving member of
Congress who is retiring at the end of the year.
The
list also included Native American activist Suzan Harjo, actress Marlo
Thomas, economist Robert Solow, golfer Charles Sifford, former Rep.
Abner Mikva of Illinois and physicist Mildred Dresselhaus.
Posthumous
medals went to six individuals, among them civil rights workers James
Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were slain in 1964 as
they participated in a historic voter registration drive in Mississippi.
Other posthumous awards were for choreographer Alvin Ailey and Reps.
Patsy Mink of Hawaii and Edward Roybal of California, founder of the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
is reserved for individuals who have made "meritorious contributions"
to U.S. security, world peace or cultural endeavors.
"This
is one of my favorite events," Obama said from the East Room. "Once a
year, we set aside this event to celebrate people who have made America
stronger and wiser and more humane and more beautiful with our higher
civilian honor."
Composer
Stephen Sondheim was scheduled to receive the award, but Obama said he
couldn't make it and will be included in next year's class of honorees.
Interesting list. Our President continues to throw race in our faces. What he wants is a riotous community spirit!! Impeach him.
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