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Oct. 9 2009 - 2:09 pm | 1,404 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Proof that President Obama is NOT an existentialist

Jean-Paul Sartre

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There were a variety of calls in the media for President Obama to reject the Nobel Peace Prize that he was awarded today.

Had he done this, he would have been following in the steps of French intellectual and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, who did the same thing for his Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1964:

Sartre Awarded Nobel Prize, but Rejects It; Existentialist Thinks His Writings Would Be Compromised $53,000 Will Revert to Fund, Swedish Academy Says SARTRE REJECTS A NOBEL AWARD

via Sartre Awarded Nobel Prize, but Rejects It; Existentialist Thinks His … – Free Preview – The New York Times.

Well, that settles it – Obama not an existentialist. Now if we could just prove that he’s not a Muslim, a communist, a Nazi, or a robot…


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