If You Needed Proof The Nobel Peace Prize Is A Joke
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Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
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’s name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.
The man has done nothing in nine months. He’s had a ridiculously short career. If there are liberals out there who think he actually has done something noteworthy since January, I’ll give you the chance to make that case, but what did he do between January 20 and February 1 that makes him even remotely qualified to do anything or win anything?
I guess freeing captured terrorists earns you the Nobel Peace Prize?
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan:
Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize
The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself.
Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.
Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.
I doubt, however, that Obama is embarrassed – he probably thinks he’s earned it…
UPDATE: Cartoonists respond.
UPDATE III, by Mark Noonan: What the heck; might as well help Obama win the Heisman.
UPDATE IV, by Mark Noonan: Harvey over IMAO notes we’re being unfair:
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It’s more than Carter or Gore did.
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131 Responses to “If You Needed Proof The Nobel Peace Prize Is A Joke”
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heyhey says: October 9th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
hey olberman, I mean hey hey – get ed rendel & jennifer grandholm on the show.
Mark Noonan says:
October 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Mark:
There was not anything which would even imply that we, on our side, equated America with President Bush. That is a paranoid, insane myth created by your side to justify your unreasoned hatred of the man, and us.
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Well… there was this
Sure sounds like you just wanted to censure Feingold because he spoke out against a Bush policy and want to “smack down” those that disagree.
On the other hand it is good to have an American leader recognized for higher aspirations for peace than our last president had.
Yeah, all the previous guy did was liberate 50 million people; a drop in the bucket compared to ObiOne’s accomplishments.
joey
Sure sounds like you just wanted to censure Feingold because he spoke out against a Bush policy and want to “smack down” those that disagree.
Nope
just the liars, traitors, ie…kerry, murtha, feingold,
kennedyobomber, all donks.retired
50 million?
PFFFT
try 3, TRILLION by hussein!
oh we arent talking deficit?
sorry!
“”just the liars, traitors
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Why? Because you consider them “un-American” for not going along with the GOP agenda.
joey,
As you even stated, that was for slandering a POLICY, which was directed towards people who attacked America, and of whom we were at war with. Not against the man himself.
Surely, even you can see the difference.
Oh and btw,
It seems that Obama has continued, and strengthened, the NSA program, so joey, I was wondering if you could update us as to what Feingold is saying now.
I can cluster.
Feingold was complaining about Bush’s policy of wire-tapping. You called him un-American for that.
So when you people don’t like an Obama POLICY regarding Iraq or Afghanistan or Guantanamo or anything else outside of the USA… you call him an empty suit, clueless, a liar, a cheat, etc, etc, etc….
Surely you see people that do that as un-American then? After all, he is doing what he feels will help America. You hate him for it would then make you un-American.
What’s Feingold saying now joey?
And we wanted Feingold censured for giving aid and comfort to the enemy joey, much of what Obama is doing now as President.
The parallels are striking.
Oh yeah? Well Clinton was offered bin Laden 3 times and … wait, this is about Obama and the Nobel? Oh, okay, Obama used the big-boy toilet today; does he get a Pee’s Prize?
He hasn’t accomplished anything? Must be Premature Nobelation.
Wish in one hand, Peace Prize in the other”
Retiredspook: “Yeah, all the previous guy did was liberate 50 million people”
Who and where are all these liberated people, spook? Do they include nearly 5 million Iraq war refugees (2.8M internal refugees and 2M outside the country as of Jan 09, according to UNHCR) and the few remaining Christians against whom religious persecution is now increasing in Iraq? see http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32701 Evidently you consider military occupation along with imposition of Sharia law to be “liberation”.
It would be redundant to ask about the hundreds of thousands of war dead. But does your 50 million also include half the population (all the Iraqi women) whose personal liberties were erased when Saddam’s secular government was overthrown? Or all those who will be poisoned in decades to come from the tons of depleted uranium munitions our war scattered across Iraq?
Just wondering what your criteria are for “liberation” – would you tolerate this kind of liberation for yourself?
“Obviously denny thinks the NP has some validity, which is actually even funnier.”
Appparently cluster thinks his own opinions have more validity than the Nobel Prize. I’m not sure whether that’s funny, pathetic or just irrelevant.
A chimpanzee with a squirting flower on his lapel has more validity than the Nobel Committee.
When asked, Obama said, “I don’t have all the facts, but the Nobel Foundation acted stupidly”
the big loser in all of this is the political humorists; who could possibly write anything more absurd than “Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize“?
@Neocon:
I was about to complement you on finding a dictionary. Until you spelled “Lunacy” wrong.
But Joeboston happened to bother to dig into the archives before I got back, and had no trouble finding one glaring item of proof amongst the dozens that google with the term “site:blogsforbush.com” would find. You Conservatives have extremely (deliberately) short memories when it comes to how you glorified President Bush and demonized any critic of him, just the opposite of now when you demonize president Obama and praise any critic of him (especially if they’re a birther).
Even if tomorrow both Iraq and Afghanistan abruptly became absolute perfect models of American style democracies with no terrorism to be seen, you’d say that was as a result of Bush and somehow blame Obama for not making it happen earlier. It’s pathetic.
Joe,
No, I wanted to smack down those who were trying to use difficulties in the war as a political tool against President Bush…never and not even by remotest implication did I – or anyone else on the right – say that attacking Bush is attacking America.
Joe,
And you mangled the best part:
I was out and about today and just hearing the comments of Joe and Jane Average out there, Obama is being held in contempt for being awarded this Prize…he should have refused it.
dennis,
If he has aspirations for peace, he’s yet to show them…peace is not negotiations or even the willingness to engage in them. Its a sense of security against the possibility of attack – by that measure, Obama should have received the Nobel War Prize…
Agree, this is completely unexpected. Certainly it seems probable that this is Europe’s thank you to us for getting rid of Bush….Obama really hasn’t done enough to merit this….
I guess a mark of how deeply hated Bush was
fr00tn00b,
Alternately, its a mark of how deeply stupid the elites are…
Or both.
That’s all very nice – but Obama was awarded the prize because (a) he’s not President Bush and (b) its clear he doesn’t think the United States is special.
Spot on, Mark, and congrats, Matt, for proving that the Idiot in Chief received a sham award. You asked for his accomplishments; all these libs could offer was gloating. This includes you, casper.
With DA Earbama’s name on it, the prize should be renamed the “Nobel Appease Prize…”
Certainly it seems probable that this is Europe’s thank you to us for getting rid of Bush…
Certainly it seems probable that you’re right up there with morrin, joebozo, caspuss,,and magpie. That is to say, it seems probable that you’re a freakin’ moron too.
Just how did you “get rid of Bush?” Was he impeached? Did ol’ Spitball defeat him in ‘04? It appears to me that he served his two terms in full. Didn’t he?
Again, fr00tfly, how did you get rid of him?
Well, I could point out that he wasn’t elected to two terms, and could have legitimately run for a “third”, given that he lost in 2000. As Kurt Vonegut used to say (before 04, I’d guess) “The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
But I think you know what I mean. Yes Bush served his two terms in full, as the rest of the world looked on in horror, but then in 2008, Obama was elected by a substantial margin. I’d say that that was a repudiation of Bush.
But I think you know what I mean. Yes Bush served his two terms in full, as the rest of the world looked on in horror,
Here we go again with “the rest of the world.” This phrase is akin to liberal Donkaroaches favourite phrase–”the American people.”
Soooo, fr00tl00p, did you “look on in horror” for eight years?
What a pansy…
Soooo, fr00tl00p, did you “look on in horror” for eight years?
What a pansy…
LOL…..
Well, no, not for the full eight years. After about 9/10/01, though, things started to go downhill.