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What Exactly Did Barack Obama Do To Win A Nobel Peace Prize?
Written By : John Hawkins

At about 5:15 AM this morning, I was still awake, paying my dues on all three of my blogs. Suddenly, the phone rang. It was my friend Cara Ellison, who knew I was up, phoning me so that she could alert me that Barack Obama had just won a Nobel Peace Prize.

It was puzzling news.

“He won a Nobel Peace Prize?” I asked Cara, “How? For what? What did he do?” She replied, “I don’t know.”

So immediately, I did a search and here’s the info from CNN,

President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Less than nine months into his presidency, Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

The first African-American to win the White House, Obama was praised by the Norweigan Nobel Committee for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said. “His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”

The committee also said Obama has “created a new climate in international politics.”

Uh, what? After reading that, I’m still scratching my noggin trying to figure out what makes Barack Obama deserving of this honor. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?” Is that what you call doing speeches across Europe talking about how wonderful you are while you put down your own country?

Even Jimmy Carter, who was a fairly pathetic recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, once played a big role in engineering a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. In Obama’s case, his efforts on the international stage have amounted to zilch. There are simply no accomplishments whatsoever to point at.

Of course, after terrorists like Yasser Arafat and frauds like Al Gore have won the award, we should be happy that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn’t being given a Nobel Peace Prize for Holocaust denial. Compared to that, even Barack Obama basically being given the award for existing isn’t so bad.

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  • http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ Glibertarian

    The deadline for nominations was February 1st, meaning he "won" less than two weeks after taking office. That is, if we're to believe that the actions which supposedly won him the prize took place prior to his nomination, which is how any legitimate nomination would occur.

    Not that this is legitimate of course.

    Too bad the idiot didn't win a Darwin Award instead.

  • westernthoughts

    Isn't it obvious? He wasn't Bush. And he managed to not be Bush for a whole ten months eleven days. That's quite an accomplishment, for Norway's perspective.

  • http://Lord_Locksley Lord_Locksley

    Well,at least now I know what I have to do to win the Nobel Peace Prize next year…just go all around the world telling everybody how much America sucks

  • http://www.allthatisnecessary.com jjmurphy

    When you think the world just can't get any more insane, you wake up and find out – yes it can!

  • NorthernCanuck

    "what makes Barack Obama deserving of this honor."

    I'm not sure what one would call it these days, but I no longer think of it as an honor.

  • SanChez

    When they can give the nobel peace prize to any clown in a suit and nice smile, it's clearly lost it's value. If this were a TV series, I'd say it 'jumped the shark'.

  • http://regularguy regularguy

    Mark these words: Obama and his policies will contribute more to war, famine and misery than any modern world leader in the past 50 years, perhaps longer, if he's successful with his idiotic ideas. This is just pathetic, a true mockery of "peace." A posthumous Nobel to Curtis LeMay would be far more deserving, and would rightfully pop the eyeballs right out of the insane leftist heads of those on the Nobel committee to behold it.

  • Robert_Ingersoll

    Once again pride in our nation is overshadowed by hate for Obama.

  • SomeOtherSteve

    Warning: Mangled looking link upcoming. (It comes along with shameless self-promotion.)

    It can't be because he's the anti-Bush.

    Okay, it probably is. As has been mentioned elsewhere, the Peace Prize lost its impact when it was awarded in 1973 to two men who negotiated a peace treaty that they knew would not bring peace.

  • SanChez

    Robert: Pride in our Nation? You want to start berating anyone for a lack of pride in our nation, you should head over to lib website and you can tell them all you want, er wait, get it all in one post because you'll be banned after you open you mouth about that.

    I"m proud of my country. I'm not proud of the nobel peace prize.

  • NorthernCanuck

    I saw a post elsewhere that reflected just what I was thinking: Here's a chance for Mr. Obama to show some class and integrity. Mr. Obama; decline the award.

  • SomeOtherSteve

    Once again pride in our nation is overshadowed by hate for Obama.

    Posted by Robert_Ingersoll

    Robert, it might have been different if President Obama had actually achieved something first. You weren't one of the people who helped Wolf (I Lost On Jeopardy, Baby) Blitzer fact check SNL, were you? ;)

  • Mike_M

    To answer the title of the thread: Obama is the world's biggest or most prominent liberal. That's the one and only criterion for the prize.

    But at least he's in good company with the likes of Sadat, Gorbachev, Arafat, and Jimmy Carter.

  • RWNReader2

    Giving 'hope' is as much of an accomplishment as stopping a war, and far more difficult to do.

    Posted by Realpolitik

    2009-10-09 11:18:50

    And there you go gentlemen, a lib acknowleges that it's all about the "hope" generated by the election of the first black President.

  • D-Vega

    Its not the blackness, Reader, its the "doveness".

  • RWNReader2

    Why do our resident libs feel compelled to defend the boneheaded decision of a bunch of far-left socialists in Norway?

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    "doveness".

    Appeasement by any other name. Will Obama thank Neville Chamberlain for his inspiration to his Presidency?

  • RWNReader2

    Its not the blackness, Reader, its the "doveness".

    Posted by D-Vega

    2009-10-09 11:22:59

    You're just repeating the suggestion that the award is based on "approach" not accomplishment. As I already established, this is not logical.

  • RWNReader2

    I realize that Obama's image here in the US has come WAY down over the last several months, but do you not remember the toss-all-care-aside we-have-solved-the-world's-ills all-are-absolved-by-first-black-president cult of Obamessiah that accomplished Obama's election in January? This is just a reflection of what the Norweigiens saw on their television sets back in January. They haven't been here to see how human he has become.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    From our friends in the DNC. Hypcorisy, thy name is Liberal. The Republican Party stood up to terrorists for 8 years while the left did everything in it's capacity to tie the hands of the BUsh Administration.

    And if only 20% of the population is Republican, why hasn't the left been able to pass Cap and Tax and Chappaquiddick Care?

    “The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO. “Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize – an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride – unless of course you are the Republican Party.

    “The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim,” Woodhouse said.

    Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, unless you are a conservative telling the truth about a liberal. Then you support terrorism.

    From Ace of Spades HQ.

  • Bill_Dalasio

    So, since they're giving Nobel prizes for what you might do in the future, I want my prize in Economics dammit!!! They can mail the check to…

  • Realpolitik

    You're just repeating the suggestion that the award is based on "approach" not accomplishment. As I already established, this is not logical.

    Posted by RWNReader2

    2009-10-09 11:25:45

    You have established no such thing.

  • http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

    I see the DoJ contingent is busy in this thread and the other thread trying to spin the award of a fairly meaningless prize to our president into something a)far more important than it really is and b)a net good for all Americans. Funny that they're spending so much effort on something which really amounts to little more than a meaningless gesture in the bigger picture of the world today. There are far more pressing issues and problems both domestically and internationally that we, and Mr. Obama, should be focusing on, and yet this is what the DoJ contingent seem to have chosen as their cause celebre today. There must have been a strongly worded memo issued to make them jump so high in unison.

    Anything to prop up the sagging popularity ratings of their guy, I suppose.

  • RWNReader2

    You have established no such thing.

    Posted by Realpolitik

    2009-10-09 11:38:44

    You have established yourself as an idiot.

  • RWNReader2

    “The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,”

    Thou doth protest too much…

  • RWNReader2

    It is very revealing that the DNC has reflexively jumped to the defense of a European socialist body and seeks to use the actions of said body to drive a wedge between the American people.

  • Rickvid_in_Seattle

    So, if yoiu actually DO accomplish something that brings peace somewhere, you know, really make something happen, what award do you get? King of the World? God of Gods?

    If Obama, fo whom I am no fan, actually brought peace among waring factions anywhere, like Carter actually did with Egypt and Israel, hey, go to Oslo! But the BEST that can be said is that Obama has talked a good line and maybe someone will pick up on it.

    Unless they use it to hang him out to dry.

  • http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

    The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,

    I thought Obama declared that the Taliban was less of a threat and therefore, will no longer be a target of the US.

    news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091008/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_afghanistan_112

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    RWNReader2 – Well, I think the best place to go to try to understand why Obama received the award is to the folks who gave him the award. Perhaps you don't buy the reasons they give, but that's the only thing I can point to. And I find it very curious that you consider Obama's being the first "black" President to be elected an accomplishment. That so flies in the face of color-blind conservatism. Perhaps you mean that it marks an important moment in the history of the U.S., but what that has to do with any particular accomplishment of Obama is beyond me. There is just no evidence beyond the race-obsessiveness of your own mind that Obama was awarded the NPP because of his skin color. You want to know why I think he got the award? Well, I'd say he got the award not because of any particular "accomplishment," but because of how he transformed people's thinking about the world and the prospects for better international relations. In essence, he inspired people. Do I think that this is what the NPP should be based on? No. But just because his message of hope and change didn't do much for you, doesn't mean that it didn't do something significant for others. And, still, there's absolutely no scintilla of evidence that this had anything at all to do with the man's skin color.

  • RWNReader2

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    George Bush was nominated for the NPP right after his election in 2001, and here's the reason given for his not winning:

    The dealine for Peace Prize nomination is Feb 1, and President Bush wasn't sworn in as President until January 20. For President Bush (or anyone else) to have produced accomplishments worthy of Nobel Prize recognition after a mere eleven days in office would have been a truly astounding feat indeed.
    "or anyone else" bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • RWNReader2

    damn! forgot the link…
    http://www.snopes.com/rumors/nobel.asp

  • belacuse

    Posted by Robert_Ingersoll
    2009-10-09 07:53:46

    Are you one of those guys that enjoy getting praise for something you didn’t do? Do you like getting awards for nothing? Please tell me what we have to take pride in here. Obama has done NOTHING to deserve a Nobel. So why the hell would any normal person feel pride over this? Furthermore, the Nobel wasn’t awarded to America. It was awarded to Obama. Not as the representative of America, or as the President, but to the person Obama. So this isn’t even a matter of national pride.

    If you want to know what I think, I think this is a pat on the head for Obama being a good little doggie. Many other countries like Obama being so compliant and naive and are reinforcing his “good behaviour” by throwing him a doggy treat to make sure he keeps up the good work.

  • tomw

    I am now convinced more than ever that he is in the same class as Jimmuh Carter. They are competing for worst president ever, so he had to get the Nobel to qualify.

    I think Alfred Nobel would be disgusted at what has become of the prize he created to honor his brother.

    It has become a mockery of its original intent.

    tom

  • whats_up

    It is very revealing that the DNC has reflexively jumped to the defense of a European socialist body and seeks to use the actions of said body to drive a wedge between the American people.

    Posted by RWNReader2

    2009-10-09 11:50:36

    It is very revealing that Republicans have joined with the Taliban and Hamas in criticizing this award, interesting friends you guys have there. Not to long ago that would have been called un-american and you would have been accused of being a traitor.

  • whats_up

    As I already established, this is not logical.

    Posted by RWNReader2

    2009-10-09 11:25:45

    Neither is assuming that Obama won this for simply being the first black president, yet that is all you keep claiming.

  • RWNReader2

    Posted by huckupchuck1

    2009-10-09 12:09:32

    I didn't ask Norway. I asked YOU. Quit being a pussy and give me a reason, or acknowlege that it's a farce.

    As far as "accomplishment," being elected is, from an objective perspective, an accomplishment in that it is a successful completion of an attempted task, without regard for the significance of said task. (Winning a game of chess is an "accomplishment," constructing a building is an "accomplishment…") Highlighting Obama's "accomplishment" of being elected serves to highlight that it is the only "accomplishment" anyone could possibly hand their hat on (for purposes of the NPP). An acknowleding it forces you to examine what is the ONLY distinguishing factor of his election. Otherwise, ALL American presidents would have a NPP merely for being elected and inspiring "hope" in someone.

  • RWNReader2

    Posted by whats_up

    2009-10-09 12:26:36

    So Vega is in league with the Taliban and Hamas for criticizing the Norweigians?

  • http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

    Well, if AlGore can win a Nobel prize for his decidedly biased, deceptive and self-serving efforts to deplete the wallets and purses of people all across this country, why can’t Barack Hussein Obama get one too? I mean he’s tried his best to spend the remaining wealth of this nation on things that half the people, or maybe more, don’t want, need or care to fund with their taxes.

    Clearly, the awards process has been taken over by political activists, the current kudzu of modern society. I suspect the Nobel Prizes are now as meaningful and prestigious as the Teen Choice Awards, except they have a much smaller TV audience.

  • RWNReader2

    guess this liberal is posting from his taliban cave where he is fighting against the army of Obama.

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/200….

  • klaatuwolf

    To be fair, Carter still has one up on Obama. Obama hasn’t had to fight off a mad swamp rabbit yet.

  • redfish

    Humble speech out of the President this morning. Not sure that this Prize was one that the White House really wanted at this time. Probably would have rather seen this thing in the next year or two.

  • RWNReader2

    Posted by whats_up

    2009-10-09 12:26:36

    You do realize that you are a complete joke, right?

  • whats_up

    Interesting to watch the anger conservatives have over this.

  • SomeOtherSteve

    To be fair, Carter still has one up on Obama. Obama hasn’t had to fight off a mad swamp rabbit yet.

    But it’s got teeth like…(Starts awkward downward motion with right hand, index finger and middle finger curled slightly and extended down to make a crude impression of fangs…Okay, so it comes off better visually.)

  • RWNReader2

    Yes indeed, anger is indicated by howls of laughter.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    The Nobel Peace Prize this year was awarded for apologizing to thugs, coddling extremists and terrorists, and being friends with dictators.

    Being put in the same category as Yasser Arafat, a terrorist who left $300 million in stolen funds to his family when AIDS finally did him in, is really a nice compliment for the lefts new messiah.

  • magicalpat

    Once again, Obama is rewarded for doing nothing. President of the Harvard Law Review for no particular reason.. you bet. State Senator and U.S. Senator with no record…. no problem. President Blank Slate…. done. And now a Nobel Prize for doing what he does best… nothing.

    I hope Saturday night live goes with the ‘nothing’ theme they started last week. This will add to the mystique. Or should I say ‘mistake’?

    The Nobel committee will regret this move. They have given another example to the world that Obama gets credit for nothing.

  • RWNReader2

    Perhaps he won for closing Gitmo.

  • redfish

    The Nobel Peace Prize has been reduced to a cheap non-meaningful Political award by a bunch of left leaning Europeans. We should love it when a US president wins recognition at this level but for goodness sake they should have to actually do something meaningful to win. The White House should be embarrassed about this award. I am sure the White House is running around this morning trying to figure out how to explain this away. Hopefully they will give the money award to animal shelters or something nobel.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    Interesting to watch the anger conservatives have over this.

    Posted by whats_up

    2009-10-09 12:38:07

    Interesting to think you are ok with this sham award. Well, it shouldn't surprise Nixon, since you were dumb enough to vote for the King of Unemployment and Mr Deficit Expander.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    Not to long ago that would have been called un-american and you would have been accused of being a traitor.

    Posted by whats_up

    2009-10-09 12:26:36

    Nixon would ask for proof but you have none, so he won't.

  • Safari_Man

    Miss America was robbed. I know for a fact she wanted world peace before Obama did!

  • jimb123

    As this award was/is given for potential in this case I've got a suggestion – I'm currently working on a couple of songs in my home recording studio. You need to give me the grammy for best song for next year as they have great potential. No nned to actually sell anything.

    Makes as much sense as this award.

    /

  • jimb123

    Interesting to watch the anger conservatives have over this.

    Posted by whats_up

    2009-10-09 12:38:07

    I'm not angry, I find it really funny. It will be a great SNL skit and will give commedians lots of material. Can't wait to see what Leno does with this tonight.

    /

  • http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

    Not to long ago that would have been called un-american and you would have been accused of being a traitor.

    Posted by whats_up

    2009-10-09 12:26:36

    You're confusing us with DU.

    I wonder when Obama will win the Nobel prize in economics? :-P

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    Posted by jimb123

    2009-10-09 13:09:04

    Kanaye West will be warmed up for your presentation.

    Good point. It isn't the potential that in the past got you the Nobel, it was doing something.

    Hope and Change, is there nothing it can't do?

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  • Mike_M

    "I wonder when Obama will win the Nobel prize in economics?"

    Just economics? He'll probably win every Nobel Prize next year. The committee will invent new categories so he can win those as well. Then they'll rename it the Obama Prize and declare Obama the winner in perpetuity as the greatest human being that has or will ever live.

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    Well I think this goes a long ways toward showing what a mockery the entire Nobel Committee and prize awarding process is, as far as the Peace Prize is concerned. That can only be a good thing.

    Even the leftists trying to defend this know its an absurdity – and they know exactly why it was given too, but none of them will shout about the emperor's clothing.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Once again pride in our nation is overshadowed by hate for Obama.

    Wow. That just says it all, doesn’t it?

    In order to be proud of your nation, you have to support Barack Obama.

    They’re not even trying to hide the Stalinism any more.

  • Mike_M

    Oh great, you know what this means…ANOTHER frivilous trip to Europe for ANOTHER speech.

    Maybe Kanye West can drunkenly wander onto the stage and reprsie his “George W. Bush hates black people” speech. It would bring the house down in Oslo.

  • tblrk2006

    Once again pride in our nation is overshadowed by hate for Obama.
    Posted by Robert_Ingersoll
    2009-10-09 07:53:46

    Calling a nobel peace prize a source of pride is the same as claiming the UN is an effective organization. And I find it strange you put “pride in our nation” and “Obama” in the same sentance. He (and michelle) certainly has no pride in this country. And yes, i hate the man with a passion. I find him very dangerous to my freedoms and my checkbook.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    Once again pride in our nation is overshadowed by hate for Obama.
    Posted by Robert_Ingersoll
    2009-10-09 07:53:46

    Our nation did not win a award. BHO was given the award.

    There is a difference, Mr Partisan Hack.

  • tblrk2006

    Maybe Kanye West can drunkenly wander onto the stage and reprsie his “George W. Bush hates black people” speech. It would bring the house down in Oslo.
    Posted by Mike_M
    2009-10-09 09:45:40

    I just heard Kanye interupted Patrick Swayze’s(RIP)funeral to tell everybody that Michael Jacksons was better.

  • D-Vega

    Unfortunately, I am going to have to agree with Mr. Hawkins.

    President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is not a good thing. I don’t think he has done anything to win a prize that is supposed to be something that affects the world.

    In the long run, this is going to be something that hurts him, if he accepts it, which I don’t see him not doing.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    Vega, why is it a bad thing to agree with someone when they are right, as Hawkins is here? Are you that partisan?

  • RtWingNtCase

    Howdy guys…I have retutned from the desert! BWAHAHAHA!!!

    Seriously, I woke up this morning and saw this farce and laughed my ass off. I'm not angered by it – more amused than anything. The President hasn't done anything to earn it. He has negotiated no major treaty, pulled no Soldiers from foreign battlefields, closed no prisons with "records of human rights abuses," or brought any international criminal to justice.

    Plain and simple – he won the prize for not being President Bush.

    This award is a mockery and a joke. There are things later he could possibly win for, even if we find them repugnant. But he has no accomplishments to claim.

  • http://www.2008news.com jimg

    You know what this means, right? My Seahawks just won the Super Bowl!

    Awe. Some.

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  • RtWingNtCase

    *returned…damn, my ability to proofread my work has gotten no better…

  • Robert_Ingersoll

    @Dick

    Partisan? How so? He is our President and received recognition for forwarding the peace process. A source of pride for our nation having its leader receive this award. Shouldn’t make a difference what party is in office to those that honestly support America. Unfortunately, patriotism has become a political sport.

  • Realpolitik

    Well, to answer the question at hand, Obama brought the world some ‘hope’. It is an important commodity.

    As to what he should do, I advise him to say “thank you” and do nothing.

  • http://www.2008news.com jimg

    Interesting to watch the anger conservatives have over this. crthns

    Snort. There is no anger from me. Laughter? Yes. Anger? Nope.

    It's a joke. A bad one, to be sure. But still a joke.

  • D-Vega

    Its unfortunate because I think the NPP is a good thing, a valuable thing. It would have been fantastic to see Obama win this after doing something major, like cooling off the Iranians. So there was a feather in his cap.

    Now anything achieved will have to live up to the expectations, rather than playing with the house’s money. They should have given it to Bono.

  • Robert_Ingersoll

    @D-Vega,

    I didn’t realize that Alan Colmes had an account here. Nice to meet you.

  • Bill_Dalasio

    Maybe Kanye West can drunkenly wander onto the stage and reprsie his “George W. Bush hates black people” speech.

    Personally, I’d be more amused if Mr. West were to interrupt with “Yo, Barack, I’m real happy for you. I’m gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best music videos of all time.”

  • redfish

    In an attempt to keep this comment section out of the gutter, I heard that this Nobel Peace Prize process did not start last month but actually it was started in Feb or March of this year. So the love fest was more of a hate fest against President Bush. As someone said earlier, the US did not win the Peace Prize it was given to an individual, President Obama. It is a payment on his hopeful future actions not anything that he has done.

  • D-Vega

    That’s funny, Robert.

    But if you examine closely, you will see that this hurts our cause.

    Obama didn’t need some other validation other than winning the Presidency.

    This comes off as a rubber-stamp of affirmation.

  • tblrk2006

    Well, to answer the question at hand, Obama brought the world some ‘hope’. It is an important commodity.

    Posted by Realpolitik
    2009-10-09 10:00:39

    Sorry to bust your bubble, but everybody posses “hope.” Its God givin. It is not something that a mortal person can give or take. And hope, most certainly, is something that a govt official like obama has no claim to. So take your love for your false prophit and shove it deep in your ass and go away.

  • tblrk2006

    oops…possesses

  • whats_up

    And I thought the rest of the world no longer liked Obama, looks like conservatives got it wrong again. However I would agree that he didnt deserve this award and should respectively decline it.

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    I am as surprised about this as anyone, but I do want to note that Barack Obama, even before his election to the Presidency, was doing stuff behind the scenes in service to the Bush Administration and Condoleeza Rice’s State Department to help resolve international conflicts. I blogged about this during the Democratic Primary, but I think it’s worth pointing out here as well: swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/01/07/obamas_other_life/

    Now, I don’t think stuff like this is Nobel Peace Prize material, necessarily, but it does show that Obama does have some unheralded work behind the scenes in international relations to bring about peace.

  • whats_up

    Posted by tblrk2006
    2009-10-09 10:09:02

    Ahh, the hatred on display.

  • tblrk2006

    But if you examine closely, you will see that this hurts our cause.

    Obama didn’t need some other validation other than winning the Presidency.

    This comes off as a rubber-stamp of affirmation.
    Posted by D-Vega
    2009-10-09 10:06:32

    And what, pray tell, is your “cause?”

    Oh, and obama lives for validation. Have you heard him talk?

  • RWNReader2

    Who knew that Norweigiens were so full of white guilt.

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    Note: that link above in my previous posting is not from my blog, obviously, but was the source of the information that prompted my blogging. Just wanted to make that clear.

  • tblrk2006

    Ahh, the hatred on display.
    Posted by whats_up
    2009-10-09 10:11:56

    Ahh, ignorance on display. Sorry, but “hope” is bigger than obama and his cliche use of it.

  • Realpolitik

    Sorry to bust your bubble, but everybody posses “hope.”

    Posted by tblrk2006
    2009-10-09 10:09:02

    You are exceptionally ignorant about human beings.

  • Robert_Ingersoll

    @D-Vega,

    No, It comes as an investment. An, investment that unilateral actions are over. An, investment in looking at all aspects of an issue as opposed to a zealots viewpoint. We have resumed being part of the global community.

    Interesting that you feel it would hurt ‘our’ cause. What cause is that?

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    RWNReader2 – Why is it always about race with you? Can’t you get beyond Obama’s skin color? If the Norwegians have “white guilt,” you have “black obsession.”

  • tblrk2006

    And I thought the rest of the world no longer liked Obama, looks like conservatives got it wrong again. However I would agree that he didnt deserve this award and should respectively decline it.
    Posted by whats_up
    2009-10-09 10:11:02

    Oh, they like him a lot. A doofus pushover president like him is a valuable resourse to competeing world powers. Its the USA they dont like.

  • tblrk2006

    You are exceptionally ignorant about human beings.
    Posted by Realpolitik
    2009-10-09 10:15:05

    I know. I just wait around all day for a new govt offical to tell me that I have hope again. Im not sure what im hopefull for, but it sure does sound good.

  • Corperate_Cabana

    Help Obama win the Heisman Trophy!

    Every vote counts! Thanks Washington Examiner!

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    Hamas endorsed Senator Obama as president, and he recently said the Taliban as an organization were "peaceful" and "have a place in the future of Afghanistan." You tell me who's more in league with these guys: Obama or the GOP?

  • tblrk2006

    RWNReader2 – Why is it always about race with you? Can’t you get beyond Obama’s skin color? If the Norwegians have “white guilt,” you have “black obsession.”
    Posted by huckupchuck1
    2009-10-09 10:16:21

    You guys are the ones making race the center piece of this crooks stay in the white house. We are just playing your game. Most of us could care less if obama was a purple martian, but since he used affirmative action to get elected you should be prepared to live with the results.

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    Here' Corporate I'll help:

    http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/contests/theheisman…

    Write in President Obama

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  • RWNReader2

    Can’t you get beyond Obama’s skin color?

    Clearly Obama won the award because he was the first black man elected President, and for race obsessed people like you and the Norweigiens, this fact in and of itself was a world-changing hope-giving event. There IS no other explanation – even you admit further up that nothing he’s actually done “rises to the level” worthy of earning a NPP. ANY rational (color blind) examination of his “accomplishments” suggest that this is a fraud, yet YOU seem to be fine with it. Therefore you are left with the turd you laid – YOU are the one obsessed with his race, not I.

  • D-Vega

    Clearly Obama won the award because he was the first black man elected President

    I wouldn’t go that far, Reader. I know that is the default criticism from the right, and usually its wrong.

    Obama won because of the “multilateral” approach, as Robert is suggesting. No where in the official statement does it mention race, I don’t believe. So you don’t have anything to support your “clearly” assertion. Even Rush Limbaugh isn’t going that far, and he blamed the schoolbus beating on Obama.

  • http://www.reddirtdude.blogspot.com President_Friedman

    I think the Nobel Peace Prize is a pretty meaningless award which has long been frivolously decided. It is good PR for America for a sitting President to receive this award, so I’m not going to say this is a bad thing, just that it doesn’t mean all that much. For the set of values that this reward represents, Obama is actually a good choice. The problem is that those values are pretty useless when the rubber meets the road.

  • tblrk2006

    Obama won because of the “multilateral” approach,
    Posted by D-Vega
    2009-10-09 10:34:32

    To what?

  • Mike_M

    Obama won because of the “multilateral” approach,
    Posted by D-Vega

    To what?
    Posted by tblrk2006

    American poverty and weakness.

  • Realpolitik

    “Clearly Obama won the award because he was the first black man elected President,”
    “- YOU are the one obsessed with his race, not I.”
    Posted by RWNReader2
    2009-10-09 10:27:06

    Does not compute!

  • D-Vega

    Mike has the talking point down pat. You all would do best to comply.

  • belacuse

    “So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act,” said former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate.
    “This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let’s see if he perseveres. Let’s give him time to act,” Walesa said.
    “It is an award that speaks to the promise of President Obama’s message of hope,” Tutu said.
    “You have to remember that the world has been in a pretty dangerous phase,” Jagland said. “And anybody who can contribute to getting the world out of this situation deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.”
    “We trust that this award will strengthen his commitment, as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, to continue promoting peace and the eradication of poverty,” the foundation said.

    Here is a selection of quotes that should make it clear why Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Even the Nobel committee chairman, Jagland, admits that Obama hasn’t actually done anything. The award is based on what he might do in the future. It is clear that the committee wants Obama to act a certain way, and the award is an incentive for him to do that – like throwing a dog a treat to encourage him to be good. This shameless attempt to manipulate our President should be a slap in the face to every American; certainly not something to feel proud over.

  • http://www.reddirtdude.blogspot.com President_Friedman

    It’s like this: When my business was about 6 months old, our local bank gave us a “Business Of The Month” award. To this day I have no idea what we did to qualify for this award, other than deposit money in that particular bank. But we got our picutre in the paper and I have nice looking little plaque that hangs by my desk with some similarly meaningless awards. They look good when customers come to my office. That’s abouut it.

    This is no different.

  • belacuse

    Oh, all the above quotes came from:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33237202/ns/politics-white_house/page/2/

    I normally don’t like MSNBC, but this article was surprisingly balanced imo.

  • RWNReader2

    Obama won because of the “multilateral” approach

    So awards are based on an “approach” not an actual accomplishment? Presumably, you, and Huck, and millions of other liberals embrace the same “approach.” Where is your NPP?

  • tblrk2006

    Does not compute!
    Posted by Realpolitik
    2009-10-09 10:38:39

    Is that your best attempt to cover the truth?

  • tblrk2006

    So awards are based on an “approach” not an actual accomplishment? Presumably, you, and Huck, and millions of other liberals embrace the same “approach.” Where is your NPP?
    Posted by RWNReader2
    2009-10-09 10:44:52

    They are not black…errr, half black.

  • RWNReader2

    Please note that this thread is approaching 70 posts, yet no one can point to any actual accomplishment by Obama worthy of this award. Please do tell us, resident libs, what accomplishment – not “approach” or “hope” or “potential” – what accomplishment do YOU think this award is based on? We’re waiting.

  • D-Vega

    I just explained that this is why he should not be given the award, Reader.

  • tblrk2006

    I just explained that this is why he should not be given the award, Reader.
    Posted by D-Vega
    2009-10-09 10:54:56

    Yeah, so why did he get it?

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    RWNReader2 – I gave you a reason. Too bad if you don't like it or if it doesn't satisfy you. But that's your problem, not mine. And though you won't listen to me, I'd still advise you to stop being the right-wing's version of Al Sharpton.

    C_T – Since you claim to know why the NPP Committee awarded the prize to Obama, I'd like to hear you offer up what you think this reason is. I tend to think that Obama got the prize because partly he wasn't President Bush, and partly because he tapped into the peacenik idealism of the Europeans. Silly reasons for giving out a Nobel Peace Prize? Yes. But there it is. Why do you think he got it?

  • Mike_M

    “To this day I have no idea what we did to qualify for this award, other than deposit money in that particular bank.”

    You were given an award for opening and operating a profitable business. One time, long ago, that was actually an admirable accomplishment in this country.

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    RWNReader2 – There are so many other absurd explanations one can come up with about why the NPP committee gave the award to Obama that have nothing to do with his race. It could be simply because Obama is not Bush. It could be because the NPP committee likes Obama’s hook shot. It could be because they felt bad that Obama was snubbed by the Olympics Committee. It could be because some Committee members felt bad that Obama’s grandma died. It could be because they were charmed (heck, let’s even say bamboozled, by Obama’s speech in Egypt.) We could think of hundreds of silly, irrational, foolish reasons such decisions are made that have absolutely nothing to do with Obama’s skin color. And yet you declare unhesitatingly and with certainty that it was race that propelled the decision. Where’s the proof of this beyond your obsession with Obama’s skin color? It is you who are so consumed by Obama’s skin color that you can think of nothing other than race upon which to judge everything and anything that happens relative to the man.

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    C_T – Neither Obama nor the GOP are in league with Hamas. And it's pure partisan/ideological foolishness and cynicism for anyone, right or left, to suggest otherwise.

  • RWNReader2

    Posted by D-Vega
    2009-10-09 10:54:56

    I acknowlege that, and no one is “blaming” you or Huck or Obama for anything – none of “us,” including the President, did anything wrong (unless Obama actually asked to be nominated, but I haven’t seen anyting on that yet). Yet the question remains: Why did Obama get this award? It can’t possibly be because of his “approach” as you suggest, I have blown that logic out of the water. The only rational explanation revolves around the cult of his personality – the “hope” of his mere existence as the first black President. The best possible spin you can put on this is that it’s pure partisanship because he also happens to be the most liberal, socialist-leaning President ever. So which is it? Either acknowlege it (again, not your fault) or point to an actual accomplishment worthty of NPP.

  • Safari_Man

    I am expecting to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine since I have been thinking a lot about cancer lately. I have the potential to come up with a cure someday and a Nobel Prize check would help me a lot toward that goal.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    And I thought the rest of the world no longer liked Obama, looks like conservatives got it wrong again.
    crthns

    The rest of the world thinks it is stupid that he was given the Nobel Prize. Given, as opposed to earned. And the Nobel Committee is now the whole rest of the world?
    Thanks for playing. George Soros probably bought the committee off to give his pupil the prize.

  • D-Vega

    Reuters has more on the why & reaction:

    “Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said in a citation.

    Obama was to make a statement in the White House Rose Garden at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT). The president, struggling at home with high unemployment and resistance in Congress to his healthcare reform plans, is likely to go to Oslo to receive the prize, Axelrod told the MSNBC TV channel.

    While the award won praise from such statesmen as Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev, both Nobel laureates, it was also attacked in some quarters as hasty and undeserved.

    Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said it was absurd to give a peace award to a man who had sent 21,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to escalate a war. “The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the ‘Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians’,” he told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

    The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip and opposes a peace treaty with Israel, said the award was premature at best.

    Issam al-Khazraji, a day laborer in Baghdad, said of Obama: “He doesn’t deserve this prize. All these problems — Iraq, Afghanistan — have not been solved . . . man of ‘change’ hasn’t changed anything yet.”

    Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative religious party in Pakistan, called the award an embarrassing “joke”.

    But the chief Palestinian peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, welcomed it and expressed hope that Obama “will be able to achieve peace in the Middle East.”

    Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland rejected suggestions from journalists that Obama was getting the prize too early, saying it recognized what he had already done over the past year. “We hope this can contribute a little bit to enhance what he is trying to do,” he told a news conference. The committee said it attached “special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons”, saying he had “created a new climate in international politics”.

    Without naming Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush, it highlighted the differences in America’s engagement with the rest of the world since the change of administration in January. “Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. “Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts,” it said, and the United States was playing a more constructive role in tackling climate change.

    Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who had been tipped as a favorite for the prize, told Reuters that Obama was a deserving candidate and an “extraordinary example”.

    Obama’s uncle Said Obama told Reuters by telephone from the president’s ancestral village of Kogelo in western Kenya: “It is humbling for us as a family and we share in Barack’s honor… we congratulate him.”

    The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be handed out in Oslo on December 10.

  • MediumHeadBoy

    Further proof, as if any were needed, that the Nobel Prize is worthless, nothing more than a reacharound given by the left to itself.

  • http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ Glibertarian

    Giving 'hope' is as much of an accomplishment as stopping a war, and far more difficult to do.

    Posted by Realpolitik

    2009-10-09 11:18:50

    Hope can be given with empty words.

    Wars are stopped by politicians and armed men, willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice, backed by a nations economy and industry.

    Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt gave hope, their tens of millions of men under arms stopped the war.

  • D-Vega

    That is the explanation, Reader. The potential of, rather than the achievement of. Being a US President, you can bank on some results, but its also a problem as I said. Because you would rather have low expections.

    Its fine for the realm of politics to a point, but I would rather have something real. Its hurts the credibility of future Obama accomplishments. It hurts the credibility of future Nobel winners.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    “We hope this can contribute a little bit to enhance what he is trying to do,”

    Chris Matthews said it was his duty to help Obama to succeed, even at the expense of his journalistic credibility (of which Matthews has none).

    “It is humbling for us as a family and we share in Barack’s honor… we congratulate him.”

    Barak’s uncle better enjoy that honor he shares in, because ol’ Barak don’t like sharing his money. Ask his brother, who lives in a hut in poverty with no help from his borther, the TOTUS.

  • RWNReader2

    Posted by huckupchuck1
    2009-10-09 11:01:39

    None of the things you cite are rationalle for a NPP. They may certainly explain why they like him, but that doesn’t translate into an award, which is based on accomplishment. Getting elected as the first black president is an accomplishment. For many people here and around the world, it was a HUGE accomplishment. In these people’s world view (their words, not mine) it “changed” the world. That is why he was awarded the NPP. It is the only possible rationale. And it is “race obsessed.”

    Please Huck, try not to be such a homer and tell us Huck why YOU think the award was given.

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    C_T – Neither Obama nor the GOP are in league with Hamas.

    I concur. But if you are trying to make a case that the GOP is in league with terrorists for pointing out how ridiculous this is, the case is far stronger for Obama.

    Since you claim to know why the NPP Committee awarded the prize to Obama

    The reasons you listed, that and he's a hard leftist, so they generally think he's up to goodness and light simply by being so inclined.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    “Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts,”

    It is doing a bang up (bad pun) in solving the Iranian nuclear weapon issue.

    However, with Obamateur wanting to negotiate with the Taliban in Afghanistan (terrorist supporters, and terrorists themselves), Nixon guesses this is what dialogue means to the Nobel Committee. Plus supporting the corrupt United Nations.

  • Realpolitik

    The only rational explanation revolves around the cult of his personality – the “hope” of his mere existence as the first black President. The best possible spin you can put on this is that it’s pure partisanship because he also happens to be the most liberal, socialist-leaning President ever. So which is it? Either acknowlege it (again, not your fault) or point to an actual accomplishment worthty of NPP.
    Posted by RWNReader2

    You answer your own question. You put a usual racist conservative spin to it, but you do acknowledge the concept of “Hope”. Giving ‘hope’ is as much of an accomplishment as stopping a war, and far more difficult to do.

  • RWNReader2

    Posted by D-Vega
    2009-10-09 11:09:26

    Let’s take it from the top:

    “Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said in a citation.

    How did Obama “capture the world’s attention” merely by being elected? Are you really too much of a homer to acknowlege that this is because he’s the first black President? Just come clean, it doesn’t reflect negatively on you.

  • karensp9

    "Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for consistently asserting the principle of non- violence." Well I think that says it all. At least he DID something!!! Do I need to repeat that again DID something. I mean this guy was nothing but a peace loving man and stood for something and actually did everything he could to promote that, put himself out there and MADE THINGS HAPPEN…I could go on all day but I won't because some of these resident libs still won't get it.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    Perhaps Obama was awarded the Peace Prize, after all, his marriage to Michelle did end the long standing issues between America and the Wookies.

  • RWNReader2

    Posted by huckupchuck1

    2009-10-09 15:00:12

    You really are a pussy. You've done nothing of the sort. You point to the Nobel Committee bullshit rationale and attempt to hide behind that. Either you come out and say why YOU think Obama deserves it, and WHY, or you acknowlege that it's a farce because he doesn't. At least Vega (and a lot of liberal writers today, I might add) have had the courage to do that.

  • RWNReader2

    I repeat: This is why the Nobel Committee passed over George Bush in 2001:

    The dealine for Peace Prize nomination is Feb 1, and President Bush wasn't sworn in as President until January 20. For President Bush (or anyone else) to have produced accomplishments worthy of Nobel Prize recognition after a mere eleven days in office would have been a truly astounding feat indeed.

    What is the "truly astounding feat" Obama accomplished in 10 days?

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    What is the "truly astounding feat" Obama accomplished in 10 days?

    Posted by RWNReader2

    2009-10-09 15:44:51

    He rode into DC on a unicorn, crapping skittles, on a rainbow.

    Nixon would like to see you top that my friend!

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    RWNReader2 – I think Obama deserves a Nobel Peace Prize because you think he doesn't.

  • RWNReader2

    Well, I KNOW he doesn't, and so do you.

  • http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

    RWNReader2 – I think Obama deserves a Nobel Peace Prize because you think he doesn't.

    Posted by huckupchuck1

    2009-10-09 16:01:45

    I think I can speak for RWNReader2 on this issue by stating that RWNReader2 doesn't believe that Arafat should have received the Nobel prize either. By your own argument, you're saying that Arafat deserved the prize by that merit alone.

    PWNED!

  • RWNReader2

    Seriously, if you can't admit the truth when it costs you and Obama absolutely nothing to do so – it's not his fault the Norwegians are dweebs – you are a complete waste of time and I have no respect for you. This one is cut and dry, regardless of your politics.

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    Guys, Huck already said he thought the reasons the Nobel Committee gave him the prize were silly: thus he doesn't think President Obama ought to have won it. He's just poking RWNReader, he doesn't really think that, if I know Huck.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Posted by RWNReader2

    2009-10-09 16:18:53

    You have to understand, Huckupchuck sees only what he wants to see and hears only what he wants to hear.

    You could bang him over the head with a thousand reasons for why Obama doesn't deserve a Nobel Prize. It'll never sink in. Ever.

  • RWNReader2

    Posted by Christopher_Taylor

    2009-10-09 16:28:00

    Actually, you don't know Huck, but I do. He did in fact endorse the Committee line, in his usual limp wristed way. Here's what he said:

    You want to know why I think he got the award? Well, I'd say he got the award not because of any particular "accomplishment," but because of how he transformed people's thinking about the world and the prospects for better international relations. In essence, he inspired people. Do I think that this is what the NPP should be based on? No. But just because his message of hope and change didn't do much for you, doesn't mean that it didn't do something significant for others.

    Notice how he acknowleds that the NPP decision should not be "based" on such a thing, but can't come clean and acknowlede that it's a mistake, and then argumes that Obama does in fact deserve it for having a "significant" affect on the world by "transforming people's thinking?" Sounds like Huck wants to argue that Obama has "accomplisehd" a heck of a lot, without actually, you know, "accomplishing" anything. This is the kind of non-commital pussified nonsense that moral equivalence liberalism leads to.

  • boatman47

    Obama was NOMINATED after 10 days in office – he was not SELECTED until much later.

    And he did not get the Peace Prize for deeds but for ideas / words – which can be far more powerful ( see Jesus Christ as compared to his contemporaries Tiberius and Caligula).

    Obama's words and ideas have already changed how the world thinks, talks and acts on issues affecting war and peace. Very few American Presidents have ever had as much effect as Obama has had already – and the Nobel Prize folks recognized that.

    Love or hate his ideas – it's time for all of you to recognize their influence.

  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    RWNReader2 – It's not a mistake because the NPP Committee can give their prize to whomever they choose for whatever reasons they choose. If you're asking me if I would give Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, I would answer that I wouldn't. That should be clear to any honest person reading this thread. The original question to me was why did I think he got the award, not whether I would have given him the award nor even whether or not I thought Obama deserved the award. To be specific, let me quote what you asked me verbatim: "tell us Huck why YOU think the award was given." I explained why I thought the award was given. I answered exactly the question that was asked of me. You never, not once, asked me if I thought Obama should have received the award. And then you disingenously pretended that this was the question you had asked me all along. When your attitude degenerated into some silly macho posturing about my being a limp-wristed pussy because I failed to answer a question you never asked me, I just figured that the possibility of any kind of honest dialogue with you had run its course. Read the thread again. At least C_T has enough intellectual honesty to recognize this.

    If you refuse to see that I think the reasons why the award was given were silly and that I would not have given Obama a Nobel Peace Prize based on such reasoning, then it is you who are being obtuse.

    But all this is a nice deflection from the real issue that spurred all this on, which was your typical, outlandish, unsupportable, unfactual, Sharpton-esque, race-hustling claim that Obama got this award because he's black. I called your pathetic, puny, race-hustling self on this point and it pissed you off. Now you can go stew over this while limp-wristed pussy me takes his kids out to dinner at the Camellia Grill and to a fun night at the amusement park in City Park.

    As I said, I challenge and ecourage everyone to go back and read the thread and see for yourself. The truth is there. In the meantime, see y'all on the Ladybug Rollercoaster!

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    Love or hate his ideas – it's time for all of you to recognize their influence.

    Posted by boatman47

    2009-10-09 17:41:32

    He has made the world a moor dangerous place and America a poorer, weaker nation.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    And he did not get the Peace Prize for deeds but for ideas / words – which can be far more powerful ( see Jesus Christ as compared to his contemporaries Tiberius and Caligula).

    Are you comparing Obama to the Son of God?

    You are a liberal.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    moor

    more. Not bring Islam (a false religion) into this.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    And he did not get the Peace Prize for deeds but for ideas / words – which can be far more powerful ( see Jesus Christ as compared to his contemporaries Tiberius and Caligula).

    Wow. You must be the dumbest person alive.

    Have you ever read the Bible? Like, at all? I guess not, because that's the only reason I can think of for why you would think Jesus Christ changed the world only with words.

    Love or hate his ideas – it's time for all of you to recognize their influence.

    Their "influence"? You mean the way he "influenced" Iran closer to getting nuclear weapons? Was that the "influence" you were referring to?

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    Actually, you don't know Huck, but I do

    You'd be surprised about that :)

    For the record I don't think Obama got the prize because of his skin color. Norwegians are pretty unlikely to be impressed by that, to say the least.

  • RtWingNtCase

    I plan to do something brave on my next deployment, so I think my chain of command should give me the Congressional medal of Honor. If nothing else, my words have inspired my Soldiers to be braver.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Top Ten Candidates Who Almost Won the Nobel Prize

    —Ace

    10. Dr. Neil Farkas, DDS, Sheboygan, WI, for once thinking about a new type of dental adhesive before forgetting about it

    9. Sue Lefkowitz, homemaker, Poughkeepsie, NY, for vowing on New Years Eve to lose her last 20 pregnancy pounds (she gained 6)

    8. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees third baseman, NY, NY, for having the intention of one day hitting a home run in October

    7. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for almost being elected President of Iran, and then bringing "peace" to that country as President of Iran

    6. Stanley Urquhart, assistant pipefitter, Des Moines, IA, for "seriously considering" legally changing his name to Jake "The Snake" Drake (pure unadulterated awesome!) and joining the Ultimate Fighting League, at least after he finally makes that brown belt that sensei has been holding back from him for a year

    5. Charles Johnson, blogger, Santa Monica, CA, for "conspicuous heroism" in defending a little-trafficked website from fascists, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other Enemies of the Blog

    4. Myron Klepnitz, IT supervisor, Brooklyn, NY, for writing a chapter and a half and "copious notes" for his "vampire erotica" novel tentatively titled Suck

    3. ACORN

    2. Ace of Spades, blogger, whereabouts unknown, for posting by 11:30 am

    …and the Number One Candidate who almost won a Nobel Prize…

    1. One-tenth of an ounce of that stinky, sweaty, rancid-buttery grey fuzz that collects at the bottom of your belly-button and kind of scratches when you try to fish it out

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/293443.php

  • RWNReader2

    As I said, I challenge and encourage everyone to go back and read the thread and see for yourself. The truth is there

    indeed it is. let's review. Here's your initial post, attempting to legitimize the award…

    I do want to note that Barack Obama, even before his election to the Presidency, was doing stuff behind the scenes in service to the Bush Administration and Condoleeza Rice's State Department to help resolve international conflicts. I blogged about this during the Democratic Primary, but I think it's worth pointing out here as well

    That was lame, and even you, in weak manner, acknowledge so, yet you and Vega continue to attempt to legitimize the NPP Committee BS line about Obama's "approach" (as Vega put it), so here's me laying down the VERY CLEAR gauntlet:

    Please note that this thread is approaching 70 posts, yet no one can point to any actual accomplishment by Obama worthy of this award. Please do tell us, resident libs, what accomplishment – not "approach" or "hope" or "potential" – what accomplishment do YOU think this award is based on? We're waiting.

    That's pretty clear, yet you continue to ignore the fact that there is none, and tow the BS line about his "approach" "hope" and "potential." In other words, you dodge the obvious because you want to have your cake and eat it to. You know it (the award) is undeserved, but you want to crow about how it's evidence of Obama greatness. Even in your final mea culpa

    I would not have given Obama a Nobel Peace Prize based on such reasoning,

    you can't bring yourself to actually admit that he doesn't deserve it because he hasn't actually accomplished anything beyond being the first black President.

  • RWNReader2

    And btw,

    The NPP Committee can give their prize to whomever they choose for whatever reasons they choose.

    is false. According to its own rule, the NPP is supposed to be based on accomplishment. The impossibility thereof in the 10 day window between inauguration and nomination is the reason given in the past for NOT giving it to American Presidents in their first year, thus we know this to be the (previous) standard applied.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    He met the criteria set by the committee which awarded him the honor.

    No, child, he did not. Maybe you should actually READ the criteria set by the Nobel Committee for the Peace Prize. It specifically requires some sort of accomplishment.

    So, what did Obama accomplish? Nothing.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    The committe which made the award owes no one,including you, an explanation as to why it felt that Obama deserved the award.

    In that case the Nobel Committee deserves no credibility or respect from anyone. If they're just going to throw Peace Prizes at anyone they choose, they are officially worthless.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    That's one way of looking at it.

    Sorry but you don't get to play the moral equivalence game here.

    You can't have it both ways. If the Nobel Committee is an entirely private organization then their decisions have absolutely no worth. Winning a Nobel Peace Prize is no longer an accomplishment or an honor but a meaningless triviality, akin to a high school prom queen election.

  • RtWingNtCase

    EyeBEW77,

    That's an incredible cop out. It cheapens the award and makes it meaningless. Besides, the problem is not the award, but the attention it receives. If you want it to have ANY levelk of legitimacy, then you need to give a shit about how and why it's given out.

    If not, then agree with us that it's as useless as the Heisman has become in recent years – nice to have but it doesn't really get you anywhere.

  • http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

    You say EyeBEW77, I say hoggo.

    C'mon dude we all know your strong love for your union, but EyeBEW, as in IBEW, as in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers? That's just sad, lame and lacks creativity. I guess that's a consequence of needing a new user name every six or eight weeks, and being too old to think up fresh, creative user names.

  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    I still am amazed anyone has the gall and stupidity to try to defend this idiotic decision by the Nobel Committee. They've so obviously jumped the shark (and I hate that phrase) that even a White House aide thought it was a joke when a reporter asked him about it. This was so stupid and unreasonable the press gasped when the award was announced. Even the committee felt compelled to explain why they were giving someone who has done nothing to actually promote peace a prize for their extraordinary efforts in the name and promotion of peace, and their explanation was pathetic. Its also a slap in the face of all the other nominees who, you know, actually did something.

    If the best White House astroturfers can do is say "well its private" then you know they're up against the ropes.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Shut up, hoggo. Nobody cares what you think.

  • TA_Tate

    ALL obama DID TO RECIEVE THE PRIZE WAS TO ACT LIKE ANY OTHER SOICALIST OR COMMUNIST–HE CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL–I LOVE AND SERVED MY COUNTRY IN WAR AND AS I RECALL WHEN I TOOK THE OATH TO ENTER THE SERVICE I VOWED TO PROTECT AMERICA FROM ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC–STILL BELIEVE AND WILL KEEP THAT VOW TODAY–AT THE READY–T.A.TATE

  • libliever

    Posted by TA_Tate

    2009-10-10 17:48:08

    Good for you now stop shouting.

  • http://wastingtimewithalex.com/ AlexinCT

    Obama got this price because what he is doing to America: destroying it. That's what the committee rewarded him for. People have already tried to declare Obama America's Gorbachev. I don't see the comparision. In fact, there is a stark contrast: Gorbachev's actions allowed an evil empire to implode, and Obama's actions are going to destroy a great nation.

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