OH.MY.HECK! I could not believe this when I read the news this morning, I thought it was a joke! What in the world has Obama done to earn a Nobel Peace Prize (btw, I had a hard time finding a news source that just reported the news without asking why)? When the nomination was made, he had only been in office for two weeks!!! This is not a rhetorical question, people, I'm really interested in the answer to that question. What has he done?
US President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize less than a year after taking office.I'm not the only one asking why, Lech Walesa is as well:The jury that awards the prize hailed his "extraordinary" diplomatic efforts on the international stage.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited his outreach to the Muslim world and his attempts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons.
The stunning choice made Mr Obama the third sitting American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
His name had been mentioned in speculation about possible winners, but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early for him to take the award - he took office only two weeks before award nominations closed.
"Who? What? So Fast?" he said when reporters told him about the latest Obama win.And so are our fellow Americans:"Well, there's hasn't been any contribution to peace yet. He's proposing things, he's initiating things, but he is yet to deliver," he said.
"It would be wonderful if I could think why he won," said Claire Sprague, 82, a retired English professor as she walked her dog in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "They wanted to give him an honor I guess but I can't think what for."I don't agree with that btw, we will look incredibly smart kicking him out by the time he's done trashing our economy and the safety of this nation.[...]
When told of Obama's win Robert Schultz, 62, a retired civil servant and Vietnam veteran, asked: "For doing what?
"The guy hasn't solved any conflict anywhere so how can he win the peace prize? But if we don't reelect him the next go around we will all look like idiots because the world has anointed him," said Schultz, who lives in a suburb of Dallas.
No only are Poland and the average Americans stunned by Obama's win but the MSM is as well:
LAUER: There are no major foreign policy achievements to date ... In some ways he wins this for not being George W. Bush.Of course we all realize that's the real reason.GREGORY: That's an inescapable conclusion.
And what's so ironic about this is that this is the guy who put off meeting with the Dalai Lama because he didn't want to anger China. And he's the guy who is ready to allow the women of Afghanistan to be enslaved once again by allowing the Taliban back in power. Bush brought freedom but Obama brings enslavement.
If this doesn't dishonor the award, nothing will. Just look at who Nobel intended to be awarded the Peace Prize:
In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses".In the two weeks he was in office, how did he fulfill this requirement?
Obama's reaction? Humility by giving back the award knowing that he didn't do anything to deserve it? Concerned that someone more deserving isn't going to receive it? Of course not! Who are we talking about here? The One.
BTW, I found this pretty funny.
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still living in your land of make-believe, i see. righties do have an imagination, i'll give 'em that, pouty.
let's save the link to that rightie fascist blog and come back here in three years and compare your conservative wish list with reality and see how close or far off you people are. things just may become as bad as you hope, or they may become as good as i hope. we'll just have to wait and see!
Oh anony, you should lighten up a bit. That was meant to add a little levity to the whole discussion. Have fun, laugh a little.
"Fascist blog?" From Webster: : "a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition."
You really think that blog is Fascist? Really? You probably should check your copy of the dictionary.
Even the LEFTY LIB MsM is embarrassed by this fiasco! HAHAHAHAHA!
Well LEFTY LIB Sycophants, hang on to your hats cus the slap down in 2010 and 2012 against the LEFT is a comin'. BAM!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You're own people are humiliated by this farce and you still can't admit it. Keep drinking the koolaid kiddies.
hehehe... seriously? i laugh at almost everything you write here! lighten up, pouty! if you can toss around the "socialist" label so lightly without regard, i can do the same with the fascist label. that blog is as fascist as health care reform (as it's being discussed in d.c.) is socialist.
i know that your intent was to lighten the conversation here... that's also why i enjoy the snl skits about the nobel prize. still, that doesn't change the fact that most conservatives believe what's written in that fantasy story on that fascist blog will come to pass.
"the slap down in 2010 and 2012 against the LEFT is a comin'. BAM!"
sure, GAT. i think you said something similar in 2006 and 2008. your record of soothsaying is pretty bad so far. forgive me if i don't believe your gas.
And next in line to get their own NOBEL PEACE PRIZE will be FIDEL CASTRO,CAHRLES MANSON,SAMMA BIN LADEN,DR ZINN,COBRA COMMANDER,HUGO CHAVEZ, and a few other crinimal minds
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