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Friday, October 9, 2009 at 05:53AM Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize:
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2009 — “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
We’ll never be able to live with him after this.
THE AUDIENCE GASPS IN DISBELIEF AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT IN OSLO:
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Poland is stunned to see the Nobel Peace Prize given to U.S. President Barack Obama. You can always count on Poland’s outspoken ex-president and its best-know Nobel Prize laureate Lech Walesa to be undiplomatic:
“Who? What? So Fast?” he said when reporters told him about the latest Obama win.
“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.
I was thinking we should give him the National Defense Service ribbon, and maybe an Army Achievement Medal, but he does not have enough for the comments section yet to make a strong argument.
Of course he has done so much for peace, he has spent years tirelessly promoting peace in all corners of the globe. It's nice to see someone rewarded for all their hard work. Wow, I mean it's about time really. Thanks to Obama everyone is now holding hands around campfires, singing songs. Way to go Player, you deserve this.
Actually people have no idea how close the balloting was between Obama and Ahmadinejad...unfortunately for Mahmoud, the liberal media machine has been doing a great job thrashing his character - the timing of the following couldn't have been worse~
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran
My wife and I were talking this morning, before we saw the announcement about the award, and thought it might be a good idea for Oslo to take a pass on the prize this year...
The Nobel Prize committee has turned into nothing but a liberal-socialist pep club. I mean, look at Al Gore. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 over the likes of Irena Sendler, a REAL HERO who saved 2,500 children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto. See HERE. Rather than reward people for REAL COURAGE, the Nobel committee now merely rewards socialist hacks who spout progressive propaganda.
(:X) Bleccchhhhh!
I think the Colonel was in the running even after his 90 minute rant at the UN, but the whole insisting on the tent thing is what hurt his chances. Maybe Putin has a shot next year, I mean President Bush looked him in the eye and saw into his soul. I was so narrow minded I could of sworn he was KGB all the way, but he is a kindler, gentler fellow now. Maybe he should get the prize next.
Must be from all his years of hard work for Peace. Its about time really, I mean wow the whole world is at peace and everyone is fed and happy and doing there own thing, but together, holding hands. Truly a magnificent man a real Prince of Peace. The whole world has turned their swords into plowshares with inspiration of peace. Wow, a wonderful surprise for a truly deserving man. Possibly the greatest man whom ever lived. It truly warms the heart to see this person who is so Mother Theresa like get this award.
If any of you care, I also think this was a really bad decision. Apparently the Nobel folks thought that all the happy talk (a.k.a. apologizing for America) really meant something or they thought that a little encouragement from them might give him the guts to actually do something for peace in the world other than talk pretty. I doubt they are so gullible as to believe the Pope of Hope, but they might hope they can shame him into actually doing something. I think they will be disappointed.
Since when do we bestow high honors to shame people? It's like adding beer belching and channel surfing to the Olympic games.
Congratulations to everyone! Our worthy president has received the Nobel Peace Prize! I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to Disneyland! WooHoo!!!
I know, right, Gary?
I didn't gasp when I heard the announcement... I just rolled my eyes.
OneFreeKorea writes
The Nobel Prize has become a booby prize.
What a freakin joke??? Everybody knows the Nobel committee is full of liberals, nothing like SYMBOLISM OVER SUBSTANCE. Basically, it can be boiled down to a "circle jerk".
Well, he has done one thing.
He managed to sway millions into thinking he was a savior.
He is the self-anointed one.
Since when does anyone care about the Nobel Prize?
Adam, It's the definition of irony.
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. 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.
Thomas, so what? We've already been called racists, Nazis, teabagging rednecks, raving lunatics, and more. What's one more name?
Barry's cheerleaders may be impressed, but this prize is nothing more than being preached to by the decadent European leftists. Each time, fewer are listening.
What else should we expect? Talk about peace, he pretty much plans on scrapping the whole war on terror. He has his chance to do something by listening to his generals and putting more troops in Afghanistan, but instead he'd rather keep it a terror state. Never mind that he said all along that he would fight the fight in Afghanistan and hunt down and kill Bin Laden. Apparently if we just use diplomacy the terrorists will leave us alone. What's more peaceful than that? Heck, Carter got the same prize right after handing the entire middle east over to muslim terrorists to turn it all into a terror state so why shouldn't Obama get a prize for keeping it that way?
Socialists awarding a socialist. I have also posted about this Amy. But what do you expect from the Norwegian committee who also awarded Yasser Arafat? There is a theme to their political intent.
The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists -- the Taliban and Hamas this morning...
The Republican Party also tossed its lot in with Obama who, like the Taliban, Hamas, and Republicans, admitted he wasn't worthy of the award. It's now our fault he still had the ego to accept it.
...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.
An undeserved honor is no honor at all. The President isn't a six year old playing in a T-Ball league where everyone wins.
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.
Kind of like the 2000-2008 Democrat Party, ain't it?
Well, I didn't think this would play well with the America First crowd. Funny how no Republicans ever get a Peace Prize - I guess being against peace kind of rules you out.
Kissinger was given the prize, a fact that didn't sit well with democrats. That award, like the present one, was politically motivated. Kissinger received the award with Le Duc Tho as co-recipient. This was (probably) the first, but not the the last example of the Nobel Prize Committee's naive and stupid political meddling (e.g., Sadat and Begin; Williams and Corrigan; Arafat, Perez, Rabin; Carter).
Charles, you see, that's where you have us all wrong. We were peaceful before 9/11. Truth to tell we needed a stronger president than Bush but since the only other choices were worse, that's what we got. Nobody went looking for a fight with anybody. The terrorists brought the fight to us. Shall we just stay put and let them kill us?
Only someone who doesn't care about the unreasonableness of lives lost that day or someone who hates this country would think so.
Would you say the same of the policemen who protect you every day? Shall we call the War on Crime a failure, too? How about the War on Drugs?
You also need to remember who presided over Bosnia and Somalia. It wasn't a Republican.
Also, you may think the world loves us now but they don't and never will. They never have no matter who was in the White House. It's all a head fake. The only thing the rest of the world wants from us is our money and our military so they don't have to spend their own keeping a strong military of their own.
Nor do they respect us. Obama with his apologies and his appeasement will never be respected. He is viewed as weak. When Sarkozy calls someone weak... I mean, France of all countries!
The rest of the world may not have liked Bush but they respected him. They may like Obama, personally, but they also know they can walk all over him and that personal liking for him will not translate into liking for this country.
If the other world leaders were truthful about it, they're scared of a weak America, except for those who will profit from it, like Russia and China. A little fear is good for them. Maybe next time they'll be more careful what they wish for.
Charles,
You resent the "America First Crowd." Does that place you in the "America Last Crowd?"
Have you checked the pattern of recipients? Anti-semite Carter and terrorist Arafat come to mind.Republicans are "ruled out" for supporting liberty and opposing totalitarianism.
I don't think anyone can say it better than Dick Morris:
Funny how Obama apologizes in Cairo to Arabs and Muslims for our policies in the recent past - liberating Muslim Kuwait, fighting to protect humanitarian missions in Somalia, defending Bosnian Muslims from Christian Serbs, protecting Albanian and Kosovar Muslims from Serbs, liberating 50+ million Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan from brutal dictators and terrorists. Yep. Those Republicans deserve nothing from the Norwegian Socialist Club. Arafat is a much better model for their 'award.'
It makes me physically sick to hear Obama apologizing to Muslims for the actions of the USA.
The Nobel Prize is obvious a tool to promote socialism and antisemitism worldwide. It goes to people who talk a good game and insult Israel and the USA the best.
Johnny,
Only someone like you can wittle down multi-dimensional conflicts into a few one line statements about how the USA schooled them all. Do they teach you how to put these things in nice little one line packages in the military? Funny guy.
Rex, don't hate Johnny just because he's articulate.
Since when is the Nobel Peace Prize given to anyone who has ACCOMPLISHED peace and not just talked about it? When's the last time a Jew won the Nobel Peace Prize? When's the last time a candidate sympathizing with the plight of the Israelis won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Are you getting a clearer picture here, Charles? The Peace Prize honors anti-Israel proponents and appeases Israel's enemies.
And consider that Obama is currently a war president and that more US troops and Afghan civilians are dying under his lame watch than under President Bush.
Do the math!
Johnny acutally hits the nail on the head. Go back to your government school Rex, you got a little more cooking to do before your done.
This award smacks of a calculation. To what end I haven't thought through long enough yet. Undeniably it will influence Obamas' thinking, but what of those thoughts wrought by those that bear ill will?
thomas, you should give authorship to that statement with at least quotations. And perhaps the DNC leader should have checked to see that Hamas CONGRATULATES Obama on the win! I guess that means Obama's throwing in his lot with the likes of Hamas and the Taliban?
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Johnny, your response to my statement about no Republicans being for peace seems to bear out my thesis quite well. The idea that an American leader could actually have some empathy for the views of others in the world is repugnant to you. You apparently would rather bomb people than apologize to them. It would do you well to think about how others might feel about that.
Amy, you seem to suffer from the same view. Like so many on the right in America, you have all kinds of sympathy for the plight of the poor Israelis, but none whatever for the people whose land they occupy, whose lives are constantly interrupted by Israeli violence, who are subjected to daily humiliation at Israeli checkpoints, and who are denied the right to self-determination. Sure there are lots of faults with the Palestinians and their use of terrorist techniques is despicable, but to simply ignore their plight and the illegitimate actions of the Israeli government is one-sided. For all the anti-Palestinian rhetoric in this country, the comparative death toll in this long occupation make it clear who is the aggressor.
Charles,
The consensus in the ISraeli-Palestinian issue is as clear as glass, and rather one-sided, but the propaganda machines have made it seem so "complex" that it takes years of diplomacy and in-depth review to overcome this conflict.
Amy and I put or faith in action, our money where our mouths are, and our feet to the fire. We support hungry people in Central America, oppressed people in North Korea, Iraqi Christians ravaged by the war, Jews in transition from the former USSR to Israel, pro-life organizations, Catholic medical missionaries, and blind children in Iraq: http://amyproctor.squarespace.com/blog/2008/11/20/baghdads-school-for-the-blind-receives-supplies.html
I won't bore Amy's readers with our everyday volunteer activities or past actions on behalf of homeless people, children of AIDS victims or prisoners. You are gravely mistaken to criticize MY family in our ACTUAL empathy (not feigned empathy like liberals who want government to be our expression of brotherly charity) and you owe us an apology.
My service in the Army has been 90% humanitarian and 10% combat in Iraq, Korea and Haiti. What makes this country great is the big heart of individual Americans and not the wasteful, ineffecient, and corrupt bureaucratic machinations of our government.
Johnny, they criticize because they don't know any better. That's why we're called names all the time. Conservatives are becoming as hated as the Jews. Demagoguery knows no logic.
If half the people calling us names and making judgments based on what they've heard would just stop to listen they might find we have more in common than they would have ever thought possible.
Instead, all they seem to be able to do is focus on the superficial how we look and what we say, never actions as a whole but some small part that reinforces what they've been told.
Charles, I don't know if you were ever taught or just don't remember, the Palestinians sided with the Nazis. They were preaching death to the Jews before the reclamation of that little strip of land called the country of Israel.
Annual Charitable Gift-Giving Could Surpass $500 Billion By 2015, Up From Current $190 Billion. The point to these links Chuck is that we do respond to those in need, reaching out and helping when we can. But republicans also distinguish between those who are in need and those who exploit the needy. When military action is required, we do not shy away and worry about offending the sensibilities of the weak minded. We step up and get the job done.
Historically, when we've failed to complete the task, it is because spineless liberals have achieved a level of power and prevent success. We are currently suffering from such a scenario.
Lastly, do not assume that republicans are onl interested in bombing and never helping. If you'd like, I'll be happy to provide links of prominant Democrat and Republican leader's charitable givings. But I'm guessing you already know the outcome of that.
Why the fuck would I want to apologize to a bunch of sand Nazi nithings?
You do not get those people. What they want is for all women to end up like Jaycee Dugard and for all Jews to end up like David Jakubovic.
Individual charitable acts are wonderful. Charitable acts by non-profits and religious groups are wonderful too. The problem is that neither of them address the systemic issues that cause the poverty and disease of their clients, they simply allow those problems to continue while making the donors feel better about themselves.
As I have pointed out before, all you have to do is examine the amount of money spent by the US government on strictly humanitarian efforts (those where there was no PR or political motivation) to the amount spent on the military. Or compare the amount of money and resources the US military spends on humanitarian efforts to that spent on weapons. The numbers are not even close. The real motivations and real values are quite evident to everyone except Americans who just can't believe that everything their government does is just peachy.
As for the Israel-Palestine issue, our media is so strongly pro-Israel that it is quite difficult for an American to find out the truth of that conflict. When there is an Israeli death, the airwaves are saturated with coverage. When hundreds of Palestinians die, we hear nothing other than the Israeli government press releases. That's why our understanding of the conflict differs so much from that of the rest of the world. We view everything through Israeli eyes. There is no fair and balanced coverage available in the mainstream US press.
Charles,
If I may add, that in the global spectrum of "conflicts", the Israeli Palestinian issue has been vastly overblown out of proportion. There have been far more severe and catastrophic conflicts in the same time period, yet the media coverage pales in comparison to what we have to witness with the Israeli-Palestinian issues.