World Stunned As Obama Wins Peace Prize
Posted on October 9, 2009
Not to steal any thunder from the earlier posts by John and Jay (this is being cross-posted to my site, Stop The ACLU, and Right Wing News), but, I just couldn’t let this article go to waste
That’s the screenshot from the front page of the UK Times Online
Barack Obama today sensationally won the Nobel Peace Prize after just nine months in office for returning America to a multilateralist foreign policy after eight years of going it alone under George W Bush.
Yeah, because there were absolutely no other countries involved in Iraq and Afghanistan. We never heard Lefties cackle when a country pulled their troops out of either country. No other countries were involved in rendition and stuff.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honouring the 48-year-old US President for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
The five jurors, elected by the Norwegian parliament, also said in their citation that they had attached “special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons”.
The choice of Mr Obama came as a complete surprise – the frontrunners for the last Nobel prize of the year included the Chinese dissident Hu Jia and the Colombian senator Piedad Cordoba. It also prompted widespread controversy.
Are you ready for the punchline?
Mr Obama was elected America’s first black president last December and assumed office on January 20 – which means that he had been in office less than two weeks by the time nominations closed on February 1.
So, in those first two weeks he gave a bunch of interviews to magazines, gave some speeches, couldn’t figure out the type of dog to get, made a few more appearances on TV entertainment shows, and signed legislation to close Guantanamo Bay detention facility, which the Democrat Congress refuses to supply the money needed to close it, and Obama still has no plan, 8 months later, to actually close.
The decision was welcomed by other Nobel peace laureates, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Muhammad Yunnus and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. Mohamed ElBaradei, who heads the UN’s nuclear watchdog and won the prize in 2005, said: “I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honour. In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself.”
How about the Iranian dissidents? How about, specifically, Mohammad-Reza Ali Zamani, who is scheduled to be hanged for participating in the Iranian protests?
If he has rekindled hope, then why is Iran still working to achieve nuclear weapons? Why is Darfur still a mess (yes, I did criticize George Bush for giving speeches about it and doing nothing)? Why is North Korea still rattling their rusty saber? If the world is so full of hopenchange, why did the Olympic Committee slap Obama in the face with a cold, dead fish?
I’d mention the opinion pieceyou see in the screenshot, but, really, the Nobel Peace prize is already a joke, having become one the minute Yassar Arrafat was anointed as a recipient. And, while Carter may be a complete anti-Semite and a virulent America hater, at least he worked hard to create peace between Israel and Egypt, which still kinda holds up today. Obama? Maybe one day he will deserve the prize. Right now, “It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration.” In other words “f**c Bush.”
And, oh, the polls are not going well
I guess people from around the world have higher standards for actually having accomplishments than the Nobel Prize Committee.
PS: I do not want this to seem unseemly harsh towards Obama. It wasn’t his fault that the Nobel committee did this.
Double PS: What is the Nobel Peace Prize about, as set forth in his will?
According to Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize is to go to whoever “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.
Maybe one day Obama will meet those standards. He sure didn’t meet them on February 1st, and, considering how he has treated our allies…….
Triple PS (I feel Like Glenn Greenwald)
College Politico has the bumper stickers, to use with your Twitter has tag #nobelol. (Via Michelle M)
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The Nobel committee has continued down the path of irrelevancy. The committee has made some fairly bad choices for the last decade or so, its anti-America agenda fits in perfectly with Mr. Obama’s. The following is a list of recent Nobel winners.
1994 Yasser Arafat (A terrorist)
2001 Kofi Annan (Anti-American Politician)
2002 Jimmy Carter (Anti American Politician)
2005 Mohamed El Baradei (A fool and a Liar)
2007 Al Gore (A large fool and liar)
2009 Barrack Obama (Anti-American Politician)
This is a collection of Leftist doofuses, unknown bureaucrats, petty dictators, terrorists, conmen, and crooks. What distinguished company, Mister President “No Clue”. The continuing journey to mental retardation is firmly imbedded in our society; this is not all that different from giving an Oscar to a pedophile.
By any rational assessment, this is nonsensical. Obama has only just been elected, and has achieved nothing. So what is this all about ? As a Brit, it seems clear to me. This is a pat on the back against the prospect of Obama beginning the process of bringing the US into the fold of tans-national governance. For those your side of the pond, the UK will become a province of the EU state within the next 6 months. The lesson of the UK’s loss of sovereignty is that Obama will not have to do much – just start the process. What is done will be shrouded in bureaucracy and only visible to geeks. Aside from the “ climate change” scam, the obvious “beneficial crisis” is the economic situation. Expect him to sign up to some form of international co-ordination/supervision, including some motherhood-apple pie verbiage which no-one will take literally but which will justify future mission creep. Meanwhile the “tranzie” network will big him up throughout his term, irrespective of the damage being done to the US.
How about we rephrase the headline to more reflect reality? “Obama given Nobel Peace Prize”. He certainly didn’t win it.
Except, Humbold, liberals, like at the Huff Post, DU, Kos, and so many other sites, even the Washington Post, NY Times, NBC News, are saying this is nuts.
Hmmmm, sucks to be hoist on that petard.
How sad to see those of you who keep bashing and trashing your President. It’s truly disgusting to see this continued display of anti-Obama no matter what the man does or says. I guess you would rather a Bush type individual again to lie to you constantly, wage wars all over the place, bankrupt your country…. Instead you have an intelligent man who is trying to get financial recovery back in your country, trying desperatedly to not make health care only for the upper iddle class and above. You should be proud of your President!!!! He is also trying to change the way6 others see the U.S. and it’s citizens but unfortunately you idiots keep spewing so much hatred and non-rational thoughts that I know I have decided to not travel to the U.S. whatsoever anymore. My vacations will NOT include the U.S. because there truly are too many “ugly americans”.
I wonder if Norway is mad at America for not liberating Norway first? Before France, that is. After all, Norway was conquered by the Germans in 1940 before France was.
Danielle, your spewing doesn’t contain anything that justifies Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
As for your vacation plans, go ahead and avoid the U.S. We won’t miss you.
” How about, specifically, Mohammad-Reza Ali Zamani, who is scheduled to be hanged for participating in the Iranian protests?”
How about the way he didn’t really side with the people in Houdorus? Obama has never participated in a March, he’s never been in danger, he’s never stood up to power. What has he done, except get a free ride all of his life?
He’s made the economic situation worse by spending too much money, printing too many dollars. This will lead to instability and that’s not good for the peace process.
He’s increased the troop count in Afghanistan, and Pakistan is on the verge of collapse, if they fall it could lead to war with India.
My point is, he’s done nothing to make the world more peaceful.
Why don’t we let them know how we feel ?
comments@nobelprize.org
Danielle,
I grew up in Illinois so I am familiar with the cesspool that is Chicago politics. Obama’s main accomplishment to date is transplanting the Cook County political machine to Washington, DC.
So many broken promises …
Danielle:
George Bush publicly warned a DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS and America no less than 17 times about the coming housing collapse and economic free fall. Get a clue you ignorant dirtbag.
George Bush freed 50+ million Moslem Iraqi citizens from a dictator who killed thousands of his own people. Get a clue dirtbag.
Stay out of America – you people have screwed this country enough. Your’re NOT welcome here you ignorant selfish dirtbag.
And stop eating the food which America provides the world if you don’t like us.