End of Obamamania? Europe’s Tepid Reaction to Obama’s Nobel
After elevating Obama to cult-of-personality status, Europeans now turn against him.
October 11, 2009 - 12:00 am
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European newspapers have reacted to Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize with a mixture of incredulity and skepticism. Almost without exception, newspapers across the continent (and political spectrum) are saying the award to Obama is premature and undeserved.
For many people, that conclusion seems perfectly reasonable. But coming from Europe’s sycophantic media establishment, which has spent the last two years worshiping Obama as a messianic figure, such a reaction represents a sea change in sentiment toward Obama. Is Obama’s European star finally falling to earth?
What follows is a brief review of what some of the major European newspapers are saying about Obama’s Nobel:
- The London-based Economist magazine, which endorsed Obama for president, writes: “But is the award premature? Although the prize may be given in the spirit of encouraging Mr. Obama’s government, it might have been better to wait for more solid achievements. With so many good intentions, and so many initiatives scattered around the world (and an immensely busy domestic agenda, including health-care reform and averting economic collapse), Mr. Obama appears to be racing around trying everything without yet achieving much.”
- The left-wing Guardian, in an analysis titled “Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize: Why Now?”, writes: “The reality is that the prize appears to have been awarded to Barack Obama for what he is not. For not being George W Bush. Or rather being less like the last president. The question now is whether having being anointed perhaps too early by the committee, a Nobel prize earned so cheaply and at so little cost will help him in his efforts on the international stage or rather be an albatross around his neck. Something against which all his future efforts will be judged — and perhaps found wanting.”
- Elsewhere in the Guardian, an informal online opinion poll asks: “Did President Obama deserve the 2009 Nobel peace prize?” More than 70 percent of respondents say “no.”
- The left-wing Independent, in a commentary titled “This award is premature — and potentially very foolish,” writes that Obama: “ … should have refused the award, politely saying that he was flattered and, while appreciating the motivation, was as yet unworthy of such distinction. Instead, he is once again lauded for his symbolism and potential rather than his actual deeds. One day, he might be a worthy winner. But not today.”
- Elsewhere in the Independent, in an article titled “The real world has little time for prizes”: “Yes, he’s made those fancy speeches … But, as they say in American politics, where’s the beef? … Obama’s prize is a final, gratuitous shot at George W. Bush (remember him?).”
- The center-right Times of London, in an article titled “Prize Fools”: “The Norwegian Nobel Committee is in danger of putting the entire comedy industry out of business.” Elsewhere, in a commentary titled “Pointless Nobel prize reveals how President Obama is lost in his own mystique,” the Times advises: “Scrap the Nobel Peace Prize. It’s an embarrassment and even an impediment to peace.”
- The Financial Times, in an editorial titled “Urgency of Now?”, argues that the Nobel committee is “trapped in an adolescent adulation of Mr. Obama that, if once shared by many, most have put behind them. Its continuing desire to flatter a particular tendency in U.S. politics — Al Gore and Jimmy Carter are recent laureates — risks painting it as an annex to the left wing of the U.S. Democratic party.”
- In France, the center-right Le Figaro, in a commentary titled “Disservice to Obama,” writes: “Should we abolish the Nobel Peace Prize? We ask the question after Barack Obama was awarded the prize on Friday. This decision, which oozes political correctness, was a very bad idea.”
- The center-left Le Monde, in a commentary titled “The Meaning of the Nobel,” writes that the Nobel committee “justified their choice in language worthy of worst-UN diplomatic rhetoric.” It argues that the prize should have gone to “brave Russians or Chinese who are fighting for liberty in their own countries.”
- In Switzerland, the Basler Zeitung, in an editorial titled “Nobel Prize: For What?”, writes: “It is quite bizarre. President Barack Obama has just won the Nobel Prize. It is not clear why. Because he has made peace, a kind of peace, with Hillary Clinton? … Strictly speaking, the whole thing is really postmodern: A person can now win the Nobel Peace Prize when he says he hopes for peace sometime in the future. But he is not obligated to do it. The intent is sufficient. Great.”
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Maybe he should invite his fair weather European fans over to drink 40′s and shoot hoops with the “hope” of regaining their fervor, I mean favor. I know the same approach is being used with the cabinet, not sure about the beer though.
It would have been good to hear also the opinion of the Norwegian press.
The center-left Le Monde [...] argues that the prize should have gone to “brave Russians or Chinese who are fighting for liberty in their own countries.”
Let’s not forget the Iranians, who are arguably doing the most for peace through freedom, right now.
With a few exceptions, this list seems much more like criticism of the Nobel committee than Obama.
The man could slaughter a puppy on live TV while laughing maniacally and too many people would swoon over how wonderful he was for putting the poor puppy out of its misery.
so Nobel price doesn’t impress anymore !
would ya think that those European journalists are like a church fidels and would endorse all what honnor the big One ?
You left out the funniest commentary of all – the Times cartoon at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/photo_galleries/article5845971.ece?slideshowPopup=true&articleId=5845971§ionName=PhotoGalleries
That said it all.
I think they had in mind his having made peace between Skip Gates and the Cambridge Police Department.
One more jibe from Sarkozy at BHO when talking to Angela Merkel:
“Si tu fais de gros efforts, tu auras droit à une lettre de Barack Obama. Et si tu fais des bassesses, il ajoutera peut-être “Amicalement” de sa main!”
if you make big efforts, you’ll get a letter from BHO. And if you make despicable acts, he might add “friendly” from his hand.
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/indiscret/une-fleche-contre-obama_793217.html?xtor=RSS-182
I think europeans were about six steps ahead of america on the Obama thing. I remember about a year or so ago (the campaign for those that may have forgot about that) Obama came over to europe. Well, he was swamped with adulation where ever he went. The american right failed to notice (no surprise) or denounced it as staged, and the american journalists/media (like yourselves) dismissed it as hollywood. Obviously, the right and the press fell into deep shock as the election night results poured in. Indeed, historians will be studying those results for years trying to peice together how that all happened. Bottom line though is: This president has restored a prestigious “new sense of hope” heard around the world, so americans that did no support him, just better get used to it. The old guard has now been brushed aside. And the europeans knew that way before much of Obama’s own country “got it.”
What’s all the fuss about? He won the presidency without doing anything, what’s wrong with the Nobel Peace Prize? I say let the poor fellow win the World Series. It would be good for his self-esteem.
What struck me as funny, about this whole nonsense, was that based on the Nobel explanation for giving the award to Obama, any Miss American could be awarded this prize. I mean, gosh, they all want world peace!
I care greatly about what Europeans think . . . wait, no, I don’t. I don’t know. “Glenn! Oh, Glenn, please tell me, should I care hat Europeans think?”
No European journalists are NOT like church fidels, ALL journalists, everywhere are “like church fidels”.
@Author: The critisism is not for Obama, but the Nobel comittee.
@Author: The critisism is not for Obama, but the Nobel comittee.
@UK Guy: The thesis of the article is that Obamamania is in its last throes and criticism of the Nobel committee (rather than praise of its choice of Obama, which, if they were still in the first throes of Obamamania, would absolutely have been “the spin”) is indication of such.
… and while the Obamatons were caught in idiotic triumphant revelry…
“In war, McCain warns against ‘an error of historic proportions”/ CNN Political Ticker/ Martina Stewart/ October 11th, 2009 09:00 AM ET -
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain said any added military deployment in Afghanistan less than the 40,000 troops reportedly requested by the top U.S. commander in that war-torn land “would be an error of historic proportions (interview which will air Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union).
[...]
“I think to disregard the requirements that has been laid out and agreed to” by Central Command head Gen. David Petraeus and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen “would be an error of historic proportions,”[...]
“Admiral Mullen and General McChrystal and General Petraeus have said the situation is deteriorating. Just over the last several days, as you know, week or so, we’ve lost 10 more brave young Americans. And the longer we delay the decision, the longer it will be before we provide them with what the needed resources are,” McCain says in the interview. [...]”
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Foolish thoughts! Let’s go to important things, like Obama’s speech next year in Stockholm —
Much sympathy I have not for a commie like Jean-Paul Sartre – yet when he refused the Nobel Prize, that was a class act, in comparison with the Perpetual Grinner’s compulsion for jumping in the lime light at any opportunity.
But this time, his enablers, in this case that collection of silly Norwegians sure look much worse than Obama -
RE #11/Now and Then: [...] I care greatly about what Europeans think . . . wait, no, I don’t. I don’t know. “Glenn! Oh, Glenn, please tell me, should I care hat Europeans think?” [...]
N&T, the essence of this discussion is – what are Soetoro’s accomplishments that warranted his receiving the Nobel Prize? Instead of trying to jam the discussion with your non-sequiturs, answer this:
Obama’s ccomplishments – Notre Dame U showed last summer that there is such a thing like an “anticipative” PhD (and this ignoring Obama’s certifiable solid past of academic & otherwise fraudulence. Now the Nobel Committee amplifies this ‘competitional debasing’ by enshrining near that fraudulence Obama’s glaring incompetence and crass cynicism (a funny thought: crass fraudulence is the only thing that is certifiable in Obama’s career.)
Fraud pays, as Obama’s Notre Dame U PhD confirmed: the Nobel Committee mentioned as one of the reasons for bestowing on this scoundrel this prize was his (10 days short!) work for nuclear disarmament – is Obama’s dual Columbia graduation thesis “North-South Relationships In The Post-Colonial Age”/ “US-Soviet Nuclear Disarmament Issues” finally available?
Have the Nobel committee read the same draft of those outstanding works that Notre Dame U wisemen read?
Can’t we have finally access to those phenomenal works?
N&T, you seem to be pretty familiar with all things Obama – can you facilititate our access to those wisdom-laden works/
Ok, buddy, show your (so far undetectable) wits and come with an answer that would make Obama proud of you -
David P. #1,
I know what will win them back! a bunch of children singing songs about how praiseworthy Obama is… right? It’s working so well over here… heh heh.. it MUST be, they keep doing it OVER AND OVER AGAIN…
Maybe a li’l B-ball with kids singing from the sidelines.. blend the best aspects of Obama mania..
I”m almost afraid to press the submit button, in case someone in the White House reads it and takes me seriously..
11 Now and Then,
Glenn who? Reynolds? Greenwald? Beck? Not sure who you’re referring to. sarcasm fails when it over-presumes comprehension on the part of the audience.
Much sympathy I have not for a commie like Jean-Paul Sartre – yet when he refused the Nobel Prize, that was a class act
After Sartre refused the Prize, Samuel Beckett, a realist to the core who undoubtedly would have seen through Obama’s facade, was nominated as a “French” candidate, since he lived and worked in Paris much of his life, and was said to have reacted to his nomination with a letter to his supporters saying “If there is any justice, I shall be spurned and spurned for good. What counts is the thoughts of the few such as you”.
Beckett was not only humbler than Obama, he also wrote his own books.
Poor Citizen: Obama won mainly because the price of gasoline hit $4.25 per gallon…people were terrified…and the MSM told them to vote for “change”…so they did.
I have not heard one politician or media figure ask for an investigation into the oil futures market…I wouldn’t be surprised to find Soros’ finger prints all over last fall’s trading.
Since one can now win a Nobel prize for intent rather than actual achievement, I submit that the prize committee is guilty of a colossal oversight, one that has been going on for decades. We all know that every single Miss America contestant and winner has whined on stage about being dedicated to world peace, so I suggest that the committee retroactively award the Nobel Peace Prize to all Miss America winners and losers, going back to the inception of the pageant in the 1920s.
The UK press has been critical of Obama for some time; however, the NPP may just be the last straw for Obama’s vapid popularity to collapse everywhere. Popularity–in & of itself–is a fickle thing & can change as fast as the wind blows; therefore, it never pays to be popular for popularity’s sake. I am a little surprised how the domestic MSM is split on the issue.
I would like to see more scrutiny of Obama’s past that was ignored during the campaign.
Sarcasm fails when the person making the remark is a dolt, as N & T is. Conservatives don’t care one or the other what the Euros think, but liberals do. In fact, the American left spent 8 years sounding like a 50′s mom: “What will the neighbors think?” So it’s delicious when they get their guy in the WH, believe him to be loved by all the world, swoon when he wins a completely undeserved prize – and then find out the world isn’t as awe-struck as they thought.
It’s not Obama’s fault he was nominated. It’s surely his fault that he’s too vain to have done the sensible thing and turned the prize down.
You can write in your nominee for the winner of the Heisman Trophy. I urge everyone to write in Obama, as I did. C’mon folks, yes we can!
Off topic, but from the UK a classy post at http://houseofdumb.blogspot.com/ goes as follows:
US Rocket Hits Moon….
BBC reports 52 Afghan wedding guests killed.
Dear Soeren, WHERE HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANY OBAMAMANIA IN EUROPE OUTSIDE THE LIBTARD EUROPEAN PRESS and ITS FAKED POLLS?
The Victory Column gathering? – Believe me, none of those hypocrites from Europe really believed Obama could win. They felt comfortable with Booooosh: he proteced them and they trashed him for that and felt ENLIGHTENED, PEACELOVING, JUST and … SECURE. Euros never WANTED someone like Obama. They always SAID they wanted, but never wanted.
When he won, the shock among the population was so great, that all the REGULAR cheering news (and any other news about Obama) have vanished from the EU MSM in a week or two. Because nobody REALLY wanted it happen. Now Europe has to protect itself, i.e. get its own hands dirty. And NO BOOOOOSH TO BLAME! It works like an alarm clock. As I’ve already said; if someone has visited Europe in the last months, you’ve seen: no Obama merchandizing, no US flags, no cheering on the streets on the New April Fool’s day.
Only the MSM, jacking off, as usually, at anything he does. And then selling it to CNN / NYT as the “European opinion”.
did ya know that :
“In 2009, a record 205 nominations were received.The statutes of the Nobel Foundation do not allow information about nominations, considerations or investigations relating to awarding the prize to be made public for at least 50 years after a prize has been awarded.Over time many individuals have become known as “Nobel Peace Prize Nominees”, but this designation has no official standing.Nominations from 1901 to 1955, however, have been released in a database. When the past nominations were released it was discovered that Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939 by Erik Brandt, a member of the Swedish Parliament. Brandt retracted the nomination after a few days. Other infamous nominees included Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini. However, since nomination requires only support from one qualified person, all nominations do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Nobel committee itself.
so many candidates, uh, –>too much work to investigate, so the big One became the “intention” consensual evidence for the Insitute members !
and if Cleopathra nose hadn’t been so big (?), wher would be the world today !
Poor Citizen, viewing Planet Earth from some unknown galaxy, has this to say about our elections:
“The american right failed to notice (no surprise) or denounced it as staged, and the american journalists/media (like yourselves) dismissed it as hollywood. Obviously, the right and the press fell into deep shock as the election night results poured in.
Oh yes, the American media has been soooo rough on poor little baby Obambi! Time, the WaPo, the NY Times, MSNBC – they vetted and grilled him remorselessly and made clear how much they disliked the man. Why, Olberman and Matthews nearly broke into tears of rage and frustration on election night.
I want whatever drugs Poor Citizen takes. They appear to make you look at the world and see the exact opposite of the truth.
Somebody mentioned that Obama should be nominated for Germany’s Top Model. I also believe he should win Miss America and Miss Universe. Just imagine the swimsuit competition. The sight of bambi sashaying down the runway with his man boobs glistening would cause Keith Olberman to melt into a blissful puddle. To say nothing of what it would do to PJM’s trolls. They’d have coronaries on the spot, but it would be a happy death for them.
At the Victory Column, the press didn’t mention the free beer, bratwurst and rock concert which preceded his speech. They just made it look like it was Him attracting such crowds.
Increase Mather, you’re right about the oil prices and Soros. Could all the limousine liberals colluded to bring down the stock market as well?
And let’s remember there was no credit card address verification for Obama contributors or names reported for donations under $100. No wonder he bowed to the King of SA.
If this was fiction, it would be a fantastic farce worthy of Mark Twain. Next I expect he’ll be declared the 12th Imam.
Yes, poor citz, unfortunately for B.O., Europe doesn’t have ACORN [yet].
How many alive and non-cartoon titled people really voted for the commie-in-thief? Care to ponder? Don’t whack off to Betty Boop when I’m asking you a serious question, please. Thanks.
I think Obama deserves the nobel peace prize. He has done what he said he would do. He has brought the whole world together again to all laugh at this joke of a president and share in his humiliation.
24 Donna V: “50′s mom.” Very good!
A certain pundit believes Obama should accept the award on behalf of American troops. This is what the pundit believes Obama should say:
“I will accept it on behalf of the most important peacekeepers in the world for the last century — the men and women of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.
“I will accept this award on behalf of the American soldiers who landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, to liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi fascism. I will accept this award on behalf of the American soldiers and sailors who fought on the high seas and forlorn islands in the Pacific to free East Asia from Japanese tyranny in the Second World War.
If you want to see the true essence of America, visit any U.S. military outpost in Iraq or Afghanistan. You will meet young men and women of every race and religion who work together as one, far from their families, motivated chiefly by their mission to keep the peace and expand the borders of freedom.
“So for all these reasons — and so you understand that I will never hesitate to call on American soldiers where necessary to take the field against the enemies of peace, tolerance and liberty — I accept this peace prize on behalf of the men and women of the U.S. military: the world’s most important peacekeepers.”
Lord Almighty! What warmongering neocon said that!
Thomas Friedman – NY Times
Yeah, I’m in a state of shock myself. I’ll bet the sewer system of Manhattan was backed up this morning, as 2 million liberal yupsters ran to their bathrooms at the same moment after reading Friedman’s column.
Next I expect he’ll be declared the 12th Imam.
Yes. Obama is also the fifth Beatle, the sixth Rolling Stone and the fourth person of the Trinity. All those people who thought they saw Elvis were mistaken. It was Obama appearing to them in a vision. Libs will start seeing Obama’s visage on pancakes and garage doors.
He should also take top prize on Iron Chef. All gold medals in the Olympics should be awarded to him, including the ones for curling and women’s gymnastics.
(Am I having fun with this? You betcha!)
No 28 Donna v.
I do not have time to teach you history from a year or two ago so I will just remind you. Barack Obama was not, initially expected to get the nomination or the presidency when he first ran for office and that is what I meant. Of course, everyone knew that at the time, except you. Its ok though, news is probably hard to get in your trailer park.
No 31 Delia:
Do your parents know your making rude comments like that on here ? And…trying to talk to adults. Now, get your mooky and get right back to bed this instant little lady. By the way, Obama won by a huge majority last time and…I predict, this President (now an accomplished WORLD leader) will win by a landslide next time…..Hey, we will all celebrate, so tell your parents !!!
Wow. I bet the Peace Prize committee is feeling pretty foolish right about now. Have they ever rescinded the Prize after awarding it?
Nice–and strange–to see an “intellectual, left-leaning weekly magazine” giving its props to RR.
And, Poor Citizen, nobody on the right “failed to notice” the Euro-worship of The One. And nobody on the right “fell into deep shock as the election night results poured in” transforming The One into The Won. We would, however, have been in “deep shock” if John McCain had actually succeeded in turning The One into The Once.
Barack Obama was not, initially expected to get the nomination or the presidency when he first ran for office and that is what I meant
From your earlier post:
Obviously, the right and the press fell into deep shock as the election night results poured in.
“Election night” was not when he first ran for office.
There’s a certain disconnect between “what you meant” and what you, uh, actually said. A few remedial English courses might help you express yourself a bit more clearly.
Poor Citizen, it’s clear we’re gonna disagree right down the line, but I will take specific issue with one statement you make: “Obviously, the right and the press fell into deep shock as the election night results poured in… ”
I am on that right, and believe me…. no “shock” at all. We ALL saw that train comong down the tracks by about two weeks out. The McCain campaign was pathetic on many levels, not least of which was that he was the “darling Republican” of so many in the media and muddled middle who wanted to see him nominated (“best candidate, best able to reach across the aisle”, etc etc) but who would then never vote for ANY Republican anyway. So he lost. Duh-freekin’-uh. Google “Glen Reynolds + pre-mortem” and you will get an excellent list (from 2006) of why Republicans were gonna get their butts handed to them by their own base. and that was long before Obama came to the fore, but it equally applied to 2008.
Meanwhile on the Nobel topic, I think the excellent ‘Ace of Spades’ blog has done the best and most succinct job of showing what I believe is shaping up to be true, that this prize is somewhere between a problem and a catastrophe for Obama.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/293455.php
As he puts it —
“And this highlights the already-wide and quickly-expanding gulf between Obama’s reach and his grasp, his reputation and his resume, his accolades and his accomplishments, his words and his deeds… and his hopes and his actual changes.
There has long been an elephant in the room, best ignored, at least best ignored for Obama’s political sake.
The Nobel Prize committee has painted that elephant in hot-pink and gold-flake and thrown a ten thousand watt spotlight on it.”
Very interesting piece. Thank you.
Very good article, demonstrating that the five people on the Nobel Committee do not really represent all of Europe, or the world for that matter.
Here’s a few findings to add to your collection:
From Denmark:
Berlingske Tiden … Read More
http://www.berlingske.dk/verden/obama-et-baade-sikkert-og-omstridt-valg
Asks the question in an article’s subtitle–while Obama gives hope for a better world, what has he concretely wrought?
“I sine knap ni måneder i Det Hvide Hus har Obama derimod stort set ikke leveret konkrete resultater, der kan berettige en tildeling af verdens mest fornemme pris.” (Nonetheless, in his nearly nine months in the White House, Obama has largely not delivered concrete results that can justify an award of the world’s most prestigious prize.)
http://www.berlingske.dk/verden/obama-faar-nobelsfredspris-men-hvorfor
In the same paper, another article says–Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize–but why? It quotes Lech Walesa (who won the prize in 1983 for standing against communism in Poland) saying “So soon? It’s too soon. He has still not come up with some real changes. He suggests things. He says things. But he has still needs to follow through with anything.”
Jyllands-Posten
http://jp.dk/udland/article1845529.ece
“DF: Ridiculous to give Peace Prize to Obama” Quotes the conservative Danish People’s Party (DF), whose foreign affairs spokesman called it both ridiculous, undignified, and the beginning of the end for respect towards the Norwegian Parliament’s Nobel Committee, when a person who has only been president a few months can receive the prestigious prize.
The DF absolutely rips into the award–saying that it should go to someone who has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to peace, that it only serves to give Obama political standing, especially when he is in so much trouble at home.
http://jp.dk/udland/article1845705.ece
In the same paper–Why Obama? The Left Party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Soeren Pind, said the Nobel Committee has become way too left-wing. It has become less objective. George W. Bush has done more for world peace than Obama, who has not really done anything.
Pind also notes that Reagan should have received the prize.
By the way, Obama won by a huge majority last time
On what freakin’ planet?! He won by about 6%. That’s a huge majority? On wait, you must have been indoctrinated – er – educated by the public school system. My apologies.
“Europe’s Tepid Reaction to Obama’s Nobel”
Any reaction is tepid compared to the off-the-wall reaction of the American right.
#42 Khiri: Remember, to the left 2+2=5, so naturally 6% looks like 600% to them.
“Any reaction is tepid compared to the off-the-wall reaction of the American right.”
… or biblio’s, Poor Citizen’s and Now and Then’s fanatic spamming of this website. Turf much?
RE “[...] By the way, Obama won by a huge majority last time [...]
By the way, the “huge majority” of %6 in Obama’s election instantly becomes a “slim, irrelevant majority” in the case of the Prop 8 defeat.
Liberals with variable integrity -
RE #43/biblio44: [...] Any reaction is tepid compared to the off-the-wall reaction of the American right. [...]
On a learning curve with Biblio44 – buddy, thanks for showing me that Frank Rich and Jon Stewart (amongst many other formerly known as liberals) are now part of the American right. Good to know.
Someone said better – Obama turns out to be a great community organizer for conservatives and Republicans -
Any way we can swap the Europeans who see through Obama for the Americans who can’t? Get those people over here and send our losers over there. We could use their independent-mindedness and Europe can use more socialist sheep.
Why does this award mean ANYTHING after it was given to Yassir Arafat, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore?
Any reaction is tepid compared to the off-the-wall reaction of the American right
You don’t get it, oh dim one.We’re laughing, biblio. We’re laughing at you and your Messiah.
veni: Man, I would love to make that trade. I was praying the moonbats would all run to Canada or Europe in 2004, but unfortunately, they’re all talk no action
The IOC (sorry) the 5 person committee that awarded the Nobel “PEACE” prize did not even consider my cat named “Kitty” because she never intended to set fire to the house while the family was away but does have a bad habit of downloading porn to our PC’s if left unattended, so you can see from this behavior that she is for love and not setting fire to the home. Next year “Kitty” should be a nominee and hopefully a winner.
In the meantime we are taking her to a cat psychologist to see how to keep her desire to download porn videos I really think that she is looking for other cats but has a lack of vocabulary and GOOGLE keeps giving her porn sites. Is there a filter for such things?
Obama has indeed earned the prize. He has moved the world’s only superpower firmly into the appeasement camp. This has been the Western left’s greatest foreign policy goal for the past eight years, and Obama has delivered on it.
Meanwhile, Iran arms itself for the coming annihilation of 6 million Jews, and the world prepares iself by stigmatizing Israel and legitimizing anti-Semitism.
I am just as shocked by this occassion (?) as I have ever been…I would be very interested to know who nominated him…and how much they spent to get it for him…he has done nothing to promote peace anywhere in the world as far as I have read or seen…he has done moer to bring down the country he represents than he has to build it up if that is promoting peace with our enemies then I guess he has done a good job of it…
Nominated when he was barely in office under a month?
Oh.
I don’t know.
I’m just gon’ say it all ghetto and sh*t.
“For the first time in my life I’m ashamed of my country.”
Wow. That was so easy.
Like pulling off a band-aid.
I lied.
It hurts.
A lot.
You know, Dear Leader would’ve shown real class if he’d refused the prize and said something like,
“The committee should award this to someone who has shown real bravery in the face of adversity . . . like that little girl who had acid thrown in her face for showing up for elementary school in Kandahar.”
Oh, can you imagine the world-wide media orgasm?
But no, like the classic narcissist he is, he accepts it.
And the world barfs.
Follow the money.
The Wahhabis and/or mad mullahs and/or Hitler-helper-Soros/Socialist Internationalists and/or the Euro-peons Neo-Soviets and/or the Putin Soviets and/or the Chicoms et al, who corruptly enriched every member of the Norweeny committee for this ridiculous preemptive bribery expect the definitive Clinical narcissist to live down — insofar as is concerned the protection of our beloved fraternal republic’s exceptionalism — to its expectations.
“The one” does need to be “the once”….
How much did Obama’s people pay for this Nobel prize??
Did the Saudi’s pay those wanna be Vikings for it?
(29. Donna V.:
I also believe he should win Miss America and Miss Universe.)
Yeah, and Michelle should win Mr. America and Mr. Universe.
OMG, I’m getting nasty. O.k., don’t publish it if it’s too far.
/42. Khiri:
(By the way, Obama won by a huge majority last time)
On what freakin’ planet?! He won by about 6%. That’s a huge majority? On wait, you must have been indoctrinated – er – educated by the public school system. My apologies./
Dear Khiri, as far as I remember, the final result was 52% of those who voted for the … and 48% of those who don’t, including 46% of McCain voters. So, the … actually won only 4%.
But for the … it was the sign enough that “America is ready for change”. What do you expet from his moonies?
(11. Now and Then:
“Glenn! Oh, Glenn”)
Dou you libtards have no shame? Some readers are underaged!
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veni: Man, I would love to make that trade. I was praying the moonbats would all run to Canada or Europe in 2004, but unfortunately, they’re all talk no action
It was actually after the 2004 that I started to think that a rational policy of population exchange between people who love centralized government and people who don’t was the best path forward. As much as I don’t understand why anyone would cede more of their liberty to the state than absolutely necessary, I understand that some want to do just that. I am all for letting them have a state so centralized that it would make Orwell’s 1984 look like a libertarian utopia. Just so long as I could live in the half of the world where the complete opposite form of governance prevailed.
It was actually after the 2004 that I started to think that a rational policy of population exchange between people who love centralized government and people who don’t was the best path forward.
I’d be in favor of that too. We would soon see which parts of the world prosper and which would fall into decay.
However, the left doesn’t think like that. It’s not enough for them that some countries are already socialist – they want the entire world to be as worthless as they are. They won’t be content until everyone is infantilized and sucking on the state’s teat.
“Some people just want to see the world burn.”
That’s why we have to oppose them every step of the way.
I’d be in favor of that too. We would soon see which parts of the world prosper and which would fall into decay.
Yep. May the best system win. I have no doubt that like every Leftist utopia, once there were no conservatives to demonize, they’d soon be at each others’ throats. First victims would the the Hollywood-types and ‘intellectuals’. If they sold pay-per-view access, I’d watch it just to laugh my self to sleep watching them get mowed down and their property confiscated for “the common good”.
That’s why we have to oppose them every step of the way.
So long as we have to share the same patch of land (and, more importantly, a governmental system) with them, it’s necessary to oppose them. If we could politically separate from them, I’d feel no more need to oppose them then I feel the need to oppose the Norwegian idiots who gave Obama his prize. I’d perhaps read about their idiocy in the paper, shake my head and say “What a bunch of idiots” and then go about my day, happy in the knowledge that their idiocy couldn’t put any legally-binding obligations on me.
Poor citizen,
Obama won by 6%-hardly a landslide. For those of us who pay attention, it was clear that Hilary had too much baggage and that a black man would get the nomination over a white woman any day of the week due to white guilt and the need to make history.
But don’t these silly Europeans remember the great peace Obama brought at the “Beer Summit”?
Poor Citizen
Your profoundly ignorant and juvenile comments reveal the all too common nature of Obama sycophants.
Being from Chicago, I knew Obama long before you ever even heard the name of your cult leader.
I know all the corrupt players who greased his way, the corrupt and inept machine he was very much a part of, the slum neighborhood he didn’t help, and the elections he was involved in before the presidential election. He is a charlatan of massive proportions.
To further point out how clueless you are, chew on this; ANY Republican candidate had the odds stacked against them in the 2008 election. It is extremely difficult for a party to win a third term, particularly when the candidate is not the current VP. Add to that the financial crisis which hit right before the election (further favoring the opposition party). Add to that a fawning media which blatantly worked to get Obama elected.
And still, Obama got less than 53% of the vote; hardly overwhelming. Obama is a celebrity president, this being proved even further by the ridiculous awarding of the NPP, which he’s done nothing to earn. Obama is little more than a cult leader supported by fawners. Reason and rationale are not part of the equation for those idolize him.
It’s actually embarrassing for those who fawn over him. Their neediness is pathetic.
But don’t these silly Europeans remember the great peace Obama brought at the “Beer Summit”?
#55:
You know, Dear Leader would’ve shown real class if he’d refused the prize and said something like,
“The committee should award this to someone who has shown real bravery in the face of adversity . . . like that little girl who had acid thrown in her face for showing up for elementary school in Kandahar.”
Oh, can you imagine the world-wide media orgasm?
But no, like the classic narcissist he is, he accepts it.”
What a missed political opportunity for Obama! He has now tested positive for narcissism and egomania beyond all doubt and it is his greatest weakness as a political muppet.
The Nords are better at sabotage than they have any idea. Where do we send the ‘thank you’ cards to in LaLa land?
6: Poor Citizen: You are always good for a laugh. You know as much about history as Bill Clinton knows about proper etiquette when around women.
The reason we are all here on this blog is because Europe sucks, and it always has. Europe was where the super rich ruling class was surrounded by the serfs eking out a subsistence level existence when they were not rounded up and packed off to war. This, the US, was the land of opportunity and freedom. That is where our ancestors came. And I use the past tense deliberately. Now it is the land of con artists, immoral celebrities and idle minds like yours. We are now headed in the direction of Europe, a handful of the corrupt rich people lording it over the ignorant masses. The NEA (otherwise know as no education anywhere) took over the public school systems years ago and made drones like you possible. The only thing worse than no education is a useless education. Take a real history course.
Gee i wonder if Iran developing a meduim range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead,and reaching most major European cities have anything to do with it EH?LMAO!
The messiah-followers in Europe (and in America) should have known what the conservatives knew in 2008 during the campaigns about this elitist charlatan — i.e., that he is a phoney who thrives on adoration, telling vulnerable people what they want to hear, and is only about self and special interest lobbyists. He has to pay back the ultra-left; Hollyweird and the mainstream media establishment; the minorities who believe they can’t make it on their own without the community organizer using his clout and thuggery to get them free everything; the unions who need new and continued membership; and, the immoral degenerates who can’t stand anything Christian, white, capitalist (who succeed on their own) or tied to family values.
Obama’s cult of personality is wearing thin, and the people are tired of seeing his sorry, hypocrite face plastered all around the world and hearing that loser rhetoric that has not achieved a thing in 9 months in the office. The Nobel Committee did everyone a favor (especially the comedians, late-night show hosts, the GOP and conservatives worldwide) by exposing Obama’s true colors, intentions, allegiance and ego (by accepting the undeserved prize).
#8 POOR CITIZEN
Which of his countries “got it”.- Kenya or Indonesia.
Wake up and smell the coffee, you boob. He’s both a usurper and a fraud. The sooner he’s gone, the better off America will be.
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S.M.
69 rbell,
uh, finally you’re getting civilised ! hard awaking for pilgrin merchands !
73: Huh: Can you interpret your last comments. I only have 18 years of education. It is depressing to be called civilized. I just learned to use a fork without the spoon.
PS We are all pilgrims on this planet. Just some of us pay higher rent.
rbell
“I just learned to use a fork without the spoon.”
then you learnt the essential of a civilised man
Alas we must all be confounded by one horrible, inexplicable and tragic observation, the naive anti-US narcissist, who has solidly fought against democracy in Honduras and sold out pro-democracy advocates in the Middle east (the list could go on but why bother, we all know it) still has the approval of 50% of the American public.
Anybody like to tell me why because frankly I’m stumped.