The ‘I’m Not Bush’ Prize and its Uselessness
Man, the international community is a bunch of idiots.
People wonder why we in America don’t listen to the international community. Well, for one thing, they speak in crazy foreign languages and we can’t understand them. But when we do understand them, they are just unbelievably moronic. Like we-should-make-sure-they-all-wear-helmets stupid. Thus we have the spectacle of the Nobel Peace Prize, which our president just won — much to the surprise of people with working brains.
Now, the Nobel Prize is a well-respected prize when it comes to actual things like chemistry and physics. It’s a bit more subjective with things like literature (I had to read a Nobel Prize-winning novel in college, and it was so bad that I have post-traumatic stress from the experience), but at least you can say for certain that the winners of the literature prize did write something. Then you have the Nobel Peace Prize, and this year’s winner pretty much proves that no one has any idea what peace is, so they have no idea who should receive the award.
The prize has been in decline for some time (receiving the Nobel Peace Prize is now yet another way Obama is linked to terrorists), but I think we in the rational world (America) are now in agreement that it’s basically meaningless. Peace is fairly subjective — subjective to the point of being imaginary. Some would say peace is achieved by beating back a merciless enemy while others say it’s achieved by non-violently submitting to the enemy. And since we’re never exactly sure how far we are from another war, it’s a somewhat fleeting thing too. It might as well be made up, and I think the Nobel Prize committee treats it that way. It’s like they have a Nobel Prize for Unicorns to hand out, and since there really isn’t anyone who makes much sense for it, they just hand it out to whoever fits their political agenda. And, being part of the international community — which is stupid — the committee’s choices have started to be just mind-numbingly ludicrous until they reached the low point on Friday morning.
Obama was nominated for the Peace Prize twelve days into his presidency — before he even began to aspire to become as useless as he’s been so far — and somehow this Nobel committee came to the conclusion that he did something worthy of an award. Their justification for giving him the prize, in its entirety?
“Hee not Booosh! Scroo u Booosh!”
“Obama’s too much of a sissy for awesomeness…”
I have a suggestion. The prize should be renamed to: “The Noble Puss Prize.” For obvious reasons…
regards
Hurrah! Someone has finally posed the key questions! The answers to those questions circumscribe everything else about “peace:” how it’s achieved, how it’s perpetuated, and what one must be prepared to do when — not “if” — it should fail us.
“People wonder why we in America don’t listen to the international community. Well, for one thing, they speak in crazy foreign languages and we can’t understand them.”
Meester Fleemin:
wee houp dat u wer a helmet and bee not recognaised when u com tu my contry becos wee wil beet the sheet aut off u.
A useless prize from a useless country. Kinda sums it up, thank you.
Nomination after only twelve days into his administration clearly makes this an Affirmative Action Prize.
I just saw on Fox that President Obama got up out of bed this morning and managed to not miss the toilet when he peed. For this, he’s due to pick up the Newberry Award for children’s literature.
By the same token, giving AlGore From The Planet Eco the Peace Prize for his “work” on Global Warming makes perfect sense.
At the time, I thought that a Nobel Prize in Science would have been more appropriate, as the whole debate is supposedly about “the science”. Then I remembered that to receive a Science medal, he would have to have demonstrated both evidence and repeatable results.
Giving Al the Peace Prize was basically a way for the Nobel Committee to say, “We know your ‘science’ is a load of pseudo-philosophical BS intended solely to achieve world socialism- but since we like the destination you’re heading for, here’s an ‘attaboy’.”
By the same token, Crater got it because he was at the time the poster boy for the other preoccupation of European “intellectuals” since World War Two, namely hating Israel. The Islamic world gets it- go into any bookstall in the “Arab street”, and you will inevitably find Carter’s book calling Israel an “apartheid state” prominently on display. Usually right between “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” and “Mein Kampf”. (Please note that this will be the “non-fiction” section you’re looking at; or at least, the local definition of same.)
In short, the Peace Prize is really a very useful award. It’s the final and clinching proof that the recipient is a fantasy-prone individual with delusions of divinity, who wouldn’t recognize reality if it fell on their foot.
The One fits right in.
clear ether
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Everyone is accepting the theme that the prize came as an out-of-the-blue surprise. Color me skeptical. Obama was not mentioned at all in the pre-announcement speculation, and it is unlikely that the committee is so totally leakproof.
A hypothesis worth exploring is that Obama’s people put on a full-court press in the week before the announcement, seeing it as a way to retrieve the humiliating Olympics rejection. Only a theory, of course, but I would love to see the DC/Oslo phone records for last week.
Everyone is accepting the theme that the prize came as an out-of-the-blue surprise. Color me skeptical. Obama was not mentioned at all in the pre-announcement speculation, and it is unlikely that the committee is so totally leakproof.
A hypothesis worth exploring is that Obama’s people put on a full-court press in the week before the announcement, seeing it as a way to retrieve the humiliating Olympics rejection. This is only a theory, of course, but I would be interested in the DC/Oslo phone records for last week.
From this standpoint there is much to be said for the anti-bush flavoring of this award. I do not think it was purely on that basis, however, I do think the award was meant to put a “certain punctuation” on the difference between the two presidents and their philosophies. I do not beleive there is an international conspiriacy. Obama is a well accomplished individual. He may not be MLK, but I am sure he will go on to earn this prize, if his policies pan out, and become a real hero in the Ron Reagan sense. Good for America !!
I was just wondering if anyone has heard President Bushe’s take on Obama winning the prize?
Peggy Noonan says,
“n one mindless stroke, the committee has rendered the Nobel Peace Prize a laughingstock, perhaps for as long as a generation. And that is an act of true destruction, because it was actually good that the world had a prestigious award for peacemaking.
The members of the committee have also put the young American president in a terrible place. They make it look like all the talk of “The One,” the heartthrob of the European elite, the darling of the international left, is true.
They make him look prefabricated and inauthentic, an empty structure held up by essentially silly people. Which puts him at a disadvantage in his own country, because Americans don’t really like it when flaky European politicians tell them how they ought to see him or the world.”
“Prefabricated . . . inauthentic . . . an empty structure held up by silly people.”
Perfect, perfect, perfect!!
This whole episode put me in mind of the early ’90s TV show Dinosaurs. The one where the baby called the father “Not the mama”.
This clip seems to be apropos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkAEH6uX7hQ
Ohmigawd! Has this article been fact-checked by CNN on behalf of the trolls? Their little heads’ll be ‘splodin’.
Here’s the thing I like most about Obama . . . he just doesn’t give a shit what the right wing extremists think.
He thinks the “Bill of Rights” are negative rights. his appointees consider law abiding citizens, ‘terrorists’ yet release those who cause ‘man made disasters’ Yes he’s very much in the mindset of a Castro, a Chavez, A Zelaya, but we have stronger checks and balances, than they do.
The Swedes should not let their inbred cousins in Norway embarrass themselves any further. They have now given the Peace prize to Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama for their Jew-hating. Al Gore shared the prize with the global warming cultists at the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for the audacity of creating a con game of global proportion. Kofi Annan received it for taking that international criminal organization the UN to new heights of treachery by stealing food from the mouths of the starving to enrich his family while UN troops raped and murdered their way around the globe. Marti Ahtisaari of Finland received the Peace prize for a lifetime of building the UN brand in Africa, greatly enriching his fellow UN co-conspirators while guaranteeing an ongoing enterprise of conflict and chaos. The Peace prize recipients are leftists who championed failed causes, socialist dreams, and feel-good liberal scams. The first winners in 1901 were a Swiss pacifist and the French initiator of the Geneva Convention, which has been used to tie the hands of the American military against evil regimes who neither follow nor respect it. Meanwhile, American lives have been sacrificed by the thousands to repeatedly free the French and Swiss from invaders, against whom they would/could not defend themselvs. George W. Bush freed millions of Iraqis and Afghanis, again with sacrifice of thousands of American lives, and the Nobel Peace Prize goes to the man who promises to undo this. Barack Hussein Obama, Nobel Laureate, Jew-hater, the anti-Bush. mmmm mmmm mmmm. Who is surprised but not disgusted?
Peace through pacificism is a noble goal; however, pacifists often get slaughtered as cannon fodder or pawns. Peace, in the real world, can only be achieved though leadership & with the military power to defend itself against the terrorists.
The Nobel Peace Prize was founded by a crazy left leaning man & its legacy remains twisted; it is more of a political statement or political symbolism for the Left than actually standing for true achievement. The Nobel Peace Prize is a corrupt symbol to bash America. Therefore, President Obama’s reception of the prize is no surprise at all. It’s an empty symbol for any empty man.
L_M_F_A_O!!!!!!!!!!!
I’M BARACK OBAMA’S TELEPROMPTER
- and I humbly accept this award as a sign of the great confidence the whole world put in me
- I have talked hard for this prize
- thank you for your appreciation
- blah-blah-blah
- yada-yada-yada
AND I’M BARACK OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE
- this f… teleprompter thinks he deserves the award just for WORDS!
- now, how about getting it just for HIDING?
- I hid hard for this prize, and I humbly accept it
- PEEKABOO!
This is an attempt by another country, or group of individuals to INFLUENCE our President. For that reason alone, it should be rejected.
Contrary to popular spin, he was AWARDED the prize. He didn’t WIN it!
American Suckers.
Poor Citizen:
“……. I do not beleive there is an international conspiriacy. Obama is a well accomplished individual. He may not be MLK, but I am sure he will go on to earn this prize, if his policies pan out, and become a real hero in the Ron Reagan sense. Good for America !!”
A: please list these “accomplishments” His only one has been getting elected when he has literally >>>>NONE!
B:If his “policies” pan out, we will be a 3rd world communist hell hole and those places tend to be anything but “peaceful”.
C:MLK was a plagiarist among other things, aka: dishonest at best, I think Yobama is shaping up to outdo him in that department, I guess you could call that an….accomplishment.
D:It’s safe to say, if we survive another generation, that nobody with a brain will ever compare Yobama with Reagan.
HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!!!!!
Great as usual Frank.
This is just a reminder to the O-man. As I was explaining to my politically uninformed roommate, Obama owes certain folks somethin BIG. They got him into power and now they want their cut. Note in his acceptance speech he said something like ‘a call to action’. Dern straight it is. This is a very big reminder that the O-man has to get off his hind end and get ‘their’ agenda done post-haste.
The interesting part is they considered this kick in the pants necessary when he was only 11-12 days into office.
The Nobel committee may have some psychics. We should look into that and see if any can be turned to the Forces of Good.
And on a personal note I love my Brit GF’s misspelling of his name. Obharma.
Bush is not America, and does not represent her values. In fact, the repudiation of Bush is a reaffirmation of American values.
Obama’s prize means more than simply a repudiation of Bush – it is also an endorsement of his broad policy objectives, and the return of America to world leadership.
GOP terrorists denigrating the Nobel Peace Prize is of course not a surprise. Do you fools really believe that everyone else in the world is stupid? Can you not see the horrendous damage inflicted on our nation by the Bush cabal, and the heroic efforts of Obama to reverse this tragedy?
The lack of grace, humility, and comprehension on the right is staggering.
Peace.
DS
THANK YOU for jumping in here, Frank!
It’s nice to see someone so carefully and accurately outline what’s REALLY going on here. With appropriately cutting wit and nicely crafted ridicule.
Last time the Nobel committee pulled a stunt this stupid, Rick Moran spent an afternoon feigning perplexity rather than telling it like it is. So kudos to PJM for not putting us through another simpering “they’ve lowered the bar” lecture.
This bogus award was just another day in BHO’s Endless Campaign® – the campaign that leads socialism’s final steps in its Long March Through the Institutions of the U.S.A.
The nomenklatura at Nobel are simply making their soft money contribution here, keeping BHO’s face plastered on newspapers, web sites and magazines, and keeping his name on the lips of the chattering classes. Given his openly anti-American policies, his utter lack of leadership and even less in the way of accomplishments, constant fawning media exposure is the only thing keeping his approval from dropping to 30% or lower – just as it was the only thing that got him elected in the first place.
Transnational progressives the world over also know that the U.S.A.’s greatest point of weakness right now is the vast chasm of political and social division BHO’s presidency has created, by design.
What was merely criticized as “biased reporting” by The Left Wing Media during their relentless, apoplectic siege against Bush’s administration is now openly recognized as their unabashed campaign to sink the Republic and replace it with a Nanny State Utopia. Thus we see – for the first time in decades (maybe ever) – over half a million common working folk from every corner of the nation drawn to D.C. on 9/12 and tens of thousands more rallying in their own States to recognize – together – that the fix is in. In response, the socialist left marginalizes half the country by labeling them rather than listening to them.
This award is meant to widen that chasm. Anyone who doesn’t nod blankly in approval is labeled “America hater”, “right-wing extremist”, “raaaaacist” or worse – Republican.
An entertaining and insightful article! I love the characterization of European transnational socialists as pinheaded. All socialists are pinheaded. Even jug-eared pantywaist Presidents.
Useless? Hardly. Commies cut their baby teefs on this kind of craptastical craptology.
What the ego commander in hootspa was hoping for was to win the Chikkago Olympic bid AND the Nobel Peace Prize as a double hitter.
The peace prize as the booby prize became an embarrassment rather than a shiny thing to put next to his mirror-mirror.
The thing is… Hating B.O. is too easy. He’s a blithering idiot without a script. Why is that? Because the people who propped him into his position are puppeteering him behind the scenes and they expect everyone to glad-handle their golden trojan whilst they perpetrate the worst of their plotting in the shadows of lies.
There is always, ALWAYS a wrong way to do something.
Our country is in WRONG mode with the ‘right way’ caption taped across our proverbial maws.
“War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” “Ignorance is Strength.”
You wanna know what I like about Obama… Not a fraking thing!
He is a Marxist and has bad ideas about almost everything, and worst of all he is constantly on television (one reason I do not watch) or the radio or in print, and I can hardly stand it, please just sit in the white house and leave me and most of my country alone.
The reich-wingers here seem to be rejoicing that Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Haters.
You pretty much cover all the bases in this piece, Frank
“Hee not Booosh! Scroo u Booosh!”
Why, just this morning, I got an email from my friend in France…
“I think Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize for having rid us of Bush!”
I think the Norwegians gave him the prize just for his sheer awesomeness! Also maybe because fish is such a big part of the Norwegian diet and most fish carries high levels of mercury and other brain damaging chemicals.
“I had to read a Nobel Prize-winning novel in college, and it was so bad that I have post-traumatic stress from the experience….”
I can easily believe that reading is stressful for you.
FRANK SEZ: “The Nobel Prize is a well-respected prize when it comes to actual things like chemistry and physics”… well…
O.k. that’s what one of the most LIBTARDIAN magazines of the world, Der Spiegel says: SCIENCE HAS NO REASON TO BE SCHADENFROH.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,654254,00.html
Examples:
- 2003 – Nobel Prize in Physics to “Alexej Abrikossow … for ca. 50 years old Texbook knowledge about curious Quant phenomena”
- 2002 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Koichi Tanaka. He has invented a special sort of a laser procedure that had no reasonable significance before the Committee gave him The Prize. “Besides, Tanaka was the only to ever use it”…
(But both were probably raging communists and Bush-bashers)
And the 2009 Nobel Prise in Chemistry winner FROM ISRAEL declares Israel “should release all terrorists”:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1254861911521&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Is THAT the real reason the granma has got the Prize? Seems so.
Science goes political. Yeah. What a surprise. They’re CEREAL!
In light of the low bar required to be a recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize, I think I’m going to start issuing one. I think I should issue one weekly. Every week, I’m going to find a potential worthiness who should get a Nobel Peace Prize for something they might do. In fact, I think everybody should issue a Nobel Peace Prize…
So … are the Euros so retarded that they didn’t realize that Bush was, in fact, gone regardless of 2008 election results? So was the award for not voting Republican (or other)? Then, if anything, the award should have gone to the 53% of American voters who voted for Obama. The Nobel Peace Prize to all Americans who voted Democrat. Isn’t that how these wiser than thou pinheads really think, after all? So what if this is an attempt by a foreign power to widen the divide that exists in US politics? These bozos are all for it. Right Davids?
There is no such thing as peace without freedom. George Bush liberated 28 million Iraqis and brought peace to Iraq. Barack Obama agitated for America to concede Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran. He agitated for perpetual war and not even the prospect of genocide was enough to convince him he was wrong.
The Nobel Peace Prize is by and for upside down leftist ninnies like David S who are ignorant about human nature and history. These fools think peace can be created through wishful thinking.
Conservatives should create their own prize, which for obvious reasons should be called The Churchill. The first recipient should be the man who liberated and pacified Iraq in the face of world wide opposition and condemnation whose ignorance was exceeded only by its vehemence.
Iraq is now a democracy which no longer pursues WMD and no longer trains and supports terrorists. It is at peace with its neighbors. The people responsible for this hard won progress can’t be praised enough.
Oh, I know who REALLY DESERVES this award!
That KURGAN GUY from the “HIGHLANDER”. The same ambitions as those of Obama but with some REAL achievements. And, unlike Obama, HE NEVER LIED TO US ABOUT HIS PLANS.
Here we go (and Freddy still rules!) The Song of THE ONE:
Here I am
I’m the MASTER OF YOUR DESTINY
I am the one the only one
I am the god of kingdom come
GIMME THE PRIZE!
JUST GIMME THE PRIZE!
Give me your kings
let me squeeze them in my hands
Your puny princes
YOUR SO CALLED LEADERS OF YOUR LAND
I’ll eat them whole before I’m done
The battle’s fought and the game is won
I am the one the only one
I am the god of kingdom come
GIMME THE PRIZE!
JUST GIMME THE PRIZE!
/Now you die/
/I have something to say,
it’s better to burn out than to fade away…
There can be only one/
/Move over
I said move over
Hey hey hey
clear the way/
THERE’S NO ESCAPE FROM MY AUTHORITY
Didn’t I tell you?
I am the one the only one
I am the god of kingdom come
GIMME THE PRIZE!
JUST GIMME THE PRIZE!
I AM THE ONE, THE ONLY ONE
I AM THE GOD OF KINGDOM COME
GIMME THE PRIZE!
…
Somebody, please, give the guy THE PRIZE!
P.S. For those of us who want to visualize the text, someone has made a sweet video for YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZQUVZKrH3I
And please, let’s be fair.
Euros have given Obama a prize for NOTHING – no achievements – empty promises – yeah – very bad, Europe, very bad indeed!
But weren’t the same empty promises – no achievements – just “HOPE” – the reason 52% of Americans voted for him 2008?
5 retards in Norway vs. 52% of voting Americans… Come on…
Americans are already making “wakey-wakey”, and some even “shruggey-shruggey”. Give poor Euros a chance, or at least a “benefity-of-the-doubty”.
Europe mocked the United States as it gave blood and treasure to successfully liberate 28 million Iraqis and defeat al Qaeda’a ambition to establish a new caliphate in Iraq. Obama helps to assuage European guilt.
There is nothing wrong with the `American` way of life. Our Constitution is the greatest document ever written and our checks and balances work fine when not being usurped by politicians and Courts.
Changing our system is not the answer. Our system works well when government acts honorably. Unfortunately we have been driving the same car for decades without doing a tuneup. Sending the same people to DC year after year gets us where we are today.
Get your b*tts out of bed in the morning and go to work. If you rely on handouts from the govn all you will ever get in life is what govn gives you. Provide for yourself and your family and the sky is the limit.
Yep, the Nobel Peace Prize has now become a European anti-American popularity contest. THIS is the real Obama:
UNBELIEVABLE OBAMA GAFFES, Mistakes, Lies, and Confusion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-AKcH3eC8
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On the bright side, pretty much ANYONE can get a Nobel Peace Prize, no qualifications necessary. I got one taped to my front door along with a page of pizza coupons. I also got one as the CrackerJacks prize. I’ve got like 5 or 6 already!
So, I wonder who nominated Barry for this thing? Did they nominate him before the election?
Guess when you look at the committee – an old fart and 4 housewives – I’m surprised they didn’t award it to Julia Childs or Jack-in-the-Box.
Anyone want to take a bet on Barry winning the Kentucky Derby or the Olympic Downhill?
Castro calls Obama winning the nobel a “positive measure”. And what groups does Obama speak to most? Union thugs and gay groups.
We are living in a bizzaro world.
The lack of grace, humility, and comprehension on the right is staggering.
The lack on the right is staggering??! Have you been paying attention at all? This award is being met with general and widespread derision. (Not that I would expect anyone who labels us “terrorists” in one breath while in the next fatuously wishes us “peace” to have the first clue about how peace is actually attained, so here’s a hint: you first must consider the human condition).
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Al Gore was given the Nobel Peace Prize because he was not George W Bush.
Jimmy Carter was given the Nobel Peace Prize because he was not George W Bush.
Barack Obama is given the Nobel Peace Prize because he is not George W Bush.
This tells me two things:
1) the people who give out the prize are “small minds”. One slap would have been a sufficient rejection of his ideas to be obvious. Two would have been overkill. Three is comedy.
2) George Bush is three times as important as Gore, Carter, and Obama are individually. If he wasn’t, again, one prize would have been sufficient to reject him.
Mr Bush freed Afghanistan from the Taliban and Iraq from Saddam Hussein. While doing so, he proclaimed the ideas and the ideals of democracy, political freedom and personal liberty. The small minds of the Nobel Prize Committee can discuss neither ideas nor events. Only reject a person.
A great people should ignore them.
It never ceases to amaze me that these people were once Vikings.
Someone said on a radio talk show the other day that this prize makes perfect sense. It’s all in how you look at it.
How can “the one” commit more troops to Afganistan, hold Iran’s feet to the fire, keep Iraq free or support Israel? He must therefore show how “Peaceful” he is, by not doing anything. Way to hobble the US! The Norwegians, they may be mental midgets but they sly, besides………………..
All the “cool” kids are for socialism.
36, 39, kudos!!
mmm mmm mmm barack hussein obama mmm mmm mmm
At any point, I would rather have our nation feared, than laughed at and attacked. A strong nation is a nation that you will walk lightly around. In today’s nuclear age, and the dingbats at large, this is very important.
The Nobel “judges”.. cannot name one accomplishment of Obama’s, not one.
“The Nobel Puss Prize” – nice one, Jon.
Kathryn wrote:
On the bright side, pretty much ANYONE can get a Nobel Peace Prize, no qualifications necessary. I got one taped to my front door along with a page of pizza coupons. I also got one as the CrackerJacks prize. I’ve got like 5 or 6 already!
Man, I’m so jealous of you. I only have 3. I don’t have enough Cheerios box tops to mail in yet. I was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine though, after I dissected a frog in h.s. biology class. So there!
The lack on the right is staggering??!
Yeah, Sukie, what is staggering is the projection of the left. They call us exactly what they are.
Anger – I’m sure the angriest people in the western world right now are Obamabots furious that people are questioning what barry did to deserve this. I’m not angry, I’ve been laughing since Friday about this. Obama’s given me two laff-filled weekends in a row now.
Hatred – Sez the fans of Pelosi and Reid, who have no trouble calling Americans asserting their right to free speech “fascists.”
Unpatriotic – That from the people who spent the Bush years hoping for our defeat in Iraq.
I could go on. The most close-minded, humorless, elitist, provincial, ignorant, vicious and unthinking beings on Planet Earth are leftists.
Hey, R. W…. They weren’t Vikings, they just got screwed by the Vikings and are still trying to get even today… they used the first dynamite made by Nobel to blow the Vikings out of the sea!
Okay, so, tell us one positive thing that Obama has accomplished>
What has he done to unify our nation?
One winning accomplishment? Just one “wow”.
Don’t tell us what he says, tell us what he has done, accomplished?
I am so sorry that I cannot think of one.
In our family, we are preparing for the worse and hoping against it.
Hope Obama’s prize feeds America and gives us employment.
@ Kathryn (41):
Wow, great video, thanks. Of course, when Americans will totally wake up, it’ll be a textbook material, and the people will ask themselves, like in Germany 1945: “HOW COULD WE DO IT? How could we vote for THIS?” But for now, just let’s spread it.
Btw. Have YOU done those vids? Great! Don’t let YouTube discourage you with their fake numbers of the viewers. Many conservative and libertarian YT posters have noticed that YT is cheating and manipulating with those numbers. Go on with your great work. THANK YOU.
I really think the prize was given to him out of pity. They figured that the country could use the prize check to stimulate the economy and of course I heard that Cash For Gold is paying the best rates for unwanted gold so he could get some cash for the medal as well.
I have a couple of suggestions for him though. He could either take the Nobel Medal and attach it to that cool chain the king of Saudi Arabia gave him. Then he could give it to Flava Flav and appoint him as the official Pimpin’ Czar. Or he could have it made into a belt buckle in an attempt to influence the NASCAR vote for 2010.
The whole ‘nobel’ thing appears to be a scam anyway. They say that they’re Norwegian, but even Google Earth can’t find the country Norwegia. I doubt it exists.
I bet they’re all just actors or something playing a joke on us.
Congratulations Mr. President….keep focused on your path and you will accomplish much that this prize represents.
The majority of americans are with you.
May god keep you in his light….and keep you from the nutty comments from these nutty people.
49. Donna V.: Gee thanks. But it’s “Noble” in this instance just for irony’s sake…
regards
Whine whine whine. I love watching conservative heads explode over this one. Yeah, suck it up. The rest of the world thinks it is worth a huge prize just to not be Bush. You know what — they are right too!
Look folks, I think McCain has this one right. This is an honor for the country and we should shut up with the Obama bashing. If us republicans can come up with no better ideas than to be the “we hate Obama” party, we will remain out of power. We’ve turned into the party of Rush and screeching and screaming and spouting nonsense. Lets take our ideas and work together with the lefties as best we can to take this country forward in a reasonable direction. All of this vitriol just makes us look petty and bitter.
Actually, there’s little point in making the Euroweenies wear helmets. They don’t have anything up there to protect.
56 Karen, thank you for pointing out from a positive viewpoint what basically everyone else is saying. He didn’t accomplish anything YET to deserve this award.
What he is trying to accomplish is peace (a noble goal). However, because it is through appeasement, it will not result in peace. His program of appeasement will lead to instability. And in the world arena instability is what leads to wars.
Do you want Iran to have nuks?
Do you want Honduras to go communist?
DO you want a return to the USSR?
Do you want North Korea to have nuks?
Do you want the expansion of Chinese influence?
Do you want a bankrupt America? (Now, there is something to destabilize the world.)
By the way, this is by no means an endorsement of all of Bush’s policies.
Though not exactly of Viking origins, Ibn Fadlan’s famous account of a Rus funeral on the Volga details the episode of a slave-girl who is first ceremoniously lied to and decieved with all manners of high exaltations before she is gang raped, murdered and her body is cremated with the deceased and his trappings. Timothy Taylor argues in his book, “The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death” that the girl’s death was not a human sacrifice but a ritual killing in which, unbeknownest to Ibn Fadlan, the Rus were actually enacting an Odinic ceremony whose purpose was to annihilate her soul as an act of scapegoating.
“Nobel Peace Prize”..hehehehe…
War is peace
Biden for the Conn Smythe trophy 09-10′!!!
Embrace the suck.
Looks to me that the award is for being the first black president without starting any riots.
What does this president have to do to wake some of you people up? He is a disaster and pretending he isn’t is not going to make it better. He is Jimma’ Carter on steroids, weak, ineffectual, and scared to death.
Black, white, or tartan this man is an incompetent fool. His name could be O’Malley or Steinberg, Kappenhouse or Smith and he would still be what he is a flim flam traveling salesman with a inventory of useless, tired, old ideas that have NEVER worked anywhere at any time in the distant or not so distant past.
Trying to keep this quiet is like putting your finger in the dam. It may work for now but eventually either your finger will shrivel up and die or the rest of the dam will come crashing in on you. Either way it’s very bad news.
Norwegians are from Norway. Not Norwegia. Google Earth has more brains than you have. And so does Obama. It’s amazing how there seems to be such a great hate fest here. Ok, whether or not he deserved it time to move on. Thought here’s a pretty good video about how the award will affect what he hopefully will do: http://www.newsy.com/videos/obama_gets_the_nobel_prize
I also hear that President Obama will win and Emmy this year for his television appearances as well as the Cy Young award for his awesome baseball skills.
Dear David S,
Please do not waste any more of America’s internet. Failure to stop frittering away our bandwidth and servers will result in your entire lame-o country being taken offline.
You have been warned.
Just keep in mind that the Nobel was not won, but was awarded. [LOL]
Invitation from the Nobel Committee:
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#67 Metakid
How DARE you claim there is no Norwegia? I spent a summer abroad there 2 years ago and know of what I speak. The streets of the capitol city Frampton are all the same width because of a quirky zoning ordinance but other than that, it’s a pretty normal place.
The CIA Factbook lists the major exports of Norwegia as 16 penny nails, mechanical pencils, hand sanitizer, and ceramic frogs. There are 23 MILLION people living in Norwegia, mainly in Frampton near the sea and in a series of mountain valleys between the Norwegian neighbors of Chile and Uzbekistan. Principal languages include Norwegian, Hindu, French, and Tskini.
I could never get the hang of any of these monkey jabber languages but most folks speak English, at least in Frampton.
So don’t you go around spreading your lies that there is no such thing as Norwegia.
Obama says:
He’s all for gay rights and he is committed to ending discrimination of gays but won’t say when.
He’s for ending “don’t ask, don’t tell” and has said he will but has not said when.
He says he wants all countries to abandon the use of nuclear weapons, but he won’t say when.
He says he’ll meet with our most disgusting adversaries, but he won’t say when.
He says he wants to work for peaceful resolutions of issues among and between belligerent nations, but won’t say when.
He’s for sending more troops to Afghanistan, but he says it will be weeks, and won’t say when.
He’s said he will end the embargo on Cuba and restore relations, but he won’t say when.
He’s said he will afford illegal immigrants a chance to become citizens, but he won’t say when.
He has previously said that he is for ending criminality associated with marijuana use, but he won’t say when.
He said he wants to close Guantanamo, but won’t say when.
(The above are exceedingly leftist positions.)
But why? Who knows? There is a song, however, Mexican mariachis sing quite often called La Negra, the Black One. The lyrics include these, “A todos diles que sí, Pero no les digas cuando …”
Loosely translated the lyrics say, “To everyone say Yes, but never tell them when.” Tee Hee.
Obama received the cheap Nobel prize, now he can have the “Flaming Taco” award.
Ah, yes, the noble folk of Norway. The nation that had a public official during WWII who made his name, Quisling, synonomous with “traitor’ for his treachery in accommodating Hitler and the Nazis. I am really, really impressed with their choice for the Nobel Peace prize. They know a winner when they see one. (Quisling – look it up)
“58. jed de:
Whine whine whine. I love watching conservative heads explode over this one.”
Silly troll! It’s not exploding heads- we’re busting a gut laughing over it. But being a libtard, you don’t even have a clue that it’s funny…..
George W. Bush saved millions of Africans and freed millions of Iraqis — that right there cannot be denied.
Obama is so angry and jealous of Bush for the above accomplishments, and that’s why to this day, he hates Bush and will do all that he can to tarnish and villify Bush every chance he can. Bush doesn’t have to do anything in return because Obama is now the laughing stock of the world, thanks to the Nobel Committee.
Mr. Peacemaker Obama is now also forced into a corner with Afghanistan…what a joke…and what incredible karma.
28. Steve DeMarcus wrote:
You wanna know what I like about Obama… Not a fraking thing!
Peter writes: So say we all!
56. karen wrote:
May god keep you in his light….and keep you from the nutty comments from these nutty people.
Peter asks: You mean like the nutty people who actually expect The Won to actually do something to earn all the accolades the left is bestowing on him without him actually accomplishing anything?
58. jed de wrote:
The rest of the world thinks it is worth a huge prize just to not be Bush. You know what — they are right too!
Peter writes: You mean the rest of the world like these…?
“He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act.” — Lech Walesa, 1983 Peace Prize laureate
“Unless real and deep-rooted change is made in American policy towards recognizing the rights of the Palestinian people, I would think such a prize would be useless.” — Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas
“The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the ‘Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians.’ ” — Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
“It’s a joke. How embarrassing for those who awarded it to him because he’s done nothing for peace. What change has he brought in Iraq, the Middle East or Afghanistan?” — Liaqat Baluch, Leader of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami party
“He hasn’t done anything yet.” — Eugene Rogan, director Middle East Centre, Oxford University
To metakid at #67:
You need to learn the subtle art of sarcasm.