Posted on 10/09/2009 8:30:26 AM PDT by vimto
I hope the members of the Nobel committee feel pleased with themselves for giving this year's peace prize to Barack Obama.
I bet they do, the smug idiots. It is hard to imagine a more effective way to undermine him both at home and abroad. It smacks hugely of sentimentality and condescension.
Disdain for the award from the Middle East, Pakistan and other regions that have felt the sharp edge of American hard power – bombs and missiles included – since the president was inaugurated on 20 January will more than outweigh the warm, fuzzy feelings that the news will generate for a few minutes among those in the rich world who wish him well.
Nor will it do much for the president at home, where he is fighting on even more fronts than he is overseas and – so far – with an equally conspicuous lack of tangible success.
It is wrong to write off the Obama presidency after a mere nine months, as some are already doing. But it is also silly, very silly, to award him the Nobel peace prize when he hasn't delivered much peace, only eloquent, soaring rhetoric.
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LOL. Ya just can’t win. Perhaps the uber-left doesn’t know they are the peasantry to the Ivory Tower left?
mmmmm.....mmmmm.....mmmmm
What a fiasco these awards have become. They no longer have any meaning.
What if it’s discovered he’s not even the voice reading the teleprompter, but is actually just like Milli Vanilli?
Well I guess the same principle applies. I’m for a gong for the next Clint Eastwood movie - whatever it is.
This is utter twaddle isn’t it - even the liberals can see it’s a farce, love their cotton socks.
They are proud, politically correct Scandinavian Socialists. This is how they think. And remember, the last Norwegian of any accomplishment or prominence whatsoever was Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896.
You mean the Smurfs don’t count?
Simply Amazing!!!One has to realize that the 'accomplishments' the committee listed as the basis for award were not yet in existence.
AND even these so called 'accomplishments' were AFTER the Feb 1, 2009 nomination deadline. So after just 10 days in office...the one gets nominated for future 'accomplishments"
Guess we can now consider the Peace Prize as an Affirmative Action Award...Simply Amazing!!!Bow before the god zero that walks among us...
Guess we can now consider the Peace Prize as an Affirmative Action Award...
No, they don’t count.
Who are the committee members of the Nobel Prize who make the decision and who and when was obama nominated?
That’s Smurfist.
Nobel “Prizes” are for Eurotrash and Eurotrash Sympathizers by Eurotrash and Eurotrash Sympathizers. Where you all realize this things will become crystal clear.
They were invented by a Belgian.
Mmm that explains a lot, but Father Abraham when he went through a smokey hole sounded pretty Scandinavian to me.
I was once conducting a funeral and it was the days when tapes were in fashion and people put songs on to play at the crematorium. It was on the wrong side, and as the coffin went in the smurfs began to sing about going though a smokey hole. Oh .......
They still do that here. I have chosen Handel’s “I Know that my Redeemer Liveth.” Renee Fleming. I’m not a big smurf fan. In fact, I would have to say I am indifferent to them.
the one in the anecdote (which was true and very embarrassing all around) would have been ‘when I need love’ by Leo Sayer.
‘Another one bites the dust’ by Queen is popular here.
All I want is the magnificent 4 line Doxology sang accapella, my wife can choose the rest
“Another one bites the dust” Snort. And now I have the Doxology stuck in my head as a morning earworm. Yestrday it was Mountain’s Mississippi Queen.
Obama is the black Jimmy Carter.
Boycott Norweegia! s/
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