Though sh*t.
Posted on 10/09/2009 2:11:41 AM PDT by markomalley
The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2009 to US President Barak Obama.
The Nobel Peace Prize is an international prize which is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee according to guidelines laid down in Alfred Nobel's will. The Peace Prize is one of five prizes that have been awarded annually since 1901 under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm for outstanding contributions in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Starting in 1969, a Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has also been awarded.
Whereas the other prizes are awarded by specialist committees based in Sweden, the Peace Prize is awarded by a committee appointed by the Norwegian Storting. 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". The prize includes a medal, a personal diploma, and a large sum of prize money (currently 10 million Swedish crowns).
The Nobel Peace Prize has been called "the world's most prestigious prize". The Prize is awarded at a ceremony in the Oslo City Hall on December 10, the date on which Alfred Nobel died.
Took the words right outa my shiny metal mouth....
Though sh*t.
World peace at last!
For surrendering in Afghanistan?
My BS meter just went nuclear!
The end of the world must be near .
Probably because of all of those apologies for the US.
Just sayin'.
prisoner6
To the mutual disgrace of both the Nobel Prize committee and President Obama.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been WAS called "the world's most prestigious prize".
As much as I like Norway, this has got to be about the stupidest thing they have ever done, ever!
Al Qaeda should have won an award for that after GWII.
This proves that 0bama is the worst President - ever. Even worse than Jimmah “that’s racist” Carter.
I'm thinking he got it for being willing to throw Israel under the bus and cozy up to dictactors and thugs rather than stand for free people.
This is just so nuts...
Well, he’s among friendly company now, guess he can relax...
I heard this on the radio just a few minutes ago and almost burned the shirt I was ironing.
This world has gone insane. Can a standing President even accept the prize money?
John Kerry has to be wondering why he hasn’t won a Nobel Peace Prize about now???
They MUST be joking. Even Saturday Night Live knows that this idiot has done NOTHING to advance world peace unless you consider being cuckolded by putin, china, chavez, mock-mood etc. advancing world peace. Typical white guilt by the elite eruopeons
this is a joke isn’t it?
No.
Just sick.
Perhaps this will resonate with the loons in the coastal big cities and the truly vapid who listen to Katie Couric and Oprah but for the rest of America, they won't be impressed.
I thought CNN must have been doing some kind of promotion stunt. This is beyond stupid.
I do more for world peace each time I blow my nose that that jack wipe has done in the entirety of his pitiful, phony life.
What an effin’ joke!
And think of what will happen with real life and death negotiations with our enemies with this circulating through his head... Whatever floats through his mind is going to become “genius”.
the developed world has just been owned
Completly laughable. I predict this will become more of a joke than anything else. Look for this to backfire on that POS, the Liberals, and the idiots that did the voting.
I said the same thing. It shows what a joke this award has become.
beyond comprehension.
Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded to servants of the globalist elite.
Wait.... what? What in the world did 0bama do to deserve this? What peace? Where? What has he even TRIED to do???
I'm surprised they didn't give an award to Mullah Krekar. Or did they?
Even CNN is asking if this award to Dear Leader isn’t a bit premature!
Got that right. The left will immediately use this to defend his indecision on Afghanistan. The result being, people will die.
Wow, this puts the Nobel Committee even further into the category of ridiculousness than when they gave it to Arafat.
0bama hasn’t saved one dang life, much less ended or prevented a war.
He should refuse to accept it.
Did I just wake up on another planet?? I just cannot comprehend this at all.
The Nobel Prize is only relevant to Communists, Globalists, Anti-Semites.....
Even the most brain dead lefty has to wonder what Obamdolf did to win a Peace Prize. Did he win because they felt sorry for CrookCago not getting the Olympics
They gave it to Arafat. That’s all that needs to be said about the meaning of the award.
And I thought the Medal of Freedom had become a joke.
Reading the article, this is meant to be a slap in Bush’s face....I suspect Bush will treat the committee’s disdain for him as a badge of honor.
Already heard from a friend who liked Obama, but having heard Obama got the Peace Prize he’s waking up to the fact that Obama is nothing but speeches. No accomplishments. No achievements. Just speeches. Lots and lots of speeches.
Obama may have miscalculated while campaigning for this prize by giving away so many freebies to dictators, tyrants, and despots. Americans don’t really pay much attention to the Peace Prize or any Nobel Prize for that matter, but now that a sitting President has gotten it, his lack of achievements and accomplishments comes under national scrutiny as people ask, “Why?”
Oops. Obama did a bad thing.
And then monkeys will fly out of my ass.
What a crock of you know what. First it is a consolation prize for having lost the Olympics. Second, it is the usual leftist, socialist baloney of rewarding one of their own, just like they did with Jimmy Carter, who never deserved the prize either.
Then there are the ulterior motives. Now that Obama has been awarded the peace prize, he can do nothing else other than keep the peace. This is the Nobel Prize Committee’s way of preventing Obama from bombing Iran, as he must be peaceful now, don’t you know, to live up to his new prize.
He won’t be able to put too many more troops in Afghanistan, as that is warlike, and won’t fit his new peace image. He must now pursue another series of endless, useless talks with N. Korea, that will go nowhere, as N. Korea once again is cranking up its nuclear program in order to elicit more perks in the form of bribes from the western countries to buy off peace.
Of course, this is also one more repudiation of George Bush. The talking heads on TV are already pursuing the line of how hated we were internationally for the last 8 years (note they say the last 8 years, so naturally it was during Bush’s reign). Now that Obama is in office, all is well with the world, and peace will reign.
Of course, the fact that Obama has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to deserve this award is totally immaterial to the subject at hand. What a farce, what a joke. What next, giving the award to Ahmadinejad or Hugo Chavez, or Castro? Gag me with a spoon.
Smile for the cameras Barack. You have lots of practice. He must be gloating this morning, I wonder if someone woke him up to tell him he had run. Maybe that dog of his. Michelle.
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