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Mark Steyn: Nobel tops 'SNL' for Obama joke
O.C. Register ^ | 10/10/2009 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/10/2009 7:28:31 AM PDT by fiscon1

But that was then, and this is now. As the historian Robert Dallek told Obama recently, "War kills off great reform movements." As the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne reminded the president, his supporters voted for him not to win a war but to win a victory on health care and other domestic issues. Obama's priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: culture; marksteyn; nobel; nobelprize; obama; peaceprize; steyn

1 posted on 10/10/2009 7:28:31 AM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1

And all of his attempts to turn the US into a feudal backwater are completely illegal, unconstitutional, and criminal.


2 posted on 10/10/2009 7:32:07 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb
And all of his attempts to turn the US into a feudal backwater are completely illegal, unconstitutional, and criminal.

But nobody is doing anything to stop him.

3 posted on 10/10/2009 7:36:44 AM PDT by wastedyears (If I don't have a right to play defense, then I'll go on offense. - FReeper Enterprise)
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To: fiscon1

Watch this video from Conan that BOR played last night it is a hoot.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/99370/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-sesame-street-does-health-care


4 posted on 10/10/2009 7:37:08 AM PDT by stockpirate ("if my thought-dreams could be seen. They'd probably put my head in a guillotine" Dylan)
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To: squarebarb

True, but it means nothing unless and until someone with “juice” steps up to the plate and challenges the legality of what he’s doing. Right now it’s mostly whining and howls of outrage by we, the people. When with the USSC put an end to it? If it’s not done through the courts, it will likely be done on the streets, and no one is going to like that outcome.


5 posted on 10/10/2009 7:41:02 AM PDT by MizSterious (Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? John Page, 1744-1808)
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To: fiscon1

Dang, the guy’s so good so consistently.


6 posted on 10/10/2009 7:42:04 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: MizSterious

Ouch, bad typo—”when with” should have been “when will.”


7 posted on 10/10/2009 7:42:12 AM PDT by MizSterious (Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? John Page, 1744-1808)
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To: fiscon1

I want to see somebody do a spoof of Michelleda Marcos’ reaction when Obama said he was going to donate the 1.4 mil to charity.

“Oh no you dinnuh!”

“Oh no you dinnuh!”

“Oh no you dinnuh!”


8 posted on 10/10/2009 7:43:51 AM PDT by TruthBeforeAll (The Top 10 Most Murderous Cities in the US (per capita) Are All Run By Dem Mayors - 2005 Report)
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To: BibChr
From the comments:

"And I still want to know exactly WHEN Obama's name was submitted to the committee, and BY WHOM. As I understand it, the nomination had to come from an existing Nobel laureate".

Ditto!

9 posted on 10/10/2009 7:47:37 AM PDT by jaz.357 ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." W.Churchill)
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To: jaz.357

Gore? Carter?


10 posted on 10/10/2009 7:51:37 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the passport, school and birth records.)
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To: fiscon1
Between a Ba-Rock & a hard place, he is. {said in best Yoda-like voice...}

This is gonna be extra good. LOL

11 posted on 10/10/2009 7:52:35 AM PDT by Landru (If you want to perform for 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour, 5 days, a YEAR! Call...)
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To: fiscon1
"Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?"

I wish I could come up with stuff like this.

12 posted on 10/10/2009 7:53:07 AM PDT by Batrachian
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To: fiscon1

So, th.

Obammasiah is going to donate the Nobel Prize money to charity.

Wanna bet it goes to some commie group like ACORN or another black racist church?

Perhaps some queer group as per Larry Sinclair’s recommendation


13 posted on 10/10/2009 7:55:08 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: stockpirate

Loved that last night when BOR played it. So is Conan looking for a new job? Will NBC allow such distasteful displays against their prez?


14 posted on 10/10/2009 7:55:38 AM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: MizSterious

We need a serious leader for a serious movement. The 9/12 event showed this can be done but unfortunately there’s no one stepping up with the gravitas, charisma and “juice” to take things to the next level, and beyond. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking and we are losing our liberties by the day.


15 posted on 10/10/2009 7:57:48 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: fiscon1

Steyn’s the bomb!

“Cranky mongoose”.....ineffable.


16 posted on 10/10/2009 7:59:03 AM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: fiscon1

God I love Mark Steyn!


17 posted on 10/10/2009 8:05:58 AM PDT by Pharmer (Palin in 2012! We are so screwed! Go Phillies!!!!)
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To: squarebarb

Pray for military intervention. I do. Every day.


18 posted on 10/10/2009 8:09:21 AM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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To: fiscon1

great article.

tough times are coming folks, best to get ready. If war erupts in Iran, oil will go through the roof. that will mean less jobs, riots, etc.

stockpiling canned goods and a gun might be a good idea.


19 posted on 10/10/2009 8:11:55 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: fiscon1

The Nobel thing may just be a setup
for another Norwegian boob joke.
20 posted on 10/10/2009 8:12:23 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Landru
Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?

He makes it look so easy.

21 posted on 10/10/2009 8:13:41 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: fiscon1
"Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater (Afghanistan) into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state (United States) into an economically moribund feudal backwater? - Mark Steyn

Brilliant. And precisely spot on!

22 posted on 10/10/2009 8:14:34 AM PDT by Gritty (When it comes to the global scene, President Obama has attitudes rather than policies-Mark Steyn)
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To: jaz.357
As I understand it, the nomination had to come from an existing Nobel laureate.

That could not always have been the case, if that were so, who would have nominated the very first group of Nobel laureates.

23 posted on 10/10/2009 8:15:48 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: stockpirate
WOW!!

Conan is going to get an anal probe from the WH......!!

I'd like to see CNN "fact check" that one!!

ROFLOL!!

24 posted on 10/10/2009 8:17:29 AM PDT by Osage Orange (A community organizer cannot bitch when communities organize..... - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: ohiogrammy

I about fell out of my chair when I saw it.


25 posted on 10/10/2009 8:19:46 AM PDT by stockpirate ("if my thought-dreams could be seen. They'd probably put my head in a guillotine" Dylan)
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To: Osage Orange

It is very funny isn’t it?


26 posted on 10/10/2009 8:20:17 AM PDT by stockpirate ("if my thought-dreams could be seen. They'd probably put my head in a guillotine" Dylan)
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To: fiscon1
Oh wow, Steyn is a national treasure.
27 posted on 10/10/2009 8:25:01 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The 0 years, Too bad a requirement for adult supervision was not put into the Constitution)
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To: Osage Orange

People might not want to hear this, but the Senate Finance vote on Tuesday is a lot more important than the Nobel joke. Call, call, call your senators - especially Sen Lincoln and Sen Snowe. Call all of them. If the American people rise up, this monstrosity can be defeated.


28 posted on 10/10/2009 8:25:17 AM PDT by mwl8787
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To: reg45

Mark Levin nominated Rush last year.


29 posted on 10/10/2009 8:32:48 AM PDT by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: wastedyears; fiscon1; squarebarb; stephenjohnbanker; Just mythoughts; Condor51; maggief; GOPJ; ...
Why Should Obama squander his presidency trying to turn an economically-moribund feudal Mideast backwater into a functioning nation state, when he can turn our functioning nation-state into an economically-moribund feudal backwater?

It took the Nobel Prize to finally unveil the conspiracies of Ohaha/Rahm (and all the Dem sheeps in wolves clothing). When candidate Obama suggested he wanted to be another Reagan, the intent was to gull the electorate. Now the lefty Nobelists blew his cover.

Obama's handler, the wily Rahm Emanuel, duped the American electorate time and time again. (a) He ran the Marxist Ohaha as a clone of Ronald Reagan. (b) As 2006 Dem Congressional Campaign Committee Chair, Wonder Boy ran Godless, lefty Congressional candidates in solid Republican districts as "reverential believers."

Wonder Boy Rahm's motto: "Party First, America Last." The Wonder Boy is obsessed with party politics. Installing a permanent leftist majority of Dims is his game. This nasty toad evinces an utter contempt for US culture. Calculated Rahm softly/coyly speaks the language to appeal to American values, but this conniver is nothing more than a latter-day Uriah Heep. Like Uriah Heep, power-hungry Rahm feeds on others, and deploys self-serving strategies for his own self-absorbed purposes.

Dickens' ingratiating scoundrel (from David Copperfield) fits Rahm to a tee. Uriah Heep was notorious for wielding undue influence, a manipulative bounder who was always planning and plotting, ingratiating himself into the confidence of others. Uriah Heep was obsequious, manipulative, and wormed his way into positions of influence. Uriah was a consummate con man, and not to be trusted. Translated into the language of the popular culture, Uriah Heep Rahm, positions himself as amenable to American values but is insincere in these feelings; he uses issues and crises to advance his hidden agendas and political ambitions.

REFERENCE Obama was the Peace Prize winner b/c of the Committee's hopes for his world-impact -- but at home Obama has been on a roll . In 9 months, he has breathed life into Republicans, boosted pro-lifers, tarnished regulation, bolstered traditional values, increased the public's desire for immigration restriction, and shifted independent voters rightward......revivifying conservatism qualifies as a feat almost as miraculous as Moses turning back oceans. Gallup surveys are a long catalog of the Obama snap-back. 40% describe themselves as conservative -- a level last seen in 2004. 51% call themselves pro-life -- a significant shift. 57% say government is trying to do too many things best left to the private sector. It's the worst showing for govt regulation ever in a Gallup survey. When candidate Obama suggested he wanted to be "another Reagan," this wasn't what he had in mind. But for now, he's the right's best community organizer....for Republicans.

SOURCE: NY POST BY NATIONAL REVIEWS'S RICH LOWRY.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_the_gop_should_give_prize_4POGGHqMOW0OLzsXz7Cf9K)

30 posted on 10/10/2009 8:35:33 AM PDT by Liz
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To: knews_hound

Pingeroo.


31 posted on 10/10/2009 8:37:52 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Liz

What seems to have happened is Obama has reached
The Nutty Professor stage and we are watching an old Jerry Lewis movie now
set in Washington and Norway.
Just before the go-karts chase sequence.

32 posted on 10/10/2009 8:51:16 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
"He makes it look so easy."

He sure does, Homer. ;^)

Why I love when he sits in for Rush.
The only way to survive the MFers on the left, their continual, constant & never ending barrage attacking the psyche is via laughter.
Laughter's something Mark's elevated to a science.

One day should Rush ever decide to retire, pursue his football schtick or whatever?
Mark's a perfect match for assuming command.

33 posted on 10/10/2009 9:42:43 AM PDT by Landru (If you want to perform for 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour, 5 days, a YEAR! Call...)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Obama has reached The Nutty Professor stage

" Time to chill out. "

34 posted on 10/10/2009 10:05:07 AM PDT by Liz
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To: MizSterious

It’ll take place one sacrifice at a time. First the unborn, then elderly in death panels, then the jews, then the blacks etc etc... watch.


35 posted on 10/10/2009 10:29:45 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: wastedyears

I hear zero loves the smell of Wall Streeters commiting suicide in the morning... kind of like during the WTC bombings.

That’s after abortion, the death panel for the elderly and cancer patients and blacks being run under the bus still waiting for that stimulus check.

I also have a liberal Obama voter who is this time moving out of the country to dodge the incoming draft. So much for fighting for his messiah and calling me a hater of Obama.


36 posted on 10/10/2009 10:33:01 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: fiscon1
Call me naive, but, upon reading that article, I just learned about the nomination deadline being February 1st!?! A mere twelve days in office!

I mean that just makes the joke of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize even funnier.

37 posted on 10/10/2009 11:51:06 AM PDT by winstonwolf33
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

On their wedding night Michelle found out Barack wasn’t circumcised. When she asked him about it, Obama said they were about to do the procedure but his mother instructed the doctor to perform a lobotomy instead.

A surprised Michelle asked why.

Obama replied his mother always knew that with his background he would grow up to be a ***khead


38 posted on 10/10/2009 12:34:45 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

39 posted on 10/10/2009 12:40:35 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: stockpirate

I love that.. I watch it every time I see the link it’s so funny. Did cnn fact check that too? LOL


40 posted on 10/10/2009 2:03:39 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: fiscon1
"Obama's priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?"

Nobody turns a phrase with as much verve as Mark Steyn.

Well played, Mark.

41 posted on 10/10/2009 4:58:52 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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