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A Wicked and Ignorant Award
The Wall Street Journal ^ | OCTOBER 10, 2009 | PEGGY NOONAN

Posted on 10/11/2009 8:28:34 AM PDT by skimbell

It is absurd and it is embarrassing. It would even be infuriating if it were not such a declaration of emptiness.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has embarrassed itself and cheapened a great award that had real meaning.

It was a good thing, the Nobel Peace Prize. Every year the giving of it was a matter of note throughout the world, almost a matter of state. It was serious. It mattered...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; nobel; noonan; obama
It all sounded good at the start, I'd just finished reading Elenor Clift's When Humor Attacks article which attempted to put a positive spin on 0's pretend award. Noonan's article started off on the right foot but then she hit this...

"...it is not Barack Obama's fault that he has been embarrassed by this honor. And it may possibly hold for him an unanticipated benefit. It may give him pause: Look what idiots my biggest international supporters are. I may have to rethink a few things..."

0's going to look within himself and see that he comes up short??? Yeah, that's going to happen. I gotta believe that ol' Peg has finally just said to hell with it and joined the dark side. Her article is set up to look like an examination of 0's bogus award, but it seems to me that it is really just another lame attempt to cover his miserable azz.

1 posted on 10/11/2009 8:28:34 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: skimbell

I’m just not buying all these stories that say Obama got the NPP for not being George Bush. That is total rubbish.


2 posted on 10/11/2009 8:31:17 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: skimbell

This is the Empty Suit’s Jump The Sharp moment.


3 posted on 10/11/2009 8:32:17 AM PDT by MrDem (And this is a loyal lifelong Democrat saying this... Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
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To: skimbell

On the other hand, the makers of the Obama Chia head can now come out with a special edition featuring his chia growing likeness with a Nobel Peace Prize around its neck. I love those commercials with their tongue in cheek reverence and the Nobel Prize thing would make it even better.


4 posted on 10/11/2009 8:32:55 AM PDT by metalcor
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To: MrDem

I’m stuned at the typo. Sharp = Shark


5 posted on 10/11/2009 8:33:05 AM PDT by MrDem (And this is a loyal lifelong Democrat saying this... Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
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To: skimbell

Try as she might, Noonan just can’t seem to separate her lips from bambi’s arse. Its like they are frozen on and it will hurt too badly to separate. Must be crowed though what with McCain et al also attached.


6 posted on 10/11/2009 8:33:10 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Obamanos!)
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To: skimbell

It’s just a few chunks of bait to get me to click on her, isn’t it.
Not gonna be, Pegeen!


7 posted on 10/11/2009 8:33:38 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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To: skimbell
A stupid woman. Hard to believe she was Ronald Reagan's speechwriter. If she really believes Obama will ever cease being a narcissist, she's going to be waiting for him to change his mind and turn down an award he does not deserve to have.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

8 posted on 10/11/2009 8:34:03 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: skimbell

I,me,me,I,myself,I,me. I just took out every other word of his acceptance speech.


9 posted on 10/11/2009 8:37:40 AM PDT by wiggen (Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
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To: skimbell

O is such a narcissist he probably actually believes he deserves the NPP somehow, another validation in his mind of his greatness...and I thought the Clinton kool aid was strong, wow, what are these people drinking??


10 posted on 10/11/2009 8:38:49 AM PDT by IMTOFT (At least I'm enjoying the ride...)
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To: IMTOFT
They think he's a kindred spirit. He's not Bush and that's why they rushed to give him the award.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

11 posted on 10/11/2009 8:41:06 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: metalcor
i love the Chia head ads too. I am almost tempted to buy some for Christmas presents. The ads are so serious but I can't help but think that it is “tongue and cheek” nObama ridicule by the makers of the thing. They don't care if you buy it out of reverence for “the one” or as a joke. they will make money either way. I am an artist and in the past I have worked with clay, I could have made that thing and be in business right now, except I didn't think of it.
12 posted on 10/11/2009 8:45:20 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: uncitizen

Right. He got it for the Twelve Days that Changed the World.


13 posted on 10/11/2009 8:45:44 AM PDT by marron
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To: goldstategop

Someone on Fox this morning (Mary Cheney, I think?) made the point that nominations for the NPP were due on 1 February - something like 10 days after the Bassiah took office...incredible...this from a career politician who’s only accomplishments are voting ‘present’ in the IL state senate 129 times and spending all of his only 1/2 term in the US Senate running for president...

Why there is not revolution in the streets is beyond me...


14 posted on 10/11/2009 8:50:27 AM PDT by IMTOFT (At least I'm enjoying the ride...)
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To: marron

I think that this award gets Obama off the hook for sending the necessary troops to Afghanistan. How could a man involved in war be repaying his debt of peace?

He is indebted to the Nobel Committee. It looks to me like a setup. It’s an “out” on that Afghanistan decision.


15 posted on 10/11/2009 8:50:43 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: uncitizen
If Obama's wants to follow a leftist foreign policy, he can now say he has the ultimate stamp of approval to do so - the adoration of the world's elite. Which is exactly what he's done since he took office in January.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

16 posted on 10/11/2009 8:54:15 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: skimbell; ml/nj; rmlew; dennisw; ExTexasRedhead; Zionist Conspirator; LucyT; machogirl; ...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has embarrassed itself and cheapened a great award that had real meaning.

Real meaning? Certainly not since terrorist Yasser Arafat received it! From that time, the award has had no credibility at all.

17 posted on 10/11/2009 8:57:24 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: skimbell
The reward became a joke as soon as Gore won it, the latest affirmative action award is completely meaningless.
18 posted on 10/11/2009 8:58:32 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: skimbell

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has embarrassed itself and cheapened a great award that had real meaning.

It’s meaningless and lost any meaning it had.


19 posted on 10/11/2009 9:10:22 AM PDT by cubreporter (.)
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To: skimbell
He has been accused of traveling through the world on an extended apology tour. That isn't fair, but the tag is there.

Oh, come on, Peggy. Not fair? Of course it's fair, because it's the truth...

20 posted on 10/11/2009 9:35:49 AM PDT by Zeppo (Save the cheerleader, save the world...)
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To: IMTOFT
O is such a narcissist he probably actually believes he deserves the NPP somehow, another validation in his mind of his greatness...and I thought the Clinton kool aid was strong, wow, what are these people drinking??

*******

I hope that people like cowardly officials at Occidental College in California are happy now.

My point is this: If Occidental College officials had shown some courage and released Obama's college records---records that might show us that Obama enrolled as a foreign student as a freshman---during the 2008 campaign, Obama and the highly ridiculed Nobel Peace Prize committee would not be trapped in this public relations nightmare, because Obama would not be President of the United States today.

21 posted on 10/11/2009 9:37:41 AM PDT by john mirse
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To: HerrBlucher
"Try as she might, Noonan just can’t seem to separate her lips from bambi’s arse."

Uhhh, this is a scathing article about the Nobel Committee and Obama.

Did you even read it?

22 posted on 10/11/2009 9:39:14 AM PDT by Bob J ("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one strikes at it's root.")
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To: uncitizen

Yes, I believe it was for the crease in his pants.


23 posted on 10/11/2009 10:21:48 AM PDT by gussiefinknottle (woof!woof!woof!)
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To: gussiefinknottle

we’ll never know for sure what the real reason was, but whatever the MSM is telling us is the reason, is not the reason. IMO


24 posted on 10/11/2009 10:25:45 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: Bob J

If you go back through the past year Noonan has started on some demented path of worshipping the leftists. She is not sane.


25 posted on 10/11/2009 10:25:54 AM PDT by mallardx
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To: Bob J

Yes, see post 1. At first scathing, then apologetic to bambi. Like I said, try as she might.......


26 posted on 10/11/2009 11:53:59 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Obamanos!)
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To: justiceseeker93

Thanks for the ping!


27 posted on 10/11/2009 1:21:49 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: skimbell

when does the Present go and get the award and make his speech? Dec 10?....three months from now?

how can he possibly surge troops in Afghanistan before then?

how many more American troops will die before then with the silly ROE’s now in place?

on the other hand, maybe this will prevent him from invading Honduras

maybe.


28 posted on 10/11/2009 1:36:41 PM PDT by kralcmot (my tagline died with Terri)
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To: justiceseeker93

I did like the line where she said it was given BY socialists, FOR socialists.


29 posted on 10/11/2009 3:56:33 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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