Posted on 10/13/2009 8:39:01 AM PDT by Dominic01
OSLO – Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.
Asked to comment on the uproar following Friday's announcement, four members of the five-seat panel told The Associated Press that they had expected the decision to generate both surprise and criticism.
Three of them rejected the notion that Obama hadn't accomplished anything to deserve the award, while the fourth declined to answer that question. A fifth member didn't answer calls seeking comment.
"We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the prize for what he has done."
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This is the best argument for their being global cooling...their brains have frozen in Norway.
The Nobel committee has only served to cheapen an already cheap award.
“Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, but what you can do for the Kennedys.”
Ted finally did something I approve of...
He hasn't done any of those things. The Nobel must be replaced by a better prize that doesn't despise American interests.
BO IZ THE NO BELL PRESIDENT. . . . .
Yea, once again the europeans have identified their favorite american uncle toms - Carter, Gore, Obama. Geez, they never did recognize Thatcher, Reagan, Pope Paul for ending the cold war without firing a shot. Shoosh - it must really be hard to be a Norwegian.
“All these things have contributed to — I wouldn’t say a safer world — but a world with less tension,” Jagland said by phone from Strasbourg, where he was attending meetings in his other role as secretary-general of the Council of Europe.”
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Obviously this idiot hasn’t been paying attention to current events in Pakistan.
BTW, I wonder if India will decide to use it’s nukes on Pak if the Taliban achieves it’s ultimate goal of taking over with access to nukes?
He’s done a lot.
He gave Chris Matthews a tingle.
And David Brooks got a thrill from “the crease in his pant leg.”
Which is exactly what?
Ah yes..0bozo made plenty of speeches on foreign soil attacking America. ‘nuff said.
Tricking the American public?
the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.
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Oh, gollies..
That means...
That means...
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Now Barry has to perform...
He has to DOOOOOOOO sumping...
But what ???????
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The pressure...
No usurper has suffered as he has...
Its not fair...
It’s well, its RACIST...
:(
47: Number of days Teddy Chappaquiddick has been sober.
How did five liberal morons from Norway become the arbiters of what is good in the world?
Folks, the NPP is no more relevant to the modern world then “America’s Next Top Model”.
The thick-headed nordics are on the defensive. They won’t back down, but they now know that not everyone agrees with their bone-headed choice.
“We simply disagree that he has done nothing,” committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. “He got the prize for what he has done.”
Translated:
Geefe-a us a breek OoK? Ve-a knoo ve-a reelly scrooed zee puuch boot zeere-a isn’t unytheeng ve-a cun du ebuoot it su ve’re-a gueeng tu leee-a leeke-a perseeun roogs. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Maybe Jagland could cite the feat of peace committed by obama in 2008.
From the people who gave the world “Quisling”.
“How did five liberal morons from Norway become the arbiters of what is good in the world?”
They got blood money from the dynamite guy, that’s how.
You're entitled to your own opinion; you're not entitled to you're own facts.
The fact is, he has done NOTHING -- except put the US into trillions of dollars of additional debt, take over the auto industry and attempt to take over the health care industry.
...oh, and talk. ...a LOT. ...mostly about himself.
...and play golf. ...and eat lobster.
At that rate, using their apparent criteria, 0bama will win the Nobel Prize every year he is president.
The bottom line-—they are all out of touch with reality and are just jokes!
It's not just that he hasn't done it, he hadn't done it by the end of the nomination process, this idiot, media-types keep talking about the state of the world as of the date the prize was awarded, ignoring the fact that it was submitted less than two weeks into 0bama's term. This guy should just shut up, because the more this argument goes on, the more they prove that this was nothing more than a giant middle finger to G.W. Bush.
There is no defending the undefendable. It is like asking an abortion doctor to defend life. Doesn’t make sense.
Agreed!! Here is the real reason...
“Of course I expected disagreement and debate on the prize, on giving him the prize,” she said. “But what I want now is that we seriously raise a discussion regarding nuclear disarmament.”
It’s payment to Obama for pushing THEIR agenda.
Moronic radicals attempting to defend the indefensible. The Abbot and Costello routine, ‘Who’s On First,’ makes more sense than these benighted characters.
My thoughts exactly. I’m surprised the AP reporter didn’t ask a follow-up question to Jagland about that. I thought the Feb.1 deadline is a glaring point to the media, but I guess not.
Name one person, just one, in the annals of history that, eight months into the job, was worthy of such an honor.
Mother Teresa?
Mahatma Gandhi?
Nelson Mandela?
When one considers Jesus’ public ministry lasted more than three years, perhaps even He would not have merited similar recognition after mere months.
There is no way to interpret what the Nobel committee did as an honor well earned. If, in future years, Obama succeeds in transforming the world in the manner does what his public statements suggest, there could be a discussion about whether he merits recognition.
Now, it is so very early that there is no way at all to view the bestowing of this honor upon him as anything other than a political statement.
Yup, plus, they don’t really want DEBATE, do they? They want agreement, adherence.
Yeah, the guy who gets it next year will be in for a lot of ribbing - even if he’s Christ returning!
Superb!
Really? What were you thinking?
Mother Teresa?
Mahatma Gandhi?
Nelson Mandela?
All that these people actually did was help their fellow man, inspire humaninty to take a closer look at themselves, and be an example of selflessness to the world.
But, they are no Obama. (thank God)
When your decision is greeted with laughter, and that reaction only intensifies as time passes, it’s time to reconsider the decision ... or at least keep quiet and hope that sensible people will forget your blunder. Defending such a silly decision only makes it look worse.
That made sense to me, they assumed he'd do all the things the left has been demanding us to do for years now, they anticipated and now find themselves scrambling to defend the decision.
There’s “less tension” when the rape victim just lays there than when she fights back, too, Mr Jagland.
Bam Bam was running for pres in the previous year, nothing else.
It is obvious: Hussein Obama GOT the award because he was America’s first BLACK President.
In twelve days. Thanks for confirming what the rest of us already knew -- the Nobel Peace Prize is a fraud.
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