AP Analysis: Obama's Nobel honors promise, not action

AP via Google News ^ | October 8, 2009 | By JENNIFER LOVEN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON — The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what?

For one of America's youngest presidents, in office less than nine months — and only for 12 days before the Nobel nomination deadline last February — it was an enormous honor.

The prize seems to be more for Obama's promise than for his performance.

The Nobel committee, it seems, had the audacity to hope that he'll eventually produce a record worthy of its prize.

[Ulysse]

Libtard WISHFULL THINKING at its best!
Only (fake)words and (fake)promises leading to more wars and tyranies

[CharlesWayneCT]

Well, you deserve a Nobel Prize because you WANT to cure cancer.

[RaiderRose]

Even my lib friends on facebook are baffled. This isn’t going to go over well.

And I was wondering, can I get a law degree from Harvard right now if I just promise to go some day? Come on. I promise. :D

[TexasCajun]

I would look for George Soros hand in this somehow.

Soros holds the purse-strings to the world's America-Hating organizations that love our America-Hating Resident.

I actually heard Dianne Sawyer call it a "Gold Medal", like the Nobel Prize was some sort of redemption from Obamah's Olympic bid embarrassment.

[True Republican Patriot]

AMEN!!! This should be made into an RNC Campaign POSTER!

[beefree]

He did bring all that peace with the Beer Summit

[Callahan]

I wonder if the jokesters on the Nobel committee were always going to hand Obama this faux award or if they were swayed by his rejection by the IOC and wanted to balance the scales of international socialist ass kissing.

[RhoTheta]

"The last sitting U.S. president to win the peace prize was Woodrow Wilson in 1919. The other was Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. Jimmy Carter had been out of office for more than two decades when he won in 2002." - CNN

Noted progressives, all.

an astute FReeper, kevinm13, pointed out that:

"What was the Nobel committee thinking? The deadline for the nominations was Feb. 1, so Barry was in office for what, 10 days give or take. What did they think he had done or promise to do? He spent 147 days in the Senate and voted “present” about a dozen times (many more as an IL State Senator), he spent most of 2007 and all of 2008 until election day campaigning."

"Oh wait, the prize must be for work that he did in the summer... the beer summit at the White House where he accused a white police officer of racism because he arrested a beligerent black man who was acting suspicious, who also happened to be a FOB (friend of Barry). Then he had to invite both of them to the WH because he was wrong for the accusation and it seemed like the thing to do. And, he made Europe less safe by taking down the missile defense shield in Poland. Yeah, that is it."

It just goes to show how corruption is global, and includes the Norsky Nobel Peace Prize Committee. Another FReeper, orgiveme, pointed out that the Committee must have read the "Left Behind" series.

[equaviator]

Cue and sustain indefinitely the sycophantic, obsequious standing ovations!

[dez]

When I first saw the headline I thought it was from The Onion. Obama has done nothing to even merit consideration for the award. What a worthless piece of dreck the Nobel Peace Prize has become.

[delphirogatio]

In related news, Miley Cyrus has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, tween video at 11:00.

[beejaa]

When I heard it on the radio, I thought it was just some dumb joke, but then I went online.

It’s a huge slap in the face to the American people. Let this guy destroy a government of the people, by the people and for the people and the rest of the world loves it. The rest of the world (well, not all of it) hates American people for who we are. That’s my reaction.

[workerbee]

For one of America's youngest presidents, in office less than nine months — and only for 12 days before the Nobel nomination deadline last February — it was an enormous honor. JOKE.

I heard they're giving him the Medal of Freedom when he takes a dump later this afternoon.

[TexasFreeper2009]

This fits perfectly with everything else Obama has accomplished in life.

Everything he has achieved in life was given to him based not on what he actually DID, but instead for the promise of what thing imagine he might be able to do.

[squarebarb]

thanks for checking those sites for us.

I am surprised that they are cheerleading this choice. Perhaps they will sober up.

[himno hero]

its a b/s endorsement.

and a farce

[Callahan]

If the Nobel Prize is based on good intentions, I intend to plant a field of space tulips on Jupiter thereby averting Earth’s destruction by the Insectoid Galactic Empire (which I plan on discovering in January with the telescope my Mom is giving me for Christmas).

[PhiKapMom]

Articulate? Only with a teleprompter. Without one he has trouble remembering what he is supposed to say.

[cblue55]

The Chicago White House mob must have have a little chat with the folks in Oslow.....just saying.

[NMEwithin]

I know...I was channeling Joe Biden