Posted on 10/09/2009 6:19:33 AM PDT by 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.
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The audacity of hype!
An honor?? Being nominated on your 12th day in office should be an embarassment, its a joke.
It should be awarded on Halloween.
Heisman candidate Obama is looking forward to his next game.
Should have award it to Cloward and Piven.
Politics aside, that seems to be a VERY poor reason to give out any prize. Based on “promise”? That’s like giving the Vince Lombardi trophy to the Giants at the beginning of the season, based on the fact that “they show promise of winning it all.” It’s simply ludicrous.
Wow, even AP via Google is skeptical about this B.S. award.
All the Noble “Peace Prize” does now is reward sniveling weasels who make grandiose speeches disparaging America in foreign lands. Consider the past recipients.
They ought to just drop the pretense and rename it the “Nobel Enemy of America Prize”.
The audacity of hype, the hilarity of nope.
Yup...let them have their party now...
Talk is precious, action is cheap.
-The motto of the Obama White House
This is like awarding a Harvard PhD to a 5-year-old on his 10th day of Kindergarten.
"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
I’m working on curing cancer. I haven’t done it yet but, a Nobel Prize for my efforts sure would mean a lot?
Affirmative Action really works.
It was awarded based on his worldview, nothing more.
This is the same way leftists evaluate intellect -
Marxist - smart
non-Marxist - stupid
Question: was the boy bow to the saudi king within the first 10-days? I believe the Egypt trip was within that window, but not sure where the bow fits in. If the bow makes the window, then, well, hey... the nobel committee DID have something to base that award on!
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