Barack Obama's peace prize starts a fight (Not Satire)

Timesonline ^ | 10-9-09 | Catherine Philp

[tanknetter]

The primary reason that the Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to Obama was out of revenge toward George W. Bush and those that voted for him, namely conservatives.

This line of thinking can be turned around in a very nice way. Obama was ONLY able to win the award because Bush made the world such a safer place during his eight years as President, and that safety is an enabler for the kinds of award-winning policies that Obama espouses.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Thank you! Very well said.

[Nosterrex]

Wow! I forgot about the cross country Nordic ski team. How are they at making snowballs? Maybe that could enter the snow cone contest? I do have to admit that I have a weakness for Scandinavian women. It’s a shame they have to be be wasted on Scandinavian men.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Exactly right - and you deserve a “well said” also!

[edpc]

Thorbjørn Jagland, the committee chairman, made clear that this year’s prize fell in that category. “If you look at the history of the Peace Prize, we have on many occasions given it to try to enhance what many personalities were trying to do,” he said. “It could be too late to respond three years from now.”

I don't believe that last sentence was an accidental choice of words.

[Indy Pendance]

I’m glad you caught that, I was limited by the excerpt rules. Some of us out there ‘get it’. My brother is blinded by his good job and position. He pretends to be a republican. I just had a conversation with him last night, he just doesn’t get it. It was really a sad talk, and I believe many like him feel that way (the red dogs of the republican party), ‘It will never happen to me’, ‘Obama won’t do that’, ‘our elected people wouldn’t do that’, ad nausea. Just like Reardon’s wife and family and their attitude, the blinders are squarely on, UNTIL IT”S TOO LATE!

[RowdyFFC]

Paul Robeson (1952), a freaking communist is on the Peace prize list...he was one of the founders of the CPUSA in Chicago...

I mean, look at the list. It has Jimmy Carter, Yassar freaking Arrafat, and Al Bore on it.

This peace prize business hasn’t meant anything in decades.

[rbg81]

More than any other reason, Obama got the NPP because they expect him to sell Israel down the river.

[Indy Pendance]

Have you EVER seen a more anti-Semitic president? At least Carter TRIED to hide it.

[Intolerant in NJ]

In a clear swipe at his predecessor, George W. Bush, the committee praised the “change in the international climate”...a Peace Prize based on hatred - how novel.....

[citizencon]

The Nobel Peace Prize ranks right up there with the Stalin Peace Prize.

And People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive...

[bubman]

I think GWB and all those that are on the right side of history can hold their heads up high for what they did. To hell with all these flaming neo marxist bastards. God i miss him already!!

[Indy Pendance]

[SealSeven]

Winning the Nobel Peace Prize has now been degraded to winning the proverbial bozo button.

[Indy Pendance]

[Spirochete]

I just don't get it. The guy who started the Nobel wanted to end all land wars, but ended up creating TNT. As we all know, that was the precursor that enabled all armies (in land wars) to kill more efficiently.

He was also the owner of Bofors. What a hypocrite.

[bubman]

Ahhhhhhh I feel better already!

thxs for the pic

[Chgogal]

On of the many comments:

James T wrote:
Three cheers for the Nobel Award Committee for having the courage to award this year’s Peace Prize to Obama!!! The scoffers of their decision (mainly right-wing Republican losers and their sympathisers) really do not like the Committee's recognition of the paradigm shift in US global policies that has already been brought about by Obama. This Award is very reminiscent of a previous Peace Prize winner, Mikhail Gorbachev’s key role in ensuring the collapse of the tyrannical communist regimes in Europe. Whether Obama succeeds or not in future, and whether the scoffers like it or not, the imperialistic US/CIA ambition of world domination has already been irrevocably put in the past by Obama’s leadership. Gone are the US cowboys who expect the world to cower at their superior fire power. This in itself has already produced a greater impact on world peace than many of previous Nobel Peace Prize winners. I for one salute the Nobel Committee’s decision!
October 10, 2009 3:24 PM BST

Interesting post and I dare say how most on the left (Democrats, Europeans, Chinese, etc.) think. It is obvious that Norway, a country that lives in its own Oil Wealth Cocoon, does not worry about Poland, Ukraine and Georgia being bullied by Russia and Obama's unilateral withdrawal of the Missile Defense System? Norway, once a Quisling always a Quisling.

[upsdriver]

Barack Obama's peace prize starts a fight

LOL! Don't you just love the irony of that headline?

[Jabba the Nutt]

Exactly. This makes Obama a huge, huge joke and he did nothing. He was minding his own business and received the Nobel Prize. If he had an inkling, he could have told them not to award it to him.