Shouldn't the prompter have won, then?
Posted on 10/10/2009 3:11:46 PM PDT by mojito
....In other words, the prize was conferred by experienced politicians who seem to know exactly what they were doing. Expressing its particular approval of Obama's "vision ... of a world without nuclear weapons," the committee wrote: "Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. ... Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. ... For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman."
This year's prize, then, is meant to reward words and not deeds.
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Obama remains a powerful voice of hope and change for many Europeans, not only because of his eloquence and his reassertion of America's role as a leader of international diplomacy, but also because he physically embodies change as progress. In this country, most people have taken their cue from a president determined to govern as chief executive of a post-racial society.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
All the words he spoke prior to 1 February 2009, they mean, of course.
Yes, but read the comments afterwards... some of them are pretty good! You will feel better!
I guess the LAT never heard that talk is cheap.
ROTFL!!! That's some funny stuff. America isn't a "leader" in anything anymore. Except for maybe pink slips and unemployment claims.
EVERYONE deserves the award then. Actions don’t matter, just words. Who knew??
Where is my award?
Check the horizon. No, that’s not a rainbow. That’s me vomiting up the Skittles I ate.
Islam has a long tradition of tolerance
~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt
Nobel Prize for Beta Male
Greg Lewis in American Thinker presents an uncharitable picture of Obama etal as displaying classic beta male behavior. The alpha male dog approaches directly, while the beta male displays acquiescent gestures signaling uncompromising submission. Lewis sees submissiveness in offering conciliatory gestures to Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in sending John Kerry to meet Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, in bowing to King Abdullah, in airy discussions with Hugo Chavez and David Ortega, and in generally ridiculing U.S. past actions whenever he appears on an international stage.
Of course these actions are constructive within the worldview continually vetted by liberal constituencies and confirmed with the Nobel Peace Prize. Here the best approaches to diplomacy reside within modern game theory for which John Nash and others received Nobel prizes. Supposedly we simply talk to these people and they realize the brilliance of Western conflict resolution.
Unfortunately aspiring totalitarians grasp and retain their power through defeating others on playing fields ruled by human cunning allied with animal brutality. For them an internal/external continuum exists where politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. Why abandon such proven strategies, especially when a potential opponent exhibits behaviors they disregarded in their rise to dominion?
Effective diplomacy against emerging opponents will be methodical, covert, multi-faceted, and predictably lethal. Westerners must abandon concepts of war and diplomacy as mutually exclusive. Any resort to war must be managed and not become a bewildering, tragic consequence of shattering attacks induced by failed diplomacy descending into appeasement.
Tim, the terms of Alfred Nobel’s bequest for the prizes is available both on nobelprize.org and on Wikipedia. Find where it says that being an awesome public speaker qualifies one for the Peace Prize and get back to us...kthxbai.
Well, hell. When you put it that way, Ubama's selection makes perfect sense.
Talk is cheap.
I will be absolutely amazed if we aren’t terrorist bombed within the next twelve months. The mouth-breathers think that he is hastening “peace”, but I know that he is setting the foundation for chaos and misery on a global scale.
Oh well, they’ll just blame it on Bush...
I forget who said it...but someone wrote yesterday that at almost 50 years old, Obama is way too old to be getting awards for potential.
Shouldn't the prompter have won, then?
That certainly is a whopper.
Though W said a few things about Islam that were almost as bizarre.
This was a good one:
“...the prize was conferred by experienced politicians who seem to know exactly what they were doing. “. Yyyyeees, Thorbjorn Jagland is a member of Norwegian far left; a vice president of the Socialist International; and was listed in KGB foreign agents file as a “confidential contact”. As his bio notes “important issues he supported at that time included the nationalization of the oil industry, ... and that the state should use income from the petroleum industry to nationalize [all] domestic industry”. From 2000 to 2006, he chaired the Socialist International Committee on the Middle East, where he showed himself as a rabid Jew-hater.
Yes, he knows exactly what he is doing. Do the American people?
daochs (10/10/2009, 9:15 AM )
The NPPshould have gone to TOTUS!!!!
You mean noble words like, "for some reason, in August, everybody in Washington gets all wee-wee'd up..."?
Yes. I see your point now. Truly inspirational words. Right up there with, "I have not yet begun to fight", "As for me, give me liberty or give me death", "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
Well lets see. I would like:
* No nuclear weapons
* Peace in the middle east
* No global warming (or ice age - hedging my bets here)
* No burning of the rain forest
* Solar powered hover cars
* I apologize for everything the USA has ever done (while not acknowledging any of the good)
* Save the whales!
* Cats and Dogs learn to live together
* Ditto Tom and Jerry
* One world socialist government
* Free healthcare for all!
* Cure for cancer
Whew! Now, I have no way to accomplish any of this, but the new tone that I set, plus my lofty goals puts me WAY above anything anyone else has ever done. So can I fly to Norway for my prize - and let me have first class as I like the free drinks and food in first class.
Thank you
EZ-EY (10/10/2009, 6:18 AM )
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