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More thoughts on Obama’s absurd Nobel I would be willing to wager that the Nobel represented the time when, in retrospect, it started to go really wrong for Mr Obama. He could have come across all modest and statesmanlike and told the Nobel prize givers that their award was very touching, very nice, etc, etc, but he just did not feel he had done enough to receive it, and there were more deserving recipients. To have done that, of course, would have been to demonstrate a capacity for embarrassment, for shame. Now Mr Obama has shown us that he has no such shame, that his vanity is as bad as it appears to be from this end. And that will be his downfall.
Even some folk over at that haven of idiocy, the Huffington Post, are not greatly impressed by what happened last week. Michael Moore, of course, is. With friends like these…
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I told my friend the other night, “Barrack Obama has been given the Nobel Peace Prize.” My friend stood there expectently. I waited for some sort of reaction. Eventually she said, “I’m sorry, I was waiting for the punchline, I thought it was a joke.”
Somebody should adapt this pop lyric.
“He’s done nothing, the man’s done nothing.”
But they love him anyway, because he dances so nicely.
Tip: make sure to lose the word “boy”.
“I have legalised robbery
Called it belief
I have run with the money
And hid like a thief
I have re-written history
With my armies and my crooks
Invented memories
I did burn all the books
And I can still hear his laughter
And I can still hear his song
The man’s too big
The man’s too strong”
Copyright Mark Knopfler/Warner Bros 1985
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I wouldn’t have minded if they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama at the end of his term for trying to do whatever, but his name was submitted at the beginning of February. He’d been in office two whole weeks when we was nominated.
What amuses me the most about that Huffington Post blog is that the author mentions that he daughter was born 17 days before the inauguration of Obama and she’s just now learning to eat Cherrios on her own. That’s still more than Obama’s managed to accomplish in the same amount of time.
I predict that Joe Biden will win next years Nobel Peace Prize. The reason; he’s not Dick Cheney
Yup. The Nobel Committee members beclowned only themselves, but then Obama had to go and agree with them….
Oh, well, if it wasn’t this it’d be something else. The man’s so far in over his head I’m beginning to feel a little embarrassed by the spectacle he’s making of himself.
Okay, I have a some idea. I do not think Obama should refuse to accept the prize because in honesty, he did not make an application for it. Could he just accept it and dedicate it to W?
and dedicate it to W
He could dedicate it to America – it could be a nice publicity stunt, but his supporters and mentors, WQright, Ayers, will have none of it.
Actually, I’m a little surprised he didn’t win the Nobel in Literature. He’s written three books already.
The only thing more absurd than awarding the Nobel Prize to Obama is defending that award:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091013/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nobel_peace_obama
As far as I can work out from their statement, their decision to award 10 million Kroner to President Chauncey Gardner was based entirely on one speech that he made a few weeks ago, which might be summarized as “Nukes are bad, m’kay?”
They say it was a serious decision.
Just like the screenwriter of “Showgirls” says it was a serious movie….
I have to come clean.
Me and every Australian.
WE are the reason that Obama was given the peace prize.
Australia is an evil, racist nation, and we were caught out last week with a Black and White minstrel-type show, on a Hey Hey It’s Saturday special. This was just starting to generate waves of despondency across America, which somehow picked up on the ‘Jackson Jive’ skit, when the Nobel Committee intervened, to help america, with its’ fragile ego, to feel better about itself.
Mea Culpa, and Wea Culpa!
The only thing more absurd than awarding the Nobel Prize to Obama is defending that award
Quite agree. There’s a certain pleasure in finding the most ridiculous justifications
The detractors don’t seem to understand the awarding Committee has offered not a false Medal of Distinguished Service to a green recruit, but handed a powerful weapon to a talented cadet who’s eager to take to the battlefield.
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Quite agree. There’s a certain pleasure in finding the most ridiculous justifications
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Do not underestimate the left Johnathan.
The media (even the non fanatical leftist media) will only accept that Comrade Barack Obama is on the skids if BOTH Virginia and New Jersey are lost to the Democrats in November – and the left already have well in motion a plan to prevent defeat in New Jersey.
On paper the Democrats should be routed – New Jersey has the highest taxes in the nation, and Governor Goldman Sachs can hardly claim to be a representative of the poor.
And there is (yet another) massive corruption scandal in New Jersey – with about 40 Democrats arrested for (amongst other things) “persuading” people to sell their kidneys (although the establishment do not like any talk of this scandal – as I found out when the Economist censored a comment I wrote that mentioned the it).
On top of all this – there is the propaganda song being taught to young children in a New Jersey school (mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussain Obama, all are equal in His sight, mmm, mmm, mmm) – this has irritated people quite a bit.
So how can the left possibly win in New Jersey?
Simple – they have a bogus “independent” candidate.
“You do not want to vote for an evil Bush/Cheney supporting Republican do you? Vote for this nice independent instead – you can still oppose Governor Goldman Sachs by voting for the nice independent”.
Of course the “independent” (really another leftist) has no chance of winning whatever – the whole point is to split the anti Governor vote and have a victory for the Democrats in New Jersey – and thus victory for Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussain Obama, equal work for equal pay, mmm, mmm, mmm,).
I say again – do not underestimate the cunning of the left.
Essentially, the Nobel Peace Prize people are saying we believe he believes he can make a difference to other people’s beliefs.
No matter how many layers of belief are laid on, he might not achieve, but then belief needs no proof really.
However it will be interesting to see how the pressure of being seen to be making peace — with little to show for it so far — will start to influence his (and therefore America’s) actions. Imagine if an enemy attacked in again in full 9/11 mode, would this award and the need to be promote peace restrict any proper responses?
I don’t find it ridiculous at all TDK, but rather chilling in it’s candor and clarity of purpose.
The tide may indeed be turning. Even Fabio Cappello, the manager of the England football team, has made a joke about it. Asked about the silly decision to give David Beckham the man-of-the-match award for his brief appearance in the England v Belarus game, he said:
“I was a bit surprised … it was like Obama winning the Nobel prize after nine months as President, Beckham being man of the match after 30 minutes.”