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GOP, even some liberals, dismiss Obama peace prize
Gee, you'd think a U.S. president who won the Nobel Peace Prize might get rave reviews from his party's activists and a polite congrats from top Republicans.
But news of Barack Obama's award Friday drew a rebuke from the Republican Party chairman, ridicule from conservative bloggers, and even gripes from some liberals who think he hasn't done enough to wind down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The committee of five Norwegians has a more relaxed standard than Saturday Night Live, which recently poked fun at Obama for his lack of accomplishments, and Arizona State University, which declined to award him an honorary degree because of his inexperience.
I am first with nothing witty to say.
ReplyDeleteWell I see the news of the world takes it's place on the back burner while everyone ridicules the Nobull Prize committee. *sigh*
ReplyDelete/wake me up when the adults get back into power
By the time we stop giggling they'll probably have passed the Health Care Octopus Bill into law...
ReplyDeleteArmyWife said...
ReplyDeleteI am first with nothing witty to say.
"I feel witty, oh so witty..."
I read somewhere that the Onion says they can't top that.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that the Onion says they can't top that.
ReplyDeleteGreat line. : )
Dianna - Now THAT would be a great headline
ReplyDeleteDianna said...
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that the Onion says they can't top that.
I thought they closed up shop due to the fact that the news was stranger then they could make it...
Has Iowahawk grabbed the Peace Prize thing yet? Oh what I would give for his talent!
ReplyDeleteDianna said...
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that the Onion says they can't top that.
The Onion does satire the right way, based on the character and nature of their targets.
That does get to be a problem, as it can often be so right on, they turn out to be right.
For example:
Onion story (2004)
Reality (2005)
I thought they closed up shop due to the fact that the news was stranger then they could make it...
ReplyDeletePaladinPhil, that might be what I saw.
Very funny.
Klavan's bit is genius. "And both have left us with an enormous debt that we'll never be able to repay."
ReplyDeletedoppelganglander said...
ReplyDeleteKlavan's bit is genius. "And both have left us with an enormous debt that we'll never be able to repay."
My favorite line in the video is, "There are many importan similarities between our Dear Savior . . . and Jesus."
It works like this.
ReplyDeleteObama announces his surrender in Afghanistan to the Taliban.
He wins the Whirled Peas Prise.
In response I can only say, Chamberlain was robbed.
Hi, Dianna! It's nice to finally see a picture of the dogs (and you, of course).
ReplyDeleteArmy Wife, Iowahawk recycled Algore's 2007 "Nobel Peace Players" story, with minor edits. As funny as ever.
Membership Has Its Privileges
A day like today makes me think of the line:
ReplyDelete"The world is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.'
Obama just broke all of Michael Phelps' records. Sneaky bastid!
ReplyDeleteLincolntf said...
ReplyDeleteObama just broke all of Michael Phelps' records. Sneaky bastid!
They also just announced that he's Motor Trend's Car of the Year!
/Hat tip: DrewM
I've spent most of the day being alternately pissed off and amused by the morning's events. I really need to hunker down for a while and get some work done. Now don't go say anything funny while I'm gone!
ReplyDeleteFYI,
ReplyDeleteI think one could vote as many times as one wishes at that Heisman Trophy site.
/one is jus' sayin'...
In response I can only say, Chamberlain was robbed.
ReplyDeleteLOL - indeed! We need to right that wrong!
Peas Prise has been award 89 time to 119 people.
ReplyDelete# 2009 - Barack Obama
# 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
# 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
# 2002 - Jimmy Carter
# 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
# 1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
# 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
# 1992 - Rigoberta MenchĂș Tum
# 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
# 1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
# 1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
# 1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
# 1977 - Amnesty International
# 1969 - International Labour Organization
Well, looks like I am done here for the day. Take care folks and keep poking fun at the idiocy of the day.
ReplyDeleteYouTube, courtesy of reason.tv: Breaking: 0bama wins more awards
ReplyDeleteTake it easy, Phil.
ReplyDeleteOkay -- just filled my cup and am headed over to read Iowahawk's latest. This will be good!
ReplyDeleteI have a great award to give Obama.
ReplyDeleteCome Nov '10, I would love to confer up The Wee Won the status of LAME DUCK!
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it
ReplyDeletesasquatchonsteroids said...
ReplyDeleteThat's my story and I'm stickin' to it
I love it!
As Hollywood would say: "Based on a true story!"
It is reported today that The Teleprompter Jesus just shot an 18 at Congressional Country Club.
ReplyDeleteTruck Monkey said...
ReplyDeleteIt is reported today that The Teleprompter Jesus just shot an 18 at Congressional Country Club.
...and then moved on to the 2nd hole...
Robert Reich: What An Honest President Would Say About Health Reform 9/26/07.
ReplyDeleteHurrah! A breath of sanity!
ReplyDeleteJohn Deere not liable in Lane County mower accident
A jury in Lane County has decided that John Deere and an area distributor are not liable for a 2006 accident that amputated the leg of a toddler.
Attorneys for Norton had argued that John Deere had created and sold a defective and unreasonably dangerous product, and that the company and local distributor were negligent in their marketing and selling of the riding lawn mower.
The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Mozart, and George Gershwin are going to be the opening act for Barrys Rock and Roll, Classical, Show Tune Sound and Light tour!
ReplyDeleteI expected more from this community. This is a Healing moment...the best of humanity moment. As Obama said on a different occasion we need to talk to each from the depths of our heart. Where are the words from the Community that show we are humbled, courageous--worthy of such a leader?
ReplyDeleteLet's start a new page...a new diary...one that shows how awed and humbled and open we are to the magnificence of this incredible moment/gesture from the World. We are recipients of this prize as well for knowing the difference between the kernel of grain and the shaft. We helped touch the world when we elected Barack Obama.
It souldn't be too hard to figure out where turn clipped that comment ..
Nuclear physicist arrested on terror ties
ReplyDeleteGENEVA (AP) — French authorities say they have arrested a nuclear physicist working at Europe's Big Bang laboratory who is suspected of links to al-Qaeda terrorists in Algeria.
The man was one of more than 7,000 scientists working at the organization and has been assigned to analysis projects under contract with an outside institute, said the organization, known as CERN.
Hey,dood,didn't you get the memo ?
It souldn't be too hard to figure out where turn clipped that comment ..
ReplyDeleteI am in full wretch here....
*dry heave*
Sos ... dry heave ... full on hurl buddy ... blah ...
ReplyDelete/now back to work ...
I held it back right up until the touch the world line.
ReplyDeleteDid Bo win Best of Show yet?
ReplyDeleteAnyone using Firefox, I can heartily recommend the Fire.fm application using Last.fm. It's in your toolbar and doesn't effect your browsing at all. You type "Tom Petty" or whomever and it picks a Petty song and plays it and then plays related genre songs for free. Pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteturn said...
ReplyDeleteI expected more from this community. This is a Healing moment...the best of humanity moment. As Obama said on a different occasion we need to talk to each from the depths of our heart.
We've had too much "talking from the depths of our heart". How about we start talking from the depths of our brain?
/We have enough youth
//How about a fountain of smart?
OBlahblah is sure to throw the winning touchdown pass for my sons football team tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteWe've had too much "talking from the depths of our heart". How about we start talking from the depths of our brain?
ReplyDeleteyeah, about Obama talking out his ass ...
Be back around quitting time ... dang I ate too much bbq at lunch. The boss took all the dept. managers out for lunch ... he basically said it was a consolation for not having been given a salary increase this year. You could say I ate my annual increase ... oh well at least I still have a job. What I need is more obama money ...
ReplyDeleteThat pedestal is getting mighty tall.
ReplyDeleteIts a long way down....
How good would he have looked had he turned it down? He might have even restored people's impression that he is capable of humility.
ReplyDeleteturn said...
ReplyDeleteIt souldn't be too hard to figure out where turn clipped that comment ..
KKKKKos?
I was thinking about that and decided it was impossible. There is no classy way to turn down a Nobel Peace Prize (at least not yet).
ReplyDeleteWhat he could've (should've?) done is accept it in the name of someone else or even in the name of a cause.
"I humbly accept this great honor, which belongs equally to (fill in the blank)" ...would have been a noble gesture.
He could have just said he wasn't deserving.
ReplyDeleteMost people would have agreed.
Army Wife -
ReplyDeleteFrom Iowahawk.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/10/membership-has-its-privileges.html
Breaking News:
ReplyDeleteObama wins "Dancing With Stars".
Actually moonwalks on the moon....or at least talked about it.
Obama just kicked Chuck Norris' ass.
ReplyDeleteObama just kicked Chuck Norris' ass.
ReplyDeleteThat is not possible.
Michelle, maybe, but not BetaBoy.
SNL will be interesting this weekend.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they're working the new skit now.
I'm sure they're working the new skit now.
ReplyDeleteThey should fact check CNN.
And it's Obama by.....an ear....the new Kentucky Derby champion!
ReplyDeleteOk, be honest. Was that too much?
Ok, be honest. Was that too much?
ReplyDeleteI laughed.
Beer run.
ReplyDeleteRemember "Bo Knows"?
ReplyDeleteO knows Archery
O knows Basketball
O knows Bowling
O knows NASCAR
O knows Cock Fights...
I would like to congratulate President Obama.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be so late, Gore's Internet has been letting me down locally.
In related news, my son, age 10, who joined Webelos last month, has been awarded the rank of Eagle Scout based on his fresh-faced enthusiasm at his first pack meeting and the fact that everyone think's he's really keen.
Hawaii was just awarded the 2020 Olympics.
ReplyDeleteOldLineTexan said...
ReplyDeleteLMFAO
O knows beer
ReplyDeleteO knows his place at home
Lincolntf said...
ReplyDeleteHawaii was just awarded the 2020 Olympics.
OK, here's a theory ... Obama has fantastic luck, but its compass is misadjusted. Witness the Nobel Prize ... he probably deserves a Pulitzer, but his luck MISSED.
So: Obama campaigned for Chicago and lost, but Hawaii won? Stay with me ...
Based on that, let's calculate how far away Chicago is from Honolulu, pick a country equidistant from Afghanistan, attack the &^%$ out of them - then we'll win in Afghanistan.
Whattaya think?
sasquatchonsteroids said...
ReplyDeleteMichelle, maybe, but not BetaBoy.
She does have bigger arms.
I could call it the "Obama-by-Proxy" theory.
ReplyDelete/better clear a space on my shelf for that Nobel prize
OldLineTexan said...
ReplyDeleteI could call it the "Obama-by-Proxy" theory.
/better clear a space on my shelf for that Nobel prize
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Clearly, you don't have the hang of this yet....
You need to clear a space on your neighbor's shelf.
Hey turn, do you think granola-boy from that comment believes he was deserving of teh evul Chimpy McBushitler?
ReplyDeleteOblahblah just ran a 3 minute mile. Unbelievable!
ReplyDelete/The Kenyans are trend setters in this area
Äschew_Ïbfuscation said...
ReplyDeleteClearly, you don't have the hang of this yet....
You need to clear a space on your neighbor's shelf.
Au contraire, my luck has always had perfect aim ... of course, "down the drain" is an easy direction.
May work OLT.
ReplyDeleteTime to go home and get ready for Friday night football.
May Obama be with everyone.
For Friday Night Football tonight, I will need a submarine!
ReplyDeleteOldLineTexan said...
ReplyDeleteI could call it the "Obama-by-Proxy" theory.
It's a better plan than any that has come out of the WH lately.
Glenn Greenwald (!), as quoted in Best of the Web:
ReplyDelete"When I saw this morning's top New York Times headline--'Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize'--I had the same immediate reaction which I'm certain many others had: this was some kind of bizarre Onion gag that got accidentally transposed onto the wrong website, that it was just some sort of strange joke someone was playing."--Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, Oct. 9, 2009
OldLineTexan said...
ReplyDeleteFor Friday Night Football tonight, I will need a submarine!
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Did that rain from Missouri last night end up in Houston today?
I love typing "Chimpy McBushitler" because it's about Bush so no one can get mad or call me a racist, because everyone knows everything bad about Bush is really, really TRUE and you can't be wrong if you speak TROOF to POWAH. I'm feeling wildly patriotic in my collective-approved acceptable conformist allowable dissent. From Bush, that is. Please remember, from Bush.
ReplyDeleteÄschew_Ïbfuscation said...
ReplyDeleteDid that rain from Missouri last night end up in Houston today?
I don't know what direction it came from (no weather reports for me today), but I guess it came from somewhere. If Missouri was gonna send rain, I wish they'd have sent some in July and August ...
OLT...
ReplyDeleteDissent used to be patriotic under the Bush Regime. Dissent is now RAAAAAAAAAACISSSSSSSST! So sayeth us all.
so say we all
ReplyDeletemmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
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From Barack Obama Wins Yasser Arafat Peace Prize, here are the runners-up (with links to Wikipedia):
ReplyDelete• Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia - imprisoned for campaigning for human rights in the PRC, not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
• Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China's communist system. -- not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama. (Not to mention the symbolic value of awarding a Chinese dissident on the 20th Anniversary of the Tianenmen Square Massacre.)
• Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute has built nearly 80 schools, especially for girls, in remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past 15 years - not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
• Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a philosophy professor in Jordan who risks his life by advocating interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims, also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
• Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar. She currently leads the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and serves as the U.N. special envoy to Darfur and is apparently also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.
Did our president just win some kind of award......or something?
ReplyDeletePi...
ReplyDeleteLooking at that weak lineup I now understand why our Savior Oblahblah received the award. I've never heard of any of 'em!
HOPE.... CHANGE.
DesertSage said...
ReplyDeleteDid our president just win some kind of award......or something?
Yes - the National Geographic Explorer's Award, for discovering 8 new states.
I'm off to ride my horsey! See y'all later.
ReplyDeleteDesertSage said...
ReplyDeleteDid our president just win some kind of award......or something?
I note with displeasure that you said "our president" and not "my President". Please pack one suitcase no greater in capacity than three cubic feet and report to Joy Camp for Happiness Enhancement Corrective Training in Obama Respect (HECTOR). After six months of HECTORing, your case will be reviewed by the former Sarah Palin's (now Comrade Joyous Progress) aptly-named "Death Panel".
ArmyWife..
ReplyDeleteI'm off to ride my horsey! See y'all later.
Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays....
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ArmyWife said...
ReplyDeleteI'm off to ride my horsey! See y'all later.
Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
/Kirk on
ReplyDeleteTRUCK MONKEY!!!!!!
/Kirk off
I beat you by that much.
ReplyDelete/Schultz on
I KNOW NUTHING!
/Schultz off
Hahahaha - OLT, you are a treasure!
ReplyDeleteI love typing "Chimpy McBushitler" because it's about Bush so no one can get mad or call me a racist, because everyone knows everything bad about Bush is really, really TRUE and you can't be wrong if you speak TROOF to POWAH. I'm feeling wildly patriotic in my collective-approved acceptable conformist allowable dissent. From Bush, that is. Please remember, from Bush.
...and now for something somewhat different:
ReplyDeletePerforming magicians discussing 0bama's Nobel Peace Prize
CC, I know how to win instant approval of the masses on teh Intrawebs. By instant and full acceptance of everything everyone else likes, and complete loating of everything everyone else doesn't like. 1984 came and went!
ReplyDeleteerrrmm, "loating" should be "loathing"
ReplyDelete/but other than that, NICE POST!
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Obama to give $1.4 million Nobel prize to charity
ReplyDeleteObama would be smart to refuse the money and tell the committee to donate it to charity. If not, he may run afoul of US law regarding government officials receiving gifts or he'll have to pay taxes on his winnings.
How about donating it to the person that started all the schools?
ReplyDeleteunless they're madrassas, that is
ReplyDelete/
Of course, if he is allowed to accept it and in turn uses it on his 2009 taxes as a charitable donation ( he might be able to write off the entire prize depending on his AGI) to drastically reduce his tax liability, that would be a political gift to the right. Particularly since the democrats want to reduce or eliminate deductions for charitable giving.
ReplyDeleteOf course he said he'll donate it.
ReplyDeleteHe's said lots of stuff, 5% which may have been true.
Barack Obama, you've won the goodies. What's next ?
I'm going to Disney World!
/dreams come true
Peace lovers
ReplyDeleteOct 8th 2009
From Economist.com
Who is favourite to win the Nobel peace prize?
Entertaining in light of this mornings events.
Micheal Jackson lost? The injustice of it all!
JCM, be at peace.
ReplyDeleteAccording to "South Park", Michael Jackson finally made it to Hell.
/
Peter Beinart:
ReplyDelete"I like Barack Obama as much as the next liberal, but this is a farce. He’s done nothing to deserve the prize. Sure, he’s given some lovely speeches and launched some initiatives—on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian peace, climate change and nuclear disarmament—that might, if he’s really lucky and really good, make the world a more safe, more just, more peaceful world. But there’s absolutely no way to know if he’ll succeed, and by giving him the Nobel Prize as a kind of “atta boy,” the Nobel Committee is actually just highlighting the gap that conservatives have long highlighted: between Obamamania as global hype and Obama’s actual accomplishments."
And from the Times of London:
ReplyDeleteComment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize
NY Nana said...
ReplyDeleteAnd from the Times of London:
Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize
Unfair. Already accomplished by Arafish.
Finally Free said...
ReplyDeletePeter Beinart:
I like Barack Obama as much as the next liberal
As much as Chrissy Matthews?
Gross.
The Greatest Show on Earth
ReplyDeleteStep right up: A new entitlement that cuts the deficit!
The Baucus bill also expands ailing Medicaid by $345 billion—even as it busts state budgets by imposing an additional $33 billion unfunded mandate. The only Medicare cut that isn't made merely on paper is $117 billion in Medicare Advantage, which Democrats hate because it gives one of five seniors private insurance options.
Recall that when President Obama started the health-care debate, the goal was "bending the curve"—finding a way to reduce both Medicare and overall health spending. Budget director Peter Orszag talked about "game changers," which CBO has now outed as nonchangers. Comparative effectiveness research about what treatments work best? That will save all of $300 million in Medicare, even as it costs $2.6 billion in new taxes on premiums. More prevention and primary care will increase spending by $4.2 billion.
Meanwhile, the bill piles on new taxes, albeit on health-care businesses so the costs are hidden from customers. Insurance companies offering policies that cost more than $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for families will pay $201 billion per a 40% excise tax, which will be passed down to all policy holders in higher premiums. Another $180 billion will hit the likes of drug and device makers, including $29 billion because companies won't be allowed to deduct these "fees" from their corporate income taxes. Then there's the $4 billion in penalty payments on those who don't buy insurance because all of ObamaCare's other new taxes and mandates have made it more expensive.
James Taranto in the WSJ:
ReplyDeleteMost embarrassing moment
I'm sitting here dividing the $1.4 mil reward by the number of reasons o deserved the noble peace prize and keep getting an error. tap tap tap, is this calculator broken?
ReplyDeleteI was just reading who the other candidates for the prize were, and feeling a little ill.
ReplyDeleteThe need to bash Bush must have been unsatisfied by naming Carter and Gore.
Looks like that lunar impact was a big dud, not such a good idea, a waste of taxpayers dollars, a big disappointment, and something we would do differently if we had another chance. The same thing could be said about o ...
ReplyDeleteThere were other candidates? I'm shocked.
ReplyDeleteWell it's finally time to go walk the lab along the American, have a nice weekend and stay safe.
ReplyDeleteturn said...
ReplyDeleteLooks like that lunar impact was a big dud, not such a good idea, a waste of taxpayers dollars, a big disappointment, and something we would do differently if we had another chance. The same thing could be said about o ...
Back in 2002, Frank J. wrote his famous plan: A Realistic Plan for World Peace, a.k.a "Nuke the Moon".
It turns out, he was right. The US fires a projectile at the moon, and the next thing you know, 0bama wins the Nobel Peace Prize!
Old Line Texan
ReplyDelete'Unfair. Already accomplished by Arafish'
Unlikely comment of the day.
Carl in Jerusalem has given the timeline in which the igNoble commission decided that The One earned it.
/BTW, Arafart is still dead.
Dianna is here...welcome to C2.
ReplyDeleteBarack Hussein Obama wins the NL & AL Cy Young award today.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm
The need to bash Bush must have been unsatisfied by naming Carter and Gore.
ReplyDeleteI hope I'm not mixing up my talk show hosts, but I believe that was Michael Medved's observation as well. That's most likely one of the things that is at the heart of this.
It's so childish.
Turn,
ReplyDeleteRe the massive expenditure on that mess? My husband said exactly the same thing.
At the rate The One is going, we soon will be using Monopoly™ money.
You have that right, CC. A truly astonishing action.
ReplyDeleteRigoberta Menchu Won The Nobel Peace Prize Too
ReplyDeleteThe left's attraction to the obviously false is nothing new. For well nigh a century, in fact, the world's intellectual elite has been crafting and enabling fraud on a wide range of critical subjects and, when the mood strikes, awarding intellectual deceit with Nobel Peace Prizes.
When the Nobel Peace Prize committee met to award its 1992 prize, the choices were many and good. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the fall of the Berlin Wall two years prior, committee members might have chosen any of the architects of that empire's demise-Ronald Reagan, for instance, or Margaret Thatcher or Pope John Paul II or the Soviet dissidents. They did not and never would. The committee passed as well on the heroes of Tiananmen Square.
Shocker Nobel Prize
ReplyDeleteObama wins the Nobel Prize for Economic.
Claudia Rosett asks "cui bono" (whom does it benefit)?
ReplyDeleteWhat price for 0bama's Nobel Prize
Finally,
ReplyDeleteWelcome!
Great article!
The left has shot their wad.
ReplyDeleteWhat else have they left for him to accomplish ?
There's only backsliding left for him when reality kicks in tomorrow.
They've already given out the candy 20 days ahead of Halloween.
Excellent piece by Rosett, Finally Free. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteNew Thread ------>
ReplyDeleteNew thread up ------->
ReplyDeleteNobel Committee Rescinds Peace Prize to Obama, Gives Award to Runner-Up:
ReplyDelete"OSLO, October 9 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – In an update, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has announced they have rescinded their awarding of this year’s prize to United States President Barack H. Obama. The Committee took this action in responding to criticism that their website states the deadline for Peace Prize nominations was February 1, 2009, which gave Obama less than two weeks in office before being nominated. Accordingly, the Committee has decided to give the award to its runner-up – US Representative Charles Rangel of New York."
Heh.