In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
(Hat tip: Pi Guy, 2:45AM PST.)
Good morning, C2ers! My comment is my Facebook status for the day:
ReplyDeleteI have a couple of chapters of an unfinished novel in my drawer. Where's my Nobel Prize for Literature?
Hello, is this thing on?
ReplyDeleteBwahahahahaha...
ReplyDeleteThis Presidency is turning into a laughingstock. As is the Nobel Committee. I know that the Peace Prize has been given out to undeserving people before, but this one takes the cake.
You know, I woke up this morning thinking good thoughts about nice stuff and world peace and the like, too. Where's my damn Peace Prize?!
ReplyDeleteFrom Ace...
ReplyDeleteHe was the tenth caller
I love that. Heh.
I know that the Peace Prize has been given out to undeserving people before, but this one takes the cake.
ReplyDeleteNo, the proverbial cake would have to go to the awarding of the Peace Prize to Yassir Arafat, the father of modern terrorism.
With regard to Obama's prize; I suppose it could be a good thing for the country, in that it lends the US government more prestige in the diplomatic world, and so it that respect, it's a good thing. But yes, it also goes to show what a joke the prize is. He was awarded a prize for "hope" and "feelings" and "efforts".
I just posted a comment on this in the last thread
ReplyDeleteSo who lost.....
ReplyDelete/noone worthy
And even those hard-right wing, neo-fascist, white supremacists at... er... NPR were expressing surprise this morning.
ReplyDeleteArafat was a horrible choice, but he contributed to the misery of a relatively small percentage of humanity. Obama menaces hundreds of millions.
ReplyDeleteAs for "...that it lends the US government more prestige in the diplomatic world,...", I'm not buying. We've chased that rainbow for decades and it has never done us a bit of good.
Succinct summary in that last thread, Ayatollah. And the Cairo speech was even mentioned in this morning's NPR coverage... although, of course, they thought it was pretty groovy that he ran down America in a major speech, in the name of "outreach".
ReplyDeleteOccasional Reader said...
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure he was nominated prior to the Cairo speech, wasn't he?
I'm pretty sure he was nominated prior to the Cairo speech, wasn't he?
ReplyDeleteDeadline for nominations is in February.
Next up: Obama is preemptively declared the winner of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. He took the gold in every event! Well, we're pretty sure he will, anyway, so why wait?
ReplyDeleteDeadline for nominations is in February
ReplyDeleteNominations, yes, but of course the committee members aren't locked in a sealed room with no communications from February through October.
(And of course being nominated means pretty much bupkes... anyone can be nominated.)
Obama menaces hundreds of millions.
ReplyDeleteI think that's a bit hyperbolic, Lincolntf.
(And of course being nominated means pretty much bupkes... anyone can be nominated.)
ReplyDeleteShort list is made Feb-March.
Advisor review March-August.
It was in the bag.
Just had to make it fit.
bupkis: absolute nothing
ReplyDeleteIf you're interested
ReplyDelete"Deadline for nominations is in February."
ReplyDeleteI just caught up on some of the stories. Wow. He was nominated 11 days after taking Office. If this doesn't prove that the Nobel people are straight up ideologues, nothing does.
Hopefully this embarrassment will be the beginning of the end for the farcical institution. Or at least an end to the attention that is paid to it.
Hey OR, what was that word you threw out describing all the touchy feely greetings new people were getting the other day... I think it started with a "c"
ReplyDeleteOf course, while I'm trying to look at benefits of the thing (given my relentlessly sunny nature), there's a darker way to interpret this; they gave him the prize in order to *encourage* him to (e.g.) not use force against Iran's nuke program, pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq, etc.
ReplyDeleteThis was clearly just a slap in the face to Bush in my mind ...
ReplyDelete"Cloying", turn. (I was being facetious, btw!)
ReplyDeleteThis was clearly just a slap in the face to Bush in my mind ...
ReplyDeleteAgain, even NPR noted that factor!
Especially knowing it was in the bag practically the day he took office, OR makes a good point about that encouragement thing though
ReplyDeletecloying, that was it. Shit I've got to remember that one come next scrabble game. I had no idea you were being facetious, thanks for clearing that up ...
ReplyDeletecloy : to seem excessive
ReplyDeletecloying, that was it
ReplyDeleteAnd fwiw, the word for it in Spanish is "empalagoso". Just throwing that out, because I think it's a cool word!
The head of the FBI was banned from online banking by his wife after he nearly fell for a phishing scam.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10370164-245.html
You can't make these things up.
Oh joy, Obama is going to get on the TV and talk about his Nobel Prize.
ReplyDelete/a twofer treat
Copied from now-dead thread:
ReplyDeleteInstapundit aggregates responses (some hilarious, too much to copy-paste):
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/86454/
Power Line weigh in:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10/024667.php
"I think that's a bit hyperbolic, Lincolntf."
ReplyDeleteI suppose it depends on how you read the word "menace".
He is absolutely a menace to the economic well-being of 300+ million Americans. He's also a menace to the future of all of Central Europe. Ask Czech. and Poland how they feel about him. This is without even taking into account the potential menace he poses in regard to the Mideast.
Lincolntf:
ReplyDeleteHe was nominated 11 days after taking Office. If this doesn't prove that the Nobel people are straight up ideologues, nothing does.
While I don't disagree with your conclusion, I should point out that the peace prize committee itself does not do the nominating. IIRC, pretty much anyone can nominate anyone.
He'd been in office for two weeks when he was nominated. The hope & change stuff is powerful, y'all!
ReplyDeletefrom the teleprompter of course, sheesh
ReplyDeleteQualified Nominators
ReplyDeleteThe right to submit proposals for the Nobel Peace Prize shall, by statute, be enjoyed by:
1. Members of national assemblies and governments of states;
2. Members of international courts;
3. University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes;
4. Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
5. Board members of organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
6. Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1) and
7. Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/nominators.html
I think I'll call up some of my old law professors and get them to throw my hat in the ring for the 2010 prize! I don't think much of the standards for the thing, but the money ain't bad.
ReplyDeleteThe Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of the Norwegian Parliament. The composition of the committee therefore changes with the sing in political orientation of the Norwegian government.
ReplyDelete"3. University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and"
ReplyDeleteMy wife is qualified! I'll have her nominate someone next year.
4. Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
ReplyDelete... this of course means he's going to nominate himself for next year's prize
Finally Free-- from the instapundit roundup, I think my favorite is:
ReplyDelete“It’s a peace prize, not a peace peace prize.”
Heh.
Meanwhile, we are officially in the Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" universe when even a Huffpo commentator expresses incredulity at this award:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-russnow/barack-obama-nobel-peace_b_314899.html
Meanwhile, we are officially in the Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" universe
ReplyDeleteAt least the women have even skimpier uniforms here.
I note some liberal commentators are saying Obama deserved the prize for his "vision of a nuclear arms-free world".
ReplyDeleteFunny, Ronald Reagan had the same vision (different, and more realistic means, though), and I don't recall the Nobel committee falling all over themselves to award him a Peace Prize.
Even David Gregory is saying he won for not being George Bush.
ReplyDelete/leaky water carrier
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ReplyDeleteOR
ReplyDeleteObama deserved the prize for his "vision of a nuclear arms-free world".
Which he did campaign on. And the first beneficiary of that effort will be.......
ISRAEL
He's no Andrei Sakharov, who earned it the old fashioned way this day in history: standing UP to dictators.
ReplyDeleteBeing NOT George Bush is such an achievement.
Oh, and Pres. Obama and Spain's idiotic Zapatero are soulmates who share birthdays & basketball and will celebrate retreating from terrorists next week at the White House for Hispanic something or other.
And the first beneficiary of that effort will be... ISRAEL
ReplyDeleteFalse. Obama is not going to make Israel nuclear arms-free; if anything, he's working to allow Iran to give Israel additional nuclear arms. Ballistically.
Lawhawk isn't happy either:
ReplyDeletehttp://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2009/10/president-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize.html
Obama will be thinking of his mother as he receives the highest honor our world can bestow on a living human being. It is a global recognition of not only the hope he brings but what the future can become.
ReplyDeleteWhile looking at previous fiascoes in the Peace Prize arena, I realized I had skipped this double-dip from 2005: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY and MOHAMED ELBARADEI.
ReplyDeleteI think we all know (and knew a few years ago) that the IAEA and Baradei are the biggest enablers of nuclear weapons proliferation on the planet. I wonder if this award will be revoked when Iran officially announces that they have "the bomb".
Stop the madness or at least help wipe the goofy smile off its face.
ReplyDeletePLEASE send money & encouragement to anyone you know who votes in Virginia & New Jersey in three weeks, and isn't drinking the Koolaid.
(Joe Biden was in my neighborhood yesterday selling their phony baloney to help democrat Creigh Deeds beat Bob McDonnell)
Petition the absurd decision to award Obama Nobel Peace Prize
ReplyDeleteAlegrias
ReplyDeleteIn one of the morning papers I read that the press was pissed off because Biden's office wouldn't release the name and address of the private citizen who was hosting.
This German paper (translated here) has the headline "Obama, the Nobel Committee and the Messianic Delusion".
ReplyDeleteI guess this means we can petty much give up hoping he will give Gen. McChrystal the troops he needs to get the job done in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteI guess this means we can petty much give up hoping he will give Gen. McChrystal the troops he needs to get the job done in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteIf he did that, they'd strip him of the prize! It would be like Vanessa Williams as Miss America, after those hot girl-on-girl pics came out!
/
I'm speechless.
ReplyDeleteI guess this means we can petty much give up hoping he will give Gen. McChrystal the troops he needs to get the job done in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteActually, he can do whatever the f*** he wants to do, since he already has the award. He's not like a certain other president who was kissing ass all over the place trying to promote his "legacy" and get his hands on a Nobel Putz Prize once he'd finally gotten his hands off of the interns.
If he did that, they'd strip him of the prize! It would be like Vanessa Williams as Miss America, after those hot girl-on-girl pics came out!
ReplyDeleteHave they ever stripped any of the other dorsal orifices of their undeserved prizes in the past?
OR,
ReplyDeleteBut what if Afghanistan falls back to the Taliban, Iraq is engulfed in civil war, Syria swallows Lebanon again, Iran builds a handful of nukes, and North Korea attacks Seoul?
Would Obama have to give up his Peace Prize, or would everybody just blame it all on Bush?
The question is, How many Nobels will Obama win in his lifetime?
ReplyDelete5, maybe 10?
JamesTKirk said...
ReplyDeleteHeh. Europe seems to have pegged Obama from the beginning. Now we don't have Bush-derived hatred from the EU, we have their utter contempt.
He's not like a certain other president who was kissing ass all over the place trying to promote his "legacy" and get his hands on a Nobel Putz Prize once he'd finally gotten his hands off of the interns.
ReplyDeletePiece Prize.
Well, not much of a prize, but hey, riding mopeds is fun,too.
Kenneth said...
ReplyDeleteBut what if Afghanistan falls back to the Taliban, Iraq is engulfed in civil war, Syria swallows Lebanon again, Iran builds a handful of nukes, and North Korea attacks Seoul?
Would Obama have to give up his Peace Prize, or would everybody just blame it all on Bush?
/is that a rhetorical question?
Kirk--
ReplyDeleteActually, he can do whatever the f*** he wants to do, since he already has the award.
I love an optimist! My dream scenario; in Obama's speech about the Prize (which is beginning any minute now), he thanks the committee effusively, and then adds, "oh, and by the way, to further my vision of a nuclear arms-free world, I have just signed legislation that will outlaw Iran's nuclear program forever. The bombing began fifteen minutes ago."
/a guy can dream, can't he?
Have they ever stripped any of the other dorsal orifices of their undeserved prizes in the past?
ReplyDeleteNo, but I just wanted an excuse to bring up Vanessa Williams and hot, hot, girl-on-girl action.
London Times: Absurd decision makes mockery of prize
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867711.ece
You mean, this prize wasn't a joke already?
Whirled Peas Prise goes to The Wee Won just how fucking rich is that.
ReplyDeleteOR - since when do you need an excuse?
ReplyDeleteAlso announced, Obama has won the Nobel Prize for Economics for the expected restoration the world economy, the Nobel Prize for Physics for expected lowering the world oceans & the Nobel Prize for literature for his autobiography "Dreams of My Father" (to be shared with William Ayers).
ReplyDeleteLordy...
ReplyDeleteDNC official: GOP siding with terrorists
Geez, this is like Groundhog Day waiting for Obama to come out and bloviate.
ReplyDelete/if he sees his shadow will we have three more years of record deficits?
Sing along with me - He's got the whole world in his hands, he's got the whole wide world in his hands....
ReplyDeleteMmm, mmm, mmm
Good Grief!
Obama's Nobel Prize is an endorsement of democracy over the oligarchical governance of the Bush years. It's an acknowledgment of the value of a diverse, heterogeneous population of billions of people.
ReplyDeleteIt's Bo's birthday!
ReplyDelete/*gag*
sasquatchonsteroids said...
ReplyDeleteLordy...
DNC official: GOP siding with terrorists
I could see that talking point coming a mile away.
And I bet I know who else is going to use it.
Obama says to be honest he does not feel he deserves it...We Agree! ! !
ReplyDeleteMorning all!
ReplyDeleteOR, I am adding empalagoso to my word bank - I like it!
It's Bo's birthday!
ReplyDeleteNow go do that DooDoo that you do so well.
~Heddy (That's HEDLEY)
Call to action? Oy...
ReplyDeleteCute avatar fluffy, reminds me of the state fair here in CA. They always have a display of exotic rabbits and chickens.
ReplyDeletered, he really said that? Hell yes we agree, turn the award down then o.
ReplyDeleteSome more sceptical opinions:
ReplyDelete"Unless real and deep-rooted change is made in American policy towards recognizing the rights of the Palestinian people, I would think such a prize would be useless." — Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh
"The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the 'Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians.' " — Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid
The Telegraph's take on Obamamama's Nobel Prize
ReplyDeleteObama's won the Nobel Peace – WTF?!
By James Delingpole World Last updated: October 9th, 2009
54 Comments Comment on this article
Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace prize and I’m still reeling at the shock. Most of us are, I should think.
Here are my theories as to how it might have come about:
1. Unlike in most of the rest of the world Øbama Køøl Aid (TM) remains Oslo’s most popular beverage.
2. The Norwegian prize committee’s sense of irony is growing ever more sophisticated, as it hinted when it gave the prize in 2002 to comedy ex-president Jimmy Carter, and hinted more strongly when it gave the prize in 2007 to climate-fear-promoting comedy failed-president Al Gore.
3. The other candidates on the shortlist were Robert Mugabe; Osama Bin Laden; Ahmed Jibril; and the late Pol Pot.
You can always decline the prize, Barry.
ReplyDeleteThanks Turn - there were so many great bunny pics, I had a hard time narrowing it down to one.
ReplyDeleteOh boy, another speech full of empty unicorn fart rhetoric.
ReplyDelete/GIVE HIM ANOTHER NOBEL PRIZE!
OR, I am adding empalagoso to my word bank - I like it!
ReplyDeletetry and use THAT in a pun, ha
Obama says to be honest he does not feel he deserves it...We Agree!!!
ReplyDeleteHe's still going to accept it though, right?
(I'd actually have some small admiration for him if he didn't.)
I almost feel bad for Wee-Wee watching him babble about himself and his non-accomplishments. If he has any conscience at all, he must feel like a total shit.
ReplyDelete"I'm pretty sure the Nobel Peace Prize committee just prematurely ejaculated all over the world's face."
ReplyDelete-Another quote from the interwebs
turn said...
ReplyDeleteThis was clearly just a slap in the face to Bush in my mind ...
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You could probably hang drywall with the nails Bill Clinton is spitting right now ...
Turn - I'm still racking my brain trying to fit
ReplyDeleteChateauneuf du pape into a wine pun!
If he has any conscience at all
ReplyDeleteHey! Dealing with the science-fiction and fantasy is MY job here!
Lincolntf:
ReplyDeleteI suspect his only concern is whether or not this will play bad politically. I'm sure that he thinks he deserves it just for existing, in the same way he thinks all the countries of the world should just be nice now because he's president.
The Chevy Impalagoso slow, no one wants to drive one.
ReplyDeleteHeading out to the pool to stay cool, we are breaking records here today!
ReplyDeleteHave a good one {all}!
Lincolntf said...
ReplyDeleteI almost feel bad for Wee-Wee watching him babble about himself and his non-accomplishments. If he has any conscience at all, he must feel like a total shit.
He has no conscience. That's the problem.
The juxtaposition of Kirk's comment and the opening of the following comment by eo almost made me spit out my coffee.
ReplyDeleteYou could probably hang drywall with the nails Bill Clinton is spitting right now ...
ReplyDeletehahaha. Hillary is probably shitting a brick too
You could probably hang drywall with the nails Bill Clinton is spitting right now ...
ReplyDeleteHmmmm -- so this ends up being as much the anti-Clinton as the anti-Bush award.
Ok, I need to get some lunch before my endless round of afternoon meeting.
ReplyDeleteRichard Cohen on the Nobel.
ReplyDeletePoor Bambi,he's being mocked.
Come to the Chateau my pretty, neuf said? I'll introduce du to my pape.
ReplyDeleteok lame ...
Turn said: "OR, I am adding empalagoso to my word bank - I like it!
ReplyDeletetry and use THAT in a pun, ha"
My wife asked me why I loved my Dodge so much. I said "My empalagoso fast!"
/sorry, it was a challenge
Obama says to be honest he does not feel he deserves it...
ReplyDeleteWell, there's your proof; Obama is an ultra-right-wing white supremacist wingnut!
//
About all I can say is that it could have gone to worse people. The Peace Prize lost all relevance for me after arafat.
ReplyDeletePoor Bambi,he's being mocked.
ReplyDeleteCNN will be taking care of the fact-checking on that later.
Not bad Spenser ...
ReplyDeleteMornin'
ReplyDelete'scuse me I must rant....
Last night I attended an inservice training for foster parents. Part of hoops one must jump through to maintain our foster license.
The kids are heaven, the system was written about by Dante. In WA the system is the Department of Social and Health Service (DSHS). DSHS is a monstrous State agency that anything to with social and health falls under. A small part of the monster deals with kids.
Over the last 2 decades the record of DSHS children's service is one massive FAIL, the trail of abused and DEAD kids under the supervision can be seen from space. I'm not talking about the one off abuse, or a sudden unpredictable event that leads to the death of child. I'm talking about repeated consistent abuse with documented evidence reports where DSHS knew the child was in danger and did nothing until the child became a headline.
Part of the problem has been the view in the child welfare industry that is better off with biological parents AT ANY COST. While I agree that child are better with their bio parents, when the child is danger that is no longer true.
The child welfare industry believes if enough money is spent, enough services provide, enough classes attended the parents can be "fixed".
This philosophy goes heart of the liberal conservative divide. That material happiness can fix people and stop them form doing bad things. Give a druggie mom an apartment, fill the cupboards, get her a job, give her the classes and presto she's a model mom. Same idea is at play with wino's and terrorists.
About 5 years ago a lawsuit forced the state to change the method of operation that changed, the child's welfare came first. More children where taken from hopeless parents, druggie mom's who'd lost 5 or 6 kids to the system were given a short period of time to get it together or lose the next one.
This worked, the number of headline kids has gone down. Adoptions of state kids was up.
Our meeting last night, the state is going back to the old way, reunite the kids AT ANY COST. DSHS just hired a senior administrator from WI who was fired for kids getting killed under her watch.
WA is (D) controlled. DSHS is run by a bunch of have tons of education and no knowledge. They can't even look back 7 years and see what the propose has been tried and failed. The dead kids prove that.
If you want a glimpse of how the public option of health care will work look no farther than WA State DSHS.
And be afraid, very afraid.
/ RANT OFF
Thank you I feel better.
CNN will be taking care of the fact-checking on that later
ReplyDeleteThey first have to finish final edits on another groundbreaking exposé: "Mr. Bill: Alive and Well".
Have you seen the images of NASA's collision with the moon today?
ReplyDeleteI killed Count Dracula.
ReplyDeleteHow ?
I empalagoso.
/weak
Spenser, I have reported you to the Real Academia Española, for abuse of language.
ReplyDeleteJCM, thank you for doing the Lord's work. I know you were not fishing, but there it is. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the images of NASA's collision with the moon today?
ReplyDeleteIronic that Obama gets the Peace Prize, on the very day he launches an unprovoked attack on the Moon.
JCM,
ReplyDeleteRant on. God bless you for doing what you can to help in a terrible situation. You are making a difference.
Have you seen the images of NASA's collision with the moon today?
ReplyDeleteHeh.
JCM said...
ReplyDeleteKeep ranting.
Later.
ReplyDeleteWA is (D) controlled. DSHS is run by a bunch of have tons of education and no knowledge.
ReplyDeleteO runs that program too?
I commend you JCM.
Come on people!
ReplyDeleteObama felt real bad after losing the Olympics.
Think about the man's feelings!
/
I woke up this morning to hear that Obama had won the peace prize and then watched the much anticipated moon collision that I must have blinked during because I didn't see anything that looked like a collision. I seriously thought about going back to bed after all that.
ReplyDeleteIn my mind, awarding Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize is tantamount to mockery ....
ReplyDelete....but then there's a lot in my mind that might be tantamount to mockery...
JCM said...
ReplyDeleteThe stupidity of liberals never ceases to amaze me. They simply have no grasp of human nature, and thousands of innocent children suffer for it. I admire your willingness to put up with the bullshit in order to help those kids. They are some lucky little tots.
Elvis' hair (from when his head was shaved when he went into the Army) is up for sale.
ReplyDeleteWonder how high the bidding will go.
I'm mildly surprised that they didn't also give a Nobel Prize to Roman Polanski while they were at it.
ReplyDeleteObama wins Nobel peace prize, finally!
ReplyDelete...cuz hez like wanted werld pees sinss liek the 7nth grayd!
Wade Rathko or his brother have taken their ACORN voter registration operation INTERNATIONAL...I suspect to Norway.
ReplyDeleteHey, John Bolton's on Fox commenting on how ACHIEVEMENT used to be the criterion for this prize. Tangible accomplishments, not hot air bloviation.
CNN headline... Obama accepts Nobel as 'call to action'
ReplyDeleteWell heck yeah, may actually doing something would be great. Put it on your to-do list Barry, world peace, right after making the oceans recede. Go for it!
@Alegrias: hey, I wanna cure cancer. Can I know get a Nobel Prize in Medicine before I did feck all?
ReplyDelete"Feelgood education" on the world scale. Feh!
World Peas.
ReplyDeleteWill complement my Universal Harmony Mashed Taters quite nicely.
(FRESH THREAD UPSTAIRS)
ReplyDeleteRoman Polanski will win the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement next year... Bank on it!
ReplyDeleteRoman Polanski will win the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement next year...
ReplyDeleteIn the category of Supporting Actresses?
I want to know how I can get a job as a community organizer.
ReplyDeleteKenneth -
ReplyDelete"CNN headline... Obama accepts Nobel as 'call to action'"
But he only knows how to vote 'present'.
JCM, may I make a suggestion? Michelle Malkin used to cover WA politics - she knows where all the bodies are. Why don't you give her a heads up? She might be able/willing to help.
ReplyDelete@Kirk: the German newspaper (Sueddeutsche Zeitung) also has a video of Angela Merkel's reaction. Body language and tone of voice not dripping with enthusiasm. What she said is basically polite platitudes, that she congrats him with this important award, about the goal of a nuclear arms-free world being forty, etc. Conspicuously absent in her remarks was any substance. Methinks she's as baffled as we are.
ReplyDeleteI interpret a "Call to Action" as higher taxation.
ReplyDelete/I speak fluent (D)
"Yo, Obama, I know you're a great commie-organizin, economy-ruinin, rights-grabbin,
ReplyDeleteleader, and Imma letya finish your Nobel speech,
but Yassir Arafat was the greatest tablecloth-wearin, economy-ruinin, suicide-bombin leader of all time!"
--Kanye West
"Yo, Obama, I know you're a great commie-organizin, economy-ruinin, rights-grabbin,
ReplyDeleteleader, and Imma letya finish your Nobel speech,
but Yassir Arafat was the greatest tablecloth-wearin, economy-ruinin, suicide-bombin leader of all time!"
LOL!