Not So Nobel: Part 2

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Marc Haines of CNBC: "Despite bombing the MOON, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize."

Jennifer Loven, AP: "He Won, But For What?"

Ana Marie Cox: Apparently Nobel prizes now being awarded to anyone who is not George Bush.

Inscription on the Plaque: Thanks for Not Being Bush

Abe Greenwald: "Obama makes an unprecedented, no-holds-barred effort before one international organization, the IOC, to obtain something for his country and fails in an immediate and spectacular manner. But after doing absolutely nothing, he wins a prize for himself from another international organization, the Nobel Committee, for insulting his country for nine months."

The Chicago democrat machine ain't what it used to be. They were supposed to bribe the Olympic Committee, not the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

Weekly Standard: "Is the Nobel Peace Prize some sort of consolation prize for losing the Olympics?"

What a joke. The prize created by Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, has created an award for Obama, the guy who is trying to blowup United States.

When Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded to people like Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, and Jimmy Carter, you know all you need to know about the Nobel Peace Prize.

Erick Erickson: "Obama is becoming Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter became Jimmy Carter."

Frank J: "This makes a mockery of the prize. There is no way Obama has had time to accomplish as much peace as Arafat did."

The earth is officially cooling and Al Gore won the prize for what - fantasy?

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Does anyone remember that Norway collaborated with Hitler awhile back? Does the name Quisling ring a bell? No wonder they couldn't agree on Gandhi. What more is there to say?

Newsweek: The Nobel shows Obama is still popular abroad. But that doesn't help much if the U.S. is seen as a banana republic.

We’ve heard a lot over the past few years about radicals trying to achieve their aims through “lawfare.” Here’s a new concept in asymmetric conflict: “prizefare.” The Nobel Committee was not rewarding Obama. It was attempting to geld him.

This award makes Obama an official member of the Socialist Admiration Society.

Reality has shrugged and exited stage right, allowing for his understudy Parody to take over the lead role for the next four years or so.

When I heard the announcement that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize I got the same feeling you get when you find out the truth about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny... it's all a lie.

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Not So Noble

"Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love." --- Jon Corzine

The Nobel Peace Prize committee apparently felt it was good enough for the winner to have some glorious if generalized aspirations, and, of course, to vehemently not be George W. Bush.

Apparently, even Barack Obama found his being awarded the Peace Prize to be a bit strange, saying, "I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative* figures that have been honored by this prize."

That's one of the few things he's ever said that I agree with wholeheartedly. That cannot be said for some of his other comments:

"This award is not simply about the efforts of my administration, it's about the courageous efforts of people around the world," Obama said. Efforts? What efforts? The deadline for nominations was Feb. 1, meaning the president was nominated after being in office for just 11 days.

"I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations."

I found it surreal to hear President Not Bush accept the prize on behalf of Americans AND the nations of the world... Oh, and you thought he wasn't a centrist! :) He is the most EGO-centrist person on the planet.

While cruising the Web I was surprised to find that the Liberals, in some ways, are more upset than the Conservatives over Obama getting the Nobel PP. Could be because Conservatives quit taking the prize seriously around about the time they gave the award to Yasir Arafat.

* [Must be a code word for Liberal Progressive.]

President Obamy wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

The Nobel Prize committee stated that the reasons for their surprising selection was Obama's "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." They also referred to fostering understanding among the Muslim nations and his work for global nuclear disarmament.

Considering that Obama had only been president for two weeks before being nominated, and the only actual accomplishments has been making speeches, apologizing (ad nauseam) for the evil US, bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia and appeasing every dictator and despot in the world. And as far as nuclear disarmament... the only country that might disarm thanks to Obama's efforts is US!

Of course only liberals win the peace prize and Obama is the most left-leaning (lurching?) president to ever be elected in the US. That might have influenced the decision. But it is more likely that the primary reason Obama was selected (same as Al Gore and Jimmy Carter) was because HE IS NOT BUSH.