Messiah wins Noble Peace Prize. Since the One has done absolutely nothing to merit any price at all, it’s safe to say that he has joined Teddy Roosevelt in the pantheon of Noble heros for something other than accomplishment. What could that be? He is not Bush, obviously. He will listen to Europeans, he will join the United Nations is affirming the right of Gaddafi to sit on the Human Rights Commission, he will wring his hands in helpless woe while regretting human rights abuses and, in short, he’s everything that the emasculated effete love and admire in a “world leader”. congratulations, fella.
By the way, is there any doubt what Obama will do in Afghanistan? Not in my mind. His generals have said we will lose there if we don’t bring in more troops. But Obama can’t do that without alienating his lefty nutbase, so he won’t. And if he pulls out all our troops, the ensuing collapse and chaos will be blamed on him and kill his chances of reelection. So he will do nothing, ensuring defeat and the needless death of more soldiers, while saying that he inherited the status quo from that evil Bush/Cheney.
Which is good enough for our Nobel Prize winner, if not his country.
Confirms what we already knew about the committee. In fact, if this helps others realize what a joke this process is, I will be eternally grateful to “The One”.
My favorite part was that nominations had to be in by Feb 1, giving The Messiah less than two weeks in office to turn water into wine. Amazing.
Man, you must have been popular in Europe.
Welcome back, we missed ya!
Obama was robbed. He should have gotten the prize in Economics for fixing the economy, Medicine for fixing health care, and of course Literature for his autobiography (of which the first two installments have been published). Are the various Nobel committees saying they don’t expect him to do great things in the future in all these areas?
I tried to understand the article . . . there are two kinds of awards? Barak got the aspirational version? Not the one for actually doing something, is that right? Lots of people have dreams as they sit in front the bottle of cherry bounce. Were they considered for this one? I have read of people who actually dream of intergalactic communication and peace with the denizens of outer space. Now those are big dreams! I guess Obama’s dreams are pretty good or, at least, the Nobel prize folks thought so. So I guess it’s okay. Maybe, I just don’t quite get it . . . two kinds of prizes? Well, anyway, I am happy that you are back after what seems to be a wonderful trip!
Well DB, my “I’d Rather be Waterboarding” tee shirt certainly paved entry into many fruitful and frank discussions, but generally, the Europeans know and care as much about the United States as we do of Dutch economic policy. It’s a nice reminder that we are nowhere near as imortant as we think we are. Until we’re gone, of coursae, but by the time Obamqa accomplishes that, it will be too late.
First off, welcome back, Chris. We missed your daily commentaries on the state of the world and that of the real estate scene.
Secondly, re: Obummer winning the dubious honor of a Nobel Peace Prize, I just don’t get it. As KC wrote above, what the hell was the rationale for awarding this “prize.”
Apparently, given the small handful of days the Messiah was in office before the Nobel nominations were cast, campaign promises, not actual, real world achievements, were sufficient to land the Messiah the award. About as relevant as the UN, which operates on the basis of aspirational science fiction, not reality.
Welcome back. Picking Obama just follows the precedent set by picking Carter and Gore. Reminds me of Groucho Marx saying, “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”
The average leftish European (including the Peace Prize Committee) when it comes to international affairs, has a few principles:
We hate Israel
Radical Islamic bombers are ok as long as they are in Israel
We would like to be consulted on everything
We will complain if America alone does something (Iraq) or does nothing (Darfur)
We prefer sanctions to fighting, especially because while Americans are observing the sanctions, we are going to be picking off all the business with the target company
If it comes down to fighting, we would like to help, but sadly we don’t have any guns, good luck!
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I think President Obama is far more hawkish than the Left thinks, and the litmus test is I’ll bet none of those guys in Gitmo see the light of day for the next eight years. Which just goes to show you can fool all of the people some of the time, and the peacenik Left all of the time.
I want an I’d Rather Be Waterboarding tee shirt, too! My liberal Manhattan friends would get apoplectic, which would be delightful.
Welcome back to the land of the free and the home of the brave, CF. OK wait. I meant welcome back to the land of the not so rich anymore and the home of the scaredy cats.
The comittee must have based their decision on the Messiah’s previous accomplishments in his hometown prior to Feb 1.
“Few Americans realize the number of people murdered in Chicago during 2008 was larger than the number of U.S. soldier deaths in Iraq during the same period.”
■314 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq;
■509 people were murdered in Chicago.
hmm, hmm, hmm