UPDATE: Thanks for the Twitter link love from Glenn Beck, who linked a blog post I wrote 3 years ago about former Nobel Peace Prize (and unhinged moonbat) Betty Williams (linked below). The site meter is spinning out of control.
I’ve now been linked by Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck. If I could just get links now from Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, I’d hang up my blogging hat as there would be nothing left to wish for…
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If Obama deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, I deserve a Pulitzer Prize
When I woke up this morning, the first news that I read was that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Which made me want to crawl back into bed, because surely I had woken up in some bizarre reversal world.
But, after getting to work, I confirmed that Barack Obama had indeed won a Nobel Peace Prize. Every time I told someone this morning that Obama had won the Peace Prize, to a person their very first response was, “For what?”
To which I responded, “Exactly.”
Look, the award has been a joke for a long, long time. They’ve given the damned thing to Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and Betty Williams…actually, now that I think about it…I’m not surprised at all that they gave this joke of an award to the political neophyte joke of a President.
Hell, even most of the Liberal like is like, WTF mate?
Obama has done nothing — not just as President, but in his entire privileged life — to deserve this award. Hoping for peace is not the same thing as affecting peace.
Some of my liberal friends (yeah, I still have a few….I’ve known them since we were kids, and still love ‘em despite them being lost sheep) tried to make the case today that Obama’s greatest achievement to date, and why he deserves the award is because of how he’s changed the world’s perception of the US.
To which I agreed. Except they meant that he’d changed the perception for the better. Obviously they don’t read the the London dailies. The British Telegraph or the TimesOnline (whose headline today read absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize).
Or maybe they should ask Lech Walesa, the 1983 peace prize winner and Poland’s president from 1990 to 1995, who seemed to sum up the basic thrust of many, saying to reporters in Warsaw: “Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast — he hasn’t had the time to do anything yet.”
If Obama has “made the rest of the world love the US more”, it’s been by lowering the US, not by elevating it. But even then, Obama has done nothing but alienate, snub, and offend our closest allies, all the while snuggling up to our enemies.
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OTHERS:
My favorite headline and observation on the day’s news was from Erick Erickson, who wrote: “Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: He’s Becoming Jimmy Carter Faster Than Jimmy Carter Did.”
I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period.
The deadline for nominations was two weeks after he was sworn in as President.
So in less than two weeks of entering office, Obama did something to qualify. What was it? Not closing Gitmo? Continuing the Bush administration’s policies in the War on Terror but no longer using the name? Or pronouncing a policy of abject American capitulation to our enemies?
The Peace Prize reaffirms it s a joke. But now a sad joke.
Mickey Kaus thinks Obama should turn it down:
Turn it down! Politely decline. Say he’s honored but he hasn’t had the time yet to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. Result: He gets at least the same amount of glory–and helps solve his narcissism problem and his Fred Armisen (‘What’s he done?’) problem, demonstrating that he’s uncomfortable with his reputation as a man overcelebrated for his potential long before he’s started to realize it.
From community organizer to Illinois state senator (present!) to U.S. Senator for 143 days before moving into the White House…and now, the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize — not for anything he’s actually done, but for the symbolism of what he might possibly accomplish sometime way off in the future
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Well, can an Olympic gold medal be far behind? After all, if the Nobel committee is going to give Obama the prize for what he has yet to accomplish, surely the Olympic committee can give him a gold medal for a race he has yet to run. They can base it on the fact that Kenyans are usually swift runners. Maybe a coach can teach Obama to run from the teleprompter.
What will be interesting is to see what “charity” Obama donates the cool $1.4 million he will get for the Nobel Peace Prize (after all, ACORN IS going to need the money now).
Oh hell, I forgot all about the “prize” money. In all fairness he should give it to Bill Ayers as royalties on his best selling book “Dreams of My Father.”
My prediction is that he donates the money to CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood.
All this former prestigious award being given to this person means is, that it is now appropriate for Roman Polanski to operate a day care center.
Nobel Panel Hopes Peace Prize Boosts Obama Self-Esteem!
(2009-10-09) — An unnamed member of the Nobel committee this morning explained the shocking decision to give the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, who had served only 11 days as president when nominated, by noting that the gold medal would go a long way toward boosting Mr. Obama’s self-esteem.
“We used to give the award to persons who had actual accomplishments,” the anonymous source said. “But that’s so reactionary, and almost nostalgic. By giving the peace prize to Obama, we’re recognizing his potential, and applauding his intentions in a way that we hope will result in future actions.”
The committee members reportedly wanted to encourage Mr. Obama with something tangible because “his speeches make world peace seem almost possible.”
“It’s like putting a gold star on a student’s paper, or giving him the ‘most improved’ trophy when he makes a good effort,” the source said. “We don’t want the president to get discouraged, or to give up just because the overwhelming evidence of history and of human nature flies in the face of everything he has proposed.”
WTF, Gees what a bunch of moonbats. Years ago we had to prove ourselves with a strong work ethic and success to get a award and now it’s just a thought process with teleprompter. What a signal we are sending to our youth. God help us!!
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