The Nobel Peace Prize started its march toward ridiculousness starting in 1994 with an award going to terrorist Yasser Arafat and while there have been some deserving winners since then, the zany group of Norwegians are looking more and more delusional every year.
And this year takes the cake like none other. When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Al Gore two years ago "for his efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" they may have been duped like so many others buying into the climate change hysteria but at least Gore was successful in his efforts, however misguided they may have been. But considering that Nobel Prize nominations close on February 1st, just 12 days after Obama was inaugurated, what did he accomplish in that short time other than gaining the worship and adulation of millions.
But instead of complaining about this idiocy I've decided I'm going to do something about. Today I announce the creation of the Sound Politics Peace Prize. Nominations will close next Friday at 5pm. They can be someone famous or someone whose selfless deeds are known only to a handful of people.
Posted by MarkGriswold at October 09, 2009 07:39 AM | Email ThisI'm waiting for him to award himself the Medal of Honor. Congress hasn't done it yet, so they're obviously racists. I was wondering why he didn't win the Tour de France, and then it hit me... racism.
And if you disagree with this choice (as many liberals today have also disagreed with) then the DNC says that you have aligned yourself with Hamas and the Taliban. Wait... didn't the White House just say the Taliban is peaceful? Didn't Hamas endorse Obama last year? Yes they did.
I can't stop throwing up. It's been one constant steam of throw up since I woke up today.
Posted by: Gary on October 9, 2009 08:09 AMEveryone is a winner, right.
Posted by: Jeff B. on October 9, 2009 08:10 AMAlthough Scandanavia rejected him when a matter of substance was on the table, it has recognized him in a predictable way when issues of political philosophy are under consideration. He clearly is in close harmony with the well known statism of the Scandanavian states. The politics of the Nobel has for a long time been clearly on a track which seeks to recognize those in the world who agree with and represent that statism.
Actually, I have a sign in my office window congratulating the Nobel winner. I heard a snippet of his acceptance this AM in which he attributed the prize to the American People. A comment both accurate and gracious in my opinion.
That a man with an African father is elected President in a manner no more corrupt than the Kennedy election is truly worthy of historical recognition. "Has happened" is much more convincing than "could happen." I celebrate this prize, which demarcates the time when Americans are finally seen for who we are. We are still a nation of liberty loving meritocrats who have and will continue to ignore a person's origin - or even his past - when we commend or condemn what they are [or not] achieving.
Congratulations, President Obama, for being the focus of that international growing-up about the American People.
Posted by: P / P on October 9, 2009 08:14 AMAlthough Scandanavia rejected him when a matter of substance was on the table, it has recognized him in a predictable way when issues of political philosophy are under consideration. He clearly is in close harmony with the well known statism of the Scandanavian states. The politics of the Nobel has for a long time been clearly on a track which seeks to recognize those in the world who agree with and represent that statism.
Actually, I have a sign in my office window congratulating the Nobel winner. I heard a snippet of his acceptance this AM in which he attributed the prize to the American People. A comment both accurate and gracious in my opinion.
That a man with an African father is elected President in a manner no more corrupt than the Kennedy election is truly worthy of historical recognition. "Has happened" is much more convincing than "could happen." I celebrate this prize, which demarcates the time when Americans are finally seen for who we are. We are still a nation of liberty loving meritocrats who have and will continue to ignore a person's origin - or even his past - when we commend or condemn what they are [or not] achieving.
Congratulations, President Obama, for being the focus of that international growing-up about the American People.
Posted by: P / P on October 9, 2009 08:15 AMI.Can't.Wait.
Here's one reaction: Even Matt Lauer and David Gregory acknowledged that the One won this prize basically because he is not GWB. Michael Russnow at Huffington Post says "Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?" Even White House staffers thought George Stephanopoulos was joking when he informed them of the prize. They asked if it was April 1st.
Well, at least now we know how he got in to Harvard.
Posted by: Jeff B. on October 9, 2009 08:29 AMThe road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Posted by: Truly Scrumptious on October 9, 2009 08:34 AMReal News = Jeb Bush praises Obama's Education iniatives.
Posted by: tc on October 9, 2009 08:51 AMAnd to think I didn't vote him...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1009/Repubican_congratulations.html
Posted by: tc on October 9, 2009 08:55 AMThis is even better than I thought.
/sarc/
Posted by: Infidel on October 9, 2009 10:01 AM
"...no one will know what their collective thinking was on this one. "
Come on! Their thinking is:
- He's not George W. Bush
- They're telling him to *not* Surge in Afghanistan
- They're telling him to *not* do anything against Iran
- They like the fact that he doesn't see anything special about the United States, and trashes it at every opportunity
- He's hopey-changey!
He said he didn't deserve it. He should have rejected it. He even had to admit that he hasn't done anything, echoing SNL.
I (surprisingly) agree with (most of) Mark's statements here. It's just too early. Maybe in two or three years it'll be good, but at this point it means nothing. It just gives ammunition to conservatives, makes Obama's lack of movement on liberal issues look absurd, and ignores folks that really HAVE dedicated their lives to peace and freedom: George Mitchell, Morgan Tsvangirai, dissidents in China, Iran, and other countries, and so forth.
Then again, Kissinger's win in 1973 was a far, far bigger travesty to the idea of peace than the award to Rabin, Peres and Arafat.
Posted by: demo kid on October 9, 2009 10:26 AMThe Nobel Committee is no different than the United Nations. It has simply become a far left organization. They award their own.
This might not turn out to benefit either Obama or the Nobel Committee. People are going to come home and turn on the news tonight and wonder why in the world Obama got this award. Indeed.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on October 9, 2009 10:31 AMIf you value the prize at all, you should be more upset than I am, because it's being ruined.
Even so, I'm glad for your reaction, because it's what I looked forward to.
Aren't you?
You mean the Safe Schools czar (Kevin Jennings) who has no problem with men having sex with young boys. (NAMLBA)
Yeah great schooling.
Let's see the last czar was a full blown Racist and now this.
Jezzzz
If I need to lecture you on the difference... well... that's sad. At least I can transcend my ideological affiliation and look at the situation.
Posted by: demo kid on October 9, 2009 10:43 AMPosted by demo kid at October 9, 2009 10:26 AM
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WOW... yeah Ars-fish was SO nice to the jews. You know, killing as many as you can.
Now giving a NP to him was a travesty. But it's the LEFT who cheer him. it's also the left who still cheer Stalin and Lenin.
Posted by: Medic/Vet on October 9, 2009 10:48 AMI'm not the one to be angry with.
And Obama should reject it. He should give it back them. Now *that* I would applaud.
Posted by: Gary on October 9, 2009 10:48 AMAnd dragging Stalin and Lenin into this is pathetic and dishonest. Then again... why should I expect anything less.
@35: I agree! The second it was awarded, Obama should have rejected it. It could have been his Sister Souljah moment.
There are truly good people that are awarded the prize. Doctors Without Borders does great work, and they deserved it. Norman Borlaug saved millions of lives, and he deserved it. Even Jimmy Carter deserved it for his work with the Carter Center.
Assuming that some missteps completely spoils the award is silly, though. It's like saying that we should stop awarding the Oscars because Marisa Tomei and Cuba Gooding Jr. received them.
Posted by: demo kid on October 9, 2009 11:13 AMThe Nobel will mean less than ever with this goofy award.
Some days I wake up and think that I was somehow transferred in some parallel bizarro world.
This is one of those days.
Posted by: G Jiggy on October 9, 2009 11:24 AMThey also gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Yassir Arrafat, a terrorist who hated Isreal and worked all day every day to destroy it.
When you keep these two things in mind, giving the prize to Obama only makes sense.
Posted by: johnny on October 9, 2009 11:37 AM
I've been to Isreal twice so far this year and both times my business associates there couldn't stop talking about how much safer they feel.
If there were any real justice in this world, the security fence would get the peace prize, but no, that would offend liberals, who praise the "good work" of a worthless sack of crap like Jimmy Carter.
Yes, Jimmy sure did fantastic work there on the "lasting peace in the middle east" back in the 1970s, right. No problems there anymore.
(Liberals also hate Reagan, whose work directly led to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and re-unification of Germany.)
This is why young liberals turn into old conservatives. Unless you're a complete moron it's just to hard too keep buying into the fantasy when the real world always makes a mockery of your liberal "truths."
Bascially, you have a small handful of Norwegian Parliament members making a selection. In my humble opinion, such a choice by a half-dozen Norwegian politicians has roughly the same degree of weight and importance as Mrs. Feeny's second grade class selecting "pizza" as their favorite food.
The Nobel Peace Prize has become essentially a yearly PETA-style political media stunt. And, like a PETA stunt, unfortunately gets an excess of undeserved attention.
Posted by: af123 on October 9, 2009 11:55 AMThat is exactly why they whine about it.
Doesn't matter as I'm sure none of them have appeared on Letterman like He has.
Posted by: Gary on October 9, 2009 12:16 PMAnd he still hasn't achieved anything. Why not reward him for that too?
Empty promises, empty award, empty suit.
Posted by: threeoddnumbers on October 9, 2009 12:30 PMNot winning the Nobel prize is the new honor. Winning the award is actually a designation of being oblivious that you and your ideas are a giant ass hat that children and grown ups alike will one day mock.
No we are not bitter- this laughing so hard we are nearly peeing in our pants level of entertainment. It is quite fitting for Obama have the same honor as Al Gore.
May Barack wear his ribbons of shame for all to see.
It is amusing if you've figured out the left.
Once you know who these people are nothing is surprising. They are socialists.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on October 9, 2009 12:52 PMWhat's going to happen next weekend? Will astronomers discover a new planet in our solar system and name it "Obama"?
Can we please get back to business as usual and spend the weekends talking about our lousy football team and take two days off from Obama???
Posted by: Smoley on October 9, 2009 01:44 PMReally, folks... even the liberal pundits are talking about how bad this is. Is the DNC gonna call them terrorists too?
This choice was completely idiotic, and we on the Right are gleeful because now everyone is united in knowing just how worthless this prize has become.
Posted by: Gary on October 9, 2009 01:51 PMAnd why does Norway want to destroy the US of A?
Well, Mark here is on to something. Remember what those Norwegians were doing with Arafat before they bestowed upon him a peace prize. That's right! The Oslo Accords.
Is Norway known for anything but bad fish and peace?
But Mark, it didn't start in the 1990s. Don't you remember what those Quisling SOBs did in the 1960s?
In 1964 the Norwegians gave the Peace Prize to that pompous and self-dramatizing windbag. On October 14, 1964, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. What had he done?
Well, this is all quite to plain to see. You know who likes Rev King don't you? That's right, Jeremiah Wright. And could Obama be president without Rev King?
If you are looking for the first ever Sound Politics Peace Prize awardee, only one man need to be considered.
GLENN BECK.
Glenn is the only person capable of leading the Teabaggers on an invasion of Norway to correct this wrong that has been done to us... again.
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barrack Husein Obama is one of the biggest insults ever thrown upon this great country. Time we took our country back by invading the socialist state of Norway.
I think this further exposes the phony left to people that haven't been paying attention.
It isn't exactly the best thing for the Obama Administration, or the American left.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on October 9, 2009 02:16 PMBut now that you mention it, Glenn Beck has done about as much as Barak Osama has to earn a prize, and he has done it without having a teleprompter to feed him pretty words, perky cheerleader Katie Couric to praise his every move, and a pithy ghost writer like Bill Ayers to write books for him.
He was nominated because he is a empty-suited, marxist celebrity.
What a joke.
Posted by: attila on October 9, 2009 02:51 PMEFF sponsored Glen BECK for Sound Politics Peace Prize
Posted by: MikeBoyScout on October 9, 2009 02:54 PMIf anyone claims that this administration is at all environmentally or fiscally responsible - one word: hypocrisy. Do as the Obamessiah says, not as the Obamessiah does.
Posted by: yaddacubed on October 9, 2009 02:54 PMOf course, I think the award is empty, and completely meaningless, so I kinda think He deserves it completely.
Posted by: Gary on October 9, 2009 02:56 PMChairman Maobama indeed!
And do you know which country gave the communist international revolutionary Leon Trotsky asylum in 1935 don't you? Norway!!
EFF sponsored Glen BECK for Sound Politics Peace Prize
Posted by: MikeBoyScout on October 9, 2009 03:05 PMThe award is not meaningless Gary. It comes with $1.4 million! And we all know where President Barrack Husein Obama is going to put that money - right in to the hands of the communist ACORN.
Mark is right about delusional Norwegians. How many times have they given this award to Doctors without Borders - which is nothing but a front for socialized medicine with Death Panels.
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the President of the United States is an act of war. Time to bomb the zany delusional Norwegians and demand they give the prize to the Teabaggers.
EFF sponsored Glen BECK for Sound Politics Peace Prize
Posted by: MikeBoyScout on October 9, 2009 03:14 PMEFF sponsored Glen BECK for Sound Politics Peace Prize
"A coalition partner must do more than just express sympathy, a coalition partner must perform," "You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror."
This is a post 9-11 world, and as our previous Commander in Chief, our decider, told us not so many years ago "This is an evil man that we're dealing with..
What the zany delusional Norwegians are doing is a threat to our way of life.
We must be aware of the immediate DANGER and go to war for peace.
EFF sponsored Glen BECK for Sound Politics Peace Prize
Posted by: MikeBoyScout on October 9, 2009 04:01 PMCourage, guts, and a sense of duty.
@66: You can only get the award once. And "Doctors Without Borders" is a socialist organization? Really? What part is socialist?
@67: Wow, either you're trying to be funny, or you're a sock puppet. :) Either way, your facts are wrong.
Anyone that's actually been there knows that what you point to is a MUSEUM. The real ceremony is held in the Oslo City Hall here, and the concert is held in the Spektrum. Both are certainly big enough to hold people for the concert. Given that the population of the ENTIRE COUNTRY is only 4 million, and the population of Oslo is just over a half-million, I doubt that they would ever need to deal with loads like that.
And 2+ million teabaggers in one place is a conservative lie. Just making sure you know that.
@68: Yes, 150 troops committed in a war unpopular in Norway by a conservative government, that led to the downfall of that government and the withdrawal of those troops in 2006.
@71-72: Self-satirizing humor - which any adult would recognize the Nicolae comment to be - is not "partisan bile."
Calling Obama the Antichrist is "self-satirizing humor"? Yeah... I don't think so.
Posted by: demo kid on October 10, 2009 09:47 AMWhereas G.W. Bush achieved everything via hard work and education, not by being George Bush. Having a rich and powerful family never got him anywhere.
A man from humble beginnings won a presidential election, not via Supreme Court chicanery, but on his own merits, and the right wing simply cannot handle the results of our democracy.
Why does the right wing hate America?
MikeBoyScout: well done, sir!
Posted by: tensor on October 11, 2009 10:45 AM