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1. Pajamas Media » Who’s On the Nobel Committee? And What Do They Really Want From Obama?:

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Oct 9, 2009 - 1:15 pm 2. Sherab Zangpo:

The real hope is that Obama will remember he took an oath (twice) not to serve as global spokesman for the Norwegian Nobel Committee, but “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Are you trying to be funny ?

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

Oct 9, 2009 - 1:36 pm 3. Phil Carter:

With relatives in Minneapolis, I thought I had heard every dumb Norwegian joke there was. I was wrong!

Oct 9, 2009 - 1:37 pm 4. Sherab Zangpo:

What’s the agenda of the Nobel prize committee ?

COMEDY !
A prize in the name of the inventor of DYNAMITE given to the FRIEND OF BILL AYERS
IS
pure comedy.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

PS BOOM !

Oct 9, 2009 - 1:41 pm 5. biblio44:

“Let’s start with Thorbjorn Jagland….”

Oy, this prize is driving the Right batty.

Oct 9, 2009 - 1:45 pm 6. Ruebacca:

great read.

every consevative needs to moblize now. colectivism is not acceptible.

Oct 9, 2009 - 1:49 pm 7. deguello:

Who’s in the committee Ms Rosset?The usual anti western,pathetic euroweenies, who hate the US as much as they hate their own culture.They want to help out the little troll,by compensating him with a meaningless consolation prize after his pathetic olympic bid got rejected.These clowns will do anything possible to help out Obama,since they know he is being exposed as an ineffectual dweeb.

Oct 9, 2009 - 1:56 pm 8. Poor Citizen:

My coach used to say “we are losing and it shows on your faces..and our opponents are enjoying it all….way too much”.

I know some of you are upset. But you will get over it.

I do not usually give advice because I am sure the right wouldnt like it anyway but you should stop going on about an honor you cannot get “taken back”.

Go back to issues like health care where you were making some headway albeit the minority opinion. Hey, the left/s laughter will only get louder. Think about it. Besides, trying to link a medal committee with some kind of ayers, Obama administration secret conspiriacy…is really ufo stuff. Dont you agree?

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:01 pm 9. Thomas_L......:

Comedians should love this moment. Anyone else would have to have rocks in their head. How in the world can the awarding of what’s become an anti-American prize to the POTUS be anything but an insult? Reset? Shazam!

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:11 pm 10. Professor Guvinoff:

In some wretched places, corruption is so deep that you can get a receipt for your bribes, but this not widely recognized. Last year, then candidate Obama received unprecedented sums of money for his presidential campaign, around three-quarters of a billion dollars, and we still don’t know exactly whom is was thusly beholden to? You don’t throw this kind of money around without expecting some kind of “return on investment”.

But this surpasses everything! A clearly undeserved prize is bestowed upon the man with the most levers within his reach. This is not just an award granted on credit, this is an award granted on credit with pre-laundered money, in plain sight! Where is the politician with the guts object to cash in return for “high expectations” under the disguise of a glorified pretense of recognition?

The European economies have long relied on recycling the dollars spent by OPEC, from their oil revenues. This is why the Europeans have for so long accomodated the Arabs, to the point of a quiet form of preemptive dhimmitude. Now, politically correct influence is invested in the spreading the desease to the USA!

It’s not as funny as it seems at first sight.

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:16 pm 11. arhooley:

Poor Citizen,

Look around the internet and see who’s the loser in this prank. I’m not so much pissed that a guy I don’t respect won a prize; it’s more incredulity at the world’s credulity. If this is how people with power, prestige, and money choose to spend it, then some awful, awful times lie ahead.

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:24 pm 12. don:

Motives for the prize? I think the prize is a Saturday Night Live skit that leaked, and the Danes wanted to preempt it. Or, maybe it’s about Danish great expectations and burst bubbles? I know, Danish Marxism with a human face, it’s the thought that counts and not the correlation of forces? A European courtesy award, it was the booby prize for Chicago not getting the Olympics? The Dane’s are making up for Arafat? Does this mean the president of Iran is in the running for the peace prize next year?

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:24 pm 13. LBK:

I have read to apply for this so-called ‘prize’; one must apply before Feb. 1. Does anyone REALLY think that TOTUS even applied for this in January?
This is a silly promotional stunt.
And I am not a angry mob or Republican or anything else. I am Independent. AND I am not racist.
Hopefully, this TOTUS will enjoy his little Trophy and perhaps get on with the business of that little issue that just MAKES him a little angry, uhhhh…oh yeah, his OATH OF OFFICE

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:26 pm 14. Thomas_L.....:

Being awarded for delighting America’s enemies and European lefties is a dubious honor indeed.

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:27 pm 15. Faeto:

The Nobel prize comittee bestowed this great honor to Obama for some great achieve that eludes the world. Or perhaps, the are big advocates of affirmative action. Congratulations to our Socialist-In-Chief!

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:29 pm 16. Oakley:

Beta President won the Beta Prize from the Beta Committee…. see:

Did We Elect a Beta Male As President?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/did_we_elect_a_beta_male_as_pr_1.html

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:30 pm 17. Middleman:

Zoinks! Good investigative work, Scoob. If you were to tell me the Nobel committee were cattle mutilating greys from Zeta Reticuli bent on world domination, I might actually believe the tale.

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:46 pm 18. Bingobill:

Correct me if I am wrong but is it not illegal for a sitting president to receive a gift? Are not the gifts considered the property of the Office of the President and therefore government property? He should not be eligible to receive the money by this reasoning although the medal itself will undoubtedly be prominently be displayed in the future Che Guevara Museum of Liberation Justice in Washington D.C….

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:50 pm 19. Increase Mather:

Simply toooooo good to be true.

This “award” is so over the top that The Messiah’s followers are going to be explaining it for months. Just WHAT did he do to deserve it?

Chancey Gardner…is alive and well in the White House.

Oct 9, 2009 - 2:50 pm 20. Bilgeman:

Ms. Rosett:
“For starters, Norway, along with neighboring Sweden and Denmark, has been banging the drum for America to hand over to the United Nations enormous control over and constraints upon the U.S. economy, in the name of (warming/cooling/take-your-pick) climate change. Thus did Norway’s Nobel committee bestow its favors in 2007 on Al Gore and the UN’s Self-Interested Panel of Politically Corrupted Science — excuse me, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And this December the UN is convening a big climate conference in Copenhagen, with which the U.N. hopes to “seal” its growth-stunting UN-enriching climate “deal.””

One wonders at the absurdity of Scandinavians who abhor the notion of “global warming”, only to surpass that into utter agogedness at the conceit of Socialists trying to pass laws in nations not their own against the weather.

Of course, none of this is true. It is power over OUR economy and our sovereignty that they truly seek.

The unreconstructed and unrepentant communists are unmasking themselves quite blatantly now, are they not?

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:00 pm 21. Ytzik:

let’s start a campaign to press the POTUS to not to accept what he doesn’t deserve.

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:11 pm 22. eon:

Essentially, The One was awarded this (increasingly pointless and meaningless)”prize” on the basis of what the Nobel Committee “hopes” he will do to “change” the United States into their definition of a “good world citizen” state. From all indications, their own increasingly-easily-intimidated and spendthrift governments are the model they have in mind.

Based on the evidence, I’d say they were on the mark in handing President Obama the prize. Because what they’re pining for is basically what he envisions as the future of the United States. You have to give them credit for seeing The Self-Exalted One as he truly is. Something the American news media either totally failed to do, or at least neglected to mention to the electorate, while he was running for President.

Those I find amusing are the ones who wonder if Himself will be “embarrassed” by the knowledge that he was given a famous award mainly for things he hasn’t done yet. They have to be kidding. That would require President Obama to be capable of humility. Which he simply isn’t, and has no interest in learning, either.

If he did so, he might realize that he is only human- and his ego would never recover from the shock of that revelation.

clear ether

eon

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:16 pm 23. Poor Citizen:

No 11 arhooley,

I have to agree, and I think it was also well reported that the president said himself that he was very “surprised” to be honored. And I was also shocked that some on the loony left said that those critizing the president for getting this award were racist and like the taliban and hamas. I think that reasonable people are the president that says he was shocked to get it and those that say it was way too early to get something like that and those that see it as good that american prestige is being restored abroad. But the rest? They do neither fringe wings of their respective parties any real good. Nobody can reverse the honor, he got it. So its moot, really.

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:21 pm 24. Harry Schell:

They want to see him stand down militarily more than he already has…and I agree with Rush Limbaugh who thinks this is their motive. I didn’t think of it.

He has to show the way now, through weakness. He is enough enamoured of himself he will buy the idea, and will buy into the idea lawyers and talkers always fall for, that treaties and talk are really important and meaningful, since that is all they have done in their lives and they are important and meaningful people, so what they do must be similarly momentous.

The Paris Peace Accords meant nothing to the communists, just a means to get the US offshore and out of the way. The difference between then and now is we face an enemy more determined, with global goals and GLOBAL REACH. 9.11.01 and the warm-up raids before established that and while we have thumped them hard, it ain’t over.

Letting the Taliban recover in Afghanistan will just set up a haven for AQ to reunite with them and run ops again from a safe backyard. Hell, that’s why we went there first after 9.11, looking for Bin Laden. Hussein Obama is just setting us up for a repeat.

This award will further insulate Hussein from reading any traffic from the real world by inflating his self-esteem even further out of synch with reality. Like Hitler in 1945, he will be unable to deal with any contrary views, no matter how reasoned or accurate.

I bet we run on the Afghans. There will be a news blackout as there was from the Southeast Asian Penninsula to cover up the massacres in Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam, to cover up what really happens in Afghanistan. Hussein Obama is taking us closer to global war, not further away. Israel will have to act. Who knows what else might happen.

Maybe this is why the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. Not necessarily the end of the world but enough destruction so that we are starting anew, in a way, and calendars don’t mean all that much anymore.

I hope when I die people think of me as usually amiable but a crank in some ways. That I lacked vision and understanding.

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:28 pm 25. TOhio:

The Nobel Peace Prize has lost all its prestige. It has now been exposed as a political tool. I’ll never see it the same again.

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:28 pm 26. carla:

Puke

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:32 pm 27. Delia:

More white people with yt-guilt giving ridiculous kudos to someone who hasn’t earned it and doesn’t deserve it.

When does it end?

*eyeroll*

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:53 pm 28. vb:

Poor Citizen,

This bit about restoring America’s prestige abroad is getting a little tiring. One reason Americcan prestige suffers is because our failures and mistakes are headline news across the globe. Things like Bush’s AIDS initiative or the effective tsunami aid are barely mentioned. Every third-rate Hollywood type makes the news if something critical of the US is said. The role of European countries in oil for food was glossed over.

I suggest that if you want to restore America’s prestige, you should start with criticizing the press and TV news. Then you might ask the Democrats to apologize by giving their blessing to Michael Moore. We can worry later about the grandiose promises about Guantanamo, rendition, etc, in a later edition.

Oct 9, 2009 - 3:55 pm 29. PM:

Cloaking the Commander-in-chief of the United States Military in this “prize”?

Looks more like a straightjacket to me.

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:00 pm 30. homero:

thank you for this excellent article Claudia Rosett

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:04 pm 31. Now and Then:

27. Delia:

George Tenet . . . Medal of Freedom.

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:08 pm 32. view from afar:

Ok I went to a party at my English neighbors, and being the only American, in about 25 people there, I walked in stating that Obama had won the Nobel peace prize, every single person in the room said What? Are you joking? And when I said no, they asked me what has he done? I said I thought maybe they knew, and they said what a joke! THe french televsion seemed pretty blown away by it too, they chatted about it, as if to say, well it’s obvious why he won…and nothing more. Weird.

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:16 pm 33. Ellen K:

I think the Prof hit the nail on the head. Because the media was so entranced by the idea of an African American running for president, they failed to enact due diligence on things like organizing, fundraising, etc. Heck, in the Texas primaries, he was nominated by acclaim because the precinct meetings were so packed. So votes weren’t counted. As for who paid the freight, look no further than George Soros. In fact, as a European millionaire with millionaire friends, does anyone else wonder how pulling cash out of a weak market could ruin an economy? Soros already knows because he tried to do it in the UK. And at every big gathering, Soros is right there with Obama. Does anyone else wonder after all the verbal faux pas at who is really running things? That being said, it appears that the Nobel Prize was given for speaking nicely and looking good in a suit. By that criteria, any anchor man from Pittsburg to Sacramento should be eligible.

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:21 pm 34. Marina:

Would anyone be so kind and HELP ME, PLEASE? I’m looking for the internet version of the video where the guy from the Committee announces that Obama has won (in Norwegian, I think) and the people boo.

If you know where it’s posted, would you please give the link? Thank you!

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:22 pm 35. Mike Sheard:

Scandinavian free-riders- good phrase!

We should just pull out of Eurabia and let the next war begin. Then we’ll see if they want intervention.

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:27 pm 36. Mike2:

From the Vikings (ie. real men) to today’s Nobel Committee. Wow, how far Norway has fallen!

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:41 pm 37. westerncanadian:

Take a deep breath and relax folks – Obama is now starring in a Monty Python sketch. The daft Norwegians have a right to be silly and they simply exercised their right.
Just more evidence that the world has been taken over by crazy people.

We have to live with that reality.

Oct 9, 2009 - 4:55 pm 38. Ken Horne:

A totally useless Marxist committee has given the World’s worst Marxist Nincompoop a prize with the true value of a rusty nail. Not only is Bambam the laughing stock of the world but so is the nation of Norway. The World shook under ones feet with uproarious laughter as the news filtered around the Planet in the last 24 hours. Even the Left think its the joke of the century.But it could have been worse Micky Bambam might have got…..or is thats next years troll joke on us?

Oct 9, 2009 - 5:01 pm 39. westerncanadian:

#34 Marina the video can be found at Real Clear Politics

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/10/09/reporters_gasp_at_obama_nobel_announcement.html

I can hear “oohs”, but I’m not sure they are “boos”.

Oct 9, 2009 - 5:06 pm 40. David W. Lincoln:

The people who are on the Nobel Peace Prize committee are like the Danish elite who abandon Kurt Westergaard. Needless to say the amount of credibility they have is the same as the Sons of Allah. In other words, they are in a hole, and they continue to dig.

Oct 9, 2009 - 5:23 pm 41. Kevin S:

I haven’t seen much evidence of the Right going batty, more like they’re laughing their asses off at one of Europe’s most in your face jokes ever. From what I’m reading it’s the Left that is going slightly batty and worrying about the sheer absurdity of it. It could be a a double edged joke from Europe, one that throws egg on both the American Right and the American Left. It will be most interesting to see how Obama responds. If he responds as the narcissist in him probably will, well…some things are just pricelessly funny.

Oct 9, 2009 - 5:31 pm 42. Marina:

@ westerncanadian

THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!

“I can hear “oohs”, but I’m not sure they are “boos””. – I would bet I’ve heard some as I watched it on TV. Here the sounds are rather reduced, but I still here some. Anywa, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH AGAIN.

Oct 9, 2009 - 5:49 pm 43. PAthena:

Who nominated President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize (between January 20 and February 1, 2009)? Who supported the nomination?

Oct 9, 2009 - 6:02 pm 44. Marie Claude:

uh, isn’t it the first time that they give the Nobel price to a president that still has his army occupying two countries ?

Now, that he has won the Nobel price, he can start the real war, cuz this is the end of “peace intentions” officially acknowledged

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Oct 9, 2009 - 6:07 pm 46. Banned by Huffpo:

What they want is what they’re going to get:

No troop surge in Afghanistan;
Troops out of Iraq (chaos follows);
Gitmo finally closed (inmates set free on our streets);
Iran finishes its nuke program, destroys Israel and New York City.

End of civilization as we know it.

Just read “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy and you’ll see what the future holds.

Oct 9, 2009 - 6:15 pm 47. TriGeek:

I just heard a valid rumor that Che Guevara is being nominated for next years’ Nobel Peace Prize. They say it is due to the fact that he hasn’t killed anybody since 1967, and he looks really cool on T-shirts.

Oct 9, 2009 - 6:23 pm 48. Delia:

44. Marie Claude,

Don’t you get it yet, hon?

IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT™ !!!

DohBama is just a victim of circumstance. *sniff*

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Oct 9, 2009 - 8:03 pm 50. rachel peepers:

As much as the lovely and talented Delia means to me, I have to take exception to her criticism of the Peace Prize award going to President Barack Obama.

Delia, many, not just you, have been critical of his scant 9 or so months in office. Personally, though it matters not to me that he’s served nary a year.

I implore you, consider all the world changing events that have happened in less than that time span.

The London Blitz lasted for only eight months.

The Iran hostage crisis lasted for only 444 days. I know that’s more than a year, but it’s close.

In 2009, the millionth healthy unborn child was slaughterd during the President Obama’s eighth month in office.

The bombing of Pear Harbor on 7 December, ‘41 lasted only 110 minutes.

President Obama’s all out war on our system of government, constitution and the American belief in freedom and liberty for all, has gone on 24/7 for only a little over 9 months with astounding results.

He’s trying his best to pass the worst medical insurance plan in history; a governmentally controlled program for socialized medicine that’s destined to price out at 7 billion dollars over ten years. (I’m not talking about the cheap plan without the public option that was quoted today with a 9 billion price tag).

Not only that, but the health of our soldiers fighting the war in Afghanistan has turned south under Obama’s watch.

Fact is, he’s about to snatch defeat in Afghanistan from the jaws of victory, losing thousands of lives in the process.

As if that’s not enough, financially, in the short time Obama’s been smelling up the oval office, he’s managed put this country into the kind of debt we may never recover from.

Not only should Obama get the Nobel Peace Prize from a committee of avowed Marxists and Communists, but he should receive the “Radical Leftist of the millenium Award.”

For Barack Obama is the worst of the worst.
One silly ironic award named the Peace Prize certainly doesn’t do him the kind of justice he deserves.

Oct 9, 2009 - 8:57 pm 51. rachel peepers:

Sorry, the true cost of Barack’s preferred health care program will be more than seven trillion (NOT BILLION) dollars over ten years.

Oct 9, 2009 - 9:00 pm 52. David W. Lincoln:

Another two cents on the matter. Obama’s friends from outside the US are giving him a mulligan (for those who don’t golf, it is a do over). For in the early days when the mere mention of Obama would cause people to swoon, that was the time. Now, a lot has happened, and these friends of Obama want to go back to those days.

Manipulative? Sure. Conniving? Absolutely. Will it work? About as well as trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.

Oct 9, 2009 - 9:32 pm 53. The Road Less Traveled:

This man does not put his oath to America first; he thinks he is the Dictator of the world. How many more times will we have to hear him speak of “New World Order” or even more alarming is if he decides to act on something for once that he speaks about doing. How many times will he have to speak of the world order since he won?
I believe it has to do with his speeches of the “New World Order” and it is not just alarming it is scary. I am scared of him now more than ever.
Even the usual stations who praise him are sounding somber on his newest award and it is all sounding scary.
Do not dress like him on Halloween and come to my door, because I am frightened of him.

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Oct 10, 2009 - 1:25 am 55. Adina Kutnicki, Israel:

A prostitute by any other name is still a prostitute.

The Norwegians viscerally understand what makes Obama tick. That he is not only a globalist fellow traveler, but that he is also for sale. They understand that his Chicago thug-like background has prepared him for world stage pay to play.

To be sure this prize is a down payment on everything he waxed poetic about from the start of his campaign speech in Berlin. They have now bought and paid for the result they are seeking-a disemboweled US, forced to hand over its economic underpinnings, thus incapable of defending US interests on the global stage.

Rest assured Obama will now have the ‘cover’ he needs to allow Iran to go nuclear- of course, all in the name of ‘peace’.

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Oct 10, 2009 - 1:53 am 57. vivo:

Hope you watched Conan O’Brien’s long list of Obama’s FUTURE awards on 10/09/09.

Eat your heart out . . .

Oct 10, 2009 - 3:36 am 58. Enjoy Watching:

I love watching conservative heads explode when things don’t go their way! Whine whine whine. Why not write something with an iota of insight?

Yes, Obama deserves a Nobel prize in the eyes of most of the world simply for getting the republicans out of office! That alone has contributed plenty to world peace.

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Oct 10, 2009 - 5:04 am 61. eon:

#52 David W. Lincoln;

You and a friend of mine think alike. My friend thought that the Nobel Committee would have liked to wait until just before the 2012 election to give The One his medal, to boost his chances of getting “four more years” in the Oval Office. But then (he postulates)they looked at the polls, realized that Obama is so increasingly unpopular that it might not help if they waited, and decided to give it to him now in the “hope” of boosting him in the eyes of the American electorate.

Which reminds me irresistibly of P.T. Barnum’s observation that “nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public”. Barnum is, even now, probably raising a glass to the Nobel Committee for being so faithful to his “vision”.

clear ether

eon

Oct 10, 2009 - 5:12 am 62. GG:

You should not lump all 3 scandinavian countries together. Denmark has been an true ally to the USA. We send soldiers to Irak and Afghanistan.
If I remember correctly , the Danish losses in Afghanistan exceeds the us losses measured relative to population.

I do agree with your basic message , but do not compare Denmark to Norway and Sweden , please !

Oct 10, 2009 - 5:24 am 63. michigander:

I think it was given to “the Man” because they know flattery will get them what they want. Wonder why Bill Clinton didn’t get awarded the Nobel as he too is an appeaser . Did race play a part in this too ?

Oct 10, 2009 - 6:00 am 64. Zach Foreman:

Obama getting the Nobel Prize?
Oh, yeah. That was the episode where the Nobel Prize jumped the shark.
Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. A black man gets elected president. Give him the Nobel Prize! He’s healed our spiritual divide! He’s brought hope to the globe!

Oct 10, 2009 - 6:10 am 65. Parad E. Makewater:

Right after I finish breakfast I plan to start working on curing AIDS, cancer, and athlete’s foot. I should be pretty successful, if I can just wish hard enough, and give wonderful, uplifting speeches.

Does anyone know the address of the Nobel Committee so I can let them know where to send my Nobel Prize for medicine?

Oct 10, 2009 - 6:40 am 66. Tito:

It’s kind of strange that criticism of the committee for awarding this “prize” to a man who has accomplished nothing beyond self-promotion is taken as criticism of the recipient, who had no control over the award. It’s also kind of strange that those who support the recipient see the award as an honor rather than the insult it actually is.

Oct 10, 2009 - 8:36 am 67. Fred Beloit:

A comment without content, #5. A new low? I doubt it. They are probably just growing tired of defending the indefensible, e.g., a prize to someone who may someday actually do something beside talk…maybe.

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Oct 10, 2009 - 8:41 am 69. Phd:

Maybe the backers of the Taliban and AlQueda got to the committee. Canonize the One as the new “Prince of Peace”, and there’s no way he’ll be able to win Afghanistan or Iraq, or even the continental USA, if it were to come to that.

Oct 10, 2009 - 8:45 am 70. Fred Beloit:

#23 “They do neither fringe wings of their respective parties any real good. Nobody can reverse the honor, he got it. So its moot, really.”

Nah. There is a difference between an honor and a joke, Poor Folk. From Free Dictionary:

“joke (jk)
n.
1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal
a. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
b. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.

honour US, honor [ˈɒnə]
n
1. personal integrity; allegiance to moral principles
2.
a. fame or glory
b. a person or thing that wins this for another he is an honour to the school
3. (often plural) great respect, regard, esteem, etc., or an outward sign of this
4. (often plural) high or noble rank
5. a privilege or pleasure it is an honour to serve you

Oct 10, 2009 - 8:50 am 71. bourne2y:

All I want to know is:

What did the President do, and when did he do it?

Oct 10, 2009 - 9:39 am 72. Amor de Cosmos:

Because this is for “efforts”, I hereby petition the committee to award the prize to the President for the next three years. That will show the jingoistic redneck 48% who didn’t vote for Savior of the World what real world peace looks like.

Oct 10, 2009 - 9:42 am 73. Steve:

I second #43 PAthena’s question: Who nominated Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Oct 10, 2009 - 10:13 am 74. Gylippus:

Thanks for your clarity Ms. Rosett

Oct 10, 2009 - 10:46 am 75. Fred Beloit:

#8 Poor Folk: “My coach used to say ‘we are losing and it shows on your faces..and our opponents are enjoying it all….way too much’.”

I didn’t know you were a jock, Mr. Folk, a debating jock. But I am sorry to hear your debating team was a laughingstock. Kind of like you efforts at debating on the internet, eh? Well plus ca change, they say.

Oct 10, 2009 - 11:07 am 76. Joe:

Maybe this is a bit nitpicky, but nearly all (if not all *)of America’s WWII and Cold War weapons were produced by government contractors and paid for with tax money. In other words, big government spending. There is literally no element of free enterprise in the system by which the US researches, develops, and produces weapons.

*The only exception I can think of is that the weapons we provided to our allies in Nicaragua to fight the Cold War menace of nuns, which were paid for with money the Reagan Administration made selling missiles to Iran.

Oct 10, 2009 - 11:10 am 77. Rubicon:

Making the award of a Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama even more pathetic is the realization that nominations for this years awards were due……. ready for it……..
February 1, 2009!
The man was in office less than three weeks, and a nomination was sent in to the Nobel Committee for the “Peace Prize”?????????
If this man had any character at all, he would have declined the award, quietly, and then let his performance show if he deserved to be considered.
This award proves the left, around the world, are working hard to sell their ideals to all as what we all should buy into, despite decades of failure of the entire concept of socialism!
Think about the more deserving candidates whose nominations were passed over, for Obama & his promise, which leftist the world over are counting on him to impose on America.
This is another reason Americans should act to neuter the excesses & unreasonableness of Democrats come 20101.

Oct 10, 2009 - 11:30 am 78. myth buster:

I certainly wouldn’t mind if Obama had to turn over the prize money to the Treasury- it would help repay all the money he spent for crazy stunts involving Air Force 1.

Oct 10, 2009 - 11:36 am 79. sylvester Aboki:

Nowegians offered a statement for their peace award which have been offered to President Obama. Not satisfied you can start your “Noble Price” if you can. You hate him so much but remember he did not steal his presidency, true democracy made him president not your hate! Please remind me what is your pride? Hate? Pride goes before a fall, ‘cos hate will blind your eyes. America’s economy can also grow during peace not only during WAR!!!

Oct 10, 2009 - 11:48 am 80. satch:

Wow…reading the comments here re Obama’s Nobel award has been a real education, and leads me to wonder; do you guys have ANY clean underwear and bedsheets left?

Oct 10, 2009 - 11:59 am 81. Taking the Prize « Slow Stagger:

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Oct 10, 2009 - 12:14 pm 82. trilby:

If we make the leap of faith assumption that the Nobel Committee is not corrupt, we must ask ourselves a couple of questions:

How much was the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama really nothing but another petty anti-Bush statement by the Norweegan committee?

And how much of it was an award to the people of the United States of America for electing its first black president on the (unkept) promise of real change?

History – real history you can pass down to your grandchildren by word of mouth – will still judge the Committe wrong on both accounts: the selection (as that of Gore) devalues the award to worthlessness; Barack Obama is a liar, albeit a black liar.

Oct 10, 2009 - 2:00 pm 83. Susan:

Right on the MONEY!

Oct 10, 2009 - 3:23 pm 84. Big Red:

#62. GG, very true, the Danes are good friends and allies. I once heard someone remark that he had travelled all over Europe extensively and only in Denmark did anyone, on learning he was American, say “thank you for saving us from the Nazis.” They and the Australians have been our country’s truest friends. The Aussies have stood by our side in every war since WWI, and that includes Viet Nam.

Oct 10, 2009 - 3:36 pm 85. BlueRidgeForum » OVERSEAS MISCHIEF | Israel, Honduras, a Nobel “IOU”?:

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Oct 10, 2009 - 4:26 pm 86. Walworth:

I am LMAO.

Obama–Affirmative Action Harvard student, Affirmative Action President, Affirmative Action Nobel Prize winner.

Too funny!!!

Oct 10, 2009 - 7:28 pm 87. Michael Lonie:

#76 Joe,
In WWII the weapons were produced by private companies acting as government contractors, selling goods and services to the government. That is not the same, at all, as the government owning the companies, as our Federal government now owns Chrysler and GM. The free economy of the US produced the wherewithal to fight the war.

There is something else, which I should not have to explain to you, but evidently must. We nasty right wingers think that there are tasks that the government must perform, tasks it ought not to perform, and tasks it must not perform. That is what our Constitutional republican government means, limitation on the powers of government in order to let the people be free. The most important task the government performs, indeed that it must perform, is national defense. So we don’t have any quarrel with reasonable governmental action in the national defense, nor to taxes levied for the purpose. Giving away free houses to deadbeats is an altogether different matter.

#55 Adina,
If the members of the Nobel Committee think they are buying Obama with this award they are likely to be in for a shock, and in the not too distant future at that. Chicago politicians are indeed most of them bribable, but there are no honest politicians there. In other words, you can buy them, but they will not stay bought, which is the definition of an “honest politician.” Even Soros is likely to find this out someday, no matter how much he spent on getting the I Won elected.

As for the Nobel Peace Prize itself, by now it dishonors any recipient. Once the prize had been given to the terrorist Yasir Arafat while he was ramping up the terror campaign against Israel, it ceased to have any meaning. This prize was one more deliberate pokle in the eye to Dubya and to America as the long time guardian of the West, on whom the Europeans such as the Norwegians depended for their security. If Obama gets his way, the next time the Euros need our help we will not be there for them. All this award means is that the world has become impossible to satirize, and that the inmates are running the asylum.

Oct 10, 2009 - 8:03 pm 88. Um, Yeah:

America, in the course of defending its own freedoms, has long extended to the likes of Norway, Denmark and Sweden a protective umbrella.

Sweden is part of NATO?

Geopolitics fail.

Oct 10, 2009 - 8:28 pm 89. lome:

Giving honor to the party of death headed by Obama shows that the ….
“the inmates are running the asylum.”
Very well said!

Oct 10, 2009 - 10:56 pm 90. Walworth:

It’s only fitting that socialists would not give an award to people who have earned it in order to give it to someone who hasn’t earned it.

Oct 10, 2009 - 11:25 pm 91. paul:

ill never believe anyone who wins deserves it again. ever. so much for nobel prize.

Oct 11, 2009 - 12:51 am 92. kindness:

I imagine theses commentators loved the bush43 Administration. What does that say about you right there.

Obama did America proud by earning us all a Nobel as our President and all you can do is kvetch. Get over yourselves. You got 7 1/3 more years of this.

Oct 11, 2009 - 6:30 am 93. pastorblastor:

I honestly believe that someone from his own circle nominated him. Anyone could have done so and it only adds to the ugliness of his circle of “friends.” But folks, come on, the Nobel Peace Prize has never been anything worthwhile ever. It is like the Pulitzer or the Oscar which are awarded by people in their own perspective fields to themselves! And, remember, it is award by Norway for crying out loud. Anyone remember Quisling?

Oct 11, 2009 - 8:57 am 94. jed dem:

Reading these comments makes me see how deeply divided the country must be. We on the right cannot win by being bitter and angry and name-calling. If the rest of the world loves Obama — good for him. If we want to take back the country, we need to win at the ballot box. Norway doesn’t vote! If we keep screaming and screeching we will just alienate more of the middle and lose the next election too. Let us have a rational debate. I’m sure some of Obama’s ideas are actually good. Let us not be obstructionist just to be obstructionist. Let us show the country we can all work together to get things done. If the right looks like it can help get things done, maybe we will get voted back into power. If we look like we are just the anti-Obama party, we are going to lose big.

Oct 11, 2009 - 3:34 pm 95. goy:

90. Walworth: – It’s only fitting that socialists would not give an award to people who have earned it in order to give it to someone who hasn’t earned it.

Threadwinner!

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@92. kindness: – I imagine theses commentators loved the bush43 Administration. What does that say about you right there.

You should try reading what you wrote, for your own comprehension.

YOU imagine? What YOU imagine doesn’t say anything about anyone but YOU.

BHO didn’t “earn” a Nobel, by his own admission.

Take a vacation from your imagination for a while. You might learn something about the real world.

Oct 11, 2009 - 7:15 pm 96. Token Conservative · Some reactions to the Nobel: The apotheosis of Barack Obama:

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Oct 11, 2009 - 11:13 pm 97. Andreas:

I do find your understanding of ”socialism” utterly hilarious. To even suggest that Thorbjörn Jagland is a socialist is absurd. Would you also call Gordon Brown and Tony Blair the same thing? Guess so.

Well, now you all know what the Europeans think of mr. Obama. Sure, some think the prize is a bit premature. But very few questions that your new president has reminded the world what America really is about. Unfortunately a lot of you Americans seem to forget! In this respect, the Nobel peace prize 2009 is a well put reminder.

Oct 12, 2009 - 12:59 am 98. Monologue – Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize? — securefreedom radio:

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Oct 13, 2009 - 2:03 pm 99. Steynian 390 « Free Canuckistan!:

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Oct 15, 2009 - 5:16 pm 100. Call me Lennie:

I’ve been spreading this piece of doggerel around the conservonet to illustrate the point that O’s Peace Prize is so worthless it belongs in a box of Cracker Jacks

Candy Coated Popcorn peanuts and a Nobel Prize
That’s what you get in “Barracker Jacks”

Oct 20, 2009 - 5:09 pm

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