President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

[rubberhead]

Obama: "Oh thank you...my approval rating dropped to 49% today.....I need all the help I can get from my fellow socialists!!!"

Norway is socialist?

Obviously dear leader has done ****-all to earn this award. Now the media is trying to tell us that we should shut up and be proud. Of what? He hasn't done anything but talk!

 

[Ame®icano]

The list of people who can submit nominations is pretty long. In that light, it's not that shocking that someone nominated him.

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There are thousands of people able to submit nominations. It's not that surprizing that at least one of those persons nominated Obama. However, being nominated is not the same as being selected. So saying "What had he done in ten days" is a pretty hollow argument (even though I agree that he didn't deserve the prize).

It would be nice to know who gets the idea of nominating Obama after just ten days in the office.

 

[Qball]

People usually win the Nobel price after they have done something.

What did Obama do to be even nominated?

Not be George Bush.

 

[RadiomanATL]

Just found out.

My only question is...why? What has he done? I thought they gave out the award for actual accomplishments...not plans to accomplish something.

 

[Ame®icano]

People usually win the Nobel price after they have done something.

What did Obama do to be even nominated?

Not be George Bush.

True.

Based on that, you deserve nomination too...

 

[Coyote]

Unfucking believable. We can now officially write that award off as absolutely MEANINGLESS. And we can assume the committee is full of idiots, retards and political hacks..

You guys have always considered it meaningless.

I woke up when Arafat ( a terrorist ) won the award. I knew then that something was amiss with the "Nobel Peace Prize".

Arafat was a former terrorist...but then so was 1978 winner, Menachim Begin who took part in the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people, in the 1940's.

 

[RadiomanATL]

People usually win the Nobel price after they have done something.

What did Obama do to be even nominated?

Not be George Bush.

If that is the real reason, then it cheapens the meaning of the award to where its value is next to nothing.

I could reluctantly accept Arafat. He actually did some things (although he helped to start the conflict in the first place....but thats for another thread). But Obama? Really? Maybe in 2-3 years when he has actually had a chance to do something...but only 9-1/2 months in? No way. Award is essentially bullshit.

 

[Polk]

?

There are thousands of people able to submit nominations. It's not that surprizing that at least one of those persons nominated Obama. However, being nominated is not the same as being selected. So saying "What had he done in ten days" is a pretty hollow argument (even though I agree that he didn't deserve the prize).

It would be nice to know who gets the idea of nominating Obama after just ten days in the office.

You know, for how dumb it is, I can give you one even more bizarre. Some member of the Swedish parliament nominated Hitler in 1939.

 

[RadiomanATL]

There are thousands of people able to submit nominations. It's not that surprizing that at least one of those persons nominated Obama. However, being nominated is not the same as being selected. So saying "What had he done in ten days" is a pretty hollow argument (even though I agree that he didn't deserve the prize).

It would be nice to know who gets the idea of nominating Obama after just ten days in the office.

You know, for how dumb it is, I can give you one even more bizarre. Some member of the Swedish parliament nominated Hitler in 1939.

Did Hitler win? Thats the only way that it would be dumber than this.

 

[jillian]

Did Hitler win? Thats the only way that it would be dumber than this.

Really? Funny... I thought Arafat winning was way dumber than this.

 

[Polk]

It would be nice to know who gets the idea of nominating Obama after just ten days in the office.

You know, for how dumb it is, I can give you one even more bizarre. Some member of the Swedish parliament nominated Hitler in 1939.

Did Hitler win? Thats the only way that it would be dumber than this.

I was making a point about the nomination process.

As for previous winner, you could make similar arguments against Hjalmar Branting's win in 1921. He had only been in office six months when he won.

 

[Polk]

Did Hitler win? Thats the only way that it would be dumber than this.

Really? Funny... I thought Arafat winning was way dumber than this.

For all of Arafat's faults, I think his win was more justified, considering the context in which it occurred. You've got to remember we can look at the Oslo Accords today through the lenses of what happened after. That wasn't the case in 1994.

 

[rdean]

Republicans can't see this for what it is. This is a stunning rebuke by the international community over what Bush and the Republicans did for the last eight years.

If they had gone after Bin Laden and destroyed the leadership of a terrorist organization that perpetrated the largest attack against the United States in modern history, it might have been Bush receiving this award.

Instead, after the Iraq debacle, the US was seen by many as an international threat equal to terrorists groups because we have bigger and better weapons and had no conscience about using them or invading a country we didn’t like.

The Republicans have adopted the Timothy McVeigh strategy of "let's bomb the world". Instead of showing even the tiniest bit of reflection or introspection, they say, "Screw 'em". They haven't learned a thing and have made it clear they won't. So sad.

 

[jillian]

Did Hitler win? Thats the only way that it would be dumber than this.

Really? Funny... I thought Arafat winning was way dumber than this.

For all of Arafat's faults, I think his win was more justified, considering the context in which it occurred.

I'd disagree wholeheartedly.

 

[Ame®icano]

It would be nice to know who gets the idea of nominating Obama after just ten days in the office.

You know, for how dumb it is, I can give you one even more bizarre. Some member of the Swedish parliament nominated Hitler in 1939.

Did Hitler win? Thats the only way that it would be dumber than this.

He didn't have chance to win, the same dude who nominated him withdrawn his nomination.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Yes, the international community just kicked the American neo-con community dead in its collective dead ass. You folks have been rebuked permanently.

 

[Chris]

The Obama effect....

A loss of popular support has ended many terrorist groups, and it is a plausible scenario for al Qaeda. Support can be compromised through miscalculation, especially in targeting, and popular backlash. The Real Irish Republican Army and India's Sikh separatists come to mind. Or a campaign can fail to convey a positive image or progress toward its goals, which amply applies to al Qaeda.

While the group continues to be dangerous, the faltering popularity of this campaign with most Muslims provides clear evidence of this dynamic underway.

For instance, a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll released in September showed a remarkable drop in support for suicide bombing and Osama bin Laden in key Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey and Jordan. In Pakistan, whereas some 41 percent approved of suicide terror attacks five years ago, that number has fallen to a mere 5 percent today.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/06/cronin.al.qaeda/index.html

 

[jillian]

Yes, the international community just kicked the American neo-con community dead in its collective dead ass. You folks have been rebuked permanently.

I might not have stated it that way. But it does look as if Obama won for having the distinction of NOT being Baby Bush.

Speaks volumes.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Nothing so cheapens a prize than to give it to the undeserving

 

[Ravi]

After a lot of research, I found that no one knows exactly who nominated Obama, and I doubt they will step forward. Like Xenaphon stated, it could very well be an intervention from God.
There seems to be a lot of speculation on the blogs why he was chosen for the award. Topping the list was to bolster his poll numbers to help get his far left agenda into policies. Such as healthcare, and the Cap and Trade, and his leading this great nation down a path of stronger social issues.

And he's black, don't forget that.

Yes, the entire world conspires with Obama against the US.