BREAKING NEWS: FNC is reporting Barack Obama has just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Apparently it was for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
FYI Nominations closed February 01st, two weeks into Obama’s presidency.
Developing….
And no, this is not a joke…
Globe and Mail
Breitbart
Just read this on the Herald’s site.
Mind boggling!!
I just spoke to an American that I work with…he is embarrassed about this.
I think his words were “but he hasn’t DONE anything…”
Oh, it’s a joke alright…
Now, where do I get me one of them thar nomination forms.
Just now, I got my oldest daughter to stop fighting with my young daughter by tell one to brush her teeth, and the other to go eat breakfast.
Peace reigns in our house!
As a norwegian, I’m sorry and ashamed…
I read at NRO that the deadline for nominations was February 1st, ten days into Obama’s presidency. He’s obviously a fast worker.
madness, let’s see did he get it for trying to set up a left wing dictatorship in Honduras, throwing Poland, the Czech Republic and Israel under the bus, maybe his actions against the Iranian nukes, his decisive actions against the repressive terrorist Taliban in Afghanistan, creating a new touchy feely America, wait I figured it out, he got because he gave Queen Elizabeth II an Ipod full of his speeches, there, that explains it.
If this isn’t a joke, and I have only read it from the AP, so I am not sure yet, maybe it the silver stake that nails any remaining credibility that the Peace Prize had to the back of the coffin.
Not a joke? Oh, yes it is. In dubious taste.
Serenity, now….the Peace Prize jumped the shark a long time ago. Not that the Great and Good won’t use this to beat us unwashed over the head for the next three years, or more.
This has to be some remarkably successful internet worm.
Hope = Peace.
After extensive research, Norwegians have found that hope equals peace.
Got problems with your wife? hope for change.
Issues with your boss? hope for better times.
Loud demonstrators at the embassy? hope they go away.
Lies in the MSM? hope for more honest reporting
Too many countries with nukes? hope for disarmament.
Geez, I feel better already. I’ve resolved nearly all my problems, and the sun hasn’t even risen today.
Every beauty pageant contestant should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now I wonder who manipulate this sock puppet, definitely not Chicago.
This is all over network news. I already thought the Nobel Peace Prize was political. Now I know it’s a disgusting joke. Even Matt Lauer at NBC is saying there is no thing done to deserve this.
This blemishes the prize Yaser Arafat worked so hard for.
What FAA067 said. Excuse me while I go vomit.
On a serious note…
Like so many government initiatives, I fear that this selection will not result in what it was intended to do.
I believe that these misguided Nobel Peace selectors must believe that awarding him this prize will inspire others to talk, and seriously consider peace for all conflicts.
Sadly, I fear the reverse will come true.
Wait…did he make a documentary somewhere along the line that I missed?
Simply unbelievable.
It must be completely demoralizing to lifelong peacemakers to see this chump get the prize for eight months of psuedo work and platitude spewing.
I think Obama’s “earning” of the Nobel Peace Prize does more to cement the utter irrelevancy of the Peace prize rather than to give Obama any more credibility (though you know he’s going to flog it for all it’s worth). He joins the ranks of Yasser Arafat, who continued his jihad against Israel but decided to use the “peace process” to further his goals of weakening Israel, and whose Palestinian Authority was so hopelessly corrupt that it drove Palestinian voters into the arms of Hamas. He also joins Al Gore, who with the straightening of the hockey stick that has come in recent weeks will be proven as one of the greatest con-artists in history, sounding the alarm on climate change so that people will buy carbon credits from his own company. What is sad is the number of worthy people whose far more worthier contributions to peace are overlooked in favour of those who are more well known (I was trying to find the name of the woman who was in the running the same time as Al Gore but I was unable to – if any one else can fidn it let me know)- I think it may be a case of the peace prize committee being desperate for attention rather than fulfilling the commission Alfred Nobel had originally given it. I feel sorry for Alfred Nobel’s legacy; Obama’s going to make the peace prize committee a laughingstock by the time he’s through.
And in addition, he gets a nice chunk of change.
Good. This will do more in a short time to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize than any of the other discreditable things the committee has done (Arafat, Carter, IAEA, Gore etc.).
Even the Left is going to have a hell of a time explaining this one, and many of them will be embarrassed by the excuses they have to make — and no, I’m not naive, because it’s already starting. Schoolchildren and the mentally defective will be taken in, but that’s about it. Ultimately, Obama will look foolish.
This is just one more stage in the-emperor-has-no-clothes presidency.
This from the London Times:
“The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s head librarian, Anne Kjelling, could not say whether Mr Obama was personally informed of the decision but told The Times that there was no reason to think that he would turn it down.”
I’d say, with a nod to ET, that Ms Kjelling got that one right.
Now.. this is the ultimate WTF moment.UNREAL.
The Nobel prize was not awarded in 1939 which is too bad because it would have been interesting to see if Neville Chamberlain would have won. If he had, the blogosphere would now have been filled with comments on this Déjà vu moment.
Well they had to give him something after he “lost” the Olympics.
Truly the Affirmative Action President. Just shows up and wins everything. Doesn’t have to actually do anything or know anything while everyone else in the room is far more qualified and experienced.
What a farce. Everyone knows it should have gone to his teleprompter.
Bow and scrape before one Saudi king and see what happens ?
Nis nar
The Nobel people are just trying to jump the queue ahead of the MSM in the fellate Obama sweepstakes.
Nominations closed Feb 1? Wow, that’s a group that just can’t wait to fall to its knees.
I guess this means he isn’t going to win the Nobel Prize For Economics.
Arafat winning the award was indeed ridiculous for the reasons Fred pointed out above, but at least there was a smidgen of an argument that he did something, and pulled the wool over the eyes of many. If the new standard for winning is to do nothing, I nominate the bums sleeping under the railroad trestle near Front and Bathurst.
I guess those Norwegians really need Arab oil and money.
I hear Obama is “humbled” by the award. That will be the day.
I bet he keeps the money instead of giving it to a worthy cause. Leftists always keep found money.
Goreacle Report: It’s not a joke. I’m enraged.
I’m sending back/returning Moi prize. O and that Normandy bunch are pkhhlbg on Moi.
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“Who? What? So fast?” Mr. Walesa, who eventually become Poland’s president, said when told the news.
“There’s hasn’t been any contribution to peace yet. He’s proposing things, he’s initiating things, but he is yet to deliver,” Mr. Walesa said
To me this has sealed the deal ….the peace prize has gone the way of the oscars it has no value or meaning to me anymore it is sad becaseu that is suppose to represent something signifigant and now it represent’s the political control thel eft has . a wave of socialism has swept this planet and i do not like this crap .
Paul in calgary.
This is the European intellectual establishment delivering a last kick to the groin to the US Republicans. The awarding of this prize is all symbolism and no substance — rather like Obama’s presidency itself.
They should award him the Nobel Prize for Economics as well, for which he’s equally deserving. After all, he’s expressed a lot of hope about economics, and that’s the criterion, isn’t it?
From a Times of London commentary…
“It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration…”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867711.ece
Obama’s biggest strength is his ability to change people’s attitudes. Rightoids may disparage him, despotic dictators may laugh at him but one thing remains constant, he is a diplomat.
Congratulations President Obama, the world is better place because of your efforts!
Look everyone, before you rush to judgment consider this. The Great O lost the “O”lympic bid. With a certified pathological narcissist at the helm, they were just afraid he was about to “push the button” with the next colossal FAIL, so it’s just a way to stroke his fragile ego.
Obama’s biggest strength is his ability to change people’s attitudes.
Snort! Like his falling-like-a-stone approval ratings?
Let me try that one more time….
Stalin’s biggest strength is his ability to change people’s attitudes. Those who love individual liberty may disparage him, democratically elected leaders may laugh at him but one thing remains constant, he gets the job done.
Congratulations Chairman Stalin, the world is better place because of your efforts!
I’d rather somebody gave me a turd than a Nobel prize.
This is an award for not being George Bush. The One, without a single accomplishment except for getting elected, should be embarrassed to accept it. A couple of years ago it went to Goreacle for his science fiction effort to alarm the world about a non-problem. The Nobel peace prize has become a meaningless bauble
The Nobel Prize used to mean something. Like the UN. The CBC.
Posted by: FAA067: “This blemishes the prize Yaser Arafat worked so hard for.”
I think we have a winner for this thread!
On a serious note, this does make some sense. Years ago, someone had noted that there seemed to be a correlation between Time’s “Man of the Year” award and the beginning of the downfall of that man. There may be something similar going on here.
There can be no doubt that the Nobel Peace selection committee is very political with a very obvious left slant. It may very well be that even they knew that in subsequent years Obama’s record would be such that most people would realize that his efforts had increased the risk of world war rather than the other way around. So it would have to be in either his first or second year of his presidency. If the selection committee took seriously Mr. Biden’s prediction of a global crisis within Obama’s first year as well as the reports from European intel agencies that the Iranian threat is increasing, then the selection of his first year is understandable.
When one considers that he is in the company of Yasir Arafat, one could say that the award is very well deserved. Congratulations, Mr. Obama! Although that is saying more about the Nobel selection process than it is about Mr. Obama.
I think not stirred enough should change it’s handle as it’s quite clear that it’s frontal lobe has indeed been thoroughly stirred.
Sorry, I missed the second one about Stalin…carry on!
You gotta think that somewhere Jack! Layton is mighty pissed. A career full of the same tired old leftist bromides as Obama, and he ends up with nada.
“Congratulations President Obama, the world is better place because of your efforts!”
Stirred….typical ‘leftoid’ response.
‘because of his efforts’????
put some meat behind that statement please. What ‘efforts’?
Of course he deserves it.
In fact, I think that he will be the first person to win a Nobel Trifecta for Peace, Literature and Economics.