2009: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy …
2010: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 to Liu Xiaobo for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.
2011: …
ht: Ward
What? You think Obama gives a crap about Liu Xiaobo? Obama cannot ‘use’ him for anything so whatever eh?
But Hu’s on first.
And I might add that ‘non-violent struggle’ rarely works. It’s what one side does when it has no guns.
So, now, the Left is embracing Communism ?
I am not stunned, nor shocked. They have already embraced Socialism, Atheism, Islam, Illegals, Black Panthers and the GLBT Community.
Bush once told us we needed to learn Spanish, now Obama is gona suggest Chinese, WTH is next Farsi ?
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The most powerful man in the (still)free world, rolling out the Red carpet for the jailer of a fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the media cant rouse itself to ask a simple question?
Then the added bonus of Hu spewing rhetoric on Chinas committment to human rights, as the 2009 Nobel winner makes excuses for him?
Could the issue be more perfectly and exquisitely framed for the MSM?
The story is already written, it just needed a question.
They should give the Nobel Prize for fiction to the IPCC, that’s as close as they’ll come anyway.
Meanwhile, if Obama deserves one for peace, then this SDA post is enough reason for me to win in literature.
They should just award it to Obama again.
Since he’s done the same thing that he did prior to receiving the first one: nothing!
He’s got it in the bag!
Peter O’Donnell, that was good.
The Nobel Committee has become a political instrument.
The Nobel Peace Prize means shit – much the same way the Order of Canada means shit.
The Nobel prize became meaningless when Gore and Obama took it. It redeemed itself slightly with Lu Xiabao. But is that the extent of our concern for human rights in China- giving virtually meaningless prizes to activists? Hu Jintao is a big, fat liar. Obama, like virtually all Western leaders couldn’t care less about the downtrodden in China. He’s selling American jobs to China.
The Nobel Prize committee MUST award the 2011 NPP to President Obama for his courage in mentioning human rights to his banker!
Hu:”Did you just say something about human rights”?
Obama:”hm,uh…no…it wasn’t important”.
Well framed ward. The ‘elephant’ in the room is the unasked question. Priceless.
This is the way I imagine the conversation at the White House went …
Obama — “umm, could ya do something about the, umm, human rights abuses? it would help me a lot for 2012.”
Hu — “sure, we’ll kill dissidents before taking their organs.”
Obama — “so the liberalization would be seen to accelerate … I like that a lot.”
Hu — “now where’s our 400 trillion?”