Before I left work this morning, a co-worker told me Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. I dismissed him as another person just trying to get me riled up and start an argument. I mean, the idea was so ridiculous I couldn’t take it seriously. After all, what has he done besides talk and talk and talk.
The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama’s name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.
You think? I mean, how early is too early?
After they gave the Peace Prize to Gore, I thought they had hit rock bottom. I remember he beat Irena Sendler, a woman who saved 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust. (Read that again and tell me the Nobel Peace Prize has any credibility.)
When I heard Barack Obama won, I instantly wondered, “Who did he beat?”
Ingrid Betancourt, French-Colombian ex-hostage
AFP/Getty Images
Ingrid Betancourt holds her award from Reporteres Sans Frontieres on Sept. 24, 2009 in Montreal. Betancourt was captured by FARC in 2002 while campaigning for the Colombian presidency and held for more than six years before being rescued.
If anyone knows how to bounce back from tragedy, it’s Betancourt. During the Colombian senator’s 2002 presidential campaign, she was abducted by a marxist organization and held captive for six-and-a-half years. Since being rescued in July, 2008, she has been dubbed a “freedom fighter” and “symbol of hope.”
Denis Mukwege, Medical doctor
Dr. Denis Mukwege jokes with patients outside the surgical ward of Panzi hospital in Bukavu, DRC. On this photo’s date, Dr Mukwege had treated 21,000 women suffering from devastating gynecological injuries as a result of rape in Congo’s brutal war. He is the only gynecologist treating these wounds in the country. Oct. 14, 2008
Seeing pregnant women arrive at the hospital on a donkey and dying during childbirth encouraged Mukwege to study gynaecology and obstetrics. Noticing that so many women had been sexually abused, he later founded the Panzi hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of female sexual violence victims have been helped so far.
Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition
AP
An injured boy is tied on a bed after a bus he was in was hit by a mine. Nine women and seven children are among the 30 killed in the blast. The packed bus traveling from the western city of Herat to Kandahar, Afghanistan hit a land mine in Maiwand district Tuesday. Thirty-nine people were wounded.
These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civilians are regularly killed worldwide because the unseen bombs explode when stepped upon. Thirty-four nations are known to have air-dropped cluster bombs from the 1970s to the 1990s.
You have got to be kidding me?
Unfortunately, the only joke here is that Obama was more deserving than any of these three.
And there were 205 people/organizations nominated. Who else was more deserving? I’d say 204 of them.
UPDATE:
Sweet. Thanks to Mary Catherine Ham for the link at The Weekly Standard. If you came here from there, welcome! Don’t forget to subscribe.
Also, thanks to Below the Beltway for the link as well.
UPDATE 2:
In The Colony reminded me of another award Obama won before he was elected: Country Music Entertainer of the Year! There were rumors of a Nobel Prize back then.
I’m stunned.
I’m stunned.
I figured they’d give him all the Nobel prizes. I mean, c’mon… he is “The One”.
I figured they’d give him all the Nobel prizes. I mean, c’mon… he is “The One”.
“Sometimes Satan comes as a man of Peace…”
Bob Dylan, album Infidels, song title Man of Peace
Look out your window, baby, there’s a scene you’d like to catch,
The band is playing “Dixie,” a man got his hand outstretched.
Could be the Fuhrer
Could be the local priest.
You know sometimes
Satan comes as a man of peace.
He got a sweet gift of gab, he got a harmonious tongue,
He knows every song of love that ever has been sung.
Good intentions can be evil,
Both hands can be full of grease.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, first he’s in the background, then he’s in the front,
Both eyes are looking like they’re on a rabbit hunt.
Nobody can see through him,
No, not even the Chief of Police.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, he catch you when you’re hoping for a glimpse of the sun,
Catch you when your troubles feel like they weigh a ton.
He could be standing next to you,
The person that you’d notice least.
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, he can be fascinating, he can be dull,
He can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull.
I can smell something cooking,
I can tell there’s going to be a feast.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
He’s a great humanitarian, he’s a great philanthropist,
He knows just where to touch you, honey, and how you like to be kissed.
He’ll put both his arms around you,
You can feel the tender touch of the beast.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, the howling wolf will howl tonight, the king snake will crawl,
Trees that’ve stood for a thousand years suddenly will fall.
Wanna get married? Do it now,
Tomorrow all activity will cease.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Somewhere Mama’s weeping for her blue-eyed boy,
She’s holding them little white shoes and that little broken toy
And he’s following a star,
The same one them three men followed from the East.
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
“Sometimes Satan comes as a man of Peace…”
Bob Dylan, album Infidels, song title Man of Peace
Look out your window, baby, there’s a scene you’d like to catch,
The band is playing “Dixie,” a man got his hand outstretched.
Could be the Fuhrer
Could be the local priest.
You know sometimes
Satan comes as a man of peace.
He got a sweet gift of gab, he got a harmonious tongue,
He knows every song of love that ever has been sung.
Good intentions can be evil,
Both hands can be full of grease.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, first he’s in the background, then he’s in the front,
Both eyes are looking like they’re on a rabbit hunt.
Nobody can see through him,
No, not even the Chief of Police.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, he catch you when you’re hoping for a glimpse of the sun,
Catch you when your troubles feel like they weigh a ton.
He could be standing next to you,
The person that you’d notice least.
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, he can be fascinating, he can be dull,
He can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull.
I can smell something cooking,
I can tell there’s going to be a feast.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
He’s a great humanitarian, he’s a great philanthropist,
He knows just where to touch you, honey, and how you like to be kissed.
He’ll put both his arms around you,
You can feel the tender touch of the beast.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Well, the howling wolf will howl tonight, the king snake will crawl,
Trees that’ve stood for a thousand years suddenly will fall.
Wanna get married? Do it now,
Tomorrow all activity will cease.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Somewhere Mama’s weeping for her blue-eyed boy,
She’s holding them little white shoes and that little broken toy
And he’s following a star,
The same one them three men followed from the East.
I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Who cares what the boy-lovers in Europe think. So Obama has begun a new era of appeasment with the Muslim terrorists and the child molesters in Norway bestow a prize. How can you possibly be surprized?
Who cares what the boy-lovers in Europe think. So Obama has begun a new era of appeasment with the Muslim terrorists and the child molesters in Norway bestow a prize. How can you possibly be surprized?
I used to flash the peace sign and even had peace sign patches on jeans and a vest of mine back in the early 70′s. I even have a picture! Oh, I stopped a fight between a couple of kids back in July and yell at squirrels that fight in our back yard, too. Can I be nominated next year?
Arafat, Gore, O-blah-blah-blah-ma. Call it the Nobel Piece of s*** prize from now on. Alfred Nobel would find these Norwegian numbnuts and shove a stick of dynamite where the sun don’t shine. They probably saw a picture of Michelle in the morning and feared for their lives if they didn’t give it to him.
Global politics are almost as laughable as American politics. Time to start from scratch before the only people that have anything to show for their lives are the ones that have it now.
I used to flash the peace sign and even had peace sign patches on jeans and a vest of mine back in the early 70′s. I even have a picture! Oh, I stopped a fight between a couple of kids back in July and yell at squirrels that fight in our back yard, too. Can I be nominated next year?
Arafat, Gore, O-blah-blah-blah-ma. Call it the Nobel Piece of s*** prize from now on. Alfred Nobel would find these Norwegian numbnuts and shove a stick of dynamite where the sun don’t shine. They probably saw a picture of Michelle in the morning and feared for their lives if they didn’t give it to him.
Global politics are almost as laughable as American politics. Time to start from scratch before the only people that have anything to show for their lives are the ones that have it now.
Jesse Jackson speaks about Obama’s Nobel Prize
Some say with surprise
Obama how’d he
get a Peace Prize?
They say how could he have won?
With all his accomplishments
he aint done
Some say the Nobel committee gave him a present
For voting in the U.S. Senate
130 times present
But just in case you missed it
All his accomplishments
I will now list it
How about that bling,
He got that
from a Saudi King
Often he would scored
In a basketball game
15 point or more
Or how can you discount his dreams?
He had
for our Olympic teams
Or what about all the Community organizing he has done
Teaching inner city kids
being chased by gangs how to run
The Nobel committee Obama they did choose
Look at Bush
all he ever got was a pair of shoes
Jesse Jackson speaks about Obama’s Nobel Prize
Some say with surprise
Obama how’d he
get a Peace Prize?
They say how could he have won?
With all his accomplishments
he aint done
Some say the Nobel committee gave him a present
For voting in the U.S. Senate
130 times present
But just in case you missed it
All his accomplishments
I will now list it
How about that bling,
He got that
from a Saudi King
Often he would scored
In a basketball game
15 point or more
Or how can you discount his dreams?
He had
for our Olympic teams
Or what about all the Community organizing he has done
Teaching inner city kids
being chased by gangs how to run
The Nobel committee Obama they did choose
Look at Bush
all he ever got was a pair of shoes
Smeagol Bob Dylan’s “Man of Peace: often coming to mind when I see Obama. Here’s another Dylan favorite, What if Bob Dylan had come of age during the Obama Administration?
His topical songs would have been slightly different.
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THE LIBERAL AGENDA IT IS A FAILIN
.
.
Come gather round
Liberals
Wherever you roam
And admit that the anger against you has grown
And accept that soon you’ll be on your way home
.
If your seat to you is worth saving
Then you better start changing
Or soon you’ll be stoned
For the liberal agenda it is a failin……
.-= Stopthepresses´s last blog ..Jesse Jackson speaks about Obama’s Nobel Prize =-.
Smeagol Bob Dylan’s “Man of Peace: often coming to mind when I see Obama. Here’s another Dylan favorite, What if Bob Dylan had come of age during the Obama Administration?
His topical songs would have been slightly different.
.
THE LIBERAL AGENDA IT IS A FAILIN
.
.
Come gather round
Liberals
Wherever you roam
And admit that the anger against you has grown
And accept that soon you’ll be on your way home
.
If your seat to you is worth saving
Then you better start changing
Or soon you’ll be stoned
For the liberal agenda it is a failin……
.-= Stopthepresses´s last blog ..Jesse Jackson speaks about Obama’s Nobel Prize =-.
I appreciate your honesty – it is funny you thought it was joke at first.
.-= Curtis Chambers´s last blog ..Lost in the (Hospital) Supermarket =-.
I appreciate your honesty – it is funny you thought it was joke at first.
.-= Curtis Chambers´s last blog ..Lost in the (Hospital) Supermarket =-.
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stunned by the h8tred on this site…………..
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