Today’s announcement that Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize – having been nominated a grand total of 12 days into his presidency – officially places Obama and the Nobel Committee alike beyond parody. There’s no stereotype of liberals they won’t embody. Could you possibly come up with a storyline that more perfectly captures the whole idea of Obama – all talk and promises and of course self-congratulation, and nothing to show for it? At least they haven’t (yet) renamed the prize after him, but I assume that future winners will be given a framed commemorative picture on black velvet of a shirtless Obama astride a unicorn. This is the most self-evidently ridiculous award since Rafael Palmeiro winning Gold Glove for season when he played only 28 games in the field. The ESPYs are now a more prestigious award than the Nobel Peace Prize.
I can’t top Benjamin Kerstein’s thoroughgoing vivisection of what this all says about Obama, but let me add a few thoughts of my own. And brace yourself as well for a look at Andrew Sullivan’s bizarre attempt to defend the indefensible.
First, the contrast to last week’s Olympic snub is telling. The Olympics would be something of concrete value to the country – small, localized, and dubious value, but at least Obama could have claimed to have brought home the bacon for someone other than himself. That, he couldn’t do. But a cash prize payable personally to Obama, and a bunch of gassy generalities about “hope”? Sure thing! Even the international organizations seem to have figured out what Obama deserves and how to placate him when he gets nothing for his country.
Second, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in his first year in office, like promising to roll back the seas, pledging a net reduction in federal spending, promising no tax hikes for 95% of the American public, and circulating those infamous graphs showing the unemployment rate if the stimulus package was passed (hint: it’s much higher now than Obama’s people said it would be without the stimulus) sets an awfully high bar that Obama is bound to regret setting, for he will inevitably and certainly fall short of it.
Third, even on the Left’s own terms, it’s hard to see what exactly Obama has produced. The war in Iraq has been winding down since before he was elected, but it’s not over. The war in Afghanistan has gotten worse, and the U.S. presence there has escalated. Obama might decide to turn tail anyday now – earlier this week he gave a speech on terrorism that referenced Al Qaeda and multiple locations around the world but pointedly omitted mention of the Taliban or Afghanistan – but as of today, the anti-war movement has zilch to show there either. He hasn’t brought an end to rendition, electronic surveillance or indefinite detention, or closed Guantanamo – simply making our policies in those areas more opaque and less effective doesn’t count. He hasn’t produced anything concrete on “climate change.” The only concessions he’s won have been from the United States, such as dropping missile defense in Eastern Europe in exchange for an unspecified “hey buddy, I owe you one” from Vladimir Putin. Even the statements of the Nobel Committee were basically an affirmation that he was being given it as a form of social promotion: we hope if we give you the prize, it’ll encourage you to get more done.
Unsurprisingly, the most sycophantic reaction comes from Andrew Sullivan. Even Sullivan has to admit the award is “premature,” but then goes on to gush that “this is thoroughly deserved” and
Americans … haven’t fully absorbed the turn-around in the world’s view of America that Obama and the American people have accomplished.
As usual with such statements, Sullivan bypasses evidence and declines to specify who he means by “the world” – Putin? Hugo Chavez? Al Qaeda? The man on the street in Beijing, who has no political voice? – or what sort of results one would expect to see, if in fact “the world” was more favorably disposed towards the United States. Sullivan then ejaculates:
I hope more see both the peaceful intentions and the steely resolve of this man to persevere.
I’m at a loss to think of even a fictional, hypothetical example of Obama displaying “steely resolve,” but whatever gets you through the night, I guess.
This president has done a huge amount to bring race relations in this country to a different place…[the "far right"] know he threatens their politics of division and rule.
Leaving aside what any of that has to do with world peace (Bishop Tutu, he’s not), what place would that be? Henry Louis Gates certainly didn’t seem to think so. I doubt very much that we’re going to see anybody arguing from the Left that any issue of race relations has improved sufficiently under Obama so as to justify an end to race-conscious government policies or policies premised upon arguments about racial inequality. I can predict with 100% confidence that the Left will continue to spend far more time talking about race throughout Obama’s presidency than the Right. All that has changed is the benefit to Obama himself of Obama getting elected.
He has also directly addressed the Muslim world, telling some hard truths, and played a small role in evoking a similar movement of hope and change in Iran, and finally told the Israelis to stop cutting their nose off to spite their face.
One could spend weeks unpacking the untruths in this single sentence, a masterpiece of dishonesty and self-deception for which I can only tip my cap to Sullivan. The Cairo speech was, as I have previously discussed, full of at best half-truths and appalling moral equivalencies, Obama’s response on Iran was far later and more muted than similar statements on Iranian liberty by his predecessor (and the Iran crisis undercut the whole point of his Cairo speech)…but yes, I’ll give him “credit” for disagreeing with the Israeli people and their elected leaders as to matters of Israeli national security.
[W]e were facing a spiral of conflict that, unchecked, could have taken the world to the abyss. I see this prize as an endorsement of his extraordinary reorientation of world politics, and as an encouragement to see it through….[T]his is an attempt to tell us: look up for a moment, see how far we’ve come in pivoting away from global conflict, and give this man a break for his efforts and the massive burden he now bears.
And, in the darkness that still threatens, know hope.
This is hyperbole not on stilts but aloft in a zeppelin, and one can only extend best wishes that Sullivan survives the altitude. And as usual with Obama, it measures his accomplishments entirely by positing an unknowable “but for” world of unimaginable horror, then simply assuming that everything that didn’t happen is a positive accomplishment. He’s being lauded here for peace “created or saved,” the alternative to which is unprovable – the very definition of a faith-based standard of accomplishment. And even on these grounds, Sullivan can’t begin to specify what concrete thing Obama has done or will do, since that would open him to having to move his goalposts when reality intrudes in his castles in the air.
Today, we saw the real fruition of Barack Obama’s international ambitions. He delivered the one thing he’s really good at: accolades and money for Barack Obama.
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
Oxycontin and Twinkies
davemartin7777 Friday, October 9th at 2:21PM EST (link)They would have given one to Rush Limbaugh years ago, but they were worried he’d blow all the prize money on Oxycontin and Twinkies.
It's good to hear you feel he deserved one
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:23PM EST (link)nt
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
The Nobel Peace Prize???
Nevile Friday, October 9th at 2:26PM EST (link)Even Obama himself, in an uncharacteristic expression of humility, said he hasn’t done anything to deserve it. For once, I am in complete agreement with the president.
By contrast, ex-president Bill Clinton, who has arguably saved millions of lives through his post-presidential work for Africa, gets passed over for this empty-suited windbag in the White House.
The Nobel committee handed Obama the Peace prize as a consolation prize for his abysmally inept performance in front of the Olympics committee.
This award shows that the intellectual integrity of the Nobel committee has been seriously compromised.
They have become a joke – a banal parody of a once great and prestigious organization. Once more, a golden idol has been shown to have feet of clay.
You just wait
Robert A. Hahn (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:28PM EST (link)If you’re pissed now, just wait until he wins the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.
Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you’re dead.
You we me a keyboard and another cup of coffee!
Right Reason (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:52PM EST (link)n/t
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
LOL Robert!!!!!! nt
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:48PM EST (link)If it weren't for the fact that
Steph C (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 4:34PM EST (link)this is the trend with the committee for a number of years, I’d wonder if it was a set up. Obama knows full well he’s done nothing to deserve it but he accepted it anyway along with the money.
If it were any other body doing this, I would conjecture that it was done to highlight just what an egomaniac our president is.
But, all things considered, should anyone be surprised that another empty suit liberal won it?
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Obama having both ways again
Kyle-MI (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:36PM EST (link)Sure he mouthed some comments about not deserving it, but he is accepting it anyway. The man does not have even a molecule of decency in his body.
Clinton must have
WarEagle01 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:38PM EST (link)s#!t a brick when he heard about this.
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
Let them give him all the Nobels. But the Sweepstake winning prize? Never. It should be mine, mine, mine. NT
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 7:07PM EST (link)Moving forward
mizzoutiger Monday, October 12th at 10:17AM EST (link)Whether or not the award is a joke, he’s got it. It’s not like the Nobel committee is going to revoke it. Stop crying over spilled milk. Question is moving forward, what implications will this have on his policies. I think it’s going to throw the spotlight on him even harder and pressure him to really get things done. It’s prob true that the prize has become a political tool. Thought this video highlighted some good points: http://www.newsy.com/videos/obama_gets_the_nobel_prize Like the part about how it’ll force him to “honour its promise to re-engage with the world”.
Cannot stop laughing
wildbillfromalaska Monday, October 12th at 6:22PM EST (link)You hit the nail on the head,This “love fest” with BO as the recipient is beyond rational thought.Those who believe in their hearts that the “little o” is some sort of “messiah are in dire need of a heart transplant”.When those on the left who like the free ride from the government,but do not want to live in an actual socialist country realize what the “little o’s” true intentions are ,he will be lucky to find a prize in a million cracker jack box’s.
Wild Bill
Alaska
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
Thomas Jefferson
The Nobel P.P.
idealjoe (Diary) Monday, October 12th at 8:14PM EST (link)The prestige of this once famous and highly valued prize can now be compared with the prize in a McDonald’s Happy Meal. Plus they completely disregarded Nancy Peloso. How unfunny is that?
And what about Jumpin Joe Biden. He definitely should have been in the runoffs.
Why would ye die?
The American People
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:33PM EST (link)The American People haven’t accomplished anything except to fall for the grandest and most expertly-orchestrated media campaign in history to elect the first European President of the United States.
The Nobel Committee knows that Europe’s elites want what Obama wants for America: for it to be less competitive, for America to require its people to tithe more money to the UN and to international organizations, surrender more of its sovereignty and for America to finally join the “world community” of sclerotic European governments run by hand-picked elitists. Our steadfast refusal to do those things under the Bush Administration created an embarrassing situation for them in their hemisphere. So they’ve given him the Prize.
If Obama had refuse the Prize, Biden would have taken it for him.
Let’s make no mistake about it: this award is a Quid Pro Quo. Obama should, if he had any conscience whatsoever, award the Prize to America’s men and women fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.
European nations run by top-down elites and old family ties have known for decades that they cannot compete with the United States. They also cannot go to war with the United States. Therefore the only solution is to *change* the United States — to be more like them: more Socialist, more elitist, less meritocratic, and run by a carefully selected group of families who pull the strings.
Obama’s entire life and his success is based on this exact model. Today, he has pledged to make the United States more palatable to embarrassed European elites, who in and of themselves cannot justify their power.
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It's a Statist Award, Given by Statists, to a Statist
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:38PM EST (link)Except that the New Statists are International Statists, and Obama’s “humility” means “I promise to do more to strengthen the United Nations and remove from the American people more and more authority and give it to institutions that Europeanists support.”
They’ve paid him $1.4 million dollars to do that. That’ll buy a lot of half smokers with cheese at Ben’s Chili Bowl.
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By the way, the accomplishment thing...
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:52PM EST (link)The “accomplishment” thing is really surreal and postmodern. In a previous life, I worked at a law school where I knew personally one of the people who had been nominated for the Nobel — and made it to the final round of voting.
M. Cherif Bassiouni, who drafted the charter (officially: Vice-chairman of the General Assembly’s Ad Hoc and Preparatory Committees on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (1995 and 1998)) for the International Criminal Court and who was virtually unknown in this country despite the enormous ramifications for America that the ICC actually represents. Cherif is one of those people who quite deliberately manages to live under the radar because his work is so incredibly important.
Since I knew (well, let’s be honest, everyone did) he was in contention for the prize, as a lowly secretary I actually created a splash page for the College’s web site in advance of the announcement because we were sure quite he was going to win. He didn’t win! and I wasted 5 hours making the page. In 1999 the winner was Médecins Sans Frontières (“Doctors Without Borders”), which was at least a comprehensible action on the part of the Nobel Committee. Doctors Without Borders, after all, had actually *done* something to alleviate suffering.
Today, however, Cherif Bassiouni really won the prize he was not granted in 1999, whether anyone knows it or not. Obama supports the ICC and Human Events knows that as well.
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By the way....by the way....
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:25PM EST (link)The idea that Barack Obama woke up this morning and was “surprised” by the announcement that he had won the prize is perhaps the biggest lie that has ever been told.
We knew more than a month in advance that Cherif Bassiouni had not only been nominated but that he was in close contention to win. I spent almost an entire day working to create an announcement for the College prior to official unveiling.
Either Obama’s people never communicate with anyone who nominates people for the Nobel Peace Prize or they are simply lying to the American people, again.
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My favorite quote on the NPP came from McCain
Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:21PM EST (link)Is this guy joking? Was that quote taken from an SNL skit? Obama’s own party had numerous questions about awarding the NPP to someone who has really done nothing but talk and be the antithesis of George Bush.
By the way, which American’s is he speaking about? The five that actually believe his tripe? It certainly isn’t the majority that held their collective noses in the booth.
“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson
Oh, jeez
aesthete (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:47PM EST (link)I predicted that McCain would be his idiotic self here as always, but this is almost self-paradoical in its deference to liberals’ “good intentions”.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
It's amazing that McCain
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:02PM EST (link)McCain has proven to be the most politically correct Republican in history. He’s absolutely incapable of articulating a position that interferes with his political plans. He’s basically sad.
Which is why he should never have been, and must never BE again, the Republican nominee for anything other than water carrier.
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If McCain had been Lincoln
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:03PM EST (link)If McCain had been Lincoln, the South would have won the Civil War and Obama’s wife would still be a slave.
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And yeah, that's hyperbolic and asymptotic
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:11PM EST (link)And probably a little in the complex plane, but the guy is just a joke himself, so I don’t mind.
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No, no, you have it all wrong
aesthete (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:33PM EST (link)He would have “compromised” and created “common sense” regulation (none of which would be followed, of course) to make slavery “smarter, safer, and legal”, or followed through on somesuch nonsense.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
I know
banzaibob (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:22PM EST (link)I was watching the latest episode of Fringe last night and somehow I have slipstreamed to this alternate universe. I’ll wake up tomorrow and all will be well.
Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas
It’s better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!
Emiliano Zapata
Don't count on it. nt
Steph C (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 4:38PM EST (link)“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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ObamaWorld: more up is down and in is out -- I won the Powerball!!
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:31PM EST (link)By this Peace Prize logic…. I should be GIVEN the last PowerBall Jackpot. It is NOT that I actually did the process of picking the right numbers, put forth the effort to play them, and watch for the resluts to confirm I’d won…. No, but it was my HOPE at the chance for Change in my Life that it was my Desire to make winning it so…. Therefore, my intentions and hopes should be good enough…. I’ll take that in Large Denominations please!
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“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Somebody tell me how Mickey Moore-on didn't win Nobel for Economics for "Capitalism" movie?
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:34PM EST (link)by all this same logic and desire to just tout Socialists as the Obama Prize move was/is?!?!?
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Please, don't give the committee any ideas... NT
GCBWI (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 4:01PM EST (link)Because the Nobel Prize for Economis is run by more subtle socialists nt
aesthete (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:33PM EST (link)The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
Did he win for Jack or Squat?
ptort Friday, October 9th at 3:35PM EST (link)Talk about devaluing a brand. I think I want my tombstone to read, “R.I.P., Loving Husband, Father. Never won the Nobel Peace Prize.”
When I read this tagline
usrbinperl (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:38PM EST (link)I thought that there was suddenly a Nobel for c**ksucking.
Never mind. Carry on.
Sullivan
scipio62 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:45PM EST (link)I wonder how much “wacky tobacky” Sullivan smoked before he wrote his bilge?
A just war leads to a just peace and freedom. An unjust peace leads to death.
Cross-posted at Scipio the Metalcon.
Conservatives???
bc3 Friday, October 9th at 4:21PM EST (link)Does anyone other that MSM even pretend that Sullivan, Brooks, Frum and Parker are conservatives?
bc3
Sullivan
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 4:53PM EST (link)isn’t and really never has been – at his further right he was basically a neoliberal. It requires serious dishonesty to describe him as being anything but of the Left today.
Frum is still a conservative, at least on some issues, but a misguided one. The other two have pretty well lost their map and compass entirely.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
5 (nt)
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:22PM EST (link).
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The third short phrase that's killing the Obama administration
techsan (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 4:52PM EST (link)Policy guffaws aside….
Fortunately, or unfortunately, a few short phrases can drive a theme for a Presidency. Bush was hounded by “Mission Accomplished”. I think Obama is now up to three:
1) Death Panels
2) You lie!
3) Nobel Peace Prize
In the end, all we have on our side of the debate are facts and history.
McDonald's to put Nobel Peace Prize Happy Meals!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 4:58PM EST (link)NEWS FLASH: McDonald’s to put Nobel Peace Prize in next years Happy Meals!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
LOL Wolfster!!! nt
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:01PM EST (link)Darn...and I was saving box tops for mine (nt)
SteveLA (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:02PM EST (link)______________________________________
Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
LOL Steve!!
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:06PM EST (link)Y’all are making me laugh so hard I will have to redo my makeup!
General comments.
naraht Friday, October 9th at 5:13PM EST (link)All that has to happen for him to be nominated is that one of the people who is allowed to nominate has to put is name in.
As for declining it, the only two people who have willingly given up a Nobel are John-Paul Sartre the Existentialist Playwright (for Literature) and Lê Ð?c Th?, who negotiated the Paris Peace Accords with Kissinger which ended the US participation in the Vietnam War. (Hitler kept three scientists from accepting and the USSR kept Pasternak from accepting him.
I am seriously concerned.
davo119 Friday, October 9th at 5:14PM EST (link)Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. — Proverbs 16: 18-19 (KJV)
Never give in! Never! Never! Never!
Greatest completed accomplishment
naraht Friday, October 9th at 5:18PM EST (link)As best as I can tell, the most significant thing on Obama’s “to do” list that is completely *done* is rescinding the Mexico City Policy on NGO funding of abortions. Everything else is still a work in progress (even if close to completion) or hasn’t even started (like getting rid of DADT.)
Nobel Peace Prize, I want to end world hunger!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:24PM EST (link)I want to end world hunger! I haven’t done anything yet. Can I get in on one of the Nobel Peace Prize?. Oh hell, they seem pretty easy to get. I look in my box of corn flakes next week!
MMM MMM MMM – corn flakes
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Nobel Peace Prize, Coming to a vending machine near you!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:28PM EST (link)Nobel Peace Prize, Coming to a vending machine near you!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
7 eleven to carry Nobel Peace Prize
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:32PM EST (link)7 eleven to carry Nobel Peace Prize
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Christmas is coming order your Nobel Peace Prizes now!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:37PM EST (link)Christmas is coming order your Nobel Peace Prizes now
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
oh I bet there will be an infommerical trinket ppl can order like the coins to "remember" nt
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:41PM EST (link)kowalski - go free market - wish I had the $ to sell it nt
mom2oneson (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:42PM EST (link)Walmart cuts prices on Nobel Peace Prizes by 50%
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:44PM EST (link)Just in time for the Holidays, Walmart cuts prices on Nobel Peace Prizes by 50% !
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Oslo Norway, New shipment of Nobel Peace Prizes to be shipped next week!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:53PM EST (link)Oslo Norway, New shipment of Nobel Peace Prizes to be shipped next week!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Washington DC: Local T Ball team awarded Nobel Peace Prizes !
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 5:58PM EST (link)Washington DC: Local T Ball team awarded Nobel Peace Prizes!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Bank offers Nobel Peace Prize for opening new account!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:01PM EST (link)Bank offers Nobel Peace Prize for opening new account!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Summing up here...
kowalski (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:03PM EST (link)Let’s cut through all of the animosity and back and forth:
The Nobel Peace Prize, unlike the hard science prizes, is a political artifact, and an outdated one at that, that the Nobel Committee has created.
The original meaning of the Prize has been debased by the politics surrounding it, and as a result it really doesn’t have any meaning except the politics.
It’s also hugely wasteful because of that.
If the Nobel Committee wants to keep it, they should rename it:
“The Nobel Committee Political Activism Prize”
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Totally Agree
Leopard1996 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:58PM EST (link)In my mind he can take the Nobel Peace Prize and wipe his backside with it.
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
USDA to issue Nobel Peace Prizes instead for Food Stamps!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:11PM EST (link)USDA to issue Nobel Peace Prizes instead for Food Stamps!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Denver, Local carnival to give Nobel Peace Prizes at rubber ducky game!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:17PM EST (link)Denver, Local carnival to give Nobel Peace Prizes at rubber ducky game!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Easter Bunny: No eggs this year, Bunny giving Nobel Peace Prizes !
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:41PM EST (link)Easter Bunny: No eggs this year, Bunny giving Nobel Peace Prizes!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Hottest toy this Christmas: GI Joe with it's own Nobel Peace Prize
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:43PM EST (link)Hottest toy this Christmas: GI Joe with it’s own Nobel Peace Prize
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
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DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:57PM EST (link)Creigh Deeds is hoping improve his position in the polls for VA governor w/ his new and improved (No $$$) Nobel Peace Prize. Sorry that is the first thing I thought about when I read your sham wow thing below.
Order Sham-Wow now and get a free Nobel Peace Prize!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:47PM EST (link)Order Sham-Wow now and get a free Nobel Peace Prize!
Because we can’t do this all day!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
wolfster
Leopard1996 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:57PM EST (link)I am sure you can do this all day. I think a good one would be order a Sunggie, and and get a Nobel Peace Prize, a 1,600,100 dollar value for 29.95
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen
Great one!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 7:01PM EST (link)Great one! I love it!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Mattel introducing Nobel Peace Prize Barbie for 2012
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:56PM EST (link)Mattel introducing Nobel Peace Prize Barbie for 2012
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
78 year old man using Nobel Peace Prize as hubcaps on Edsel !
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 6:58PM EST (link)78 year old man using Nobel Peace Prize as hubcaps on Edsel !
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Play-Doh rolling out new Nobel Peace Prize stamping machine!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 7:03PM EST (link)Play-Doh rolling out new Nobel Peace Prize stamping machine!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
NEWS FLASH! :Acorn to give Nobel Peace Prizes for votes!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 7:13PM EST (link)NEWS FLASH! :Acorn to give Nobel Peace Prizes for votes!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
NEWS FLASH! : Get you H1N1 shot now and get a FREE Nobel Peace Prize!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 7:16PM EST (link)NEWS FLASH! : Get you H1N1 shot now and get a FREE Nobel Peace Prize!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
NEWS FLASH! : Obama to name new Nobel Peace Prize Czar!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 7:18PM EST (link)NEWS FLASH! : Obama to name new Nobel Peace Prize Czar!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Chicago: Judge orders all vending machine to take Nobel Peace Prizes as well as quarters!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 7:28PM EST (link)Chicago: Judge orders all vending machine to take Nobel Peace Prizes as well as quarters!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Detroit: GM to offer a FREE Nobel Peace Prize when buying a new car!
wolfster38 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 7:40PM EST (link)Detroit: GM to offer a FREE Nobel Peace Prize when buying a new car!
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
Sullivan confuses me with "divide and rule"
Eddie S Friday, October 9th at 8:23PM EST (link)Excuse me, but which party is the party of “divide and rule”?
Is it the party that says there should be one rule, one standard, one law for all citizens? Or the party that says, “Oh, you get more home loans because of your color… and you get special victim status for Hate Crimes because of your sex habits… and you get special opportunities in the workplace because of where your great great grandparents came from?”
Who is dividing here? Find ANY ethnic-only caucus in the congress and tell me how many Republicans involved? Then find me the official whites-only group… and if you can’t find it, keep looking… at least you can’t cause any more trouble spending a lifetime looking for what isn’t there.
Been AFK for the weekend...
cwilson (Diary) Sunday, October 11th at 3:06PM EST (link)and haven’t read all the threads, but it seems obvious to me what the Committee is doing here:
How could a Nobel Peace Prize winner invade Grenada to put down a murderous communist coup, or bomb Libya in response to the terrorist murders of 190 US citizens (and 80 others)? How could a Nobel Peace Prize winner invade Iraq (either in response to its invasion of a US ally, as in 1991, or pre-emptively as in 2004)? How could a Nobel Peace Prize winner — one who has shown himself, not least by his Worldwide Apology Tour, slavishly devoted to obtaining the good will of European pansies — respond with force to (say) an invasion of the Republic of Taiwan by mainland China? How could a Nobel Peace Prize winner allow or support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear weapons research labs?
In short, how could a Nobel Peace Prize winner do ANYTHING to project American power, advance her security interests, or protect her people, by force — if the Pantywaist In Chief were, thru some mystic happenstance, ever inclined on his own to do so?
That’s why the Committee gave Teh Won this award at the BEGINNING of his term of office — so that it would influence his behavior DURING that term.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! –Samuel Adams
Continental Congress2009
conritwng Monday, October 12th at 9:25AM EST (link)When the CC09 convenes in November , I hope everyone will support them as they try and redeliver a new set of Grievences to the US congress & White House & Supreme Court. We can petition for REDRESS of Grievences that OUR Government is doing! If not We The People….then WHO?
We REALLY need to clean House in 2010 AND 2012. I hope this will be a huge start…..Go to ………….Give me Liberty. org
I’m am sick of our country turning into a joke for Letterman and SNL
I’m either a birther or a moby, and the moderator doesn’t really feel it’s worth his time to determine which; both are insta-bans anyway.
A NORWEGIAN FOOT NOTE
geraldstephens Monday, October 12th at 1:48PM EST (link)Living in Ireland at the time, I sold a 2 year old Jaguar to a Norwegian physician. He had a high level position with that country’s nationalized oil company. He was a man in his mid fifty’s
In conversation at the time of the sale he revealed that if it had not been for a recent inheritance, he would never have had the money to cover the import tax on the vehicle. It was a staggering sum.
He went on to explain that their income tax was levied at 55%. He also revealed that his position took him to the US quite frequently and stated without reservation that he envied the American system.
I for one envy the absolutely superb action of the Nobel Committee. And the timing even surpassed that brilliance!
America thanks you Norway for providing us with unlimited ink.
Gerald Stephens
Hartford, CT