Following up on Moe, the Democratic National Committee is in full throated and irrational defense mode of Barack Obama’s social promotion into the Nobel Prize winner’s circle.
“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse said in a statement.
Now wait just a damn minute.
The Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Yassar Arafat, Hezbollah, Jimmy Carter, and too many other terrorists and terrorist sympathizers to count.
It looks like it is the Nobel committee throwing its lot with the terrorists and those who sympathize with them.
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RJD (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:09AM EST (link)nt
The moment
SteveLA (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:14AM EST (link)Erick
I think you’re about to see an “Oh really” moment in the country thanks to the Nobel crew and the idiots in the White house.
The smart non ego driven thing for Obama to have done was to say, “No thank you I have not done enough yet”, and gracefully turned down the award. Not going to happen.
Keep an eye on the MSM outlets, especially those with a world audience like CNN, there’s going to be a lot of “Oh really” commentary.
Even here on American Street, not the Arab Street by the way, Joe Six Pack is going to look at the accomplishments of King Obama towards world peace and go…”Oh really”.
This is one of those events where saying less is saying more. It’s like the Hans Christian Anderson tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. It only takes a few small voices to point out the obvious and people will get it…..Oh really.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
It took the O just 12 days to "win" the Peace Prize
greggoulas Monday, October 12th at 9:41PM EST (link)Oh really? The deadline for Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize occurred just twelve – that’s 12 – days after Obama was sworn in! The entire time he was a member of the Senate, he was campaigning for the Presidency. When did he have the time to undertake any measures toward world peace? The committee gave him this “prize” for the good words – not works – he has achieved. Nobel prizes are meaningless, worthless, dust collectors.
And on top of that
bk (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:16AM EST (link)Obama’s folks have just said in the past week that the Taliban have a rightful place in Afghanistan and we have no beef with them.
And if Obama has said anything about Israel that didn’t match everything Hamas says, then I must have missed it.
What unthinking idiots.
Crowe (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:23AM EST (link)The criticism is not of the President, per se, but of the Committee’s choice of a man who has done next-to-nothing, had only been in office a week when the nominations were due, and what he has done since then has brought more confusion–hardly anything resembling peace.
Plus, considering his bow to the King of Wahabbist Saudi Arabia, how many speeches and few actions have won him the plaudits of such leaders as Qaddafi, Achmadinejad, and Chavez, while alienating friends like Britain, Australia, eastern Europe, Israel, Sarkozy, and while he’s on the verge of inviting the Taliban back into the governance of Afghanistan, who, exactly, is the choice and friend of terrorists?
Do the Dems ever think before sending these things out? What a bunch of kindergarteners just hurling the first mean thing they can think of.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Consolation prize for IOC fiasco?
WarEagle01 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:43AM EST (link)I wonder. They both took place in Denmark. Maybe the Danes are embarrassed about making Barry look like a complete fool in Copenhagen last week. This is their way of making nice. In any case, the Nobel Peace Prize is now officially on the same level as the Teen Choice Awards.
“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)
Disregard
WarEagle01 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:50AM EST (link)I just realized it’s the Norwegians who give out the Prize.
“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)
Disregard
WarEagle01 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:50AM EST (link)I just realized it’s the Norwegians who give out the Prize.
“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)
We mourn today as..
GregInFla (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:45AM EST (link)we bury one of our own in Satellite Beach, Florida.
Sgt. Robert D. Sanchez, member of US Army Rangers, was killed in action October 1. And this wannabe-leader is accepting peace awards based on future achievements. Mr. POTUS, the future is now. If you play, play to win. In these games, there is no such thing as a good loser.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
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GregInFla (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 11:51AM EST (link)Sorry.. But I do hear that the Obama will put the prize on ebay to help defray healthcare costs.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
And Huckabee Calls It "Right Wing Whining"
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 12:05PM EST (link)“There will be an outcry from those on the right who will say that Obama’s nomination, made 2 weeks into his Presidency, is impossible to justify, but I think such an outcry will sound like right-wing whining.
The better response is simply to allow those on the left to explain what he did in his first two weeks as President that merited such recognition.”
Huckabee complaining about others whining?
NightTwister (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 12:15PM EST (link)Now that’s rich!
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
Republicans...true patriots...Not!
leftleaning Friday, October 9th at 12:16PM EST (link)Yet again republicans show their true colors. To be found in the republican dictionary Patriotism: Love and/or devotion to ones naked political ambitions. Party and ideology first. Country first only when it suits venal political goals. Purely disgusting! Not unexpected but still breathtaking in the depths which will republicans sink.
Hey, troll get lost
Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 12:18PM EST (link)BTW, we don’t need your kind around here.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Clock's ticking
ceili_dancer (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 12:23PM EST (link)Thanks for playing we have some wonderful parting gifts. Please exit stage left, your preferred direction anyway.
We need to ask Neil or Moe to get rid of this trash upstream in this subthread
Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 12:28PM EST (link)I’m sure they will know who it is.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
why?
shilosceno Friday, October 9th at 1:13PM EST (link)I am new to the forum but why do people get banned for speaking their opinion even if it is not the same as our own?
not all opinions have value
streiff (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 1:22PM EST (link)this site does not exist to air random opinions, our purpose is center-right activism. It isn’t like it is a secret.
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
Gotcha
shilosceno Friday, October 9th at 1:23PM EST (link)Thanks, I am still a noob with forums.
School must be out today, the children are out in force.
Achance (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 12:39PM EST (link)Does your mommy know you’re down in the basement doing that?
In Vino Veritas
"leftleaning" look in the mirror.
penguin2 (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 12:59PM EST (link)What you wrote makes you a true leftist. You need a dictionary to know the meaning of the word Patriotism. It is you and your Leftist/Communist cohorts are have no limits to the depths that you will sink.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
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streiff (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 1:14PM EST (link)he didn’t rate a “BLAM”
“What keeps me here is the reek of beer, the ladies and the craic”
Why would anyone expend the time and effort required
GCBWI (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 4:54PM EST (link)to subscribe (although anonymously) on a political website with which you disagree and “sacrifice” the account by posting stuff you have to know will get you banned?
Anyone got insights into the psychology of the troll?
I think Carla Bruni should have won the Nobel Piece Prize.
Tbone (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 12:49PM EST (link)What?
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Dittos to that
Joe Rivers (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 1:10PM EST (link)Piece of French Vanilla Piece Prize
Maquisard
Woodhouse is an idiot
irishgirl Friday, October 9th at 2:30PM EST (link)Talk about reaching. He’s just stuttering and stammering because they know they can’t come up with one damn thing to defend or explain this win.
I'm still not buying that he didn't know it was coming.
jlynnr (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 2:43PM EST (link)This reeks of pay-off for scrapping missile defense, throwing Israel under the bus, and being the first openly fascist American president.
But I’m prone to conspiracy theories.
Nobama Nobel No Peace
peg_c (Diary) Friday, October 9th at 3:41PM EST (link)That’s all I have to say that’s printable.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
Obama's Nobel
ZZMike Monday, October 12th at 6:31PM EST (link)You don’t give out prizes like that for things someone might do. Otherwise, we might as well give out diplomas to freshmen, and Purple Hearts before the battle.
Obama also shows his arrogance by being the first President in 18 years not to meet with the Dalai Lama, real Peace Prize winner.
We can’t be too hard on him, though. He;s just following orders from Beijing.