Nobel Committe is at least honest about its motives: to manipulate Obama
Well, at least they’re coming clean [emphasis mine]:
Jagland…rejected the notion that Obama had been recognized prematurely for his efforts and said the committee wanted to promote the president just as it had Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 in his efforts to open up the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev ended up presiding over the fall of the USSR, of course. Hmmm.
And here’s the mechanism by which the current Peace Prize is assured to be Leftist and politically motivated:
Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, the peace prize is given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Like the Parliament, the committee has a leftist slant, with three members elected by left-of-center parties. Jagland said the decision to honor Obama was unanimous.
Despite all this unanimity among Committee members, reporters were apparently as surprised as the rest of us on hearing the news:
The president had not been mentioned as among front-runners for the prize, and the roomful of reporters in Oslo, Norway, gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, uttered Obama’s name.
Yes, the press still has a bit of integrity. Which is more than can be said for the Committee.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a lefty political award given annually for legitimizing tyrants via weakening the authority of sane people. As such, it is entirely appropriate that Barack Obama was immediately nominated and received the award.
Well, one possible silver lining to this unbelievable Peace Prize situation is that the floodgates seem to have opened up and people seem eager to make jokes about Obama…finally!
Most of the really funny reactions are voices from the right of course (my favorite: “Where’s Kanye West when you need him?”) but from left to right, reactions are universally incredulous.
When you’re given a Nobel Prize and the reaction is surprise and laughter, that’s not good.
CV.
Why not?
Or, to put it another way, not good for who?
Just talking in lefty PC sanctimonious speak is now enough to win you this prize.
Image of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee
That’s not really in reference to their choice today, but rather past awards… like to a certain person who’s actions post award were anything but peaceful.
Not good for Obama.
What we have is a situation in which a lot of people are laughing and pointing out that the emperor has no clothes. He can’t be very happy about that.
Any chink in the armor is a good thing.
If one knew nothing about the Selection Committee other than its nominations closed Feb. 1, eleven days after Baraq took office, that’s enough.
One thing I don’t regret about my too-advanced age is that I will not have to stomach his prancing and speechifying for the next 40 years. Suck it up, young-uns!
Sorry to disabuase you but more people are delighted that Obama got the award and not unhappy. Yes. Premature. But it gives him a still larger platform to stand on and, as he urged the world, to make peace and better the world.
The day may well come when that which is good for America will be seen by those on the right as more important than a minor triumph for someone from the opposite party. The pettiness in its consistency reaffirms the fully negative perspective the conservatives have now as their brand mark.
alas, negativism is a rather low characteristic and a further indication of a total lack of a program or project that might be offered in opposition to the party that won the last election. The sour grapes attitude that marks every remark coming from the Right has long been tedious and offputting.
Go forth and sin no more
This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I’d been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.
To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize — men and women who’ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.
But I also know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it’s also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.
That is why I’ve said that I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations and all peoples to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. These challenges won’t all be met during my presidency, or even my lifetime. But I know these challenges can be met so long as it’s recognized that they will not be met by one person or one nation alone.
This award — and the call to action that comes with it — does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace. And most of all, it belongs to you, the men and women of America, who have dared to hope and have worked so hard to make our world a little better.
So today we humbly recommit to the important work that we’ve begun together. I’m grateful that you’ve stood with me thus far, and I’m honored to continue our vital work in the years to come.
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
Even inveterate Kool Aid drinkers like Jennifer Loven of the AP were hard pressed to say anything good about this. Well, in the end she did, but it took a lot of effort.
Oh good grief, Fred. Do you think that the Left was any less tedious and off putting from 2000 to 2008? Calm down. We are just questioning whether he deserves the award yet — as he did himself, in the address you kindly posted. At least we aren’t blaming 9/11 on ourselves and rooting for our country to lose a war and for our servicemen to die as your side did.
I had to read it four times in different articles to comprehend it wasn’t a joke, like an episode from the Onion turned into an War-Of-The-World’s like international scam.
“For what?” Said the Drudge headline.
Luckily – even my lib friends, even my daughter’s liberal teacher are saying, “For what?”
Maybe its a consolation prize for not getting the Olympics in Chicago?
I don’t know whether the pharmacist at your local drug dispensary has been distracted by the large bouncy fun-sacks of the new cashier over next to aisle 6 (Toe Fungus Remedies, Discontinued Discredited Birth Control Strategies, & Phosphate Enriched Cat Food for a fresher smelling cat box), or you’ve switched from de-caffeinated to dirt-soaked and distilled, but your words of elicited lucid ludicrousness hold iron for all to see, and hold. Whilst not as terse as Amy Hemphil (probably not correctly commutated), it flaunts the basic assertion I so stupidly fling (flung?) at the feet of so many so-called academics possessing no more grasp of the “real stuff” than that of bored laboratory test animals owning less than custard ramekins of consciousness. Voltaire said it best when he wrote, “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” Doubt is the quarrelsome traveling companion of both caution and inquiry, while certainty, as recent events might suggest, can turn a nation of normally decent people into reckless cheerleaders for unnecessary war and reality shows.
http://www.break.com/index/blowmouth.html
Of course, I’m thoroughly engrossed, and some women would say, engorged, in my work and trifling parody pursuits. I’m investigating how the visual system deals with the inherent uncertainty of sensory inputs, something that is further aided by sporadic visits to your palatial abode, rivers of beer less a factor than psychotropic nostrums of ancient ethno-botanic derivation. Even without the hydrocarbon impregnated glue of reason, models of perception commonly try to solve this problem by integrating multiple information sources (e.g., mud dancing, cake sitting, or by augmenting sensitive data collection organs with designated neurons for identifying Jennifer Aniston). I believe that these memes should also take into account that we can actively seek for the most useful new information (through addiction, pie chart movements, performing push-ups at the bottom of the river, etc.) given our current knowledge, tasks and goals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM_vLk1I6G4&feature=related
Toward this realization, I work on a Bayesian multivariate linear regression trout replicas of perception or active foaming agents, which I test empirically using human psychophysical experiments. I aim to design my experiments as close as possible to real world tasks and conditions, as several marine biologists were recently excited to have filmed a defecating whale shark in the Puget Sound area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9EpnVAl5JA&feature=related
fred lapides Says:
“Sorry to disabuase you but more people are delighted that Obama got the award and not unhappy.”
I don’t care if you or they ‘are happy’ or not. It shows you’re more ideological than rational. The man told you things you wanted to hear so you support giving him this peace prize without achieving peace… it / you / the situation are ridiculous… and this is the way the rest of us will see you.
Objectively, we will see if his / your vision leads to peace or more war. If it leads to more war, I have no doubt you will avert your eyes, make excuses, et cetera…
Sorry to disabuase you but more people are delighted that Obama got the award and not unhappy.
fred lapides: Who specifically are you talking about? Most people that I’ve read about are at best surprised and confused, even on the left.
Everyone knows that Obama did not deserve that award for his accomplishments, even Obama himself.
Now the Nobel committee admits that the award was a political move to “promote” Obama.
Never mind that Obama has no accomplishments so far. Never mind that he even snubbed a previous Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Dalai Lama, in order to make nice with China. Never mind that were other deserving candidates with real accomplishments who walked their walks and paid some real dues in the service of peace.
But none of that matters to you. The ends are right and any means are justified.
The Nobel Prize and a badge of any worth is dead, has been for some time.
*as a…
Goddamnit, I just wanna rip out my brains and stomp on ’em some times!!
We are all such good center, center right, and right people here. But just take one look at fred lapides website including viewing his pictures. It’s called Goodshit and see if you want to continue to be soo nice and fair with this guy.
My sympathies, nyomythus, since the same thing regularly happens to me. However, I think your editing strategies may be a tad extreme.
JohnC: I followed your suggestion, and I wish I hadn’t. Now, there’s a voice of true moral authority.
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My ex-SDS sister-in-law announced, after learning of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, that she had lost her last shreds of naivete.
Even she realized that in no way, shape or form did Obama deserve the Peace Prize.
I can’t believe no one has said it yet, but everyone is thinking it:
Affirmative Action Nobel Peace Prize
It’s clear with this and the rest of the adulation for Obama that the dirty old leftist Euro-peons are trying to innoculate themselves against ever having to elect a ‘person of color’ for anything!
For anyone who’s never spent time over there: Europe is very, very racist. Of course they are very happy we elected a guy “with a suntan” as Berlusconi said in hopes that they will never, ever have to.
This is simply more cover for the racist Euro-peon left:
“What do you mean we are racist for never, ever electing anyone darker than Sarkozy!? We love that American black guy and we are happy America has him!”
GVoodshit looked good until I notice that the most recent post is 6/13/2002 01:26:00 PM
Affirmative Action Nobel Peace Prize
Gray: We disagree frequently and this is another of those times.
It doesn’t matter what Obama’s skin color is. As long as he is cementing America into decline and kumbaya mode, the Oslo folks are pleased as punch to give him the prize.
It doesn’t matter what Obama’s skin color is.
Not to you or I, but I think it mattered a great deal to the Nobel selection committee.
It obviously wasn’t due to merit. Do you think his color hurt him in this unearned award in any way?
Nyom .. . Mrs Whatsit got it right with her sarcastic comment ‘Now, there’s a voice of true moral authority’. fred lapides was making moral judgments about critics of Obama getting the prize. Yet, anyone with two cents worth of brains can can see from fred lapides’ site that he doesn’t know what the word moral means. He has none. He is worse than empty. Read some of the text. Look at his choice of pictures. He is the kind that treats women badly, but denies it. But then again you voted for Obama, so I’m not surprised by your response. It shows a lack of two cents in the head again.
I like all the titty pictures on Fred Lapides’ site.
Nothing says ‘moral authority’ like some big tits. Pierced nipples are indicative of an understanding of political nuance.
He’s certainly a horny ol’ bastard….
BTW, Europe: You are screwedola without the US Military and Intelligence agencies. Happy Jihad!
Barack’s half-brother, from his hut in Kenya, had no comment.
Gray – I think fred lapides fancies himself as a tough guy too, only in the opposite direction politically from you. We’ll probably see a slug fest soon.
Gray – I think fred lapides fancies himself as a tough guy too, only in the opposite direction politically from you. We’ll probably see a slug fest soon.
But I don’t fancy myself as a ‘tough guy’. I’m just some schmo on the internet. Like you.
There is no point being a ‘tough guy’ on the internet we all just spar with words made from pixels. Grrrrr….
I went to Slug Fest this year. It wasn’t as good as last year. It was better before all the attention and news coverage….
Micheal Jackson won a Nobel Prize for his work with children.
The one word that fits how I feel is embarrassed. And those who voted for Obama should be ashamed.
Again, look at all the goods things W did in Africa during his presidency. Oh, wait – that’s right. No one knows about that.
Does anyone else find it interesting that the commander-in-chief of a country with armed forces involved in hostilities in no less than two countries simultaneously (and who has so far done nothing but TALK about ending said hostilities) is awarded the Nobel “Peace” prize?
Gray Says:
October 10th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Whose slug won?
I have to admit that I’m finding the whole thing highly amusing. I LOL’d when I heard the news on the radio while driving to work Friday morning, and I’ve been enjoying the commentary around the internet since.
Ridicule is a potent weapon against despots, and this has given us more ammunition than anything that has happened since the Prince of Peace took office. This is even better than the Olympic fail.
fred:
Who is happy? I read that 70% of the French do not even think Obama won this award.
The truth is all sorts of people, left and right have raised questions about this.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded now only to dreamers, not doers. Doers scare the bejesus out of the dreamers. If only we could only put our differences aside, come together and sing Kumbaya, and toss our nuclear weapons into the seas, we would be so happy. So, let’s dream about it together so we will have a better world. And, oh, by the way, a socialist one where everyone shares the wealth and is happy and contented and does not strive for more than his neighbor. A land of milk and honey where we no longer have to dig for coal or drill for oil but where we can forage in the pristine woods for firewood to get us through the slight winters that remain even with all that global warming. Where we can hunt for our food or die, blissfully in the knowledge that we are good (for nothing).
Apparently the award goes to those who talk about peace and have not the slightest idea how to attain it. In the case of Obama, it goes to a man whose efforts are leading, if anything, to a greater likelihood of war in the middle east and, perhaps, involving the prior Soviet satellites and, maybe, South America. It does not go to those who really do the hard work, like Reagen and even Bush (for all his faults he freed millions in Iraq and Afghanistan and did much to stop the spread of aids in Africa), to actually bring peace. In fact, they are the despised because they do more than dream. The problem with us conservatives is that we live in a world of reality and try to make sense of our lives. No matter how bad the left acts, we always retain our sense of humor. On the other hand, this award comes from leftsit dreamers who, I’d bet money, are probably very angry at the world even after their glowing self pride at making this award.
I wonder if the Nobel Peace Prize, so nobly awarded for all his efforts at bringing peace (no concessions, I believe, not one, in all the negotiations sponsored by Clinton), gave Arafat second thoughts when he declined the offer of almost all of the West Bank and Gaza from Israel in 2000 and called for a second intifada. Nah! It was just more money in his pocket.
Speaking of which, Obama said he was going to give the award money to charity. Acorn?
I read somewhere that the Nobel Committee may be planning a posthumous award for Neville Chamberlain, just to be obstinate. Of course we know that Obama is no Chamberlain; Chamberlain may have been a fool, but he was no traitor….
“In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word.”
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-munich.htm
Fred said:
“But it gives him a still larger platform to stand on, and as he urged the world, to make peace and better the world.”
Obama,(may peace be upon him), has been played by the Euro-elites, and will now be even more inclined to continue in the appeasement mode he’s in.
The leader of the free world must have a sense of timing with the right words, (or actions), and the world has to believe he means what he says. (Think Kennedy and the Cuban blockade, Reagan at the Berlin wall, Churchill, etc.).
This award to Obama, (may peace be upon him), will only encourage him toward appeasement dialogue when the situation calls for strong and aggressive words, and or actions.
As I said, timing is critical, and my fear is that he will let the opportune moment pass and then react frantically at the last moment which could be too late.
Obama, (may peace be upon him), ironically could be the biggest threat to world peace today.
Whose slug won?
Everyone wins at Slug Fest! It’s a welcoming, non-judgemental space that celebrates slug diversity.
Why do you right-wingers always have to think in black and white terms of ‘winning’ and ‘losing’, ‘good’ and, um, ‘not good’. Just let the slugs have their day, man.