Obama to receive Nobel Peace Prize for not being Bush

[Josquin des Prez]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAekET4T1D_vzDMN4JW_xZyvgezAD9B7FOR00

You'd think after rewarding Al Gore the Nobel Committee couldn't get any lower, but alas, they found a way to bring even more ridicule upon themselves.

[karlhenning]

Receive. Receive. Receive. Receive. Receive.

[DFO]

Recibir recibir recibir recibir

[Franco]

Recibir recibir recibir recibir

You left out a recibir and the most important one, too.

[MN Dave]

Hey, I'm not Bush either! 

[Opus106]

Hey, I'm not Bush either! 

You're the 2009 recipient of





Congratulations!



Re: the actual award,

Here's the summary from CNN: WTF?!

[Renfield]

Yes, that is WTF. I am all for Obama's approach (perhaps because I'm a dirty Euroliberal) but he literally has not done anything yet, and winning a prize for what you might do is like being given a first class degree when you're admitted into university.

He might still come to deserve it later (yes, I know how much many of you contest this, please don't expend words telling me), but it's still perverse.

[Redbeard]

Looks like a severe case of Premature Adulation!

[Josquin des Prez]

Receive. Receive. Receive. Receive. Receive.

Boss was buzzing around me, impeding my spelling ability as i tried to sneak this post under his nose.

Looks like a severe case of Premature Adulation!

Haha, good one.

[Redbeard]

I think this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has been a shoe in for the award since day 1 (or at least day 11...).  What it doesn't answer is why they couldn't bring themselves to wait a few years to at least pretend that it had merit.  Certainly that would have been Obama's preference.  Why not just send him a nice card letting him know not to sweat it, he'd get it in a few years?  What were they afraid of?  Did they convince themselves that the longer he was in office, the more ridiculous the award would look?

[Joe Barron]

Hey, I'm not Bush either! 

I think JdP proves that not being Bush is not, in itself, a recommendaton.

[Daidalos]

While I like Obama as US President, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that he was to receive the Peace Prize. I thought that it was a prank, but then I remembered it wasn't the first of April. This just goes on to show that the Nobel Peace Prize is an entirely politically-motivated award, because giving Obama the prize is if not incredibly stupid then at least absurdly premature. He's been in office for nine months, and he's eligible for the Peace Prize?! Bah. I think the Norwegian Nobel Committee is starstruck, which might account for this most bizarre of selections.

[The new erato]

While I like Obama as US President, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that he was to receive the Peace Prize. I thought that it was a prank, but then I remembered it wasn't the first of April. This just goes on to show that the Nobel Peace Prize is an entirely politically-motivated award, because giving Obama the prize is if not incredibly stupid then at least absurdly premature. He's been in office for nine months, and he's eligible for the Peace Prize?! Bah. I think the Norwegian Nobel Committee is starstruck, which might account for this most bizarre of selections.

Let me say (as a Norwegian) that I totally agree (and I share your like for Obama). The committee's new chairman I've always thought of as a particularly inflated and gullible exemplar of his kind, he's also recently elected as a a chair of the Council of Europe. I think that this is one occasion where the politial agendas and tit-for-tats have clearly clouded the mandate of the Nobel Committee.

[Florestan]

The Lenin Nobel Peace Prize for Obama couldn't be more justified:

(1) he's black

(2) he's left-wing

What else do you need?

[imperfection]

The Lenin Nobel Peace Prize for Obama couldn't be more justified:

(1) he's black

(2) he's left-wing

What else do you need?

Easily post of the week.

[The new erato]

The Lenin Nobel Peace Prize for Obama couldn't be more justified:

(1) he's black

(2) he's left-wing

What else do you need?

I won't dispute the black stuff - but oh boy what a different the view from an European country. Seen from here he is solid centre with a slight leaning to the right. That is, moderately conservative. Bush OTOH was far into wacko country.

[Christo]

I won't dispute the black stuff - but oh boy what a different the view from an European country. Seen from here he is solid centre with a slight leaning to the right. That is, moderately conservative. Bush OTOH was far into wacko country.

Fully agreed. From this perspective, too, Obama is a typical moderate, a rather sober realist, or more or less Christian conservative. In our national parliament he would be seated far right. "Not being Bush" would mean that he's not a political experimentist like his predecessor, whom I would hold for a political extremist and dangerous revolutionary, if that title hadn't been claimed even more convincingly by his vice president, a true Leninist if ever there was one. 

[ChamberNut]

Who should have been nominated:

1) Maciek
2) Gurn
3) Que
4) Bruce
5) Knight

[WI Dan]

This is BS! 

They, like, ... totally overlooked the Dixie Chicks.   

[Gurn Blanston]

I won't dispute the black stuff - but oh boy what a different the view from an European country. Seen from here he is solid centre with a slight leaning to the right. That is, moderately conservative. Bush OTOH was far into wacko country.

Actually, as a middle-of-the-roader, I look at Obama as one of my troupe. I am just a tad on the conservative side, he as much on the liberal. But all the power people in Washington are disliking him because he isn't a friggin' fringe fanatic like most of them, and like they were quite sure he would be.

I think the Nobel Prize Committee did him an injustice. You can't give out awards based on what you think someone is going to do in future.



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