Analysis: Obama's Nobel honors promise, not action

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what?...

By JENNIFER LOVEN

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Wouldn't it be refreshing if Obama were to refuse the prize as unearned? It would definitely send a message to the Nobel Committee. Nah, never gonna happen.

 

This is worse than when Al Gore got it.

As much as I don't like Jimmy Carter, at least he had the Camp David meetings and SALT II as accomplishments.

President Obama has accomplished, nothing, zip, zilch, zero to warrant him receiving this award.

In a few years if he accomplishments then give it to him.

 

This is bullsh!t... everybody knows it.

 

The Nobel Peace Prize has not meant one ounce of horsesh!t since it was awarded to Yasser Arafat.

 

They awarded the Nobel to Obama based on good intentions.

A good intention is the mother of all fukk ups.

 

So ... you want to know what is going on here? I mean, come on! Barack Obama, president for what, nine months now? And he gets the Nobel Peace Prize?

Hopefully you weren't all that surprised.

Let's work through this thing. First - you have to come up with a definition of "peace." There's a Nobel Prize for physics; one for medicine too. In virtually every culture and every country in the world you define "physics" and "medicine" pretty much the same way. Not so for "peace." During the post World-War II the Soviet Union defined "peace' as "an absence of opposition to world Communism." As long as nobody was challenging their communist expansionism they felt we were all at peace. Let some country; The United States for instance, challenge their plans for world domination and ... no more peace.

For me any definition of "peace" must have a component dedicated to freedom. You can, after all, live a life of peace in a jail cell, so long as there isn't someone there to stir things up. You're not free, but peace reigns.

Now ... to Obama and the Peace Prize. I take you back again to that Pew Research poll conducted in Europe last year. Almost 60% of Europeans who responded to the poll wanted America to be less powerful in world affairs. That's not an uncommon sentiment - right up until the time some other country is threatening to kick some international tail.

So ... along comes the Nobel committee. Can we reasonably assume that this committee reflects much of the European attitude? I mean, they're not exactly headquartered in Boise. They look at the nominations before them, and there's PrezBO! Now what has Obama done in the past nine or so months? Why, he's given the Euro-weenies just exactly what they wanted! Now we have a United States with a weaker presence in world affairs! Russia and China are striving for military domination. Obama backs off the American promise of a shield against Iran's missiles for Eastern Europe. Then we have the Arab states reportedly working to replace the dollar as the petroleum trading currency. Today there are suggestions that Obama is just going to declare that the Taliban are too entrenched in Afghanistan for us to possibly prevail there - a prelude to a cut and run. Does any of this sound like a projection of strength? Of course not. America is projecting feel-good, hopey-changey weakness at every turn.

This was a message to Obama. Europe likes your style. You're giving us exactly what we wanted --- what we asked for. You're weakening the United States; for us, the key to peace.

Oh ... and don't forget the slap in the face for George Bush. Bush is in office for eight years. He responds strongly to the attacks from terrorist Muslims. He frees Iraq from a ruthless dictator and his rapist sons. He projects American strength .. and Europe hates him for it. So ... the Nobel committee comes along and delivers a slapdown.

For those who define peace as living free of threats to your natural right to be free ... this just isn't your day, is it?

Well ... at least this will give Newsweek a reason to put Obama on the cover again.

 

I seems that Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by accident.

Many of the people voting mistakenly thought they were voting for the Nobel Appeasement Prize.

 

Obama was in office for about 11 days at that time. I bet he achieved a lot of peace during that time. One pundit had it right, the ONLY reason he won was because he wasn't George W. Bush.

 

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

 

reports are starting to come out that he may have been nominated BEFORE taking the office of President.


This is a load of crappola similar to the Back to the Future's manure truck...