Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

[Mr Mannn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8298173.stm
 
The video at the site gives the reasons. Essentially its "just because" he is Obama. and his extraordinary efforts to inject dialog/negotiations into international affairs. of course the fact that he's accomplished NOTHING doesn't seem to sway the committee. Maybe this is for dropping the missile shield in Poland? Or Michelle's shopping trips in Paris? Or Maybe his BOW to the Saudi King? Your guess is as good as mine.

One of the reporters asked the Nobel pansy about Lord O's impending decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan. The Pansy replies, "We hope this will encourage O to negotiate in Afghanistan."

  Now you can win a Nobel prize for accomplishing...nothing.

and the gang at DU are positive this will cause our heads to explode in rage. Unfortunately I'm become immune to the Obama worship, and i learned long ago the Peace prize was worthless when Arafat the terrorist murderer received one.

[formerlurker]

someone cue the SNL bit on Obama....

[Carl]

It doesn`t do anything to me as I don`t let politics guide my happiness in life.

Basically a bunch of Euro socialist sycophants gave a back slap to a like minded incompetent,no surprise or meaning there.

[thundley4]

It wouldn't make my head explode, but it would make me shake my head in wonder at the continued worship at the feet of a man-boy that has accomplished nothing.

[BlueStateSaint]

It wouldn't make my head explode, but it would make me shake my head in wonder at the continued worship at the feet of a man-boy that has accomplished nothing.

I've got a feeling that this was in order to help him along on his quest for socialized medecine in the US . . .

. . . and, Neville Chamberlain is laughing somewhere now.

[NHSparky]

I pretty much stopped giving a shit about the Nobel prizes when they gave a Peace Prize to Arafat.

[Chris_]

When I read that this morning my first thoughts were WTF??

[djones520]

When I read that this morning my first thoughts were WTF??

There is going to be a lot of that in the world today...

[Carl]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_nobel_peace

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

Speculation had focused on Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a Colombian senator and a Chinese dissident, along with an Afghan woman's rights activist.

The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of "a new climate in international politics" and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the center of the world stage. The plaudit appeared to be a slap at President George W. Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama's predecessor for resorting to largely unilateral military action in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Rather than recognizing concrete achievement, the 2009 prize appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

Do they take it back when Iran announces it has a nuke?

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee said. "In the past year Obama has been a key person for important initiatives in the U.N. for nuclear disarmament and to set a completely new agenda for the Muslim world and East-West relations."

He added that the committee endorsed "Obama's appeal that 'Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.'"

President Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and President Woodrow Wilson won in 1919.

The committee chairman said after awarding the 2002 prize to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, for his mediation in international conflicts, that it should be seen as a "kick in the leg" to the Bush administration's hard line in the buildup to the Iraq war.

Five years later, the committee honored Bush's adversary in the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore, for his campaign to raise awareness about global warming.

The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year's prize though it was not immediately apparent who nominated Obama.

"The exciting and important thing about this prize is that it's given too someone ... who has the power to contribute to peace," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.

Nominators include former laureates; current and former members of the committee and their staff; members of national governments and legislatures; university professors of law, theology, social sciences, history and philosophy; leaders of peace research and foreign affairs institutes; and members of international courts of law.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation welcomed the award on behalf of its founder Nelson Mandela, who shared the 1993 Peace Prize with then-South African President F.W. DeKlerk for their efforts at ending years of apartheid and laying the groundwork for a democratic country.

"We trust that this award will strengthen his commitment, as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, to continue promoting peace and the eradication of poverty," the foundation said.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel's death.

The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.

In essence it is the socialist or anti American of the year award and should be ridiculed as such.

..When asked if he was deserving of the award President Obama stared intently into the teleprompter and after a few seconds answered in a grave voice... "Present".

[Randy]

If this doesn't prove to the world what a sham the NPP is nothing will. The DUmmies will be wetting themselves in joy this morning.

[NHSparky]

And in other news, still no pony.

[Chris_]

This makes about as much sense as putting Bella Pelosi and Cinder Sheebang in a beauty contest.

[Alpha Mare]

One need only to look at the nomination process...and those who control this award..

2. Members of international courts;

3. University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes;

"members of international courts..."

and who has been promoting 'international' couirts?

"3. University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes;"

no explanation needed...

The Nobel Peace Prize committee is famous for making grand symbolic gestures aimed at influencing the world agenda, as in 1989 when, in the wake of the Tiananmen massacre, the prize went to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

U.S. President Barack Obama is thought to have been nominated but it’s unclear on what grounds.

Nobel watchers say he could be a contender for next year’s prize, following his lofty call for global nuclear disarmament at the United Nations last month, which came after the nomination deadline for the 2009 prize.  His 'Muslim' speech came after too-in June.

“In many ways we have a strong candidate for next year, Obama and other world leaders” who backed the U.N. resolution, said Jan Egeland, director of Oslo’s Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. “But too late for this year.”

http://goldsea.com/Text/index.php?id=2900

 

[debk]

Fox and Friends is going absolutely nuts over Obama getting this "prize"!

They came on five minutes early to announce it and have hardly stopped talking about it since.

[Alpha Mare]

Since he hadn't yet given the speeches for which he was nominated(or done anything else), my guess is it's for his agenda to socialize the US.

[BlueStateSaint]

Fox and Friends is going absolutely nuts over Obama getting this "prize"!

They came on five minutes early to announce it and have hardly stopped talking about it since.

Steve Doocy was especially caustic while I was watching.  Good for him.

[franksolich]

What credibility can a prize that was given Yasser Arafat and the Incompetent One have?

[zeitgeist]

Obama embarrassing joke.

Well maybe not as much as Nobel Committee, but then, they have had more practice.

ETA link to article

[JohnnyReb]

"I bring you peace in our time".....to hell with what it costs future generations.

[Alpha Mare]

What will he do with the prize money?  Spread the wealth, O.

[debk]

Steve Doocy was especially caustic while I was watching.  Good for him.

Yeah....Allison made a comment regarding how well he's doing with Iran....

[Carl]

What credibility can a prize that was given Yasser Arafat and the Incompetent One have?

Jimmys contributions to world peace...

The start of islamofacisim and terrorism
An agreement with an insane communist dictator promising to be good and now posessing nuclear weapons in North Korea.

[whiffleball]

Must be a consolation prize for having lost The Olympics.  As far as caring; meh, I don't.  Anything the Big Zero ever 'wins' will be meaningless just as all his 'life accomplishments' have been up to now.

[zeitgeist]

Looks like a good day for a Dump Run, time to take out the Euro-trash.

Enjoy this blast from the past coutresy of the LA Slimes:

Who Doesn't Have a Nobel Prize Nomination?

By Eugene Volokh
 
December 4, 2005
 

MANY advocates of clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams note that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in literature for his anti-gang work, which includes writing children's books. How could a convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips be nominated for such prizes?

According to Nobel Prize nominating rules, any "professor of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology" and any judge or national legislator in any country, among others, can nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize. Past nominees include Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Fidel Castro.

Birds of a feather as mother always use to say.....

[Alpha Mare]

"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," said former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate.