Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize! Ha! That’s the best thing that could’ve happened. Four people called me this morning and all of them were laughing about it. The best part is that the votes were in by February 1st which means that Obama was in office less than two weeks when the Peace Prize committee voted. This is the biggest joke ever. I’m loving it.
Update: Essentially, the only thing President Obama did before the vote was taken was he reversed the Mexico City Policy to allow the funding to international abortion providers. Does funding the death of babies from other countries merit a peace prize? Just wondering.
The other thing Obama did which could’ve caught the Nobel folks’ attention was he announced the closing of Gitmo within a year. Now, of course, he’s since pushed that deadline away (btw, he blamed Bush.) I’m wondering if the Peace Prize folks feel a little burned about him not making good on that promise.
Update II: This award could do one of two things. It could give cover to Obama to listen to his General and increase the amount of troops in Afghanistan and if anyone criticizes him he could just keep pointing to the Peace Prize. Or the Peace prize might lock him in to only halfheartedly fighting the war in Afghanistan because he feels that he has to live up to the award.
Update III: Hey, remember it was only a few months ago that Arizona State University said it was too early in Obama’s Presidency to offer him an honorary degree. Ha!
Update IV: This awarding is the keystone of liberalism, rewarding intentions over results.
Hot Air has more. And we’ll update later.
October 9, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Among the reasons cited for his receipt of this now meaningless prize is that Obama has introduced great initiatives, though they have yet to bear fruit. So, essentially he wins the award on the chance that his ideas might further peace in the world.
I have all sorts of ideas, and no one is giving me any prizes. Therefore, I humbly request your nomination for next year's Nobel Peace Prize. I have a wonderful plan for world peace: everybody be nice. That's my plan, and though its fruits have yet to be realized, there is no doubt that if it works, there will be peace in the world.
October 9, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I saw this on Yahoo!News this morning and thought it was a parody piece at first.
I wrote at my blog that the Nobel Committee now has zero cred because of this (plus giving one to Carter and Gore), but I was incorrect.
They have *negative* credibility.
And they should have given one to his teleprompter too, because that's the most intelligent thing in the entire administration.
October 9, 2009 at 2:19 pm
If he has a shred of humility (and I don't think he does) he would turn it down, saying that someone who has been on the world stage longer deserves it more.
Doing so would boost my opinion of him a teensy bit. As it stands, even a lot of progressive types in the MSM seem to be scratching their heads about this one. I think this hurts him, actually.
But it sure is fun to watch, isn't it? Will he go to Stockholm and make another big important speech?
Pass the popcorn!
October 9, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I am upset becuase the prize has been given to some people I really admire: Fridtjof Nansen (look him up, since no one seems to know who he was anymore), Mother Teresa, the American Friends Service Committee, Doctors Without Borders, and on and on.
But damn it, they have gotten so fricking kooky, with Yasir Arafat, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and now THIS. What a slap in the face to Nansen, Mother Teresa, and the others.
October 9, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I also have great ideas, foremost among them is solving the energy crisis with a soon-to-be-developed perpetual motion machine.
So where's my prize?
October 9, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I agree with Johnathan and Larry, but CV, the report I heard this morning was that Obama was "humbled" by the prize. Someone that humble would never turn down such an honor.
Did anyone else catch the line in the Yahoo report that the committee has reinterpreted the Nobel rules to include work on climate change??? For the peace prize???
October 9, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Hey Matthew,
I vote that this post should be retitled "Signs of the Apocolypse."
Just a thought.
Another thought…
Will they take this prize away from him when he expands the war in Afghanistan and stumbles us into a war with Iran and possibly a second cold war with Russia/ China?
October 9, 2009 at 2:39 pm
This award lost it's meaning years ago..
October 9, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Mike in CT (0932)has it:
This is about strengthening the AGW alarmist agenda (and its global political machine).
October 9, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Maybe he can use the money to pay for ObamaCare.
October 9, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I was about to say this is the Nobel Committee's "jump the shark" moment, but they did that last year in awarding it to Gore. So I guess this makes it their "nuke the fridge" moment instead.
October 9, 2009 at 3:54 pm
My husband told me this morning and I thought he was joking. Then I thought he was reading the Onion by mistake.
October 9, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Too bad Mother Theresa isn't alive on Earth to return her NPP metal.
gbm3
October 9, 2009 at 4:18 pm
And hillariously? Again everyone's general reaction is "blame Bush." Is there anything our President can do that doesn't immediately become an echo of the past?
October 9, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Wow. Yeah, nearly spat out my breakfast this morning when I heard the news. Even the news anchors at our local station were a little stunned and perplexed at the news (wide eyed, incredulous stare). I don't think they knew just what to make of it as they mentioned it in a 15sec blurb and then rushed on with the local news stories.
October 9, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Eyeroll.
Pure eyeroll.
October 9, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Since 1980 the "prize" itself is a mockery, often a piece of worthless propagandizing on behalf of thugs, frauds, sociopaths,
fakes, and self-promoters–the worst offenders being the Nobel Committee itself.
President Barack Hussein Obama can now be counted among such stellar luminaries as Yasser Arafat, Jimmie Carter, Kofi Annan, Mohamed ElBaradei, Rigoberta Menchu Tum,
Desmond Tutu, Al Gore, and the United Nations, ad nauseum. Who knows, maybe next year Oprah, Nancy Pelosi, Gordon Brown or the Taliban will get it?
October 9, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Matthew, this was worth of a Tweet! Great post. Loved the Cracker Jack one as well.
October 9, 2009 at 7:21 pm
whiskey-tango-foxtrot. I say again
whiskey-tango-foxtrot?
October 9, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Errr… God also rewards intentions over results. Is God a liberal (in the sense you are using the word)?
~cmpt