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The Nobel Mediocre under achiever, "Oh well you tried" prize.


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2009 Oct 9, 12:25am   10,790 views  102 comments

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Did Obama get a prize for "Pushing" or for Crying that he can't get any thing done in a Democrat Washington? Or just maybe he got it for the strides he's made in pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq. He didn't run off and do something crazy like narrate a Climate documentary did he? What in the hell did that man do to deserve a Nobel peace prize, somebody please please tell me. This nomination makes the Al Gore nod seem sensible and we remember how well I received that one don't we?

That's it, I'm starting a novelty bum paper company and my number one product will be Nobel Peace Prize toilet paper.  Actually toilet paper has more substantial purpose.

From this day forward Nobel Peace prize winners are a yawn news item.  I guess the people dolling them out are the same pimple faced brats that make up the Bender top 100 of all time lists. Or the Mensa giant that changed the format of Rolling Stone mag.

Love the man or hate him, but this is an out rage that he get a prize for peace and has not accomplished dickall as of yet!

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1   elliemae   2009 Oct 9, 12:33am  

It's an independent agency that awards prizes based on its own criteria. Why are you angry about something that doesn't mean anything to you? They believe that he's made strides toward peace, that he's making a difference. Only two other presidents have received this honor according to the news - and it's early in his presidency.

The guy can't take a dump without being criticized.

2   Done!   2009 Oct 9, 12:48am  

No I was angry when Al Gore got one for being a noodge.

Now I'm just perplexed that some one actually thinks he's made a difference in world peace.

How's Israel going Ellie? Any time on when we will actually pull out of Afgan and Iraq? Last I heard just when we thought we out they pull us back in.

The man is nothing more than a media product, and it's awards like this, (obviously now nothing more than a "Liberal" token to give credibility where non lies. ) that got him elected in the first place. His supporters has never looked past his zinger monologues delivering empty promises again and again and expected to hold him to his word. For those folks it's just all about giving the right a mental wedgie with this token do nothing mouth piece.

This just in, aparently I'm a terrorist for not being estatic about this news.

Just how low can the left get?

3   CBOEtrader   2009 Oct 9, 1:20am  

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33237202/ns/politics-white_house?GT1=43001

This guy has done nothing of note yet. Nada. Zip. All his campaign promises have so far amounted to nothing. That fact is not in dispute. The part that I find interesting is that the Nobel dimwits agree with this.

“The Nobel Committee…recognized 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.”

However they still feel he deserves the prize because, ‘ “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,” Jagland said.’

So basically he is getting an award for having good intentions and being a great speaker, despite the fact that he hasn’t followed through with…well…anything.

The Nobel prize has been a joke for years, and now Obama is as well.

4   CBOEtrader   2009 Oct 9, 1:23am  

TPB, or TOT i guess you are called now...

You should write speeches for the daily show. Seriously, your brain is exceptionally talented with words. Hilariously amazing!

5   elliemae   2009 Oct 10, 2:50am  

Tenouncetrout says

No I was angry when Al Gore got one for being a noodge.
Now I’m just perplexed that some one actually thinks he’s made a difference in world peace.
How’s Israel going Ellie? Any time on when we will actually pull out of Afgan and Iraq? Last I heard just when we thought we out they pull us back in.
The man is nothing more than a media product, and it’s awards like this, (obviously now nothing more than a “Liberal” token to give credibility where non lies. ) that got him elected in the first place. His supporters has never looked past his zinger monologues delivering empty promises again and again and expected to hold him to his word. For those folks it’s just all about giving the right a mental wedgie with this token do nothing mouth piece.
This just in, aparently I’m a terrorist for not being estatic about this news.
Just how low can the left get?

Wow, you're a terrorist? I'm so sorry, 'cause you seem like such a nice fish. I reviewed my post to find the part where I labeled you as a terrorist, and wasn't able to find it. Even after I took a couple of garage trips... although I must admit it was much harder to focus afterward...

I'm just saying that the Nobel Prize has long awarded politicos, and some people agree while others don't. The Nobel Prize has nothing to do with me and my panties don't get tied up in knots when someone is awarded one - when I wear 'em, that is. But, because I point out that your anger seems disproportionate to the matter at hand, I'm a lowly POS Lib. I've certainly been called worse and am not offended.

But there are definitely people who deserve the Nobel Prize and haven't received it. For instance, I kept the peace as I drove seven children from ages 6 to 13 to an event that only one wanted to attend, didn't lose any of them (no matter how hard I tried) and didn't strangle any of them. That in itself is a miracle, but I did it sober.

Where's my Peace Prize?

6   Bap33   2009 Oct 10, 7:02am  

I dunno ... that whole ACORN thing shows he can find ways to hire scum inorder for more scum to get into a home ... that might be worth the now-worth-spit NPP these days.

Bush #1 saved a few folks in Arabia. All he should have done was tell everyone how much he wanted to do, vs doing something, and he would have been a shoe-in.

7   Done!   2009 Oct 10, 7:39am  

I was listening to NPR yesterday doing several segments where the talking lefty heads were making all kinds of hypothetical excuses and trying to make metaphor after metaphor for what the prize really meant. You damn Libs do this crap every time and as an independent it tickles the shit out of me when the Right makes you guys eat those sentiments.

Bush will be awarded some scholarly accolade now, mark my word. And the Right will use every play you guys wrote on this one, to justify it.

Oh the terrorist thing, as I was writing that post, one of the newsies on the tube, (You know I don't remember if it was a Rightie newsie(FOX) or a Leftie Newsie(CNN) as I was watching both yesterday. But it was reported that the Taliban were also taken back by this choice as they agreed that Obama has done dickall for peace. SO armed with that, some Democrat in Washington was calling all of the Republicans and those that are at odds by this verdict, were saying those folks are no different than the terrorist in sharing disgust. and it was very unpatriotic to not rejoice in this decision.

8   KurtS   2009 Oct 10, 8:21am  

So Norway's parliament (the Storting) has awarded Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. Hmm.
Either that means something to you--or it doesn't. I'm presently undecided--it's not like they asked my opinion, lol.
Does anyone know who won last year? Hint: it did not create a huge, GOP-led outcry, hehe.

9   Bap33   2009 Oct 10, 10:00am  

"Bush wins a scholarly accolade" .... see there, that is funny. Not as funny as the N.O.W gang supporting The Womanizer, Clinton ... but still darn funny.

10   frodo   2009 Oct 10, 1:00pm  

Oh, this is rich.

Funnest statement from the State Department ever.

Ill post it again to share the humor:

"Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum — when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes."

Some people are dumbfounded. Just plain outright confused.

Hmmmmmmm.

11   PeopleUnited   2009 Oct 11, 5:47am  

Congrats Obama. You deserve it. So did Mikhail Gorbachev and Yasser Arafat when they won it. Way to go guys! Such a fine bunch of fellows. I don't know how they missed the nominations for Sadam, Castro and Bush. Surely they are worthy too.

12   frodo   2009 Oct 12, 3:29am  

Yes, Congratulations to Obama, he joins a lot of people who have won the prize in the past:

Woodrow Wilson,
Roosevelt,
Mother Theresa,
The Dali Lama,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Kissenger,
And the United Nations Childrens Fund.

Let's make sure to congratulate him upon joining this crowd of Peace Makers.

13   Done!   2009 Oct 12, 4:21am  

"(CNN) -- Richard Strandlof said he survived the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon. He said he survived again when a roadside bomb went off in Iraq, killing four fellow Marines. He'd point to his head and tell people he had a metal plate, collateral damage from the explosion.
None of it was true. On Friday, the FBI arrested him on the rare charge of "stolen valor.""

So what's the big deal just another Village Idiot?

" Strandlof, 32, was held "for false claims about receipt of military decorations or medals," an FBI news release said. Charges had been filed in Denver, Colorado, the week before, the bureau.
"The penalty for his crime is up to one year incarceration and a $100,000 fine," it said."
Yup sounds like Enestee Bass to me!
" Before his deception was revealed, crowds ate up his story. He canvassed Colorado appearing at the sides of politicians. Inspiring and seemingly authentic, he spoke on behalf of veterans at the state Capitol.
He formed a group called the Colorado Veterans Alliance.
The whole thing was a lie, he admitted to CNN's Anderson Cooper earlier this year."

Oh wait a minute, did you say he's giving politicians and their constituents inspiration? Oh hell no we can't have that, we remember the last time that happened? That's right we got a Palin in the neck. That's dangerous some body ought to do something to stop that man...

" The whole thing was a lie, he admitted to CNN's Anderson Cooper earlier this year. Video Watch Strandlof discuss case in June. »
He wasn't at the Pentagon. He was never a Marine. He never served his country. He never graduated from the Naval Academy. He claimed his real name was Rick Duncan.
Where was he on 9/11, the day he said he witnessed heroism firsthand?
"I was in San Jose, California, watching it in horror on TV with a few other people," Strandlof told CNN.
He was at a homeless shelter at the time."

Phew Anderson Cooper saves the day, freeing us from the Right's new GI Joe friend.
Good work, now can they charge Obama for this charge as well? One can only hope...

14   frodo   2009 Oct 12, 4:57am  

Yes, Congratulations to Obama, he joins a lot of people who have won the prize in the past:

Woodrow Wilson,
Roosevelt,
Mother Theresa,
The Dali Lama,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Kissenger,
And the United Nations Childrens Fund.

Let’s make sure to congratulate him upon joining this crowd of Peace Makers.

15   Done!   2009 Oct 12, 5:04am  

I said one can only hope Obma can be charged with “stolen valor.”

Or at least for impersonating a President that gives a Crank. Or even a person that gives a rip for that matter.

16   frodo   2009 Oct 12, 5:09am  

Yup.

One can only hope. . . Here are some of the fantastic laureates who join Obama to be a prize winner:

Woodrow Wilson,
Roosevelt,
Mother Theresa,
The Dali Lama,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Kissenger,
And the United Nations Childrens Fund.

Fantastic company.

I hope that the bitter, sour grapes turn into raisins.

17   Done!   2009 Oct 12, 5:43am  

The Dali Lama robbed Hari Krishna of the prize IMHO...

Kissinger he brokered peace in the middle East or something didn't he?

Now I'm curious, was that prize awarded before or after Israel walled off the Ghettos?

Mother Theresa was living a lie, She wanted to live a life of a Jersey Flapper, but some how got sentenced to a life of servitude to humanity in Calcutta, by proxy of the worlds expectations of her.

"And the United Nations Childrens Fund." That's Money!

18   frodo   2009 Oct 12, 6:17am  

AaaaaaaaaHahahahahahahahahahahahahaaa

Heh, oh Hohohohohoh ah oh,

Yeah.

Them grapes, they sour.

19   Peter P   2009 Oct 12, 6:36am  

Woodrow Wilson,
Roosevelt,

You mean two of the worst US presidents ever? Oh, and Jimmy Carter, worst president since LBJ.

Ronald Reagan saved the whole damn world from the Evil Empire and he did not get a Nobel Peace Prize.

I will take a Nobu Gift Certificate over a Nobel Peace Prize.

20   frodo   2009 Oct 12, 9:19am  

Well, I for one am happy that Obama has won this prestigious international award.

It is an omen for posterity.

A fantastic kudo for our President and country.

President Obama won the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

w00t!

He shares the company of many nobel men and women who have made a difference.

I am so glad that Senile Old Regan didn't win it. Of course he would never have known it anyway, as I recall . . . he couldnt recall.

Anyway, Peter, since you want it, I'll give it to you:

I officially grant Peter P with the Nobu Gift Certificate.
Good for one free sour grape.

21   Done!   2009 Oct 12, 9:35am  

Well I suppose he could ferment then distill them and make Pisco,

Revisionists are getting better, they can alter history as it happens, with excuses and metaphors.

22   frodo   2009 Oct 12, 9:50am  

Sour grapes are good!

You can certainly ferment them, and get drunk, then you can say:

"Those damn revisionists, they be at work, blu, bla, bu, bu. Listen to them! They be revisionists!"

Ahahahahahahah oh, ah. . . it will make more sense then.

Rich, and fruity, with whipped cream and Marijuana on top!

23   Peter P   2009 Oct 12, 9:50am  

Revisionists are getting better, they can alter history as it happens, with excuses and metaphors.

Just-in-time Revisionism?

(Correction: FDR did not receive a "peace" prize, Theodore Roosevelt did. Teddy was not as bad, although he was still a "progressive".)

24   frodo   2009 Oct 12, 10:17am  

Whatever. Just smack a label on it . . . And do it fast!!

That way we can use excuses, metaphors, and misdirection.

25   elliemae   2009 Oct 12, 3:20pm  

frodo says

Whatever. Just smack a label on it . . . And do it fast!!
That way we can use excuses, metaphors, and misdirection.

This is such an important issue to complain about - that our President received a Nobel Peace Prize? I can barely concentrate on this, 'cause Jon & Kate are heading back to court and I don't know what to wear while I'm watching the mega-coverage on my teevee.

The same people who are up in arms at the Peace Prize thing thought that Bush's "team" did a heckuva job when New Orleans was nearly wiped off the map. With so many real problems to complain about, they chose this?

Ugh. frodo says

Rich, and fruity, with whipped cream and Marijuana on top!

Don't sprinkle nasty tasting bud on my sour grape sundae; 'ludes make ya sleepy without attacking the taste buds.

26   Done!   2009 Oct 12, 11:07pm  

"The same people who are up in arms at the Peace Prize thing thought that Bush’s “team” did a heckuva job when New Orleans was nearly wiped off the map. With so many real problems to complain about, they chose this?"

Not so Elliemae don't go getting all sentimental on us now.

Besides I'm not as much "up in arms" about it, any more so than any one is "UP in Arms" that I'm not Impressed by the Obama nod (to say the least).

I'm just being honest about my observations of this president. What I have to question people who want to be up my ass about that.

It's not like he is setting up agendas and axing them down in short order, in there kicking ass and taking names and scratching items off his short list. Give me a freaking break, and am being 100% honest, you guys are the ones stretching the truth, and forging Whoppers, to justify this Terd.

27   Bap33   2009 Oct 13, 12:36am  

I plan on writing a witty comeback on here that makes the liberals very unhappy. Can I get credit for that now as long as I promise to do it using hope and change?

If I had two watchdogs that never stopped a crime, but always wanted to, I'd name them Hope and Change.

28   Done!   2009 Oct 13, 1:25am  

Just-in-time Revisionism?

Ha! even better...

is that an interpreted language?

Or how about "Java Historians" for short.

Lets see in just a few short years...

David Bowie was a coward...
Mary Magdalene was Jesus wife...
Pluto is not a Planet...
The Mayans saw the demise of the world in 2012, but they didn't for see their own demise over four centuries ago...
Columbus was an evil tyrant that was discredited and fell from grace... I have a hard time that History would have said other wise for over 400 years...
Lincoln was Gay...

just to name a few recent history revisions that claim other wise what we were taught in school.

all of which are 21'st century revelations.

29   Peter P   2009 Oct 13, 4:18am  

He who controls the present, controls the past.

-- George Orwell

30   Peter P   2009 Oct 13, 4:26am  

“The same people who are up in arms at the Peace Prize thing thought that Bush’s “team” did a heckuva job when New Orleans was nearly wiped off the map. With so many real problems to complain about, they chose this?”

NOLA was a disaster, but what is the wisdom of having one's home below sea level?

31   Done!   2009 Oct 13, 4:42am  

Where was Nola's freakin Ark! HUh?

They couldn't even use the damn bridge.

32   CBOEtrader   2009 Oct 13, 6:19am  

"The same people who are up in arms at the Peace Prize thing thought that Bush’s “team” did a heckuva job when New Orleans was nearly wiped off the map. With so many real problems to complain about, they chose this? "

I don't think this is fair. Yet again, partisan politicos are missing the point.

Bush was clear into his 6th year of soccer kicking the US in the nuts before the neo-con supporttards started to get a sniff that something might be fishy with this fellow. It was all the brainwashed, republicans-can-do-no-wrong idiots that gave him his political capital...which he quickly cashed in for himself and his friends...literally...at the expense of the entire world.

This time, we have Obama who is immensely popular and can do no wrong in the eyes of the massively brainwashed democrat supporters. This is a scary situation, and it bothers me that noone is holding him to his campaign promises. Why is it so hard for the democrats to judge this guy honestly?

Why hasn't he shut down Guantanamo? Why are we still fighting in Iraq? Where's the progress in Afganistan? What has he done for the Palestine/Israel/Iran conflict in the middle east? Why can't even he do something easy like allow gays to openly serve in the military?

In the meantime he has increased our deficit to 1.2 trillion? He hasn't gone through the budget with his "fine-toothed-comb."

He has actively engaged in Keynesian handouts, and generally appointed a slew of crooks to be his top advisors (especially his economic advisors)...and he basically kindly asked the Dali Lama to go fuck himself.

So, yeah, I have a huge problem with allowing any politician a free pass to hand out billions to his friends while ignoring everything he promised during his campaign. I have a huge problem with the brainwashed democrats assuming any criticism of their savior is coming from either a 1)racist 2)a Rush Limbaugh junkie or 3)a religious nut.

Well, on the bright side, he does speak well. What a joke.

33   Done!   2009 Oct 13, 6:40am  

"Well, on the bright side, he does speak well. What a joke."

That same logic did afford Regan to run his Cocaine for Guns scam on America while he and his wife told every one to just say no. They assumed that if the good lil wholesome white kids all said no, then only the blacks and Spanish hoodlums would buy the drugs they were unleashing on Burbdale America. So in retrospect Nancies' "Just say no" mantra was really an "IN COMMING" warning.

But as bad as my Dad hated and moaned about Reaganomics(I was to young to really first had evaluate the ramifications at the time). Obamanomics will not be as beneficial to as many people "DOWN THE ROAD" as Regan's economic strategies did.

When Obama's economic policies (Which in truth, is just a continuation of Bush's policies Let's be fair) fail, and they will. There will be many people that will clean up in the carnage, at the expense of all of these brainless nit witts thinking a $1800 a month (mandated) premiums, in tandem with $3,500 a month mortgages(being the median), is change and hope.

To that I say good luck with that you broken Turkeys.

34   Peter P   2009 Oct 13, 7:26am  

But Reaganomics actually worked...

Many attacks on Ron's policies are really attacks on the Natural Law, under which the survival of the fittest ensures the evolution of the universe.

Funny that a lot of people worship Evolution nowadays.

Progressivism is so full of contradictions.

35   CBOEtrader   2009 Oct 13, 7:39am  

Peter P says

But Reaganomics actually worked…

If you want to call increasing the GDP and enriching only those at the top of the food chain...at the direct expense of a cripling national debt, an enormous trade deficit, and all US factory jobs sent overseas, then sure, it worked great!

The problem with Reaganomics wasn't the theory behind it, it was that he didn't actually follow through with what he was preaching. Also, going from a state controlled economy to a free market is kind of like defusing a bomb. If you cut the wrong wire first (in this case the tariffs)...then BOOOM!!! Bye, bye US factory jobs.

36   CBOEtrader   2009 Oct 13, 7:47am  

Ron Paul on Ronald Reagan:

"Tax revenues are up 59 percent since 1980. Because of our economic growth? No. During Carter's four years, we had growth of 37.2 percent; Reagan's five years have given us 30.7 percent. The new revenues are due to four giant Republican tax increases since 1981. All republicans rightly chastised Carter for his $38 billion deficit. But they ignore or even defend deficits of $220 billion, as government spending has grown 10.4 percent per year since Reagan took office, while the federal payroll has zoomed by a quarter of a million bureaucrats... big government has been legitimized in a way the Democrats never could have accomplished. It was tragic to listen to Ronald Reagan on the 1986 campaign trail bragging about his high spending on farm subsidies, welfare, warfare, etc... the IRS has grown bigger, richer, more powerful, and more arrogant. In the words of the founders of our country, our government has "sent hither swarms" of tax gatherers "to harass our people and eat out their substance." His officers jailed the innocent George Hansen, with the President refusing to pardon a great American whose only crime was to defend the Constitution. Reagan's new tax "reform" gives even more power to the IRS. Far from making taxes fairer or simpler, it deceitfully raises more revenue for the government to waste... I want to totally disassociate myself from the policies that have given us unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy. "
-- Letter to chairman of the RNC Frank Fahrenkopf, March 1987 [60]
http://www.textfiles.com/politics/ron_paul.txt

As long as the republicans kept preaching free market capitalism as their mantra, their brainwashed supporters kept voting for them, despite the fact that they were doing the exact opposite. This has gone on since 1981!!!!...and still people believe that the republican party actually stands for the free market. It's all HOGWASH, my friends. This is the gift the neo-cons have given the world. Why anyone who calls themselves a free market capitalist would support the republicans is beyond me. Of course if you criticised the Republicans you were accused of being a communist or anti-american or a bleading heart pinko LIBERAL.

Take note Democrats, as you now sound just like the 1983 to 2003 Republitards when you accuse any Obama criticism of being from a racist, an AM radio quack, or a religious zealot. The brainwashing follows a simple pattern of BS, that unfortunately 2/3 of the population seem incapable of successfully wading through.

This time around Democrats, its up to you to be better. Which, unfortunately, means we're screwed.

37   Bap33   2009 Oct 13, 9:37am  

In lib world:
R supporters = brainwashed
D supporters = intelligent

In conservo world:
R and D dont mean shit, it's conservative vs liberal. And conservative D's will get my vote before a liberal R. Liberals will not do any such thing, they will vote party line evry time and that is the only reason they ever win anything. Conservative votes get split off very easy because each THINKS FOR THEMSELF. Libs, on the other hand, only have in common their lack of moral standards. The End.

In Waynes World:
Sh-wing!!

38   CBOEtrader   2009 Oct 13, 11:40am  

Frankly, I'm not sure anyone even knows what conservative or liberal mean anymore. I know that most republicans aren't conservative by my definition. As I complain about whoever is in power at the time, I generally get accused of being a liberal when the republicans are in power and a conservative when the democrats are in power.

The ONLY difference between the dems and repubs is that the dems are early in their power cycle. The Republicans have had 28 years to figure out that their own party was selling them down the river. Thus any republican with half a brain is finally angry at their leadership. This is by no means insinuates that repubs are smarter, as it should have taken them 8 years tops to figure this out.

"In lib world:
R supporters = brainwashed
D supporters = intelligent"

I do agree with this statement. Though this is ONLY due to the fact the dems have watched republicans steal and cheat for the last 28 years, and somehow think their own party has a higher set of morals. Of course they are wrong, but it will take them 20 years, a mountain of legislation mortgaging our future into the hands of the greedy power clique, and multiple major scandals to figure that out. As they are inevitably proven to be wrong (AGAIN), the roles will reverse, as they always do. The republicans will have a faithful following and the dems will be the skeptics, just as they were in the late 70's and early 80's.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

It is quite unfortunate that neither group of supporters seems to be able think critically when it matters. Anyone that supports either major political party is part of the problem, IMHO.

39   Peter P   2009 Oct 13, 12:32pm  

Frankly, I’m not sure anyone even knows what conservative or liberal mean anymore.

Progressives believe changes ought to be forced upon the people. Conservatives allow progresses to emerge naturally.

40   Done!   2009 Oct 13, 2:01pm  

It seems to me Republicans want to pass laws forbidding things that I like, While Democrats want mandate things I don't.

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