President Barack Obama hs been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee said the award was for Obama's efforts to bring "a new climate in international politics," for which the American leader is "the world's leading spokesman."Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, President Obama said he was "deeply humbled" by the decision of the Nobel Committee. "I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize — men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace. But I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women, and all Americans, want to build."
In the meantime, Republican advocates are slitting their wrists and lamenting the award. Treasonous Rush Limbaugh said he is on the side of the terrorist Taliban groups: "Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn't deserve the award. Now that's hilarious, that I'm on the same side of something that the Taliban, and that we all are on the same side as the Taliban." Beck, Bill Krystol, Redstates Erick Erickson, John Bolton, and Fox News all agreed with Limbaugh and the Taliban that Obama was undeserving. These treasonous, traitorous domestic terrorist side with the Taliban in NOT supporting OUR President nor our Great USA! What is WRONG with the Extreme Right Wing that they SIDE with the Terrorists!! Despicable!!
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ReplyDeleteI agree. MM said it well.
I knew that Michael Moore is a very intelligent guy, and also very funny, and very sharp, stabbing, caustic against fools and foolishness, and against some people that are worse than fools ( you understand me ) .... This guy is a corrosive, vitriolic acid against Haters, Racists, FearMongers, Right Wing Extremists, etc, etc .... ...
ReplyDeleteAs when he confounded the guys of the National Rifle Associations and their policies of making each home into an Arsenal of Assault Weapons.
What I didn't know was that he was an excellent writer and essayist.
The Whole essay is beautiful, ironic, satiric, but the Post Script is Poetic.
Congratulations Mr President, I love you and Michael too is a blessing for Sanity !!
More about Politics for Sanity, Soundness of Mind, Lucidity, and the cures against Hatred and Madness :
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Vicente Duque
Our country was not honored. The Nobel prize is given to individuals and it is they that are honored. The country they reside in is irrelevant. In this case Obama was honored not the U.S. as a country. Let's keep this in prospective, shall we?
ReplyDeleteThis is a test of Obama's character. He should refuse the prize on the basis that he has no real achievements to justify it. He has only only activities. Or he could ask that the prize be escrowed until he has some real accomplishments to show the world rather than just a few speeches and visits.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel Prize committee diminished and demeaned the Peace Prize by making this award. The Prize has becme a joke. Scientists and artists often work for 20 years or a lifetime before they are honored for their achievements. Obama has not completed his first year in office. Perhaps the Committee should now begin awarding the prize for medicine to anyone who says he knows how to cure cancer. That person would be equally dserving in comparison with Obama.
Surely among all the nominees for this prize there must have been some who had actually accomplished something. There is a difference between accomplishments and mere activity.
The Committee has not only made the prize a joke but has politicized it in an attempt to influence U.S. foreign policy. The next Peace Prize should go to Osama Bin Laden to balance the Obama award or maybe they should share this one.
Even a terrorist has a right to an opinion and this is apparently one that many will agree with -- Obama has not earned a Nobel Prize. This award is strictly a polical move on the part of the Committee. It has nothing to do with merit.
ReplyDeleteVery Perturbing : Ed Show Video, Ed Schultz talks with Representative Alan Grayson, Democrat, Florida -Some Male Senators oppose Defending Women against Rape - MSNBC
ReplyDeleteThis Video is very perturbing. Senator Al Franken, Democrat, Minnesota wants to protect Women employed by Defense Contractors against rape - Many Male Republicans oppose the bill.
Gang Raping of Women inside the installations of Contractors.
Representative Alan Grayson also talks about a lot of nonsense useless hate speech against the President and the Democrats.
Alan Grayson defends Nancy Pelosi's idea of being cautious and prudent in Afghanistan and not increase troops rashly, without thinking and anlyzing first. Sending more troops could be ill-considered haste.
October 8, 2009
Alan Grayson on war profiteers, Afghanistan: "McChrystal was way out of line"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Uw63gtaqY
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Vicente Duque
I have to agree with ultima. Obama has not done anything to warrant a Nobel award.
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ReplyDeletePresident Obama's most significant accomplishment so far is his changing America from the most hated in the world to the most admired in the world. Like a new ship's captain, he has changed our course. We are no longer the hated dictator, pillaging the world, threatening with terror and destruction. Instead, we are diplomacy leaders, thinking, moving forward, engaging other countries, gaining support from an improved union of nations. President Obama is, in fact, bringing a new world climate in international politics, one that would have never, ever been realized under Bush/Cheney. The world knows this and is honoring him for it with this award.
Effective leaders have never engaged in popularity contests. Do we need the approval of other nations if we believe we are doing the right thing? No? Leadership is not a popularity contest.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so Obama has made a splash and the Europeans like what they have seen. Where are the real results? Popularity is the stock in trade of politicians. That's how they get elected and re-elected -- by offering more public largesse without a thought of how to pay for it or its long term consequences to the economy or other national interests.
Few people believe Obama should have been given the prize -- in their minds they see him bowing to the despotic Saudi ruler, giving Islam the same status as less terrorist religions, etc.
The Peace Prize has become the Political Prize.
Some want all wars ended so we can live in a peaceful world. The question is does a cut and run approach promote peace or more terrorism? Does it promote human rights or does it enslave forever all the women in Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.? How many American women would like to live under the Taliban? Who should they throw their support to? Should we indulge in unilateral disarmament so we have no temptation to go to war when our vital interests are threatened?
Our prsident and our country is not honored by the stained award of the Nobel Prize for Politica.
Ultima,
ReplyDeleteThe better response would be,
OUR COUNTRY IS NOT HONORED BY BEHAVING LIKE MINI DICTATORS STARTING WRONGFUL WARS, ENRICHING THEMSELVES AND THEIR CRONY CONTRACTORS ALL FOR PERSONAL GAIN!
I believe Diplomacy, Honor and the pursuit of Freedom for all and Peace in our world are the pursuits of good Leaders and policies our forefathers believed in! That is what the Nobel committee recognized -- our change in leadership and our change in direction. The people of America voted for this change and that is why WE voted for our President Barack Obama.
Those treasonous blowhards who advocate the FAILure of our President and our Country purely for an increase in their ratings should be ashamed of themselves!
Obama was nominated about 12 days into his presidency. That says it all! Don't you agree? Who else has received such special treatment at the hands of the disconnected, discredited, and disgraced Nobel Committee.
ReplyDeleteThe 12 day nomination is clear evidence that the prize needs to be changed to the Prize for Politics which would be more cnosistent with the actions of the Committee.
ReplyDelete"According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel prizes were to be awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." The Peace Prize specifically was to be awarded to persons who had been working for "fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Nobel neither included nor excluded statesmen
ReplyDeleteGiving President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is a "premature canonization" and an "embarrassment" to the process of designating a laureate, a presidential historian says.
ReplyDelete"The jury is still out as to what his presidency is going to add up to," according to Fred Greenstein, author and professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University.
"It's more of an embarrassment to the Nobel process."
President Obama said Friday he was "most surprised and deeply humbled" to win the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, adding that he accepts the honor as "a call to action to confront the common challenges of the 21st century."
In a brief statement in the White House Rose Garden on Friday, the president said he does not "view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments," but rather as a recognition of goals he has set for the United States and the world.
"I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative figures that have been honored by this prize," he said.
Obama will go to Oslo in December to accept the honor, which includes a $1.4 million award, Norway's prime minister said.
Greenstein said Obama is unlikely to gain any political advantage from the award, and it is unlikely to lead to any major policy changes.
Only two other sitting presidents, Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919, have been awarded the prestigious Peace Prize. Roosevelt was honored largely for brokering an agreement between Russia and Japan, and Wilson took the award for his role in ending World War I and creating the League of Nations.
It's far too early to compare Obama to either of his predecessors, said Allan Lichtman, professor of history at American University.
"They're not comparable," Lichtman said. "[Roosevelt and Wilson] were six or seven years into two-term presidencies, and Obama has not completed a single year of his presidency, so it makes very little sense."
Obama possesses a great deal of "promise," but the jury is still out, Lichtman said.
"It remains to be seen what his foreign policy legacy will be," he said. "It is premature. This was to encourage rather than to recognize an accomplished fact."
The award might even become a "political headache" for Obama, Lichtman said.
"On the one hand, his liberal base will be pushing him to live up to this," he said. "And his Republican critics will say a bunch of Scandinavians socialists have given this award to another socialist. You'll hear quite a bit of criticism from the right."
Stephen Wayne, professor of American government at Georgetown University, praised Obama's "good instincts" and strong belief in diplomacy, but said he failed to see accomplishments that merited the prize.
"It does seem to me, at this point, that's its premature," Wayne said. "When I first saw it, I thought it was a joke. Obama may have been the first to get it for his rhetoric and his orientation."
Wayne said he was "startled" to learn Obama had been nominated for the award less than two weeks into his presidency.
"What had he done by February? He had been the first African-American elected president and provided sawing rhetoric," Wayne said. "In one sense, Obama has always been more popular in Europe than in the United States. That popularity is based in part on the contrast he provides to former President George W. Bush, who was not popular in Europe. I am very favorable toward President Obama, but this prize is a surprise to me."
Ultima,
ReplyDeleteMy, my. This one has touched a nerve for you.. 4 comments in a row. You and the FAIL Republicans have a few more weeks to wail and blubber about this, all to no avail.
In the end, the President will pick up his award, repeat what he said, and continue on his road to bringing a new world climate in international politics, one that would have never, ever been realized under Bush/Cheney.
Freedom and Peace in the USA and the World through diplomacy, respect and honor.
The world knows this and is honoring him for it with this award.
I am not wailing or blubbering. That is all in your mind. Did you forget your haldone?
ReplyDeleteIn the end, the award is meaningless and no one here will be swayed one way or another by this embarassment to the Nobel Committee. My cousin in Denmark agrees the award was as a minimum premature. It is based on wishful thinking on the part of the Norwegians who originally began awarding this prize to an American Prsident because they wanted a strong friend. I guess no one told them "you can't buy friends."
This is just another tempest in a teapot but the discussion on both sides of the issue needed to be heard instead of just mindless adulation and praise for an empty gesture by the misguided Norse.
Surprise! Surprise! Obama fails to win the Nobel Economics Prize
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