Are you kidding me? Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize?
This is absolutely unbelievable! I was going through my morning routine, and I saw an e-mail telling me that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. The first thing I did was check my calendar. No, it's not April 1!
The fact is that Obama DID win the Nobel Peace Prize. He has been in office nine months, has nothing to show for it on the international stage except to make America less safe, and he's being rewarded for his efforts and accomplishments? This is the craziest thing I've ever heard! ++ Read More
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Obama Nobel Marks New Low in Committee's Bias
The Nobel committee's surprise decision to award the Peace Prize to an unproven American president reveals the committee's single-minded focus on a progressive transnational agenda that marks a radical departure from the original intentions of 19th-century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, conservatives charged Friday.
Nobel directed in his 1895 will that the 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."
Over the years, the committee has expanded the definition of the award to include important global social issues such as poverty and global warming which were not envisioned originally.
The words "shall have done" in the award's original charter clearly indicate that the award should be based on an evident accomplishment. That President Obama appears to lack those on his resume to date accounted for the mixed reaction.
As the U.K. Telegraph observed on Friday: "Mr. Obama has no concrete achievement to his credit."
Time magazine's Mark Halperin even predicted, erroneously as it turned out, that the president would find a graceful way to back out of accepting the award given his lack of accomplishments.
"I think the best thing you can say is it's premature," Halperin told the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe program. "Throughout his time as a national figure, an international figure, Barack Obama has been criticized for being just about words, just rhetoric. He seems to have won one of the most prestigious awards in the world for just rhetoric."
On the right, the criticism was even more strident, attacking the committee for pushing a transparent political agenda.
"The transnational progressives who pass out these accolades believe America is the problem in the world, the main threat to peace, the impediment to "progress," etc.," wrote the National Review's Andy McCarthy. "The award is a symbolic statement of opposition to American exceptionalism, American might, American capitalism, American self-determinism, and American pursuit of America's interests in the world."
Most observers agree that the award has grown steadily more politicized, since former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger won the prize in 1973 — for the accords that marked the beginning of the end of the Vietnam War. The committee overlooked Ronald Reagan's role in ending the Cold War, Pope John Paul II's work to liberate Eastern Europe from the boot of Soviet imperialism, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's iron-willed defense of international freedom.
Obama, by contrast, was nominated for the award just 12 days after assuming office. While global polling indicates his international charm offensive has been largely successful, experts are hard-pressed to provide examples of how he has been able to translate America's renewed popularity into actual progress.
As the committee has snubbed conservatives, globalist figures have won the award year after year with far fewer historic accomplishments to justify their awards: the 2005 prize to U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei, for example, and the 2001 award to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
As much as Americans may take pride in their president winning the award, it appears to mark the third time an award has been given to a recipient in large measure owing to their opposition to former President George W. Bush.
When former President Jimmy Carter was presented the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, the chairman of the committee eschewed the pacific spirit of the prize by calling it a "kick in the leg" to the Bush administration. In 2007, the award was presented to former Vice President Al Gore — not for "reduction of standing armies," but for making a movie and leading an anti-global warming crusade that Bush wanted no part of.
Comments from the Nobel Committee indicate Obama was awarded the prize in large measure for his departure from the rhetoric and policies of the Bush administration, which has fed the hopes of the international community.
"He got the prize because he has been able to change the international climate," said Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland.
"This latest award is a political statement," Nile Gardiner, the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, told Newsmax.
Gardiner characterized Obama's diplomatic record to date as "thoroughly negligible," adding, "I think the Nobel Committee has consistently gone out of its way not to recognize American conservative leaders like Reagan, who have done great work advancing the cause of liberty and freedom on the world stage."
Ironically, the award was announced just a few days after Obama put off meeting with the Dalai Lama, the representative of the oppressed Tibetan people, apparently out of concern for relations with China.
"The awards have been greatly politicized," Dr. James Jay Carafano, a leading Heritage Foundation expert on defense and homeland security, told Newsmax.
Dr. Larry J. Sabato, author of "The Year of Obama" and the director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said winning the Nobel may not help President Obama much politically.
"The prize reinforces the view that for Obama, the bar is set differently," Sabato told Newsmax. "Unlike other presidents, or even peace-prize winners, he’s judged mainly on style and celebrity rather than actual achievements. I think my reaction when I heard the news was nearly universal: Whether you like or dislike Obama, it’s ridiculously premature. He just got into office."
Carafano noted that the award actually might complicate Obama's global peace initiatives. Other leaders may now see Obama as being under pressure to achieve results, thereby strengthening their perceived bargaining position vis-à-vis the United States, he said.
Talk show titan Rush Limbaugh joined in that sentiment with a broadside e-mailed to Politico.com.
"This fully exposes the illusion that is Barack Obama," Limbaugh wrote. "And with the 'award' the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan, not take action against Iran and its nuclear program, and to basically continue his intentions to emasculate the United States."
Limbaugh continued: "They love a weakened, neutered U.S., and this is their way of promoting that concept."
The reaction to the award was wide-ranging and unpredictable.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee cautioned that an over-the-top conservative outcry could appear to be a case of "right-wing whining."
Among the skeptics, however, was former Polish leader Lech Walesa, who won the Peace Prize in 1983 for founding the Solidarity movement.
"So soon?" Walesa said, according to the Washington Post. "Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act. . . Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act."
Obama appeared aware of the concerns being voiced, saying in his acceptance remarks that the award left him "both surprised and deeply humbled."
"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," he said.
And Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton's reaction, as told to The Corner blog, was: "The Nobel committee is preaching at Americans."
By: David A. Patten - Newsmax
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Glenn Beck: No accomplishments = Nobel for Obama (Transcript)
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October 9, 2009 - 12:40 ET
GLENN: President Obama has won a Nobel Peace Prize for his accomplishments. Now, not a lot of people know this, but the nomination period ended, was it two weeks before or two weeks after?
PAT: Two weeks after.
GLENN: Two weeks after.
PAT: He was in office.
GLENN: So they had two weeks in office.
PAT: Those were, if you remember, right?
GLENN: Those were big weeks.
PAT: Huge, huge weeks for him.
GLENN: We're not sure yet. The Nobel Prize comes with $1.4 million, and I'm ‑‑ that's a million dollars more than his salary. We're going to have to check with the pay czar to find out if that's too much money for him to have because, you know, we would hate to have him have too much money and then violate any kind of new rules that, you know, well, he's the president; forget about it, there's no rules for the president anymore. Hang on, more breaking news.
PAT: Glenn, we have to break away for some important news. We go to Steve Burguiere, producer Steve Burguiere who is at Cambridge, Massachusetts right now with this important ‑‑ somebody please wake up the president.
GLENN: I think he's ‑‑ he might be awake. Is he awake by now?
PAT: Important breaking news from Cambridge. Go ahead, Stu.
GLENN: Even when he's asleep, he's awake. Go ahead.
STU: Glenn, are you awake?
GLENN: I am awake. I'm pretty sure when the president is asleep, he's awake. He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.
PAT: For goodness sake.
STU: Thank God for that. Glenn, we have exciting news. This is just coming down. I'm here in Cambridge live right now.
GLENN: Yes. Stu can you hear me?
GLENN: Yes, I can hear you.
STU: Okay, good. That's good that you ‑‑ basically what just happened here, and this is quite monumental ‑‑
PAT: Sounds like you have quite a crowd assembled behind you, Stu.
STU: Yes, there's a huge amount of people here. I'm probably being drowned out by the music and it's probably too loud for you to hear the crowd but ‑‑
PAT: Let's hear it for a sec. Turn the ‑‑
STU: The music is too loud. The music ‑‑
GLENN: All right, go ahead.
STU: Right now, Glenn, you have been ‑‑ this is fantastic. You have been awarded the valedictorian here at Cambridge. Congratulations. I mean, what an honor.
GLENN: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me get my arms around this. What did you just say?
STU: You have been awarded the valedictorian of the Class of 2010.
GLENN: What is her name?
STU: No, I don't think ‑‑
PAT: I think he's saying you are the valedictorian.
GLENN: Oh, I thought you were giving me the valedictorian because that would be ‑‑ I didn't know. I'm sorry. Go ahead. So I am the ‑‑ but I don't go to Harvard.
STU: No, you didn't win that award at all but you still have won, you've won the valedictorian at Cambridge.
GLENN: How did I ‑‑ I don't go to ‑‑
STU: At Cambridge.
PAT: Have they just decided that if he had gone to Harvard, he would have done so well that he would become the valedictorian?
STU: Yeah. And the bottom line is his intent is to be really smart and do very well at Harvard.
PAT: Wow.
GLENN: Wow.
PAT: Wow.
GLENN: Now, hang on just a second because what about Cambridge? Because Cambridge, you know, I know it's Cambridge, Massachusetts and Harvard but what about Cambridge?
STU: You are saying Cambridge in the U.K.?
GLENN: Yes.
STU: You've won there, too, although I wasn't going to brag, but congratulations.
GLENN: Really? Hang on just a second. I am shocked and humbled by this. I mean, what have I done? Get the award here as soon as you can, all right?
STU: Glenn, we have ‑‑
GLENN: Does it come with any prize money?
STU: Yes. You have $3.9 million given to you but, of course, you'll be donating that to your charity of choice.
GLENN: Yes, my children.
STU: Of course. And also, Glenn, remember we did e‑mail your office for comment and they just responded with one word: Wow.
GLENN: All right. Thank you very much. The valedictorian now of Cambridge and Harvard.
PAT: Wow. Has that ever happened before? I don't think that's ‑‑
GLENN: I don't think it has.
PAT: I don't think that's ever happened.
GLENN: Now, I don't mean to boast here but I've won two valedictorians and I'm going to put them proudly, I'm going to put them proudly on my ‑‑ no, I'm sorry. I keep thinking that I get the people, but I don't get ‑‑
PAT: No, you don't get the people.
GLENN: All right. So I don't even know what shape that is or what it looks like or ‑‑ I mean, is there a certificate that comes with that? I don't know. But I don't mean to brag here, but I believe I'm the only one to not attend Harvard or Cambridge and become their valedictorian.
Wasn’t it just this past weekend that the liberal show SNL took a major swing at Obama for his lack of accomplishments?? When you nominate someone for something virtually before they start, it is pretty obvious that the fix is in and that it has nothing to do with accomplishments!!!
Something like this makes the entire meaning of winning a Nobel Peace Prize a joke and worthless. Course if you really look at their record, only one Nobel has ever been awarded to a conservative writer…
SNL attacks...Obama? A Sign That the Honeymoon is Over and that Left Isn’t Happy Either
It wasn't too long ago when comedians said they couldn't make fun of Obama because there wasn't anything to make fun of. Apparently that ship has sailed, because SNL this weekend took direct aim at Obama and his lack of accomplishments so far. The two big Obama successes SNL points out are 'jack' and 'squat' while mocking his failure to make good on campaign promises. Does this bit mean the left is turning on Obama or are they just trying to mock him into shoving his agenda into place? I guess it was too late for the Nobel Peace Prize crew to get the message… or perhaps it is that he is well on his way to accomplishing their ideas toward a NWO and the diminishment of America?!?
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