Here's the chairman of the committee, playing the joker on Norwegian tv:
The committee's moral authority derives from the sound and reasonable decisions they make.
If they make unreasonable decisions they consequentially lose that authority.
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| No Laughing Matter: Mark Steyn on Obama Nobel |
| 2009-10-10 |
| hat tip No Pasaran The most popular headline at the Real Clear Politics website the other day was: "Is Obama Becoming A Joke?" With brilliant comedic timing, the very next morning the Norwegians gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. ...Fortunately, the Nobel Committee understands that President Obama's accomplishments are no laughing matter. So they gave him the Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." I assumed this was a reference to his rip-roaring success in winning the Olympic Games for Rio, but as it turns out the deadline for Nobel nominations was way back on February 1st. Obama took office on January 20th. ...President Obama is now the fastest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in history. Alas, the extraordinary efforts of those first 12 days are already ancient history. ...There's something almost quaintly vieux chapeau about the Nobel decision, as if the hopeychangey bumper stickers were shipped surface mail to Oslo and only arrived last week. Everywhere else, they're peeling off: The venerable lefties at Britain's New Statesman currently have a cover story on "Barack W Bush". Link fixed. AoS |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #12 Obama deserved the award because he turned our nation from an evil cowboy loner into a "collaborator." Can't disagree with that. The jokes just write themselves. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-10-10 20:09 |
| #11 Best line in the Unintentionally Truthful category by an Obamatron was the comment at MSN that Obama deserved the award because he turned our nation from an evil cowboy loner into a "collaborator." Can't disagree with that. |
| Posted by: Cromert 2009-10-10 19:41 |
| #10 Hey have you heard the latest rumor? Obama is not the odds on favorite to win the Heisman!! |
| Posted by: anymouse 2009-10-10 16:53 |
| #9 The Nobel Committee isn't channeling divine wisdom. Its just a group of five ordinary, more of less leftist Here's the chairman of the committee, playing the joker on Norwegian tv: The committee's moral authority derives from the sound and reasonable decisions they make. If they make unreasonable decisions they consequentially lose that authority. |
| Posted by: Glererong Claper1439 2009-10-10 16:07 |
| #8 Obama or his little cheerleader here Pappy? Never mind, same difference .... |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-10-10 16:04 |
| #7 Special Olympics. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-10-10 15:30 |
| #6 Congratulations to PRESIDENT OBAMA on his Nobel prize. The rest of the world world is realizing the enormous change possible now that the previous regime has been repudiated. This award is a vote of confidence and support for his efforts. |
| Posted by: play4keeps 2009-10-10 15:18 |
| #5 This award is like a one-week on the job high school student employee getting the Employee of the Month Award and the CEO says the kid came up with some ideas yet implemented but may show results and everyone in the company asks WTF and becomes alienated and resentful. Using the Noble's reasoning, let's give the award for physics to a person who says that they will make gasoline out of water. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2009-10-10 15:00 |
| #4 I think the Scandanavians are playing "good cop, bad cop". Copenhagen says "drop dead". Stockholm says "we still love you". Best snark I heard - care of GrouchyOldCripple, was: "You can't compare Obama to Hitler any more - Hitler got the games to Berlin". |
| Posted by: Enver Elmeang4333 2009-10-10 14:36 |
| #3 This award is like a one-week on the job high school student employee getting the Employee of the Month Award and the CEO says the kid came up with some ideas yet implemented but may show results and everyone in the company asks WTF and becomes alienated and resentful. Using the Noble's reasoning, let's give the award for physics to a person who says that they will make gasoline out of water. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2009-10-10 13:20 |
| #2 This is all part of "Change" the President of the United States of America Barack Hussein Obama promised you during the election of 2008. He has won the hearts and minds of the World. Rejoice ! Barack Hussein Obama is now a Nobel Prize winning, President of the United States of America ! All Americans should be PROUD of HIM ! Please do not bare the President ill will in one of his greatest hours. He has only been in office nine months, just think what he is capable of doing in the next 39 months ! You will all be amazed .... Rejoice ! |
| Posted by: Lionel Graviger9655 2009-10-10 12:00 |
| #1 Best line in the article: "ObamaÂ’s priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?" |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-10-10 11:56 |