Uh Oh – The Peace Prize – Trouble Ahead
Posted By John Moore on October 9, 2009
The world was shocked today to learn the Nobel Peace Price had been awarded to Barack Obama.
Many have wondered what he did, during his short reign, to earn this honor.
That’s the wrong way to look at it; the real issue is what the Nobel Committee expects of him… and that’s really scary.
The record of prior nominees shows what to expect:
- 2007 – Al Gore – For attempting to destroy the US economy on behalf of a the new Church of the Holy Earth. Obama is an eager acolyte of the same religion.
- 2005 – IAEA’s ElBaredei - For failing to report the obvious: that Iran was making steady progress towards acquiring nuclear weapons (and missing entirely the A.Q. Khan nukes-for-bucks program). Since Obama seems not to care, he can be expected to continue this illustrious pattern.
- 2002 – Jimmy Carter - For attempting to lose the cold war, and for denigrating the US throughout the world while embracing dictators. Obama is already close to surpassing Jimmy. The committee chose well.
- 2001 – Kofi Annan – For looting the world’s treasuries in the memorial Saddam Hussein corruption contest. Obama’s tax-evading staff indicates similar trends.
- 1994 – Yasser Arafat – for killing Israeli civilians, and planning to kill more, which he did by starting the 2000 second Indifada. Obama has a different approach with a more ambitious goal: sell out Israeli security until Iran nukes them into oblivion.
- 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev - For surpassing Jimmy Carter by actually losing the cold war and wrecking hisi country. Obama is right on track here, although he needs to do a little backing-off on Afghanistan to be fully successful, but we have confidence.
- 1981 – Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees – For keeping Palestinians in refugee camps for three generations (now four). Obama’s policies are likely to put the few surviving Israeli’s into refugee camps.
The Nobel Committee has shown their wisdom. Obama is unlikely to disappoint them.
“Why don’t the damn Democrats give the president his day? He won today. He did well today” – Chris Matthews, 4/9/03, day Saddam statute fell
John
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From the blog I see you like facts, so let’s stick to them:
“The world was shocked today to learn the Nobel Peace Price had been awarded to Barack Obama.” Not really true. The US was maybe shocked, Or probably only a part of it.any have wondered what he did, during his short reign, to earn this honor.
“That’s the wrong way to look at it; the real issue is what the Nobel Committee expects of him… and that’s really scary.”
Just by reading the reason for giving him the price, you find out that nearly all verbs are in the either in past tense, like ” CREATED a new climate.”, “has powerfully stimulated disarmament ” or present tense “the USA is now playing a more constructive role”.
Like my old teacher said: ” the one who can read as an advantage”.
But alas, what are facts if they are in the way of opinions.
And to give mine, there would have been people who have earned that price much more.
Yeah, let’s look at the facts… the Nobel committee made their decision to award only a few weeks after Obama became president. So if they screwed u[ the tense of the verbs, that’s their problem.
However, the tense is the smallest part of the whole thing. It’s the idea that the prize means anything beyond a demonstration of norther European silliness that is fallacious.