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The Nobel Peace Prize was created by the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel.

It makes me wonder whether the votes were tabulated before or after Obama dissed the Dalai Lama in favor of preserving good lender/debtor relations with our militaristic Mao anniversary-celebrating Chi-Com benefactors. 

 

Was it before or after the administration's latest re-pledge that the ongoing "good war" in Afghanistan will never be abandoned and that a ramped-up troop count is, at this very moment, under consideration?

 

We know for sure that the voting occurred some time after that day in April when the president went to church and played with his kids and their new dog as Navy Seals were allowed to blow the heads off Somali pirates in order to rescue a captured US ship's captain.

 

My own list of Barack H. Obama's accomplishments thus far -- smooth oratory, beer summits and heart-tugging photo ops excluded -- contains but one item.  It was the permission he gave for military professionals to do their thing in the tricky aforementioned rescue of Maersk-Alabama Capt. Richard Phillips. 

 

Such a decision by someone also known as "Commander-in-Chief" is not exactly part of the qualifications you would expect from a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Then again, there was a Nobel Prize given to Yassir Arafat who was rarely seen out of uniform.

 

Another thing that makes you go hmm is whether that recent trip to Copenhagen was more about being on the Scandinavian sub-continent while his Nobel Prize was being announced than about upstaging his wife's Chicago pitch to the Olympic Committee.  It could have turned out like their summer vacation in Cape Cod that coincidentally enabled the president to be on the spot as Ted Kennedy breathed his last and the memorial ceremonies for the life-long universal health care advocate unfolded.

 

Perhaps the skyrocketing price of gold, due in large part to the US Dollar's decline under Obama's watch, had something to do with delaying the prompt minting of his Nobel medal.  On the other hand, the cash prize is no longer worth what it used to be when Al Gore won it.

 

Even if Al Gore is one of your heroes, it would be a big stretch to try and turn his global warming claims and pro-environmental advocacy into a world-renowned fight for peace.  However, like Barack Obama, Gore has been an outspoken critic of President George W. Bush and can even boast of beating Bush fair and square in the popular vote in the 2000 election. 

 

International Bush hate/vindictiveness appears to be a big motivator for Nobel Committee members who had over 200 other candidates from which to choose.  Obviously, many of those who were snubbed in favor of Obama's world-wide recognition factor and anti-Bushness are long-time peace activists with extensive accomplishments to show for their efforts.

 

Of the early comments about the Nobel anomaly, South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Rep. Gresham Barrett said it best.  "I'm not sure what the international community loved best -- his waffling on Afghanistan, pulling defense missiles out of Eastern Europe, turning his back on freedom fighters in Honduras, coddling Castro, siding with Palestinians against Israel, or almost getting tough on Iran," Barrett said. 

 

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner.Other commentators have taken this ridiculous situation and made it even more ridiculous by insinuating that the Nobel Committee was eager to select Obama because he is the first African-American president.  In 1964 that same body selected the very brave and well-credentialed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Playing the race card in this case, therefore, is unproductive and misguided.

 

Plain and simple, Obama makes these internationals feel good for the very same reasons that he made the majority of American voters feel good.  He says what they want to hear and he makes promises that they believe he can fulfill.  But despite Obama's rhetoric, look around the world and ask yourself the question that each Nobel Peace Prize Committee member should have asked himself before casting a vote for Barack Obama:

 

Is the world a more peaceful place than it was on January 19, 2009? 

 

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Well written piece Eddo! It will be interesting to see how this is perceived in the future. There are so many mixed signals on how peaceful Obama really is. I am thankful [God] isn't telling him to go blow up Iraq or Russia or Iran or North Korea. So far anyway.

 

rainbowed

Great Falls, MT Tribune


Hmm Hmm.

 

GBConfidential

Green Bay, WI PressGazette


I wonder if it was wired months ago. I even wonder if the nomination was back dated. I'll never know.

 

GreyCaravel

Montgomery, AL Advertiser


12 days in office BHO was nominated, wow, that is unreal, weakness is the winner.

 

Bill_Buckley

Montgomery, AL Advertiser


If nothing else, this says that the international community views President Obama in a much different light than you.

 

patrioticblogger

Lansing, MI State Journal

[At best, the Nobel elites are just a tiny fraction of "the international community". The rest of the international community is not quite as ready to canonize Obama nine months into the program. -ED]


The international community views Obama as failing or they wouldn't have thrown such an overstuffed floatation device in his direction.  Their action simply confirms that he is the new Neville Chamberlain, an appeaser, a "peace in our time" speaker, but not achiever.  He has all but sent money to Ahmadinejad's "cult of personality" club. A better build up for such a fraud money can't buy.

 

BilBala2

Lansing, MI State Journal


Congrats to President Obama for winning this prestigious award. I use the word "win" due to the fact that by any stretch of the imagination he did not earn it.

 

Patsfan54

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun


The best part is that he was nominated TWELVE days after taking office. maybe EVERY new president gets an automatic nomination after taking office?? I believe he got the prize for making more public apologies for everything from the Revolutionary War, to landing a man on the moon.

 

Rogers83

Rochester, NY Democrat&Chronicle


Gee, Eddie disrespects the office of the president once again. Well, what a surprise!...This nobel peace prize is the world's way of saying that eddie's degenerate hero, the war criminals and world-class cretins, George Bush and his dark master, DICK Cheney, are out of office and are now back under the slime-covered rocks they crawled out from--and so are their pathetic neocon worldviews that suspected EVERYONE not a part of their wretched republican universe as being the ENEMY.

The world respects the fact that they no longer have to deal with the ammoral, chicken-hawk bullies that made up "BushCo, Inc., War Profiteers."

 

benway

St. Cloud, MN Times

[Obama was nominated for the award only 12 days into his term. So he obviously inherited the Nobel Peace Prize from GWB. Similarly, I have inherited YOUR disrespect for "the office of the president". -ED]


I also hear that Obama will probably win the Heisman Trophy this year too!

 

Uncle Larry

Austin, TX American-Statesman


Obama won the Ignoble Appeasement Prize, and he deserved it.

 

tpartyon

Tallahassee, FL Democrat


I would say the President Obama deserves the Nobel Prize every bit as much as Al Gore did...NOT AT ALL.  It used to be a very prestigious thing to win a Nobel Prize. It seems more and more like a popularity contest, run by VERY Biased Judges now.

 

justmeiguess

Lansing, MI State Journal


The nobel prize has been so cheapened and insignificant by giving it to losers they should change the prize name to the Door Knob Prize, "everyone gets a turn"...

 

archiefromcr

St. Cloud, MN Times


No way do I believe obama had anything to do with killing those pirates..what probably happened was the snipers did it from close by orders and the whitehouse dufus took the credit....( they waited forever)

 

DwayneEngland

Des Moines, IA Register

[As C-in-C it all trickles up and down to and from him. So in that particular case, the fact that he did nothing to screw up the operation gets him the credit and a pass. -ED]

...what it says is that five Norwegian socialists have confirmed what the rest of us already knew about Obama. He's a small "c" communist who's in over his head and he doesn't have the brains to know he's destroying a great country.

 

WWWIII

Lansing, MI State Journal


At a point the cult of personality becomes dangerous. And it should be obvious from this how much the whole world has bought into this.  This will embolden them. Not good.

 

slsroc

Rochester, NY Democrat&Chronicle


"Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1, only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September, two months before Obama was elected president." - CNN

 

boned

Great Falls, MT Tribune


On 2 February 2001 on a nationally broadcast TV show it was said that "everybody at the Foreign Department went around saying that "now you are going to meet with Bongo from Congo".  A  Marxist, a racist, ties with the scandalous Workers' Youth League, another ACORN!!!, and the man in charge of giving Obama his prize...., I give you Thørbjorn Jagland, former Prime Minister of Norway.   Great job Obama, I guess this means you put the stamp of approval on the Bongo from Congo term.  Who has already applied it to you?
 

Irv311
Salinas, CA

[Thørbjorn Jagland is also a long-time vice president of Socialist International and Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. -ED]


 

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