Saturday, October 10, 2009

Keep Your Eye On The Prize


AWESOME! That's exactly what I thought when I got the news that our President, Barack Obama, had been awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. What a statement and a testament to a man who has only held the office of Presidency for ten short months! It's a proud moment, indeed, for the United States of America who had lost so much stature in world affairs over the last several years.

Then...my jaw dropped, my eyes teared, and my heart sank as pundits and the right-wing began wagging their necrotic tongues. Their effusive dialogue can only be said to belie their continuous postulations of patriotism and love of this country.

While, I guess, the reaction should have been predictable, my optimistic and hopeful nature evidently blurred any prescience I might have had at my disposal. My moment of pride was soon defiled by the vitriol unleashed by loathsome pseudo-patriots of the right-wing.

Understanding that much of the current rancor among right-wingers and Republicans is lodged in the bowels of abject racism it should have come as no surprise when Erick Erickson of Red State retorted "I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an Affirmative Action quota, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news."

It was surprising, however, in that he should make such an overtly racist statement and be so blatantly ignorant as to the nature of the prize which has recognized individuals of every race and nationality worldwide. Through such an acerbic statement Erickson not only cheapened the coveted prize but himself as well.

Additionally, the reaction by Rush Limbaugh was one that should have been easily predicted as the voracious and disgruntled Republican has been spewing his hate-filled, right wingnuttery for months now. This morning was no different as he said, "The Nobel gang just suicide bombed themselves," and "Something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn't deserve the award."

The equally distasteful and repugnant Glenn Beck commented, "Obama doesn't deserve the prize but the Tea Party protestors do." Now, just what have the tea-baggers accomplished for world peace, I ask you?

With that, things got worse. Many suggest that he should not accept the prize while others question his "achievements," therefore whether or not he is deserving of such an honor. Still others belittle the prize itself.

In fairness, there are many who reside on the democratic and progressive side of the fence who believe that the awarding of the coveted prize to Obama came to quickly. Some question the timing and the validity of presenting him with such an award.

One can only imagine what the rest of the world is thinking. Last week, when the U.S. lost the bid for the 2016 Olympics, media personalities and people on the streets reveled in that loss. Today, as it was announced that President Obama would be the recipient of one of the greatest world-wide honors, the act was met with derision and denouncement.

From the Huffington Post we are told...

In its statement, the Committee said he had "created a new climate in international politics. ... Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future." It continued, "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population." That is, in other words, a true commitment to democracy.

You see, the Nobel Peace Prize isn't always about honoring a lifetime of achievement. Recipients aren't always determined upon criteria that requires concrete accomplishments or measurable outcomes. Sometimes it's awarded for the setting of a tone, the promise of change, or leadership and role-modeling.

Those who are hemorraghing and squealing like stuck pigs seem to lack the ability to think either in the abstract or deal with the reality that apparently the rest of the world prefers diplomacy, values, and character to a cowboy hat, boots, and a big belt buckle. The rest of the world would prefer leaders who are committed to solutions and peace to those with the "you're either with us or against us" mentality.

This isn't about who has the biggest and the baddest bombs or who can shock and awe the rest of the world into submission. It's about who has the ability and the acumen to recognize that we are all sharing this planet and that we must learn how to do so together and to lead us in the direction of peace rather than bullying people into submission.

As Robert Creamer so aptly noted...

" The Nobel Committee gave the prize to Barack Obama because he gave the world hope that its most powerful, wealthy nation would once again provide humankind with inspiration and leadership that can be trusted and admired.
Since his election, President Obama has launched a worldwide campaign to eliminate all nuclear weapons - recognizing that controlling the proliferation of nuclear weapons is a practical impossibility unless we work to eliminate them from the globe. He has rededicated America to cope with the massive threat of climate change. He has reset our relationship with the Muslim world. He has rededicated America to the world's international institutions. And, he has begun to use all of the tools available to our country - including diplomacy - to create a more just and peaceful planet.

All of this is just the beginning of a long journey. But at least we have once again begun that journey down the right road. In and of itself that has made America safer, restored our respect in the world, and has begun to build a foundation for peace in the world over the long term.
Americans may not fully appreciate how completely they changed our relations to the rest of the world when they voted to elect Barack Obama last November. The rest of the world does. We should consider Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize as a giant gesture of gratitude.


I see it that way.

45 comments:

  1. "You see, the Nobel Peace Prize isn't always about honoring a lifetime of achievement. Recipients aren't always determined upon criteria that requires concrete accomplishments or measurable outcomes. Sometimes it's awarded for the setting of a tone, the promise of change, or leadership and role-modeling"

    Obama has merely read text from a teleprompter and has done ABSOLUTELY nothing else. He DOES NOT deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
    You liberals always miss the point, so I suppose I'm racist because I don't worship your Lord and master. Obama is the WORST thing o happen to America. EVER.

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  2. Laughing at Chris the Cry Baby DrakeOctober 10, 2009 7:18 PM

    Ah listen to the dick sucker whine. Poor Widdle baby is life not going the way you think it should? Does the rest of the world kind of like Mr. Obama and realize he is at least trying to do a good job?

    Whine some more bitch while I laugh at your stupid fucking ass. LOL.

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  3. What cry babies like "NoObamaPal" (which I agree with the above is most likely Chrissy) fail to realize is that Obama writes a good many of his speeches. But then I would not expect someone who is obviously so fucking stupid to comprehend this.

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  4. It's no surprise to me that Nikki would think Obama is deserving of this "award".

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  5. Obama orders more troops and bombs to Afghanistan, threatens Iran with nuclear annihilation, continues to uphold the policy of an illegal occupation in Iraq and he wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
    God, I need a martini, now.

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  6. With all the horrible people that have won a Nobel Prize, Mr. Nobel must have rolled over in his grave so many times that he’s currently down in the inner core of the earth.

    Didn’t Yasser Arafat receive this bogus award years ago along with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin while they were really going at it killing innocent people? Jimmy Carter, Al Gore now OBAMA?!?

    This is just further proof that the Nobel Prize has become a disgusting farce and is just used to pat the globalist elitists on the back when they follow orders.

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  7. The Nobel Committee must be totally irony proof!

    ROTFLMAO

    What a clown we have for a president...it appears O'bummer is being mocked.

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  8. This is a political endorsement by the social democrats in Oslo since they did the selection like 10 days into his Presidency.

    Apparently, they give this award out to those they "hope" might do something peaceful.

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  9. Obama has done nothing to deserve this reward. We don't even know what he "potential" is at the moment...Hell, we don't know much about him.

    This was a cynical move on the part of the Europeans to manipulate Obama.

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  10. The Nobel prize has been a farce for some time now.

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  11. Nikki is counting this award to Obama in as an accomplishment for Obama?

    Hell, even Obama himself said he didn't deserve it.

    I don't think we need further proof that Nikki is one of the cool-aid drinkers. Do we?

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  12. The guy has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING while he has been in office. Nothing.

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  13. How to Win the Nobel Peace Prize In 12 Days (He was selected just 10 days in his Presidency btw):

    *January 20: Sworn in as president. Went to a parade. Partied.

    *January 21: Asked bureaucrats to re-write guidelines for information requests. Held an “open house” party at the White House.

    *January 22: Signed Executive Orders: Executive Branch workers to take ethics pledge; re-affirmed Army Field Manual techniques for interrogations; expressed desire to close Gitmo (how’s that working out?)

    *January 23: Ordered the release of federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries. Lunch with Joe Biden; met with Tim Geithner.

    *January 24: Budget meeting with economic team.

    *January 25: Skipped church.

    *January 26: Gave speech about jobs and energy. Met with Hillary Clinton. Attended Geithner's swearing in ceremony.

    *January 27: Met with Republicans. Spoke at a clock tower in Ohio.

    *January 28: Economic meetings in the morning, met with Defense secretary in the afternoon.

    *January 29: Signed Ledbetter Bill overturning Supreme Court decision on lawsuits over wages. Party in the State Room. Met with Biden.

    *January 30: Met economic advisers. Gave speech on Middle Class Working Families Task Force. Met with senior enlisted military officials.

    *January 31: Took the day off.

    *February 1: Skipped church. Threw a Super Bowl party.

    So there you have it. The short path to the Nobel Peace Prize

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  14. Obama was "nominated" just 10 days into his presidency. He was among 200+ others who were nominated. The decision wasn't made until a couple of weeks ago.

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  15. Obongo deserves no praise for anything. He is slowly destroying America as we know it. Last night he got in bed with the Faggots. I feel sorry for the soldiers who will have to share a fox hole with a filthy assed Sodomite Faggot.

    What's the deal with Hal? He should've been freed weeks ago. He deserves the Nobel prize much more than Obongo.

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  16. If Obama has done nothing then why are you idiots whining about him so much. That is what self wants to know.

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  17. Hey Pedo, self asks you this: Do they give a Nobel Prize out for crying and snitching? If they do then Hal Turder would deserve one. MAYBESO

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  18. "Obama was "nominated" just 10 days into his presidency. He was among 200+ others who were nominated. The decision wasn't made until a couple of weeks ago."

    If you believe that there is a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.

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  19. Any group that would nominate Hitler and Mussolini for the prize isn't to be taken seriously anyway.

    I think they gave one to Yassir Arafat.

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  20. I am sure that 1.5 Million dollar prize will come in handy for ACORN since they have so many legal troubles these days.

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  21. “The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists - the Taliban and Hamas this morning - in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” --DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse


    What a fucking baffoon.

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  22. Something that has gone unnoticed by most is that Barack Obama took office on 20 January of this year while candidates could be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize until…
    1 February.
    This means that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee gave this prize to Obama because of his wonderful first ten days in office.

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  23. One can only hope that this latest devaluation of the Nobel will serve to further inflate O’s ego and thereby make his narcissism even more readily apparent to the public.

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  24. Please do keep in mind Nikki... before you start that GO OBAMA mantra you do so well:

    "Rather than recognizing concrete achievement, the 2009 prize appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change. "


    appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit

    Not that he has done a blessed thing or achived it just that he tried. Doesn't that kind of amount to the remedial child getting through the 1st grade primer in the 5th grade?

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  25. Ok ok... dont get too upset... he was only in office a week or two when picked... can you say "Token" prize.

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  26. I thought the Peace Prize took a step down when it was awarded to Al Gore for promotion of a fraudulent science in the advancement of Social Engineering, but to award it for future acomplishments is a new twist.

    Congradulations Big O.

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  27. I dont understand this - how can one be given a prize for what they may do in the future - why not wait until the president is into the term and then look at him for the award - I think something like this cheapens the prize - because the achievements by the president are not there yet -

    wait unitl he puts some time in the job first - He has become Carter which is really scary.

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  28. Everyone feel great that he got this award? As a Jew I do not.

    Now think hard about Iran with nuclear weapons.
    How do you feel now?

    Obama tries so hard to be an appeaser, and apologizes for this countries arrogance and derisiveness, do you really think he is going to protect this country, AND ISRAEL, by doing what it takes - which means military action against Iran?

    How could he (in his warped mind), attack Iran when he just got the Nobel Peace Prize?

    He wont do it. There is no way he could bring himself to do it.
    Hence, a Nuclear Iran.

    Its a sad day if you are Jewish. Its a sad day for the safety of this country.

    Ahmadinejad must be grinning from ear to ear.

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  29. THIS IS ATROCIOUS! HE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING YET TO PROMOTE PEACE...SAYING IT DOESN'T MAKE IT SO OBAMA!
    GIMME A BREAK!
    OUR GUYS ARE DYING OVER THERE IN IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN EVERY SINGLE DAY!
    EIGHT OF THEM THIS PAST WEEKEND....THAT MEANS THAT THERE'S NO PEACE....THIS IS SUCH A FARCE WITH ONLY BEING IN OFFICE 9 MONTHS!

    WELL, I HOPE THAT OBAMA DOES THE RIGHT THING WITH THE MONEY AND HELP TO PAY THE MORTGAGES ON SOME FORECLOSED PROPERTIES AND HELP OUT SOME OF THIS COUNTRIES PEOPLE STAY IN THEIR HOMES! OR HELP PAY SOMEONE'S HOSPITAL BILLS WITH ALL THAT MONEY THAT LOST THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE CAUSE THEY LOST THEIR JOB!
    I HOPE HE DOESN'T SPEND IT ON ANOTHER ONE OF HIS ARMANI SUITS TO MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE SOME ROCK/SUPERSTAR OR BUY CAVIAR WITH IT FOR HIS FAT WIFE!!
    I'M GETTING A BIT TIRED OF HIM ALREADY AND HE'S NOT EVEN IN OFFICE A YEAR! GAG ME!

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  30. To all those who think that our comments are based only on bashing Obama, get real! The whole controversy here is that he hasn't done anything to prove he deserves this award. Would you put him in the same category as the likes of Mother Theresa, The Dali Lama, etc...
    Until he actually does something how can it be that he is being rocognized for such an honor. If this is the case, we can sumise that anyone can be nominated on the theory that they too MAY eventually do something. This is a legitimate argument that has nothing to do with liking or disliking the man. Even when the announcement was made, the people in the audience were gasping because they knew what we are all feeling today...How the hell...?!!!

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  31. I used to think the Nobel prize was an incredible accomplishment and honor. Not so much now.

    I think Charles Hurt may have said it best in his article for the NY Post: "The committee clearly has cast itself into the dustbin of irrelevancy by making this move. People will joke about this for years."

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  32. Apparently if you cave in to hostile arabs and other troublemakers around the world, they give you a prize. Achievements must not mean anything to the Nobel Committee anymore. Apparently, it's lipservice to the concept of "peace at any cost" (even at the expense of a nation's security and position in the international community) that matters in Oslo, now.


    The Nobel Prize is indeed as meaningless as the Oscars, and as corrupt as the Olympic Games - or the U.N for that matter.

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  33. I am currently working on a cure for cancer, world peace, global warming, global cooling and ending starvation. I will accomplish this in the near future. Please send me my Nobel Peace Prize ASAP.

    OH DAMN! I just remembered, I am a White man - forget I said anything.

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  34. No matter what the Nobel Prize Committee states is the reason for the award, the real reason is they are Socialists that want to promote socialism. Obama's agenda probably won't work with Iran, North Korea or the Taliban. No matter, it's the thought behind the reasoning. Kind of like Chamberlain's reasoning, perhaps he can recieve the award retro-actively.

    The Nobel is a sham.

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  35. I couldn't agree more...the whole Nobel selection and award process at least as it relates to political figures was hijacked by the socialist / one worlders years ago. This is a political statement from them pure and simple

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  36. Affirmative action is alive and well in Oslo....what a joke....you just have to shake your head and laugh.

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  37. Well Tookie Williams was nominated in 2001 as well, so the standards are not set too high for winning this award. This is purely a joke. Now he gets to spend more taxpayer dollars to go to Denmark to accept the "award" instead of focusing on our countries issues. I guess he got his "ego" stroked by this after the great slap in the face by the Olympic Committee ..what a complete joke of a president. I would think you have to be in office for more than 8 months to see what you are capable of, nevermind, winning a Nobel Peace Prize! If Iran goes "nuclear" will they take the award back?

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  38. He won it For WHAT......exactly?..........for ushering in COMMUNISM to the United States?

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  39. If Americans had any real dignity Bush would be rotting in jail.
    But the cowardly right would rather talk about trashing the most prestigious award a human being can get. Republiscum are just corporate slaves and racists....the laughing stock of the whole planet.

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  40. "If Americans had any real dignity Bush would be rotting in jail.
    But the cowardly right would rather talk about trashing the most prestigious award a human being can get. Republiscum are just corporate slaves and racists....the laughing stock of the whole planet."


    Oh boy here we go, another shrill, uneducated, and mean liberal. Where's the love bruhther ? "You people" are so easy to spot, working part time at starbucks, still 'in college' at 32 years of age, living in your moms garage, and visiting your parole officer once month.

    When I drive through your neighborhood I see advertising posted on the chain link fences around the empty lots you burned. And then you complain when said businesses don't come back.

    Liberals are like pets that always have their hand out and give nothing back but 'good feelings'. You are 'takers' and not 'contributors', then you bark and bite at the hand that feeds you with comments like those you wrote here.

    Remeber if you really want to tax the wealthiest Americans in order to support your pitiful lifestyle you should wish them nothing but the best so that they will succeed in order to pay those taxes.

    But then again "You people" are very short sighted. You leave trash in your own streets and blame it on others. You dont look for work and the blame it on 'the man'. In fact you're like Midas in reverse. Instead of gold everything you touch turn to S--t.

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  41. He's nothing but a ballwasher for the united nations, and this proves it. Funny how the Nobel Peace Commission stopped accepting nominations for the award on Feb 1, 2009, less than two weeks after the chosen ones inaguration. Which might i add is far before any of the B.S. reasons they noted for reasons he recieved it. Maybe they fast tracked him for implementing his New Institutional Economics and destroying the American dream for so many folks.(NIE) Spending your childrens lives for his Substantivist, Marxist positions. He's been chosen by the UN and funded by the Ford Foudation his entire life for this. His mom worked with little timmy giethners father, when they both worked for the foudation, and if you don't see the connection there, well, your stupid. Wake up folks and realize there is something much bigger going on around you, and you better get educated. Good Luck... You're gonna need it, and so are your children.

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  42. Man the KoolAid drinking obamabots are all over this one as if it offers a stitch of credibility to the past 9 long months......Last November he was voted in, November 2010 he will be put in his place politically by the same people who got him elected as he has and will continue to piss on America...He CHANGED right after he won, now we can HOPE he follows Carter's legacy...Peace prize..what a joke.

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  43. This guy did nothing to deserve it, and I doubt he will do anything to deserve it.

    What a fucking farce.

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  44. Why do American elites give a good goddamn what snobs in Europe think about America.

    I just love how Europeans know better and dictate how we should run things here in the good ol' US of A.

    Fuck all of you elitist snob bastards including you fuckwits in Europe. You turned Europe into a cesspit...we aren't going to allow you to do it in our country that we built by ourselves.

    Go fuck yourselves.

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  45. Anonymous Puissy said:
    "If Americans had any real dignity Bush would be rotting in jail".

    You a sorry Sorry sad sack of shit Nigger Loving Nigger Dick Sucking Son-of-a-Bitch

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