From The YBNBY International Studies Desk...
Many are surprised at President Barry Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. Including, I imagine, Obama himself. Sure, at first glance this may the first major award won for Not Being George W. Bush, but at least Europe is hating us less.
Among the shocked were the reporters covering the announcement. They were aghast.
Enjoy the rest of your day listening to the hacks yell that the Nobel Prize has lost all meaning and how "you know, other socialists have won this thing too." Anyone want to wager that there will be a sound bite by the end of the day of someone on Fox News saying "Even Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Prize by Swedish parliament in 1939!" Good one guys. I'll put the bet on the board at 6-5 and pick'em.
Many are surprised at President Barry Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. Including, I imagine, Obama himself. Sure, at first glance this may the first major award won for Not Being George W. Bush, but at least Europe is hating us less.
Among the shocked were the reporters covering the announcement. They were aghast.
Enjoy the rest of your day listening to the hacks yell that the Nobel Prize has lost all meaning and how "you know, other socialists have won this thing too." Anyone want to wager that there will be a sound bite by the end of the day of someone on Fox News saying "Even Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Prize by Swedish parliament in 1939!" Good one guys. I'll put the bet on the board at 6-5 and pick'em.
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This only underscores the meaning of Nobel Peace Prize, solidifying its position as the BCS Bowl Championship of Failed Political Ideas.
He now haphazardy (and, to his credit, unwittingly - he didn't ask for this latest of PR disasters) joins the ranks of such Peace-bearers as:
Yasser "Kill the Jew" Arafat
Paul "Kill the Economy" Krugman
Warmonger Woody "Re-segregate the Government" Wilson
Al "Bad Stats" Gore
Jimmy "Operation Eagle Claw" Carter
Teddy "Big Stck" Roosevelt
The original name for it was going to be the "Nobel Violent Men and Jew-Haters Prize" but there wasn't enough space on the plaque.
The Peace Prize has been a crock of hooey ever since the guy who masterminded the Versailles debacle picked it up. Basically, to win the Nobel, you need to make sure you carefully plant the seeds for future wars while speaking well about motherhood.
Just because some good people have occasionally won it doesn't make it any better of a prize. After all, you can sprinkle a poo with bacon, and its still going to taste of poo.
But there is bacon. Bacon is awesome.
As always, I appreciate your view Swayze.
JW
That will look great on the mantle next to the Heisman he'll win in December ...
And to think, all it took was inviting a black professor and a white cop over for a beer.
Seriously though, i didn't know he had a fan club in oslo.
Again, winning this stupid prize isn't Obama's fault. I'm betting that he'd rather not put up with it right now, and feels sort of stupid. In four years? Better timing, politically.
Right now, it feels kind of like being picked Pre-Season All-American. Ask Dez Bryant how that's working out.
I'm picturing the President pouring his bowl of Fruity Pebbles and the prize falls out.
"Aw. Crap. A Nobel Peace. Well, at least it wasn't NAMBLA's Man of the Year..."
Swayze is right. The Nobel board voted, he won. The President didn't have anything to do with it.
This is pretty suspect. I am developing a theory that the Nobel people voted for Obama helping heal the rift between the US and much of the world. Trying to promote international relations. I don't know if that's right.
But the award is a little odd.
And like Adolf Hitler, Obama likes elitist brown mustard, not the patriotic yellow mustard true Americans put on their hamburgers!
What I find odd, is that the nominations for the award always end February 1, by rule. Which means our president had only been in office for 11 days. He hardly had time to put his undershorts into the presidential dresser ... and fire a few missiles into Pakistan by then ...
Well, not to brag, but I could have won it too. I just wasn't tryin that's all. I'm a busy dude. How many caption competitions has Obama won? Hanh? That's right. I'm goin there.
"What I find odd, is that the nominations for the award always end February 1, by rule. Which means our president had only been in office for 11 days. He hardly had time to put his undershorts into the presidential dresser ... and fire a few missiles into Pakistan by then ..."
I quote Ben Lurkin only to add to it that it's absolutely hilarious!
It could have been a really big joke if it wasn't actually sad.
It only indicates something about the real values of this "prize".
...and: imagine any scientist would get a Nobel prize just for PROMISING to solve any scientific major problem!
Well, I seriously think the intention was to give the prize to the “candidate”, rather than the President. He did achieve the wonderful feat of making a good part of the world not hate the USA anymore, even before he became President, which is quite a tremendous display of his diplomatic abilities by itself. The ‘hope’ thing, which was so ridiculed in some circles, actually happened – he actually made (most) people in his country believe things could get better, and there’s nothing more important than moral, no matter what you’re fighting for.
I don’t know if this award makes sense (because Nobel Peace Prizes often don’t), but I like Obama and I like the fact that he’s honestly trying to make the USA a better country for the people living in it.
The amount of voices rising in protest against their own leadership in the Bush years made me, a European, smile – the USA has a LOT of good, sensible people in it and Obama just made it obvious to the world. His election was a reflection of the American public’s opinion and their willingness to have change happen in their lives.
But this award is like the Oscars – it’s only as important as you make it.
People are still going to do what they do and it’s not because there’s a possibility they’ll receive a Nobel that they do it.
Well… except maybe Bono
Don't Swayze Bro, Yasser "Kill the Jew" Arafat won with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin so unless you consider those two to be self-haters your view that the prize goes to Jew-Haters is a bit inconsistent. Not to mention in 1986 Elie Wiesel, the Chairman of of "The President's Commission on the Holocaust" also won. Henry Kissinger as well. So did Rene Cassin, Menachem Begin, as well as a handful of others.