Looks Who’s Famous :-P
Today’s News Journal had an article on local reaction to the Nobel Peace Prize award:
Timothy Pancoast, blogging on Delawarepolitics.net, which bills itself as “Delaware’s Center-Right Voice,” wrote: “Our great leader President Obama has won a Nobel Peace Prize. He has paid far less for that than most people pay to win at the Dover Downs slots. I had no idea that Nobel Prizes were like door prizes, just given out for showing up.”
AdvertisementDelawareliberal.net blogger “Unstable Isotope” opined: “I think this is a big surprise but I hope it puts a highlight on the great, early foreign policy successes of the Obama administration — namely the deal with Russia on the missile shield and the deal with Iran on nuclear enrichment. Obama has already had more foreign policy success in 9 months than Bush had in his entire 8 years.”
Heh, that’s the first time I think I’ve ever been quoted under a pseudonym.
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LOL. A Daily Kos diarist on why Palin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama:
Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize in September 2008. Someone explain to me what he had done for world peace at that time. Last time I looked, that prize was for real achievement, not just campaign rhetoric. On the other hand, they gave it to Gore and Arafat, too. That explains it.
Anonthree, are you incapable of reading the Committee’s reasoning. They explained it. They were the ones that awarded it. If you are looking for answers, please go there.
I did. After that, I ended up agreeing with the Daily Kos diarist.
DD — they explained it, and it is a farce.
A farce? You are no where near sitting on the Nobel Prize Committee and you think that their explanation is a farce.
That’s choice — and that really would be the problem here, right? That somehow the Nobel Committee should take into account what you or any of your wingnut pals think. Nobels have never taken into consideration what Americans think about anything. They aren’t especially designed to. Most of this peak wingnut crap is because they’ve been reminded once again that not one of them will ever be considered for one.
Cassandra, I think their explanation is a farce, too, and I’m neither a wingnut nor a wingnut’s pal but a committed progressive Democrat. This is the first time in the prize’s history that it was given to someone who merely showed good intentions but hasn’t accomplished anything. So don’t attack people who disagree with the president receiving what’s really just a rubber stamp. The Nobel committee is far from infallible.
RWR,
Your not a Norwegian??????????????
Then cassy is right, you are no where near being a member of the farcicle Nobel committee.
A3 — the people who give out this prize do this for lots of inscrutable reasons. And it has been pointed out multiple times that people like Desmond Tutu were awarded the prize for the effort — not because apartheid was done at the time. Yassir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin were given a Nobel for talking. Not for achieving peace for talking. And certainly there is still no peace in the mideast. Palestinians were not especially enthused about the Prize, either when done. The point being that the Nobel committee certainly does have quite a long history of awarding this prize for aspirational reasons only. But whether or not you or anyone else thinks that their explanation is a face does not obviate the point that the Nobel Committee does what it does and until you get a vote, having on about their decision is pretty much a wank.
Cassie’s general opinion on those with whom she disagrees seems to have become “How dare you! You have no right to say that!”
But hey, she is great at spouting the left-wing talking points for mind-numbed liberal bloggers, so maybe she will get next year’s Nobel prize for Literature.
“having on about their decision is pretty much a wank.”
What class, Cass.
Cassie’s general opinion on those with whom she disagrees seems to have become “How dare you! You have no right to say that!”
The people here with more than a 4th grade reading level do know that this is not true. This hasn’t any relation at all to what I said. This would be the second time today that you needed to misrepresent something I said to actually have a point to make. It is OK to just STFU when you can’t address the words in front of you.