Even before he solved the intractable I/P conflict in the 2nd quarter of his first term, brought everlasting peace to the North/South Korea schism in the first half of his second term and fought back the Islamists and installed stable secular, liberal democracies in 14 Arab nation states in his third term, President Barak Obama has won the 2009 Noble Peace Prize!
Paul Reynolds of the BBC says:
The award is certainly unexpected and might be regarded as more of an encouragement for intentions than a reward for achievements.
After all, the president has been in office for a little over eight months and he might hope to serve eight years. His ambition for a world free of nuclear weapons is one that is easier to declare than to achieve and a climate control agreement has yet to be reached.
And yet the sound of millions of whoopee cushions going off in unison all over the world cannot be silenced.
Brett makes an irrefutable point:
Morgan Tsvangirai- who didn’t have the benefit of an expensive Harvard education, millionaire backers, and a holiday sanctuary in Hawaii, was overlooked. For a decade Tsvangirai stared down a military-backed tyrant who banned newspapers, murdered opponents, used famine as a political weapon and brought the country – a rapidly failing state – to the eve of civil war. And yet, through skillful statesmanship he managed to hold it together, avert a bloody war and bring the country slowly back from the brink.
But then, he didn’t have the difficult task of fighting an uphill battle against nasty Fox News pundits and vindictive Madison Avenue opinion-shapers to get to where he was.
Any ideas on what the Norwegians were thinking?
16 Comments
You people are so extreme right wing you even hate Obama !
The thing is Obama is pro-Israel but he still isnt pro-Israel enough for the Likudnic neocons of Harrys Place and Spitoon.
Sorry that your desired candidates Radovan Karadzic and Narendra Modi didnt win
Yes it is sooooooo right wing to ask what exactly has he achieved to be winning the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. Perhaps you could tell us, you seem to know.
You people are so extreme right wing you even hate Obama !
I still don’t know how religious supremacists who happen to be wildly homophobic, racist, misogynistic and champions all manner of Islamist totalitarian politics can call others right-wing. It’s as ridiculous as when the BNP use the term ‘anti-white’ on their detractors.
Faisal,
Let me answer for Muslim: That’s easy! It is a gigantic Jewish conspiracy.
Absolutely ridiculous that this rockstar president has this title that he can now add to his resume. Totally unearned and undeserved. It makes the award out to be a farce. What is next for the GODKING known as Obama?
Muslim
Thats cos there far right neo-con mates told them Obama is a Muslim
You forgot to add, “innit”.
Abu Faris
Are you kidding ?Its another sign of Eurabia what with Obama the Muslim winning. Dont you read any of the books Houriya Ahmed recommends?
Yep, Quturbi – and I read the ones without the big print and pictures.
“Are you kidding ?Its another sign of Eurabia what with Obama the Muslim winning. Dont you read any of the books Houriya Ahmed recommends?”
holy shit
1) Only ‘Eurabian’ types claim Obama to be a crypto-Muslim.
2) And Eurabian and far-right nutters have one thing in common with Islamists: they claim that all Muslims are Islamists or they claim that Islamism is a false descriptor, a neolgism – that Islam is Islamism and vice versa to it’s very core.
Now that you’ve tested positive for both, it leads me to think that the real neocon/Islamophobe/anti-Muslim bigot is you: our resident troll.
Obama comes no where close to deserving a “Nobel Peace Prize.”
He has done nothing but cause war instead of stopping it.
It is only to his Muslim “connections” he got it and it was purely a political move.
The Nobel peace prize is no more an indication of “peace” than the ICTY int he Hague is an instrument of “genuine international justice.”
Jill Starr
Obama comes no where close to deserving a “Nobel Peace Prize.”
He has done nothing but cause war instead of stopping it.
It is only owing to his Muslim “connections” he got it and it was purely a political move.
The Nobel peace prize is no more an indication of “peace” than the ICTY in the Hague is an instrument of “genuine international justice.”
Jill Starr
Honestly, my first reaction was to wonder if I had the calendar wrong. No, it isn’t April 1st.
Even more mystifying is the fact that the deliberation process usually takes months. So, it’s much less than the 10 months in office so far that factored into this, um, decision.
The official citation rates to be a hoot.
The official citation rates to be a hoot.
I’ll guess that the prize is for being the first non-white president of the U.S. Glass ceilings and all that. But the verbiage may be entertaining.
qidniz,
You may then be interested in the following.
According to the Nobel Peace Prize peeps, the prize is:
http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/home/announce-2009/
You may then be interested in the following.
Thank you! I was right, the verbiage is a hoot.
Gee, I wonder why. Or should that be how?