Blog Round Up: The No Oba-embarrassment Prize Posts

Update: More links via Fausta, as well.

Jules Crittenden has the multi-post blog round up via email. I'll update if the 11:30 AM BBC TV appearance stays on track.

This takes a lot of the heat off. The big question is, who nominated him. Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Mullah Omar? Hang on, he hasn’t actually accomplished any peace, or much else yet, though he has had several schools named after him and has promoted accord to the extent schoolchildren weren’t pelting each other with spitballs while they were singing about him.

Comments

[IslamoLlama]

Bwhahahahahahahahahahaha!
/doubles over
ahahahahahahahahaha!

Oh god, this is to awesomely hilarious.
/cries a little
tehe. Oh hoo hoo. *snicker*

[Joe]

Obama Peace Summit!

[Joe]

You know it is weird to give this award when Kanye storms the stage at Oslo.

[Huey]

He was nominated

TWO WEEKS

after he was sworn in.

[david r]

Our best hope is that his head will explode. Look for him to be the First Wimp from here on. If Desmond wouldn't do it, neither will Barry. No more troops for Afghanistan. No military action to stop Ahmadinejad from setting up a drive-thru nuke shop for the terrorists who want to incinerate us and then laughingly deny responsibility. I remember seeing the nomination go in after he had just been inaugurated. The prize is greatly diminished.

[Ran / Si Vis Pacem]

Dan, thanks for the update.

I hope the President respectfully declines in abeyance. It is a huge opportunity for both him and the Nobel Committee if he asks for patience.

http://ifyouseekpeace.blogspot.com/2009/10/oddly-enough-m-president-this-may-be.html

[Joe]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/images/afterbeers_PS-0436.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Over-Beers/&h=350&w=525&sz=131&tbnid=yvqKyvqho3UY5M:&tbnh=88&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dobama%2Bcrowley%2Bgates&usg=__hOUdjcs3zG47wAz_1kK1vOn68gc=&ei=KDrPSqrfBYj-tQPZ6ey0Dg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=6&ct=image&ved=0CBcQ9QEwBQ

Obama Peace Summit!

[anon]

There is no way Obama is going to decline the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Joe]

J-Pod has a point:

The Michael Moore of Oslo
John Podhoretz - 10.09.2009 - 10:06 AM
I can’t agree with my colleagues here on CONTENTIONS that a) Barack Obama should reject the Nobel Peace Prize or b) be embarrassed by it. The Nobel Committee chose him wisely because he does, in fact, represent the organization’s highest ideals.

He is an American president queasy about the projection of American power. He is an American president who rejects the notion of American exceptionalism. He is an American president eagerly in pursuit of legitimacy to be granted him not by those who voted for him but by those who do not cast a vote and who chafe at American leadership. It is his devout wish that America become one of many nations, influencing the world indirectly or not influencing it at all, rather than “the indispensable nation,” as Madeleine Albright characterized it. He is the encapsulation, the representative, the wish fulfillment, the very embodiment, of the multilateralist impulse. He is, almost literally, a dream come true for the sorts of people who treasure and value the Nobel Peace Prize.

It’s the most obvious choice, once you think about it, since Michael Moore won an Oscar for Fahrenheit 9/11.

[x11b1p]

Bwhahahahahahahahahahaha!
/doubles over
ahahahahahahahahaha!

Oh god, this is to awesomely hilarious.
/cries a little
tehe. Oh hoo hoo. *snicker*

IMAGINE FONT 1 TRILLION DOUBLE BOLD ALL CAPS

[Tully]

I thought it was impossible to top the Arafat, Carter, and Gore farces, but they managed.

Worst. Award. EVER.

[Miklo]

What? You mean "Ahmadine - jihad" didn't win?!

I was sure that Mahmood had done more than anyone to garner peace in the world,

well okay - at least as much as 'Little Kim' of North Korea.

Poor Bill Clinton helped free those American journalists from NK, so that prolly hurt HIS chances...

In hindsight, Obama is as qualified as any of the previous winners - so Mazel Tov!

[going4u2]

I'm completely shocked that the comittee didn't just give it to Scottland for releasing that terorist back to Lybia. Shame on them for over looking such a profound movement towards peace. Oh well, Obama is the glamour boy of the year. Maybe next year Scottland.

[Fred Beloit]

Bob, ref Riehl commenters laughing and joking about the ridiculous Prize to Obama in another thread, said:
"But that still doesn't justify the cynicism and hatefulness -- and utter lack of graciousness -- by the right wingers in response."

Bob, you are acting as if you were a sanctimonious dweeb. If they had given the Nobel Peace Prize to President Bush for liberating Iraq, an actual courageous accomplishment for peace, what comments of love and graciousness and patriotism would you be posting here? Don't fall off that absurdly high horse, Bob, you may break your bloody neck.