Preace Pies
By Mitch Berg
Now, it’s not that there’s any objective standard for the Nobel Peace Prize or anything…
…but I gotta ask my liberal commentators, many of whom are excited about Obama’s surprise, um, victory…
…how do you explain this?
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October 9th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Here’s how it is explained…
This is further incentive, not just for the President but for various senators and other national level US politicians, to avoid war with Iran and whoever else.
This is essentially a bribe. I’m not talking about the $1M, I’m talking about the Nobel itself that now hangs above his head. Would such a man DARE to consider sending troops to hot spots now? Would Senator Franken DARE considere supporting such an idea?
They are holding President Obama and others hostage so they get the US Foreign Policy they want.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
The world really hates you and the people you want to elect.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
The world really hates you and the people you want to elect.
Three points:
1) No, “the world” does not. Certain vocal elements of “the world” do.
2) The world hates me? Lil’ ol’ me? Wow. I matter!
3) “The world” – or at least the anscestors of the part of “the world” you choose to favor with the only voice that you seem to think matters – gave us anti-semitism, the Hundred Years’ War, the French Revolution, Sharia, Fabianism, Thuggee, Fascism, Marxism, Bolshevism, State Shinto, apartheid, the Holodomor, Naziism, the Gulag, Die Endlösung, Katyn, the Kolyma, Treblinka, the Red Guards, the Great Leap Forward, the Red Brigades, Suharto, Black September (the event and the group), Eva Peron, the Killing Fields, Ethiopia, Billy Joel, Rwanda, the Taliban and Vladimir Putin.
You’ll pardon me if I don’t give a sh*t what your version of “the world” “hates”.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Oh, and Rick? A group of Norwegian policy wonks should not be confused with “the world”.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Especially when the Nobel committee awarded Arafat a Peace Prize in 1994.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Mitch:
“the only voice that you seem to think matters”
Never said it, don’t think it.
“You’ll pardon me if I don’t give a sh*t what your version of “the world” “hates”.”
Then you should probably stop worrying about who they award Nobel prizes to.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Great explaination, Rick. You never fail to fail.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Then you should probably stop worrying about who they award Nobel prizes to.
He’s my employee. He’s on company time.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
You never fail to fail.
It was the easiest thing to do.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Never said it, don’t think it.
Well, when you refer to “the world” as a singular opinion (that “hates” me and whomever I vote for, no less), it might make one think you had reached a conclusion or two…
October 9th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I can explain it: these people also like lutefisk.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
This must be the consolation prize for not getting the Olympics.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
It was the easiest thing to do.
Somebody fine’s gonna come along make me forget about voting for you.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Explain it? Nobel peace [and literature but hey, who doesn’t like to read obscure 3rd world writers? Oh wait! This time it went to a … Bulgarian?] prize and Olympic site selection criteria has always been an exercise in reading tea leaves. This being the 20th anniversary of Tiani[can’t spell it] square and 60th anniversary of Chinese communism the big money was on Chinese dissidents. (Oh by the way, the USOC has gone through more chairmen then the Italians have gone through presidents lately and the one who was just pushed…er, stepped down had no sports background. Way to go USOC).
Do I approve of the selection? Nope, not when there are so many truly worthy figures who could really use that money, but hey, the committee really appreciates the efforts of Chinese dissidents and honest Russian journalists [the ones who are still alive, at any rate]. They can soldier on. Really, its no big deal.
At least he had the humility to say he didn’t deserve it, even if he had to accept it [it would have been a snub otherwise]. His speech was … carefully parsed … to say the least.
Getting back to the question the long way around now, I think its pretty obvious and its only partly political. Europeans really, really, really want/need to have a reason to like the United States. I guess it would have been easier if they hadn’t exported all of their fanatical religious nutters over here, where they periodically seize control over the government and do embarrassing and silly things.
October 11th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Bill Haverberg said:
“I guess it would have been easier if they hadn’t exported all of their fanatical religious nutters over here, where they periodically seize control over the government and do embarrassing and silly things.”
That is a truly silly opinion. Stop embarrassing yourself. 🙂