Concrete reasons for Obama's Nobel Prize

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The other thread on this subject has degenerated into the usual snarlfest between the usual leftists and rightists. Some facts from the people involved, and from reporters not given to bashing liberals, might help for a change.

Here are direct quotes from Reuters, a news service with a long record of extraordinary praise for liberals of all stripes.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5981JK20091009

Obama is surprise winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Fri Oct 9, 2009 11:36am EDT

Obama's Nobel seen as "daring" bet on future

by Matt Spetalnick and Wojciech Moskwa

WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) -

The bestowal of one of the world's top accolades on a president less than nine months in office, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, was greeted with gasps of astonishment from journalists at the announcement in Oslo.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts ...."

...Obama so far has made little tangible headway as he grapples with challenges ranging from the war in Afghanistan and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea.

Despite troubles at home including a struggling economy that have eroded his once-lofty approval ratings....

(From another Reuters article at http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE5983AM20091009?virtualBrandChannel=11621:)

"The guy hasn't solved any conflict anywhere so how can he win the peace prize? But if we don't reelect him the next go around we will all look like idiots because the world has anointed him," said Schultz, who lives in a suburb of Dallas.

Some said the choice could damage the Nobel committee's credibility and that of the award.

"It looks less like an objective award than it does a political endorsement," said William Jelani Cobb, a history professor at Spelman College in Atlanta ....

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Bottom line: The award was given, not for any particular achievement (according to Reuters there was none), but to praise efforts while carefully avoiding the questions of (a) did the efforts achieve any laudable results, and (b) whether the efforts could EVER have any positive results.
 
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The other thread on this subject has degenerated into the usual snarlfest between the usual leftists and rightists. Some facts from the people involved, and from reporters not given to bashing liberals, might help for a change.

Here are direct quotes from Reuters, a news service with a long record of extraordinary praise for liberals of all stripes.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5981JK20091009

Obama is surprise winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Fri Oct 9, 2009 11:36am EDT

Obama's Nobel seen as "daring" bet on future

by Matt Spetalnick and Wojciech Moskwa

WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) -

The bestowal of one of the world's top accolades on a president less than nine months in office, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, was greeted with gasps of astonishment from journalists at the announcement in Oslo.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts ...."

...Obama so far has made little tangible headway as he grapples with challenges ranging from the war in Afghanistan and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea.

Despite troubles at home including a struggling economy that have eroded his once-lofty approval ratings....

(From another Reuters article at http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE5983AM20091009?virtualBrandChannel=11621:)

"The guy hasn't solved any conflict anywhere so how can he win the peace prize? But if we don't reelect him the next go around we will all look like idiots because the world has anointed him," said Schultz, who lives in a suburb of Dallas.

Some said the choice could damage the Nobel committee's credibility and that of the award.

"It looks less like an objective award than it does a political endorsement," said William Jelani Cobb, a history professor at Spelman College in Atlanta ....

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Bottom line: The award was given, not for any particular achievement (according to Reuters there was none), but to praise efforts while carefully avoiding the questions of (a) did the efforts achieve any laudable results, and (b) whether the efforts could EVER have any positive results.

Tough to accept isn't it?...I guess I'd be bummed if I was a wingnut too, though it's hard to imagine.

Hey, I've got an idea, maybe the right can throw a teabagger party and protest the award.
 
We all know that most of the european countries are socialists, so they see him turning America into a socialist/communist country, therefore he's being rewarded already.... BULL...:mad:
 
Tough to accept isn't it?...I guess I'd be bummed if I was a wingnut too, though it's hard to imagine.

Hey, I've got an idea, maybe the right can throw a teabagger party and protest the award.
Yep, and you and Shaman can come and we'll put you in the dunk tank. You and Shaman can take turns.
 
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Published on DickMorris.com on October 9, 2009



Whether it was rewarding Jimmy Carter for criticizing the Iraq War or supporting Al Gore in his crusade against global warming, the Norwegian Parliament - which chooses the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - has sought to use the award as a political tool to influence American politic s. Its prestige and moral power make the prize a potent weapon with which to help steer the direction of the colossus beyond the seas that controls a quarter of the world's economy and most of its military power.

Now, the Norwegians have weighed in to support Barack Obama in his bid to reshape America so it looks more like, well, Norway, or at least like Europe.

European socialism cannot succeed without conquering the United States. If the European Union has high taxes and the US keeps its levies low, business and brains will flow to America. If the EU's labor standards require long vacations, high benefits, and proscribe layoffs and ours' do not, employers will migrate across the ocean to do their business in the States. If the Old World curbs ambition by taxation, regulation, and social opprobrium, the ambitious will flock to the New World as they have done for four hundred years.

So, Lenin was right. Socialism cannot exist in just one country - or one continent. It must dominate worldwide or wealth and power will flow to those who remain committed to the free market. Europe realizes this reality and it makes Obama's election as president of the United States all the more welcome.

The Nobel Prize is really Obama's payback for disciplining the unruly United States and taming it to be a member of the European family of nations. Europe wants to reverse the American Revolution and re-colonize us and it sees in Obama a kindred spirit willing to do its bidding.

Does the United States let its entrepreneurs run wild, coming up with fanciful new ideas and making billions from them? Obama will regulate and subdue business just like they do in Europe. Do U.S. businesses compete by slashing prices, aggressively pursuing markets, and jockeying for market share? Obama will make them behave themselves and stay in line just like European companies do. Do Americans work hard and push aggressively to make as much money as they can? Obama will raise taxes, emphasize community values, and narcotize their ambition by offering government largesse.

And does the United States still believe in a sloppy, contrarian democracy in which ordinary people can directly affect their government, states have powers, and courts can reel in executive authority? Obama will use his rubber stamp majority in Congress to pass new laws regardless of public opinion and make us obey.

In foreign policy, is the United States still willing to stand up, alone if necessary, to protect human rights in Bosnia, in Iraq, and in Afghanistan? Obama will curb this unruly independence and mold it within the fabric of appeasement that has dominated Europe for the past half a century.

All this heavy lifting, this conversion of America into a European state, deserves a reward. And what is a more fitting one than to give Obama than the Nobel Peace Prize? He obviously doesn't deserve the award for economics or, given his health care ideas, for medicine. But the Peace Prize expresses Europe's longing: to take back the nation its overly ambitious and uppity children founded.
 
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