I was really trying to avoid posting on the absurdity of President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, but now that he's won NBA Player of the Year for the 2010-11 Season, I thought I should chime in ...
The Nobel Prize lost its luster a long time ago (mass-murderer Yasser Arafat, tabloid pundit Paul Krugman), but this ... I'm at a loss for words.
H/T to Theo Spark.
When one considers that the nominations are due on February 1st this is a prize based on two weeks in office. This is both absurd and a mockery.
The Peace Prize has been a highly politicized and therefore a greatly diminished award for many years. But this latest development makes the Nobel committee look like complete fools.
I’m no fan of the President or his policy positions. However, I also do not think he deserves to be embarrassed and made to look like a puppet of European politicians.
World Stunned As Obama Wins Peace Prize
Barack Obama today sensationally won the Nobel Peace Prize after just nine months in office for returning America to a multilateralist foreign policy after eight years of going it alone under George W Bush.
Yeah, because there were absolutely no other countries involved in Iraq and Afghanistan. We never heard Lefties cackle when a country pulled their troops out of either country. No other countries were involved in rendition and stuff.
Are you ready for the punchline?
Mr Obama was elected America’s first black president last December and assumed office on January 20 – which means that he had been in office less than two weeks by the time nominations closed on February 1.
So, in those first two weeks he gave a bunch of interviews to magazines, gave some speeches, couldn’t figure out the type of dog to get, made a few more appearances on TV entertainment shows, and signed legislation to close Guantanamo Bay detention facility, which the Democrat Congress refuses to supply the money needed to close it, and Obama still has no plan, 8 months later, to actually close.
Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize ... Wait, just in ...
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