Obama has won the Nobel Peace prize. This is not, I repeat, not a joke. Holy shit. Some reactions:
*For those mocking The One for this most hallowed of awards, the DNC has a message for you:
“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO. “Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize – an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride – unless of course you are the Republican Party.
The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim,” Woodhouse said.”
I thought the Taliban were good guys now?
*I guess the mainstream media is also on the side of the terrorists.
“This makes three times, incidentally, in just seven years that the committee’s turned the Peace Prize into a “f*** Bush” award by bestowing it on a liberal American Democrat.”
*Obama’s Weird Peace Price Win, by Jazz Shaw.
*Obama Wins Yasser Arafat “Peace” Prize: World Amazed, by Roger Kimball.
“The Nobel Peace Prize is a thoroughly discredited politically-correct coefficient of liberal transnational socialism. Barack Obama was tailor-made for this dubious honor, just as Yasser Arafat was.”
*Althouse: Why didn’t Obama win the Nobel for literature? Answer: He wrote two books.
“In a stunning announcement, Millard Fillmore Senior High School chose Shawn Rabinowitz, an incoming junior, as next year’s valedictorian. The award was made, the valedictorian committee announced from Norway of all places, on the basis of “Mr. Rabinowitz’s intention to ace every course and graduate number one in class.” In a prepared statement, young Shawn called the unprecedented award, “f—ing awesome.”
At the same time, and amazingly enough, the Pulitzer Prize for Literature went to Sarah Palin for her stated intention “to read a book someday.” The former Alaska governor was described as “floored” by the award, announced in Stockholm by nude Swedes beating themselves with birch branches, and insisted that while she was very busy right now, someday she would make good on her vow to read a book. “You’ll see,” she said from her winter home in San Diego.”
*Some Thoughts and Laughs, by Mary Katherine Ham. “Reality reportedly shrugged and exited stage right, allowing for his understudy Parody to take over the lead role for the next four years or so.”
*Erick Erickson: “He’s becoming Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter did.”
*Times of London: “Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.”
Risks? That ship has sailed buddy.
*Don’t Laugh, He Won It Fair and Square, by Jonathan Tobin.
“As absurd as this prize may be, it is no joke. Obama has won the applause of the Nobel Committee honestly by appealing to their contempt for democracy and their desire for more appeasement of tyrants. On that score, the president surely won this award fair and square.”
*A Fitting Prize, In a Way, at NRO.
*Daniel Pipes: “The absurdity of the prize decision will harm Obama politically in the United States, contrasting his role as international celebrity with his record devoid of accomplishments.”
*Mark Krikorian: “The prize seems not just premature but embarrassing. I don’t know if there’ll be a “Nobel backlash,” as Mickey Kaus speculates — instead, this just reinforces the Saturday Night Live meme that Obama has done nothing. This really might be his Carter whacking-the-bunny-rabbit moment.”
*Hilarious…and Sad, by Jonah Goldberg.
“Indeed, this news comes during a year when the Iranian people rose up against tyranny and were crushed. Surely someone in Iran — or maybe the Iranian protestors generally — could have benefitted more from receiving the prize than a president who, so far, has done virtually nothing concrete for world peace.”
*Andy McCarthy: “The transnational progressives who pass out these accolades believe America is the problem in the world, the main threat to peace, the impediment to “progress,” etc. The award is a symbolic statement of opposition to American exceptionalism, American might, American capitalism, American self-determinism, and American pursuit of America’s interests in the world. That is why Obama could win it based on only ten days in office — merely by capturing the White House and the levers of power, he stands to do more for the Left’s “knock America off its pedestal” program than any figure in history.”
*Help Obama win the Heisman Trophy!
