Quote of the day
posted at 11:13 pm on October 8, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Which gets us to the commander in chief, who directs the secretary of defense, who runs the Pentagon. The president, as almost all have noted—and for once, almost all are correct—has not distinguished himself in this matter. Afghanistan is a necessary war or not, we’ll see. He famously talked to Gen. McChrystal only once in the latter’s first 70 days in Afghanistan. He is meeting with advisers, considering options. Would that he’d begun earlier.
At the moment he seems a sort of anti-Lincoln. President Lincoln was early on damaged by Gen. George McClellan’s leaking to his friends in the press, but Lincoln every day was focused on one thing, the war, and took no offense. He knew what was urgent. For Mr. Obama, many things are urgent. But when many things are urgent, nothing really is urgent.”
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Why does Obama need two more weeks to come to a decision? He’s been President since January…and Afghanistan just didn’t happen last week?
Crap or get off the pot…isn’t that about it?
American would be doing itself a great favor if America from this point onward simply disregarded anything and everything Obama says…about time he is put into a lame-duck posture by all Americans who believe in what our nation has stood for for centuries.
Get out there and convince all your friends, neighbors, family members and anyone else you encounter that getting rid of the Dem-controlled Congress next year and getting rid of Obama and the Dems in 2012 is the only thing that will save all of us from this amateur wannabe President the Left and the stupid foisted upon all of us….just so they could say “Well, we got us a Black president. Aren’t we so pleased with ourselves?”
coldwarrior on October 9, 2009 at 2:35 AM
Obama is a child with a new toy…
… and can’t be bothered to read the directions.
Seven Percent Solution on October 9, 2009 at 2:52 AM
Thanks.
Loxodonta on October 9, 2009 at 3:54 AM
So lets be adults and take away the toy from him
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 4:00 AM
http://nobelpeaceprize.org/
Breaking : Obama gets the nobel peace prize.
”
Announcement
The Norwegian Nobel Committee
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.”
Oslo, October 9, 2009″
the_nile on October 9, 2009 at 5:11 AM
Oslo, October 9, 2009″
the_nile on October 9, 2009 at 5:11 AM
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 5:21 AM
Well, he thought it was gonna be a fun toy, but it turns out it’s a lot of work and not much fun at all.
misterpeasea on October 9, 2009 at 5:27 AM
Jes** F**k**g C*r*st
(Sorry, but I can’t put it any other way.)
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 5:31 AM
Doesn’t mean anything. Remember..former President Carter got one too and we all know what a fabulous prez HE was. Just more liberal/progressive b.s.
lyfsatrip on October 9, 2009 at 5:34 AM
Maybe it’s the peace prize that’s made him waffle about Afghanistan.
the_nile on October 9, 2009 at 5:35 AM
Jimmy Carter also won the Nobel Peace prize. Deja vu all over again?
joedoe on October 9, 2009 at 5:38 AM
And Poland, Czech republic, Iran…..
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 5:38 AM
Talk about the “soft bigotry of low expectations….”
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 5:38 AM
Playing his ego like a fiddle. Wonder what stupid action they think this will lead him to take?
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 5:40 AM
A daylong round of multiple org@$m$ for Chris Matthews
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 5:43 AM
Wonder what time Ed gets up?
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 5:52 AM
It is now officially called the Nobel POS prize
tanvec on October 9, 2009 at 5:54 AM
There has to be a point where even an African American must do a double-take at an Affirmative Action Nobel Prize for Community Organizing. It looks silly.
Marcus on October 9, 2009 at 5:56 AM
This will be usd to ram his agenda through Congress. “How can you say no to a Nobel Peace Prize winner?”
And to ram through “peace” in the Middle East. And in Honduras. And to appease Iran and Russia. Adn to disarm the US.
This was also another slam at Bush.
Dear Lord, now I am worried about my country’s survival as a free, strong nation.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 5:57 AM
Now the come-down of the OIC rejection of Chicago will be gone, and Obama’s ego will know no bounds. I wonder if the OIC dares do a do-over.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 5:59 AM
The sheer insanity is that Nobel Prize candidature closes up at 2/1, while Odumbo was inaugurated at 1/20.
Which means he was a Nobel Peace candidate with less than two weeks of presidency. What a total joke.
Aristotle on October 9, 2009 at 6:00 AM
“Dear Lord, now I am worried about my country’s survival as a free, strong nation.”
Me, too.
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 6:04 AM
This Nobel peace prize is for his work upto Feb 2009.
He will be awarded another Nobel peace prize for his work in 2009
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 6:06 AM
Perhaps this will shed a light on just how ridiculous this “prize” has become. Looking back on who’s won this award in the past it is pretty much a bunch of liberals and progressives but to have awarded this to Obama, at this time, is an incredible absurdity.
lyfsatrip on October 9, 2009 at 6:06 AM
Maybe they’ll wait until 2012, to influence the election.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:07 AM
oops
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 6:09 AM
This guy is out of control!
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 6:11 AM
Who knew the Nobel Committee watched SNL?
It decided it needed to show the Great Appeaser “accomplishing” something.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:11 AM
If you believe putting a “kick me sign” on your back constitutes a peace initiative, then I guess he is deserving.
R Square on October 9, 2009 at 6:13 AM
I bet he knew about this, which is why he wouldn’t let Sarkozy mention the Iranian Qom nuclear site at the UN, and spoil Obama’s sophomoric “Kumbaya” speech.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:13 AM
Only one? By this standard, he should get the physics prize as well. For discovering a space-time singalarity which is his ego.
Aristotle on October 9, 2009 at 6:14 AM
Lost the Olympics because of his arrogance and now the Nobel Peace Prize for 1 month…..next the King of the World!!!
People are loosing their minds!!!!!!
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 6:15 AM
I wonder if, as president and C-in-C, he can order the US uniltaterally disarmed of nuclear weapons without going through Congress. I’ll bet he does it if he gets re-elected.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:16 AM
OH …. MY …. GOD
Ronnie on October 9, 2009 at 6:16 AM
Give him the Physics prize. He’s done as much in that field.
Ronnie on October 9, 2009 at 6:17 AM
This will also be used to force Israel to reveal its nuclear capacites. Stephens’ essay in WSJ recently was a prophecy. Iran won’t disarm unless Israel does, so….
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:17 AM
Take down that DISGRACEFUL picture! You dishonor Lincoln.
American Elephant on October 9, 2009 at 6:18 AM
I have the same feeling I did on 9/11. This a bad dream and I want to wske up. Or that TV keeps showing a terrible disaster movie and I wish it would stop.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:18 AM
He should be given the Nobel prize for literature for his excellent reading skills ( off a teleprompter)
He should be given a Nobel prize in economics for his fuzzy math about spending and taxation revenue
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 6:19 AM
An award for what he MAY do versus what he HAS done. Incredible. Solidifies why the Nobel Peace Prize has become a total farce…just look at past winners. He’ll get a little milege out of this but it won’t last long, especially after the dollar totally tanks, we lose the wars, the economy doesn’t recover, healthcare reform passes and invades our lives/personal well being, cap and trade taxes us to oblivion, etc. etc. etc.
Think he’ll be under tougher scrutiny now?
lyfsatrip on October 9, 2009 at 6:22 AM
I just heard this news.
I’m going to be sick. Just sick. Someone help me, please.
capitalist piglet on October 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM
I can hardly wait for the Academy and VMA Awards!
R Square on October 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM
Can’t wait for Beck today to get his take on this.
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 6:26 AM
The carter motif…lol !
jerrytbg on October 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM
Dear Lord, about that Second Coming. Now would be a good time, to show that Obama isn’t the Messiah.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM
Scrutiny ?
He’ll get another 3 Nobel Prizes when he achieves all that
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM
Wrll, at least it wasn’t the Nobel PRize for Economics. Oh, wait, when he turns the US into a second rate socialist country by following Krugman, he gets that.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:28 AM
The Nobel Prize. Gag me.
This will puff up his ego even more than it already is, if such a thing is possible.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 6:29 AM
I call it racism straight up , he should have got all of them..
the_nile on October 9, 2009 at 6:29 AM
In 1994 Arafat got this prize.
Let’s see, Arafat, Carter, Gore, Obama…..I don’t think there is much chance of a Reagan or Bush or even a Clinton being on that list.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 6:31 AM
I hear they nominated him within two weeks of his becoming president. Exactly had he done in two weeks?
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 6:32 AM
Ronnie on October 9, 2009 at 6:32 AM
That’s the case , he has known he was on the list. Thereby all the UN butt kissing.
the_nile on October 9, 2009 at 6:33 AM
Given away our country while Russia, China, Iran, and Korea continue to build weapons to destroy us!!!
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 6:35 AM
No doubt, the Democrats will parade this about…but it is all becoming so surreal. That is the problem with making awards like this so political, pretty soon they become meaningless, or worse.
In fact I don’t recall that getting the Nobel Prize really helped the reputations of Carter and Gore all that much.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 6:36 AM
Yassir Arafat also got a Nobel Peace Prize.
Key West Reader on October 9, 2009 at 6:36 AM
And his avoiding Gen McChrystal too
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 6:37 AM
yoda:
I think that took a little longer than two weeks.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 6:37 AM
I’d love ot know the Clintons’ reaction. If Obama promised Hillary the 2012 VP slot for her suppoort, he doesn’t need her now. And she won’t dare challenge him I bet.
And Bill spent the last year of his presidency trying to bring “peace” to the Middle East to win the Prize.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:38 AM
Wethal:
I am not sure this will matter in the real world.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 6:38 AM
Why stop there? Put him on Mt. Rushmore!
The whole frigging world has gone insane.
capitalist piglet on October 9, 2009 at 6:39 AM
To the Nobel peace prize selection committee :
HAVE YOU NO SHAME ?
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 6:40 AM
“I’d love ot know the Clintons’ reaction.”
I just had the same thought.
We can only hope that this might destroy the Democratic party. Unfortunately, it’s more likely just going to destroy the Clinton wing of the party.
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 6:40 AM
So he was the 10th caller, or what?
Ronnie on October 9, 2009 at 6:42 AM
November 2008 to February 2009? Okay, 3 months. Can you tell I’m mad!
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 6:44 AM
From the Nobel website:
“The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received 205 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009, of which 33 are organisations.
This is the highest number of nominations ever. The last record was in 2005 when the Committee received 199 nominations.
From the statutes of the Nobel Foundation:
Proposals received for the award of a prize, and investigations and opinions concerning the award of a prize, may not be divulged. A prize-awarding body may, however, after due consideration in each individual case, permit access to material which formed the basis for the evaluation and decision concerning a prize, for purposes of research in intellectual history. Such permission may not, however, be granted until at least 50 years have elapsed after the date on which the decision in question was made.”
(So I guess we have to wait 50 years to find out who nominated Obama but my money is on George Soros and friends)
lyfsatrip on October 9, 2009 at 6:44 AM
yoda:
I can understand.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 6:47 AM
And daly thought he went to Copenhagen to get the Olympics …
Yea yea I know this was in Oslo …they just landed at the wrong airport and a week or so early…lol !
jerrytbg on October 9, 2009 at 6:48 AM
I assume he nominated himself.
Ronnie on October 9, 2009 at 6:50 AM
Isnt is scary to realize that the Clinton wing was the less dangerous one?
Squid Shark on October 9, 2009 at 6:50 AM
If he says no to McChrystal, and the general resign, it will be ignored by the MSM.
Wethal on October 9, 2009 at 6:51 AM
Someone call NASA and tell them to hold off on that moon thing. I may want to move there.
Ronnie on October 9, 2009 at 6:51 AM
Squid,
That very thought sent a shiver up my spine…
jerrytbg on October 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM
No kidding. I actually caucused for Obama, thinking he’d both be easier to beat, and the lesser of evils, knowing what Bill did last time he was in the Oval Office.
I ought to know better than to try to get too clever.
Campaign for your favorite Republican, and then campaign for whatever one gets the nomination, because anything else is really, really scary.
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 6:55 AM
It is silly. He gets the prize because he believes the same thing as the five members of the committee:
= America is bad
= Jews are evil
= Muslims have legitimate reasons for murder and terrorism
=Capitalism is a sin
=The West should give its money to the poor nations (except the rich libs get to keep theirs, because, well, they have good intent)
=American neo-cons are the devil
= Jews are evil (we say this twice because this is what BHO and the committee believe the most)
georgealbert on October 9, 2009 at 6:55 AM
For his efforts to make sure a live aborted baby dies , Obama should be awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 6:56 AM
Outstanding point!
Jeff from WI on October 9, 2009 at 6:58 AM
CWforFreedom on October 9, 2009 at 6:59 AM
I’ve been waiting for you to comment. I could almost hear you scream from Wisconsin.
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM
and gold dropped $6.40 on the news…all is well…go back to sleep…
jerrytbg on October 9, 2009 at 7:01 AM
No, it won’t. They might take Obama’s side and all that, but they won’t ignore it.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 7:04 AM
They’ll do to the Gen what they did to Joe the Plumber
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 7:06 AM
This Nobel Peace Prize thing…they’re kidding, right? It’s just a joke, maybe teasing for the actual prize? Kidding, right? RIGHT???!!!
mimi1220 on October 9, 2009 at 7:08 AM
Well that just reinforces him being Jimmy Carter 2.0. I didn’t realize part of the requirements for Nobel Peace Prize is to be a Democrat.
Less than two weeks as President, and he gets nominated. Bet he put his own name in.
Enoxo on October 9, 2009 at 7:10 AM
LOL..I guess I’m way too predictable about that subject.
Jeff from WI on October 9, 2009 at 7:11 AM
Nope
Osama BinLaden nominated him
macncheez on October 9, 2009 at 7:11 AM
Yea… but when you’re right you’re right…
jerrytbg on October 9, 2009 at 7:12 AM
The in-the-tank Right Wing Media only gave Obama an A – .
A-, and the freaking Nobel Peace Prize.
If the editors of Time magazine weren’t such right-wing shills, they’d have given the Laureate an A+
/sarc (in case anyone missed it)
notropis on October 9, 2009 at 7:13 AM
WWLD?
Pretty clear given the orders he gave to the Union Army:
Lincoln knew this war business pretty well, and the sections before and after deal with those in uniform acting as Partisans deserving all the treatment of POWs and those out of it deserving treatment as spies. There was no ‘gray area’ for Lincoln on that as battlefield summary justice was swift, certain and permanent. But then Bush could have learned a thing or two from Lincoln, too.
ajacksonian on October 9, 2009 at 7:13 AM
First an A- from Time rag, now this Nobel thing.
We’ve been taken over by aliens, right?
tru2tx on October 9, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Earlier, Terrye got me calmed down a bit, but I am still pumped after 3 cups of coffee. I have contracts to sign this morning so I can’t dwell on this after I leave this morning.
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 7:14 AM
What would Lincoln do??
I think he would arrest Obama and then send him back to Kenya.
But, that was back when men were men, as they say.
The Nobel thing is such a joke. What has this man done to win anything at all! What???!! What a freaking joke!
I guess they were noticing Obama seemed a little depressed a few days ago and just wanted to perk him up a little.
Lets face it. The CBO gave him a gift and Nobel did too.
Seriously!
JellyToast on October 9, 2009 at 7:16 AM
Heh. There are even liberals questioning, “WTF?”
Then there are liberals like this who are just bat-sh!t insane:
I didn’t know being called Hitler was a requirement, if that’s the case, Bush should have won it 8 times by now.
Enoxo on October 9, 2009 at 7:21 AM
yoda:
Hey, I am pretty pumped myself..but to be honest, I stopped paying a lot of attention to Nobel Peace Prizes, when Arafat got one. That was too much for me…and then came Carter.
Terrye on October 9, 2009 at 7:23 AM
When I saw this announcement up at Drudge, I truly thought it was satire from “The Onion.”
Barb Dwyer on October 9, 2009 at 7:38 AM
So going to Copenhagen, ostensibly for the Chicago thugocracy, was really NobelObama’s ruse to be assured he was getting the prize?
These people are beyond smarmy.
OkieDoc on October 9, 2009 at 7:44 AM
Nobel Peace Prize, 2009: Barack Hussien Obama
Now, decision time.
1) Send more troops to war in Afghanistan
or
2) Status quo on war in Afghanistan
or
3) Cut-and-run from war in Afghanistan
Time to make a “peaceful” decision…
Yoop on October 9, 2009 at 7:46 AM
He’ll opt for:
4) Ignore Afghanistan. Travel and give a speech.
ROCnPhilly on October 9, 2009 at 7:49 AM
Yep. Just felt pressure waves pass through the Upper Peninsula, originating from the direction of southern Wisconsin. Felt like the kind generated by a large surficial explosion. Somebody needs to check on Jeff.
Yoop on October 9, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Nebraska shook a little when I heard it this morning and I thought Wisconsin would be errupting when Jeff got the news. He’s been pretty calm this morning…..Jeff are you okay?
yoda on October 9, 2009 at 7:58 AM
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