Anyone else notice that since Mr. O has taken office the thugs of the world have become bolder and more outspoken?

Look at Honduras, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina (they are shutting down the free press) etc.

If our Nobel Laureate is so great why is the result of his presidency (so far) the rise of the “bad guys” of the world?

They wouldn’t have dared when Bush was in the White House.

Hope takes no daring — doing takes daring.

unclesmrgol on October 10, 2009 at 8:55 AM

You sinner!!! You dare to mess with the one? Why do when you can just become…uhh, well, for no apparent reason.

Obama’s entire life is one bumper sticker after another.

Obama 2016, he dared to hope and FAILED miserably.

Hope takes no daring — doing takes daring.

unclesmrgol on October 10, 2009 at 8:55 AM

Obama 2016, he dared to hope and FAILED miserably.

Dope on a rope.

GnuBreed on October 9, 2009 at 9:36 PM

No hope for this dope.

I hope congess changes in 2010..
Now, gimme my Nobel Prize so I can share the wealth with me, myself and I.

This Nobel is for Obama, not the State Department.
How dare they usurp the adulation that rightly belongs only to “The Won”.

Makes me look like a little bit less of a jacka**

Bizarre is the word.

Norway is a far out of the way, cold, wet, small nobody country in the world and their egoistic politicians must feel slighted for no one listening to their lofty, intellectual Nordic wisdom. Hence they use the Nobel Peace Prize as their only way to inject their politics onto the world stage.

Instead of calling it the the “Nobel Peace Prize”, they should change the name to the “Norwegian Politics Prize”, given the person who most reflects the political opinion of the Norwegian parliament.

Exit question: If Hillary had been elected last year, would she have gotten the prize today?

Answer: No.

By the way Bill Clinton (and many others – Putin, for example) must be livid over this award to Obama. Clinton could probably list a lot of reasons why he thinks he should got it.

Lots of world leaders are saying to themselves, we helped elevate Obama in the international world, let him chair the Security Council UN meeting, defer to him out of courtesy at other meetings (let him stand in the middle of the photo op), etc. That “be nice to the Obama” treatment is officially ending.
Kind of like having a baseball team of veteran players then the new guy shows up, plays half an inning and is suddenly inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Obama will be treated differently now by other world leaders.

Also, American Spectator has a blog post saying that Ogabe was contacted in APRIL 2008 about this Piss Prize, for approval to move on with the process.

masterofelke on October 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM

As I understand it, nominees were notified before end of January 2009 after the nominations were closed on January 12, 2009. So Obama moreorless BEGAN the Presidency with the knowledge he’d been nominated for the Peace Prize. As also aware, I am sure of it, has been the entire Democratic Party in their blubbering hysterics from Congress.

A desperate move, huh? Makes sense.

Didn’t realize nominees were contacted. So Obama was not so surprised this morning, after all? I’m not surprised.

misslizzi on October 9, 2009 at 10:03 PM

Yes, nominations were closed by January 12, just DAYS AFTER Obama moved into the White House (not even two weeks after), AND all nominees were notified before end of January 2009.

So Obama’s soapy speech yesterday was also another one of his failed performances. He knew he’d been nominated and that was not even two weeks into the White House.

As I’m sure all the DNC was also aware. WHICH EXPLAINS much if not all of Obama’s world-tour-dissing-the-USA all these months since January of this year.

Obama was well informed he’d been nominated way back in January 2009. His surprise as he called it in his speech yesterday was more of that bad acting he’s now well known for.

Regardless of who nominated Obama for this Prize, the honus is on Barack Obama to uphold the requirements of his position; I do believe him accepting this Prize represents a severe compromise to the Presidency.

Does that mean he’s sharing the million bucks that come with the reward?

Realist on October 9, 2009 at 7:45 PM

First off, since he’s presently in Office, he should not accept the award nor the money, which would not be his anyway if he does “accept” it. As President, he’s barred from accepting gifts and such influences as this (by the Constitution, that document he seems oddly unaware of whenever any important issue comes up).

IF he accepts the award while in office (as per his embarrassing speech yesterday), and IF, as he says also, that he’ll “donate the money to unnamed charities,” I’d like to remind everyone that IT WON’T BE HIS MONEY TO DONATE.

As property, the money belongs to the nation. Obama’s got no place to even put his hands on it, even to “donate” it.

BUT AS PRESIDENT, he should NOT accept this award while in office. Wait ’till January 2013 when he’s out of office, THEN accept it, do whatever he wants with it and the money.

As President, I do believe should Obama go through with accepting this “Prize,” that he’s compromised demonstratively as President, and certainly he’s violating the Constitutional dimensions of the public office that he holds at the moment.

I dare to hope. He just wouldn’t like the things I’m hoping.

Jim Treacher on October 9, 2009 at 10:47 PM

In my continuing effort to avoid scandal and media scrutiny, I’ll leave my hopes unspoken as well.

But I will say that for the first time I can think of, Obama failed to meet my expectations. Any person with even the slightest sense of decency would have rejected this ridiculous recognition in favor of any of the millions of people who are more deserving. I actually thought more of Obama than to believe he would accept this, and so he is — unbelievably — diminished in my estimation. I didn’t think it possible.

Sorry, guys, but that is not what “American exceptionalism” is. Defending our interests abroad has nothing to do with “American exceptionalism”. That is just a matter of the nation working in the interests of its citizenry. “American exceptionalism” goes more to Divine Providence and that idea that Americans are a sort of chosen people, which I believe. That’s why there will be dissolution before a downfall. Parts of America, itself, will strive to exist, with the foundations and traditions we love. And that new America will outperform the old US the same way that the US had outperformed the world.

progressoverpeace on October 10, 2009 at 1:07 AM

European intellectuals hate America because they know America took the best, brightest, and boldest adventurers from Europe, leaving behind an inferior gene pool. Our restless adventurousness has led to discoveries and wealth and knowledge and generosity that has far surpassed Europe’s. Europe’s is a tired culture that has nothing left to stand for.