Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on October 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
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“I have just notified the Nobel Peace Prize Committee that upon due consideration, I have decided to decline the great honor they have presented me and therefore will not be going to Oslo in December.
I explained to them, I hope convincingly, that I should have done this yesterday, after the award was announced. But to be honest, I was in a state of shock and not thinking clearly. A President of the United States must be prepared for any news, any time someone walks through the door. But being told that I had won the Nobel Peace Prize was simply not on what the National Security folks call ‘the Threat Board,’ a mere nine months into my term of office. In retrospect, it was a very ‘teachable moment,’ and one I hope to have learned from.
I don’t know the Norwegian words for ‘Let’s get real,’ but I tried earnestly to convey in plain English that awarding me the Nobel Peace Prize, at this stage of my presidency, opens the Committee itself to the charge that it dispenses its gold promiscuously, without regard to actual accomplishment.”
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“This is an award for not being George W. Bush. This is an award for not making the world nervous. This is an award for sharing the basic political sentiments and assumptions of the members of the committee. It is for what Barack Obama may do, not what he has done. He hasn’t done anything.
In one mindless stroke, the committee has rendered the Nobel Peace Prize a laughingstock, perhaps for as long as a generation. And that is an act of true destruction, because it was actually good that the world had a prestigious award for peacemaking…
How to redeem this? That is a hard question, but here is one idea. The president will deliver a big speech in Oslo Dec. 10: white tie and tails, a formal, bound statement. The world, as they say, will be watching. He should deflect the limelight. (Can he?) He should make his subject bigger than himself. (Is there a subject bigger than himself?) He has been accused of traveling through the world on an extended apology tour. That isn’t fair, but the tag is there. How about an unapologetic address, a speech, with the world’s elites leaning forward and listening, about the meaning of America? A speech that shows a grounded and sophisticated love for his country and its great traditions and history. Not a nationalistic speech, not a prideful one, but a loving one.”
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Fast forward to 1:53 ROFLMAO! Is he talking about Bono or Obama?
TheBigOldDog on October 10, 2009 at 10:51 PM
The frustrating part about this so called awakening of the elite to Obama is… they will continue to rely on their own warped sense of reality no matter how many times they’re proven so stubbornly wrong. And the guy working in the corner gas station will always be light years ahead of people like Buckley in matters of common sense and yet the average Joe will be laughed off and never acknowledged.
katy on October 10, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Doubt the prize has a money back guarantee!
misslizzi on October 10, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Hmmmm… this is a personal Award for Obama…
So, why will the American Taxpayer pay his way over to Oslo to accept? This is NOT in anyway having to do with his Office…
Can we make him PAY his OWN way?
Romeo13 on October 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM
No chance.
katy on October 10, 2009 at 10:54 PM
E tutus, WaPOTUS?
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And who remembers how Obama the Peace-maker reacted to these protests? I think he said nothing for like 12 days and then issued a lame-ass statement. Real courageous, you do not make me feel proud to be an American.
GTR640 on October 10, 2009 at 10:55 PM
I thought the first quote was The Onion & half-way through the second article I thought it could’ve passed as TO also. Craziness.
conservative pilgrim on October 10, 2009 at 10:56 PM
And it was even a specific, Joe, this time. Joe Wurzelbacher saw right through the idiot messiah and nailed him on his socialism and his Israel policy, publicly, while twerps like Buckley were tingling and crease-stalking.
I don’t know why Allah links to some of these folks. They’re just not bright people.
progressoverpeace on October 10, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Like I said, he WANTED this. No way he turns it down now.
flyfisher on October 10, 2009 at 10:57 PM
It’s their pride , they will never admit their mistakes to the “uneducated” ones.
the_nile on October 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM
They’ll get squat because they didn’t contribute to his campaign , Auntie gave him $ 5 and she is in US
macncheez on October 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM
What next? Obama carved on Mt. Rushmore?
mizflame98 on October 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM
He will try it, but it will ring hollow as his heart won’t be in it.
ROCnPhilly on October 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Remember,it all Historical !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on October 10, 2009 at 11:03 PM
The other day one BIL said that and our mutual SIL said, “he’ll carve it himself.”
TheBigOldDog on October 10, 2009 at 11:04 PM
What next? Obama carved on Mt. Rushmore?
mizflame98 on October 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM
mizflame98: Funny,but sobering!!:)
canopfor on October 10, 2009 at 11:06 PM
He would not fit… his head is so large it would need its own mountain.
Romeo13 on October 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM
“We the people”… oh how I wish we had leaders with the wisdom of the founders.
They knew it was the unwashed masses that would retain the wisdom through the turmoil.
katy on October 10, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Well, clearly, she just didn’t have the money… The real question is, did she put in her time at ACORN?
MeatHeadinCA on October 10, 2009 at 11:11 PM
I can fix that. Try “La oss få ekte”
Tc0061 on October 10, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Probably similar to the Austrian equivalent “wheeling and dealing.”
Is he trying to be funny, or is he trying to say he is so smart that he could have done this whole speech in Norwegian, with the exception of that phrase? Just a thought…
Glenn Jericho on October 10, 2009 at 11:12 PM
He would not fit… his head is so large it would need its own mountain.
Romeo13 on October 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Romeo13: DOOM Mountain in Iran,the one hiding the nuke
goodies,would be fitting,ahem:)
canopfor on October 10, 2009 at 11:17 PM
America in the eyes of the (sick) world.
Schadenfreude on October 10, 2009 at 11:30 PM
OT:
ruh-roh. SNL is RIPPING Obama. Haha
conservative pilgrim on October 10, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Christopher Buckley: Still putting words into Obama’s mouth and ideas into his head.
Earth to Chris: Barack Obama is not your fantasy blow-up doll. Maybe, one year in, you’re finally facing up to it….
notropis on October 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Good grief. We need SNL to tell everyone why Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize: cuz he isn’t George W. Bush. Duh.
conservative pilgrim on October 10, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Scroll to the bottom – women are not pacifists.
Schadenfreude on October 10, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Amen. Best paragraph I’ve read all day.
Christian Conservative on October 10, 2009 at 11:49 PM
America in the eyes of the (sick) world.
Schadenfreude on October 10, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Schadenfreude: You peeked my interest,so I scooted over to
Der Spiegal!!
Opinion
Obama’s Nobel Prize Is More of a Burden than an Honor.
——————————————————
The Nobel Peace Prize has come too early for Barack Obama. The US president cannot point to any real diplomatic successes to date and there are few prospects of any to come. By Claus Christian Malzahn more…
==========================
http://www.spiegel.de/international/
canopfor on October 10, 2009 at 11:50 PM
And Obama feels the need to apologize to the world for it and they spit in our eye for it.
TheBigOldDog on October 11, 2009 at 12:02 AM
She must have, afterall she was in public housing, without a legal status in this country .
Also needs investigation : Did Auntie rent to any “performance artists” in her Casa Oliva !
macncheez on October 11, 2009 at 12:03 AM
You’re just trying to scare us because he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the side of a mountain.”
/sarc
Left Coast Right Mind on October 11, 2009 at 12:04 AM
If I understand his vindictiveness correctly , Obama will first blowup all the existing faces on Mt Rushmore before getting his face carved up there
macncheez on October 11, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Oh those Norwegians and Scanda-knaveries.
They gave us Trolls. They gave us Quislings.
And now they gave the Anointed One the Nobile Peez Please Pie Prize.
And thought Great Norwegian Humorists was one of those shortest books in the world.
Dhuka on October 11, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Hot Air!
Seven Percent Solution on October 11, 2009 at 12:14 AM
“Americans don’t really like it when flaky European politicians tell them how they ought to see him or the world.”
Peggy, substitute “elitist, pseudo-intellectual columnists” for “flaky European politicians,” and you’ll be even closer to the truth.
NebCon on October 11, 2009 at 12:20 AM
This stupidity wasn’t perpetrated by Americans. The best thing that can be done is to ignore it completely. Let the media, Europe, various dictators and Obama wallow as they will.
Meremortal on October 11, 2009 at 12:31 AM
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The Nobel “Peace” prize became a POS when they awarded it to Yassir Arafat–Palistinian terrorist. The murderer who ordered the torture of our people by slowly shooting them to death–a shot in the foot, ten minutes later one in the ankle, etc. And his “people” threw an old Jewish American in his wheelchair off a cruise ship to drown. And he started the Infatada that murdered thousands of innocent Israelis. And he molested lots of young boys. And he stole millions of dollars of our aid money and put it in French banks for his wife–instead of buying food and medicine for his people with it.
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The Nobel prize committee “jumped the shark” long ago and are just another bunch of clueless socialists and communists. They recognize President Obama (PBUH) as a fellow traveler and reward his anti-American behavior.
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John Bibb
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rocketman on October 11, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Since Teh Gelding is now the “man of peace”…
I think it is either time to remove our troops from all over the world, bring them home and put them on our borders, or send the world a “bill” for sixty years of protection…
Either that, or stay a “Super Power”…
Seven Percent Solution on October 11, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Hmmmm
macncheez on October 11, 2009 at 12:42 AM
LOL…awarding the “accomplishments” of Carter, ElBaradei, Gore and Krugman already established that.
ddrintn on October 11, 2009 at 1:05 AM
* “rewarding”, that is.
ddrintn on October 11, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Saturday Night Live mocks Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize win:
YouTube – SNL makes fun of BHO Nobel Prize
It’s too bad Armisen’s version of Obama is so bad. Let’s hope that can improve with time.
PhoenixUniversal on October 11, 2009 at 1:11 AM
I think they’re too cowardly to go all out with the speech mannerisms and the left-right teleprompter routine.
ddrintn on October 11, 2009 at 1:16 AM
Armison is perfectly capable of doing a better impression of Obama, he is very talented. He just doesn’t want to be called an a$$h0!e on live TV by “someone” in White House
macncheez on October 11, 2009 at 1:20 AM
I think its more of an award for not being Billy Jeff, i mean Gore, Obama and Carter got it, but not Bubba, and we saw him atleast tryin to do something for the middle east besides demand that since he’s Pres they must listen to him.
Rbastid on October 11, 2009 at 1:31 AM
ROFL…that’s a good one. These people are sooooo friggin’ blind.
ddrintn on October 11, 2009 at 1:38 AM
This begs the question, what is the track record of accomplishment of the people who share “the basic political sentiments and assumptions of the members of the committee”? Seems like these are the same people who have basically done very little to nothing to make the world more peaceful. Otherwise, wouldn’t the committee have been able to find someone out there who shares its basic political sentiments and assumptions AND who had actual accomplishments to point to, not just potential accomplishments? By giving it to Obama, they’ve undercut the argument for the effectiveness of their own worldview in pushing forward the goals embodied by the Peace Prize (in theory).
venividivici on October 11, 2009 at 1:47 AM
They didn’t do that in “one mindless stroke”. There’ve been numerous mindless strokes over the past 30 years that have reduced the Nobel prizes to things you’d get out of a cereal box.
ddrintn on October 11, 2009 at 1:53 AM
He can’t do that because he doesn’t love this country. He is and always has been intent on changing this country into something the progressives love, which is NOT America.
The only thing I’d accept coming from this piece of shit’s mouth now is the phrase “death to the fascist progressives” with every intent on making this statement come true.
Only THEN would I do everything I could to help the man achieve the goal.
Spiritk9 on October 11, 2009 at 2:22 AM
Heres a laugh!
From,
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/
Scroll down till you hit The Liberal Troll cartoon,
Get a Life might be getting famous,or its
coincidental!!
canopfor on October 11, 2009 at 2:23 AM
My only objection is the use of the Xbox 360 poster.
…Liberal trolls don’t get to co-opt MY favorite console.
Hawkins1701 on October 11, 2009 at 2:39 AM
Maybe instead of giving Obama the Nobel Prize for Peace they could give him the Nobel Prize for Economics, given all those millions of jobs he created or saved.
MB4 on October 11, 2009 at 2:40 AM
Do they have a prize for synchronized dancing with a Teleprompter? Maybe Obama could get that.
MB4 on October 11, 2009 at 2:42 AM
He can’t do it. He can’t make a speech and not apologize for America. He just can’t do it.
Alana on October 11, 2009 at 3:34 AM
Incorrect. That prize was rendered useless quite some years ago – and permanently.
OldEnglish on October 11, 2009 at 4:28 AM
Using the criteria they noted in this years award, clueless rhetoric could bring Obama more years of Nobel Prizes.
Jeff from WI on October 11, 2009 at 5:03 AM
You know, it’s such a small world. Obama’s good friend is the domestic terrorist, Bill Ayres. Bill Ayres became famous for blowing buildings up and killing people, Nobel became rich, and was able to finance his awards by inventing something that blows up, dynamite.
Jeff from WI on October 11, 2009 at 5:13 AM
I like the http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=7876
Miss Universe stuff , giving Obama the peace prize for what he might do is exactly the same as “i want peace on earth” theme day always run with.
the_nile on October 11, 2009 at 7:07 AM
Comment on first quote: And the saddest of all is this, “It might have been.”
Comment on second quote:
Question: What does Obama love about America?
Answer: America elected him as President.
Now if conservatives would just shut up and get out of the way, he could join his wife and finally be proud to be an American.
Ordinary American on October 11, 2009 at 7:30 AM
What is really fun is that the Committee invokes ‘majority of the world’ as one of the reasons to give the prize.
You will have a hard time getting to that majority without: China and India. Two Nations that have had little love lost between them over the decades, and both being attacked by terrorists with China starting to get a real insurgency from the Uighars. And those terrorists are overwhelmingly radical Muslims. Do they really and for true want to see al Qaeda and the Taliban empowered to expand those campaigns? Did the Committee poll both those countries to find out? Now toss in the Nations actively threatened by radical Islam like Indonesia and Philippines, Turkey to a large extent, the ex-Soviet ’stans, Somalia… I’m coming up short on this ‘majority of the world’, save for those who want America to fail and chaos to reign.
China couldn’t handle the Uighars when the Taliban backed them with al Qaeda and India suffered more and nastier attacks when there was a Taliban in power in Afghanistan. Somalia is seeing the Islamic Courts Union, an al Qaeda affiliate, moving back in after we helped the Ethiopians to toss them out. Then there is the old cause worth fighting the Left doesn’t want: Darfur.
If the Peace Prize Committee is serious about peace, they just might want to check out what is being fought against. As it is the ‘majority’ they came up with was the ‘majority’ of the Committee representing the Transnational Progressive Elite. These folks don’t want terrorism quelled… until it comes for them, of course. But by then it will be too late as no one will want to protect them, being dead due to the ‘peace’ they backed.
ajacksonian on October 11, 2009 at 7:40 AM
Ha! If he pulled that off he’d be eligible for an Oscar for best actor.
Buy Danish on October 11, 2009 at 8:06 AM
They really trying to downplay any joke on him , they know how thin the illusion is.
the_nile on October 11, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Funny you mentioned that now, because..
the_nile on October 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM
Gee, I don’t know if anyone has posited this yet, but Chris Buckley and Peggy Noonan, despite their little rehab attempts here, can both go suck pygmy ball sweat.
Buckley/The Daily Beast… Bwahahahahahahaha! My God man, that’s… snort, chortle… Meggy Mac… sniff (wipe tear)… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You had a charmed life career, man! And you chuck it to take a resentful, petulant swipe at Mommy and Daddy? At what age?
And take that silly hat off.
Doorgunner on October 11, 2009 at 8:41 AM
On Buckley and Noonan…
First, Rush said everything that Buckley and Noonan said in a more coherent and entertaining way. Second, Rush doesn’t have to backpedal from a position of fawning reverence for Obama’s immaculate blackness (why else would so-called conservatives have stepped on their own tongues like those two did over an uber-lib like Obama?). Of course, they are as entitled to have an opinion as I am to have scorn for it.
SKYFOX on October 11, 2009 at 8:44 AM
The Nobel committee has managed to make the Peace Prize more embarrassing than it was when it was just going to the likes of Yasser Arafat and Al Gore. Given the worldwide ridicule of this award to Obama, I imagine the Nobel committee will award the Peace Prize to a seriously worthy person next year in an attempt to restore a minimal credibility for its future recipients.
Imagine how much it’s going to suck for next year’s recipient. He/she is going to have to go around saying, “No, really, I’ve done stuff. Trust me. I earned this award. Please believe me. I have actually done stuff. Peace-y stuff.”
Rational Thought on October 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM
First, don’t think for a moment it hasn’t seriously crossed the mind of one or more of his sycophants. Second, would you please not give them any more ideas like this? Please?
ncborn on October 11, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Obama is literally too stupid to know how stupid he is.
tarpon on October 11, 2009 at 8:55 AM
The Nobel Prize has become just another has been. It is sad to watch so many things I once had respect for turn into crap.
Terrye on October 11, 2009 at 9:01 AM
If the attitude from the Not-So-Nobel Committee is sincere in it’s rewarding peacekeeping efforts and warm fuzzies for the world, Why hasn’t the United Nations been awarded, instead of Obama? It is responsible for the “peaceful” assembly for some of the worlds most vicious terrorists.
But, then again, the Prize has been named after a scientist whom invented an explosive that has caused the destruction of innumerable lives and untold property damage-Which Obama is in process of accomplishing; Perhaps the Nobel Committee is clairvoyant!
Cybergeezer on October 11, 2009 at 9:02 AM
When it’s finished, I’ll be the first to plant grass seed on it’s head.
Commander in Chia, Chia!
Cybergeezer on October 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Mt. Everest would just be big enough – also would give new meaning to “climbing the face”.
Friendly21 on October 11, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Idiot Quote of the Week
Al Gore: “We Cannot Allow The Coming Ice Age To Take Our Focus Off Global Warming”
Friendly21 on October 11, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Good point. Maybe he’ll win it again and again….2010,2011, and then when he travels to Oslo in December of 2012 for the unprecedented “Four-peat” … the world ends (H/T to the Mayans)
Red State State of Mind on October 11, 2009 at 9:10 AM
The Nobel should have been awarded to TOTUS; That’s where the responsibility lies. Maybe it was runner up!
Cybergeezer on October 11, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Not at all, this President has done more to cut America down to size than any of her enemies can.
Its the
Nobelliberal definition of “body of work” that’s changed.No longer is a positive achievement the ideal, vast shires of mud huts punctuated by large palatial estates inhabited by the Al Gores and Barack Obamas of the world, that’s the goal.
Speakup on October 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM
LMAO. I think he should threaten to refuse the award unless they agree to put up the Greek columns. Zeus deserves the Greek columns.
Jaibones on October 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Don’t know where he got his brains, but it sure wasn’t from dear old Dad.
Brains “R” Us?
SagebrushPuppet on October 11, 2009 at 9:50 AM
It’s a little late for Buckley and Noonan to have any credibility with their recent articles. We real conservatives have been aware of President’s, Itsalla Boutme facade for quite awhile.
yoda on October 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Because they are RACISTS!!!
Those great leaders represented on Mt. Rushmore never endured the diffulties of life our dear leader had to endure. Obama went through three grueling months as a state senator, gut-wrenchingly voting present 129 times, before entering the presidential race. NEVER ran any business and somehow owns GM, Chrysler, AIG, most unions, most banks and savings and loans, wants to own US healthcare and has accomplished NOTHING except “just words, just speeches” although, he has a tendency to throw many of his family and friends under the bus when he feels his power is threatened.
Does throwing others under the bus count as an accomplishment for the Nobel Peace Prize?
dthorny on October 11, 2009 at 11:03 AM
CrockObama will DEMAND they move the Nobel presentation to the Acropolis where he will be given his due respect.
Kneel before Zod!!!
dthorny on October 11, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Excuse me, but the nobel peace prize has always been in this category. Actually picking someone who truly merited it would have been a shocker.
paulsur on October 11, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Obama went through three grueling months as a state senator, gut-wrenchingly voting present 129 times, before entering the presidential race. NEVER ran any business and somehow owns GM, Chrysler, AIG, most unions, most banks and savings and loans, wants to own US healthcare and has accomplished NOTHING except “just words, just speeches”
dthorny on October 11, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Keep wondering at the ease and speed with which the above was accomplished and can’t help but think that WE must be more worthless than Obama for allowing this to happen.
tigerlily on October 11, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Maybe instead of giving Obama the Nobel Prize for Peace they could give him the Nobel Prize for Economics, given all those millions of jobs he created or saved.
MB4 on October 11, 2009
A good bit of sarcasm, but don’t you mean “in addition to”? The resoning is every bit as (un)sound for Economics as it was for Peace. After all, the Nobel committee has already gone “full retard”. What more harm could they do to themselves?
SKYFOX on October 12, 2009 at 7:53 AM
When is Buckley going to finally understand that Obama is not the man that Buckley thinks he is?
Chris, you’re just not wishing hard enough.
cheeflo on October 12, 2009 at 1:03 PM
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