All Time High (April 1 2009): 192.2
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Today: 169.4
Goal: Sub 160
Yep. Nobel Prize to the One. I'm a little speechless by this one. Do I have it SO WRONG? Is he really all that? Can it be that I am so completely bereft of good judgment, political acumen, and refined taste that I am rendered unable to appreciate this man?
Nah. Can't be.
Talk amongst yourselves! It's Big Fat Friday Free For All--get it off your chest, share, raise topics worthy of consideration, predict the score of Indiana v. UVA for Homecoming tomorrow.
They say the nominations for the Nobel prize had to be in by 01 Feb 09. I must have missed his great peace initiatives during the first two weeks of his administration.
ReplyDeleteIt apears that the Nobel peace prize has taken on all the meanining of a social promotion in the public schools.
I wonder--if when he received the call--the President had even a MOMENT of introspection--one in which he realized that he hasn't done a thing to earn a Nobel Prize.
ReplyDeleteI doubt that President Obama is capable of an honest moment of introspection. Introspection is not in the make up of a narcissist.
ReplyDeleteanyway as I said in my previous post, the prize has now taken on all the meanining of a social promotion.
Why should anyone here be surprised? The US has been puffing up and promoting unqualified applicants for years – it’s called affirmative action.
ReplyDeleteWhen Tehran shortly and inevitably announces to the world its triumph in testing and creation of nuclear weapons, I hope it cites Mr. Obama’s “extraordinary” efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and vision of a world without nuclear weapons as creating the perfect distraction under which to carry out their work.
ReplyDeleteHe has my sincerest congratulations.
For all you doubters who accuse our Nobel Laureate of being a narcissist, the White House has announced that the President is offically "humbled". We can all rest. No narcissism here.
ReplyDeleteNobel Peace Prize, aka "Second Place, Hosting the Olympics."
ReplyDeleteMight as well pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan now, while the trophy is still shiny.
ReplyDeleteLook this thing has become a joke. When Arafat won I knew they had jumped the shark and they were no longer relevant in my world.
ReplyDeleteOk let's play a game. Who should have won. Who has done the most to promote peace AND justice (peace is easy).
ReplyDeleteMy nominee, General Petraeus. Either him or Rush Limbaugh, I can't decide.
Mark Halperin of TIME grades President Obama's first semester (A-): "Instantly comfortable and highly skilled at the hardest job in the world — proving his supporters’ contention that all the traits that made him a great candidate would serve him well in the White House: even temper, cool demeanor, boldness under pressure, shrewd facility for managing personnel, unfailing instincts about when to delegate and when to engage."
ReplyDeleteOnce you stop snickering, how would you grade him?
Fire away.
I wonder if Obama will donate the $1.5m prize to help retire the debt.
ReplyDeleteSo that's the criteria, he's comfortable in his job. How 'bout this, he's oblivious to his job. In some psychotic drunken stupor I could slap the hell out of Mike Tyson in a bar. The three milliseconds before he shattered my jaw I could be the most centered, self actualizing, confident individual in the world...until reality set in.
ReplyDelete"I wonder--if when he received the call--the President had even a MOMENT of introspection--one in which he realized that he hasn't done a thing to earn a Nobel Prize."
ReplyDeleteThank you. I pimped this comment and posted it on a flaming liberal's web page
I'd also give him an A-.
ReplyDeleteLet's be honest--if I were grading him by a scale calibrated to the things I want out of government, he'd get an F.
But if you grade him against what he said he wanted to accomplish--which is after all, what he was elected by 53% of the public to do--then I'd say he's doing very well.
You weren't on the Oslo nominating committee by any chance, were you?
ReplyDeleteYeah you're right CW, Obama did tell us what he was going to do, and the press played down every word. When his radical associations became known Obama lied his ass off. "Yeah I was in church but not that day, yeah that's it, I wasn't there that day. Bill Ayers? Yeah I've heard of him, a well respected education professor. Ran into him at the airport once, yeah that's the ticket, saw him at the airport." And he got away with this BS because we have a corrupt press.
ReplyDeleteLooking at Obama individually you have a point, looking at the whole mechanism that got him elected, your wrong. He was presented as a moderate Democrat, not the angry radical black man that he in fact is.
People get misplaced recognition all the time. While shocking, it is not HIS fault. He didn't orchestrate it. Anger over this event is wasted. The "discussion" about this award is distraction that will whip his faithful into a euphoria and his detractors into apoplexy. Fine. Moving on....
ReplyDeleteOkay, agree with Robert Thorn, moving on. Have you heard the news that Marge Simpson is going to be featured nude on the cover of the next issue of PLAYBOY? Can you believe Heff would actually allow someone so obviously fake and man-made on the cover of his magazine?
ReplyDeleteWait a minute...never mind.
Now THAT is newsworthy. Better stock up on some supplies...
ReplyDeleteStock up on supplies? You must really love cartoons.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was afraid that President Obama wouldn't get enough media exposure due to the baseball playoffs.
ReplyDeleteHow sad it is that the people of America elected a bufoon to the highest office in the land and now the Nobel committee has trumped that by presenting him with an award for confirming that he is a bufoon
ReplyDeleteANON said "How sad it is that the people of America elected a bufoon to the highest office in the land" I assumed you were referring to the idiot that got us mired in Iraq then i read the rest of your babble.... do you all loathe him that much? The next 7 years are really going to suck for you....
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