Ahahaha!

The nominee list was finalized in February. According to the fine folks at the Nobel Foundation, 33 organizations and 172 individuals comprised that list.

And Obama won.

Ahahaha!

I saw your post before I saw the news. I was sure it was just Lamont screwing around!

I guess the field was so weak, that doing nothing is now Nobel-worthy!

I look forward to my victorious trip to Stockholm next year, as I have done the same quality work!

Ridiculous that a person who's been in the office for not even 10 months wins the prize, no matter how influential and game-changing his policies are. I'm saying this not to denigrate Obama, but I'm thinking of so many people who have dedicated DECADES of their lives in sacrifice for the cause of world peace, who won't be recognized this year because of the Obama Fever. No doubt Obama won this year not so much for his achievements (c'mon, 9 months in the office, dude) but for being such an antithesis of Gee Dubya: the prize is a passive-aggressive smackdown on the Bush-era Cowboy America.

Still, it's not so surprising that the Nobel selects their recipients based on their very leftist, Euro-centric ideologies. Take the Nobel Lit award for example. The judge openly proclaimed last year that no American will win the award because we don't translate enough and that Europe is the center of literature:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/01/nobelprize.usa

Umm, kind of goes against Alfred Nobel's will in relation to the candidacy for the prize:

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no consideration whatever be paid to the nationality of the candidate

And so who wins the prize this year? A big surprise:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091008/ap_on_en_ot/eu_nobel_literature

Right... who the hell is Herta Mueller? Who cares as long as she's not American. I try to stay pretty current on literature, not just American but worldwide, and I'm not too ashamed to admit that I've never read her work.

The Nobel always had agendas but the current committee has been pushing their political bent a little too hard. At least in literature, it would help their credibility if they awarded the prize according to the writer's body of work, and not for reflecting the ideologies of the Nobel committee. But maybe that's too much to ask of an institution that chose to award its first prize to Sully Prudhomme instead of Tolstoy.

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the prize is a passive-aggressive smackdown on the Bush-era Cowboy America.

Yep! What is that? The third time by the Nobel committee?

I spent 10 minutes looking for the Onion link before I figured it was also not 1 April...Arafat for terror, Gore for creating a pop religion and Obama for....being Obama?

http://64.71.145.108/images/slideshows/globalcartoons/obamanobelcartoons/index.html

It wasn't, "Hooray, an American won a Nobel Prize"?

Nah, not if the American is a Dem. What pieces of work the right has become.

Winning the award for doing nothing is hardly an honor...

I agree. As much as JimV and I disagree on almost everything, I got to say that this is the most blatantly undeserved award I remember ever being given out. Ridiculous.

Doesn't take much any more to win a Nobel. Anyone who has won in the past just had THEIR award diminished greatly.

Good move, LS, provide an article with a quote from The Right Wing Nut Party Leader. Yeah, I take him seriously - seriously as a shill for corporate power.

How many of these does it take for your merit badge in mindless lockstep?

"The right proclaimed that Mr. Obama sold out the United States by engaging in diplomacy. Members of the dwindling band of George W. Bush loyalists also sneered

Doesn't have much to do with TAO winning an undeserved award.

Sorry, I know facts elude the conservative mind and history is only good for 1984's "Morning in America" but not for what happened in 2008.

2008 is ancient history...how about Fridays joke award?

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2008 is ancient history

To the conservative mind, yes, yes, it is as are the seven years preceding 2008. Which is exactly why O got the Nobel. Exactly my point and that of the NYT editorial. Thanks.

Didn't Al Gore win it twice, the first time for inventing the internet? I know the 2nd time was for saving us from global warming. Snow in Chicago today and what, no baseball in Denver? When it gets so hot in Denver and the air is so thin it is hard to breathe, so running the bases is out.

Wait, I just lost 137 seconds...a Flash Forward is coming...

It hinted that Obama winning really didn't effect me. I'm too old! Lamont was the new President and his stimulus was to send every living male an Ayre C5-XE MP. Now we're talking!

The NY Times is the official mouthpiece of the DNC...they would applaud if Caligula got the award if he had a (D) after his name on the ballot.

Caligula would be an improvement over most of the elected Repubs like, say, Vitters. There's one arrogant SOB, apologized to the Repubs - who gave him a standing ovation for not leaving in disgrace like he should have - but not to his wife. I guess that's where Sandford got the idea to screw his South American mistress on Father's Day instead of spending it with his four kids, eh? If Vitters can get by with being an ass so can he. Now, tell me, I don't remember, the Nobel committee considered those two for what award?

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The NY Times is the official mouthpiece of the DNC

How could I have guessed that's what you'd say. I think you've told me once before where I get my information doesn't suit your party line. But it's so hard to tell since nothing I can read or watch or listen to for more than a few minutes and certainly nothing I can believe puts out the party line you guys subscribe to - the corporate BS hate your neighbor individual freedom to be overwhelmingly stupid line.

Not the right's party or the right's mouthpiece, eh?

That's always the out with you guys, nothing's right enough for anything when it comes to the far right wing nuts like you.

I know! Why don't we all watch Glenn Beck blow that vein in his forehead trying to spell "oligarcy"?

ROTFLMF'ingAO!!!

No thanks, I'll read someone who can at least spell and punctuate. That leaves out most of the right wing nuts' shouters.

Headlines on FreeRepublic:

Obama Wins Westminster Dog Show

Obama Receives Academy Award

Obama Named Super Bowl MVP

Obama wins Motor Trend Car of the Year

Yep, unbiased reporting at its best at FreeRepublic.

Who writes that shit?

Folk in rapture over TAO might be a bit hard to believe on the issue of overwhelming ego...

Incredibly stupid haters/shouters/birthers/adulterers/corporatists/America is not to be trusted traitors/bitchers when America wins and glad when America looses are not to be believed in any case. What is that for you? Seven out of nine? You're not tyring hard enough.

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So, according to your logic...

"Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?"

Nay. I fear that not even the glimmering of a proposition, the merest hint of syllogism...yea nary the faintest whiff of tertium non datur could be ascribed to or brought to bear against my "logic". Verily, I pronounce unto the interwebs that this year's Nobel Peace Laureate assignation is devoid of logic, either branded therein as mine own or any other, therewith.

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So, according to your logic what did Obama do before last February that would merit such an honor?

Go back and read the NYT editorial. Go back and read what the Nobel committee said. Read something, anything! other than the idiotic crap you fill your head with now.

Otherwise, why waste logic explaining anything to conservatives? You guys function on blind hatred of American values, so logic is not in your DNA. If that weren't true, you wouldn't have to ask dumb questions.

You have nothing as a real plan other than cut taxes on the top 1%, cheat on your wifes and build a bigger, whiter echo chamber so you have to whine and cry that O got a prize that W was laughed out of.

Like a bunch of bratty, whimpering little two year olds, "WAAAAAHHHHH!!!!WAAHHH!!! O got something and we didn't. People like O and hate us. WAHHHHHHH!!!! WAHHHHHH!!!!! We want to bomb somebody!!!!!!"

Great way to solve all the f'ing problems you guys left behind. Oh, shit, that's right, you never had any solutions in the first place - just more f-up's.

Glad you're gone, stay gone, shut up and remember why you're gone.

Of the 427 people randomly questioned by telephone, only 18 percent

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Go back and read the NYT editorial. Go back and read what the Nobel committee said. Read something, anything! other than the idiotic crap you fill your head with now.

Vigne, why are you so combative? You are abusive/aggressive about audio/politics, religion... why so cantankerous?

it isnt just here, either... you are crusty everywhere.

reign it in, Jan.

gotta be a tremendous burden to carry all that anger around.

Always a laugh to see you ignore facts and proclaim me the angry one. If it weren't that you are such a clown about this, you'd be totally worthless, ncdrawl.

Saturday night live covered t pretty well last night..

Yep!

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/update-james-carville/1165609/

Congratulations to the American President.

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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, whose government is supported by the U.S. and NATO allies, said the award was "appropriate" and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the prize in 1984 for his efforts to end apartheid in South Africa, praised the "wonderful" decision by the Nobel committee.

"It is a very imaginative and somewhat surprising choice. It is wonderful," Tutu told reporters. "He has had a very significant impact. [His presidency] has changed the temperature, and almost everybody feels a little more hopeful about the world."

Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency who won the prize in 2005, said that Obama has already provided exceptional leadership in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

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Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said,

Violating the Constitution, eh?

Very Shrublike!

Maybe the teabag-birfers will start impeachment proceedings!

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Violating the Constitution, eh?

Very Shrublike!

Maybe the teabag-birfers will start impeachment proceedings!

Unlike the left, we wait for real crimes before we demand impeachment...

Perhaps Obama deserves a Nobel Peace prize simply for not being Baby Bush. It's a peace prize for not scaring the rest of the world.

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Unlike the left, we wait for real crimes before we demand impeachment...

Har de har har, yeah, like you guys who love Ken Starr and the Starr Chamber.

THAT, just like the false impeachment proceedings against Clinton, was nothing more or less than a deliberate attempt to usurp the will of the voters via false color of law.

hahahahahahaha

Why do you hate america?

Har de har har har!

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Perhaps Obama deserves a Nobel Peace prize simply for not being Baby Bush. It's a peace prize for not scaring the rest of the world.

Or perhaps simply for sucking up to every tin pot dictator, leftist, and extremist that passes for intelligentsia world wide. Obama wins the gold for that.

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Unlike the left, we wait for real crimes before we demand impeachment...

Har de har har, yeah, like you guys who love Ken Starr and the Starr Chamber.

THAT, just like the false impeachment proceedings against Clinton, was nothing more or less than a deliberate attempt to usurp the will of the voters via false color of law.

hahahahahahaha

Why do you hate america?

Har de har har har!

Well giggles, the problem here is that Clinton DID commit perjury, DID obstruct justice and DID tamper with witnesses. That the left had no problem with the behavior does not mean it did not occur.

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Well giggles, the problem here is that Clinton DID commit perjury, DID obstruct justice and DID tamper with witnesses. That the left had no problem with the behavior does not mean it did not occur.

Spare me... everyone knows that he was hunted by the Republicans for political gain- plain and simple. You know, I know it... everyone does. Only the Republicans won't admit it. Who views Ken Starr as any kind of hero now? Footnote city. At least you kept the political discussions to where it belongs this time- in the Open Bar.

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Or perhaps simply for sucking up to every tin pot dictator, leftist, and extremist that passes for intelligentsia world wide. Obama wins the gold for that.

And the master goldsmith was Ronald Reagan and his bullshit in Central and South America during the 80's. To compare Obama's works to anything that shit-smith Reagan did, and to the whole of due process being destroyed with Ollie North and Noriega in their far greater and more dangerous scandal is to deny like a Republican. At least Bill Clinton is still helping this country (hostages in NK), and not simply whoring himself out like Ollie has in the last decade, with his talk show drivel.