Barack Obama named 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner

This is what Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said at last Friday’s prayer meeting in Tehran about the Geneva talks between Iran and the UN Security council big five plus Germany:

‘The meeting was a great victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran to such an extent that even the Western and Zionist media had to admit defeat....Prior to the talks, they (Westerners) used to speak of suspension and sanctions against Iran, but after the talks, there has not been any word of suspension or sanctions, rather, Iran's package of proposals was the axis.’

Ayatollah Khatami is correct. As a result of this grovelling, America and the west are now so weakened that the Ayatollah also felt emboldened to threaten Israel once again with extinction, this time with a ‘third intifada’ over the spurious claim that Israel has attacked the al Aqsa mosque (an incitement which so far has failed to ignite the Palestinians) -- even as Iran moves serenely onwards towards finally checkmating America with its nuclear weapon.

This is the outcome of Obama’s hand of friendship. This is why Obama received the Nobel Appeasement Prize.

How are they not a bias panel?

I was recently in conversation with some Arabs in the Muslim Quarter of the old city of Jerusalem about Obama. They kept referring to Mohammed as if he were still alive and I realised they meant Obama. They actually called him Mohammed and told me they are convinced he is a Muslim and obviously quite happy about that and the possibility of the establishment of a global caliphate and the relegation of all non-Muslims to second class dhimmi status coughing up jizya tribute tax on punishment of death. Nice. I felt the love, finished my hummus and left.

"That's pretty amazing, winning the Nobel Peace Prize," Jay Leno said Friday night of President Barack Obama's latest accolade. "Ironically, his biggest accomplishment as president so far ... winning the Nobel Peace Prize."

That joke may be indicative of the TV comedy world sharpening its arrows a bit more when the current occupant of the White House is the target, The New York Times reports.

President Barack Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

The Times quotes Bob Lichter, who has tracked themes in late-night humor for 21 years, as saying "it will be telling to see how the comedians treat" the president's winning the peace prize: Is there now a caricature taking hold of a man more celebrated than accomplished?

Lichter, of George Mason University's Center for Media and Public Affairs, said it was too soon to tell whether the Oct. 3 Saturday Night Live skit suggesting that Obama has accomplished nothing is a "harbinger" or not. "The danger is that Mr. Obama is going to be defined by inaction and not living up to expectations," he said.

SNL skit: Obama has done nothing

SNL this weekend joined in the jokes about Obama not deserving the prize just yet, suggesting that honors like People's Sexiest Man designation may soon go to children.

Last week Jon Stewart continued with the "done nothing" theme on The Daily Show, chiding Obama for not yet getting around to reversing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy about gays. He cited Obama's "full plate" of business.

Stewart then acted apoplectic, displaying his exasperation. "All that stuff you've been putting on your plate?" he said. "It's [expletive] chow time, brother. That's how you get things off your plate."

Ric Keller, a former Republican congressman from Florida who once wrote jokes for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, told the Times: "There have been some clear shots coming across the bow from the comic left."

But Jeff Nussbaum, a Democratic speech and joke writer, disagreed that late-night comedy is a leading indicator of the zeitgeist. "To use an economic term, it is more of a lagging indicator," he said.

Those old enough to remember Watergate might recall that it took Johnny Carson awhile to start making jokes about President Richard Nixon and his connection to the break-in. But once the Tonight show host did, it felt like the beginning of the end for the U.S. leader who eventually resigned.

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they're circling.

Tell me what would make Obama unworthy of this award by the end of his first term.

I wonder if those that think he deserved this award can share that. Because he can make this a bad choice and I want to know how.

I forgot to ask you, Moon Loon - When is the USA going to return to its rightful owners the trainload of Jewish gold it confiscated from the Nazis in Germany at the end of WWII?

MoonLoon said:

"My dearest V, if you continue to respond to my comments, at least have the courtesy to post them where everyone can read them."

I am not going to plough through six pages and dozens of responses to find where exactly your comment/response is situated, so I post the e-mailed comment in whole. If you wish to do the ploughing for me each time, be my guest!

"The Swiss banking system has been complicit in supporting money laundering, despots, dictators, and a global criminal conspiracy to hide assets from the legal tax authorities."

This stopped years ago - Switzerland has the toughest money-laundering laws of all.

"They initially refused to submit information to the U.S. on over 50,000 Americans with accounts in Switzerland."

And they haven't done so, it is against Swiss banking law to do so. When will the USA submit information to the relevant countries on the hundreds of thousands of foreign tax-evading accounts in Florida and Delaware? The US' laundry is far dirtier than that of Switzerland.

"It took 50 years for stolen Jewish assets (WW2), to be partially returned to the rightful owners."

They were *fully* returned, and then stolen by Edward Fagan and his cronies, most of the rightful owners never got a cent.

"Nigerian President, Sani Abacha stole $billions, depositing them in Swiss accounts, the Swiss under extreme international pressure returned some of the money, yet chose to keep over $50 million, as a handling fee."

No international pressure was needed or used, and handling fees are perfectly lega..

"Mugabe has , also! Please, I bego, start a new thread on the Swiss economy being based on providing banking for the international crime syndicate! I would love to discuss that issue with you."

Mugabe and cohorts are forbidden by Switzerland to have bank accounts in Switzerland. Perhaps his accounts in Florida and Delaware ought to be examined, don't you think?

"And , yes, it is true, "Nestle," a Swiss based corporation was buying milk and milk products from the Mugabe owned dairy. Which he stole from a family of white farmers that founded the business."

I never said the contrary. It is Mugabe's second wife's farm, by the way, and yes, it was repossessed from a white farmer.

"The product was being marketed in Africa, not exported to Switzerland!"

That's why I wrote that the Swiss are not buying milk from Mugabe, duh!

"I gave you an opportunity to shut up and you failed to take it."

LOL! Do you think this sentence makes you look smart? Nope - it only makes you look smarmy, at best!

"The Swiss are not far removed from the Nazis."

Absolute nonsense - did you pull that one out of your anus? It sure stinks as if you did.

"Any Google search will shortly expose them as Global bankers to criminals!"

As are American bankers in Florida and Delaware. Then, there are the trillions of tax-fraud dollars that Americans have hidden in various Caribbean and Chinese island offshore tax havens. Hey, the USA looks like a giant crook compared to the garden-gnome crook that is Switzerland!

"I am still being nice, as, Swiss dirty linen, is stinking up the World. And you support them?"

You don't know how to be truly nice, it's all fake. As for the Swiss dirty linen, it is practically spotless compared to America's filthy linen which is choking the world to death - and you support it?

MoonLoon said:

"Check the facts Madame V. Nestle Corp. , a Swiss company just announced last week that they would cease buying milk from Mugabe's appropriated dairy farm. This would suggest a form of support for a tyrant. Guess how he is paid? It is certainly not in the inflated local currency. Of course a record of wire transfers would confirm this fact. I will give you and the Swiss a break as this is off topic. However, their underhanded dealings with tyrants, despots, and common criminals make George Bush look like a giant redwood."

Nestlé is a vast multinational corporation with headquarters in Switzerland, it is not Switzerland. Therefore, the Swiss, who have more domestically produced milk than they can consume, are not buying and have not been buying milk from Mugabe's wife's stolen farm. I had my facts perfectly right. Also, neither Mugabe nor any of his family, friends and colleagues (in the Zanu party) are allowed to have Swiss bank accounts, and this has been the case for a considerable while.

ocanada said:

"Here is an idea. Vierotchka, just reply to your replies. It is what the feature was designed for."

Sure, no problem when there is only one page, but since the e-mailed messages do not state on which of many pages a response is made, nor to which original post, and since I don't have the time to plough through six pages of comments to find to which response an e-mailed response was made, I post my response this way. Now, if you are willing to do the ploughing for me and indicate to me exactly where an e-mailed response is situated so that I can go directly to it, I'll be happy to place mine in the corresponding thread. Deal?

MoonLoon said:

"Mugabe is still around,the Swiss buy milk from his dairy, and hide his ill gotten gains from the rest of the World!"

The Swiss do not buy milk from his dairy - the Swiss have more than enough domestically produced milk. As for hiding his ill-gotten gains from the rest of the world, that is simply not true. Switzerland has long banned him from having a Swiss bank account.

I have more respect for CNN's Heroes than this Noble whatever-whatever.

They actually award people for doing something and there something lasts longer than two weeks.

Obama is well suited to make a "Pepsodent" commercial or speak at the "USHABA" Convention, United States Hot Air Ballon Association.
He has become enamored with himself and is clearly not the most qualified to accept this award. He remains the consummate politician and will be considered a failure unless he grows a backbone.

The only thing I can really say to those who think Obama doesn't deserve this, is look up some of the facts & if you STILL are too dumb to see how he got this, then I dare you to become president or at the very least, do something smart!!!

I'll put this in terms that even the dumbasses might be able to read! Bush=Idiot Obama= Smart! Any questions???
Obama deserves this more then most of the US leaders that we have ever had! That goes for both parties! As far as Obama continuing the war, well...If you were smart enough to pay any attention to ANYTHING!!! Obama is trying to pull troops out of Iraq while putting NON COMBAT solders in Afghanistan to aid in peace efforts! OH! & if you didn't already know this, NONE of the 9-11 hijackers were from Iraq!!! The war will never end really,because, for those of you blissfully unaware, there have been wars in the middle east long before the Bible was written! I find it a little sad how dumb people are these days,but there's little I can do to stop it!So just go on listening to your rap,preaching your crap,& being morons! & Next time the republicans wish to elect a retarded ape who is an oil monger & war criminal & likely still has a lot of cocaine in his system, I'll just laugh & be prepared for the end of the world should any dumbass like that make it in the white house again!

"Good for him! Thats amazing... :)"

LOL! Funny. You said a mouth full there. We are amazed indeed. We're also astounded, shocked, perplexed, astonished, bewildered, incredulous, skeptical........... and the list goes on........

But with his track record......... Oh, wait! He doesn't HAVE a track record...

allIknowis said:

"Also V, the things you credit him with happened AFTER the Feb 2 cut off date for nomination."

So? Nominations are not made by the Nobel Prize committee, and the things I credit him with were taken into account by the Nobel Prize jury even if they occurred after February 2.

Why fight over somthing that has already been made?

Obama was great before even running for office. People may forget this, or not realize his existence before the publicity.

I think it's an honor to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and being born in the US, proud to have another president deserving of it.

jealous

Even Obama says it's premature, but the way I see it, if a scumbag like Kissinger can get one (NPP), why not Obama? I voted for Obama, not because I thought he was the messiah, but the lesser of 2 evils AND I was sick of the 8 year clusterfuck that was thrust upon us. We all must remember that nowadays, presidents are in the power elite's pocket so they can only do so much. I hope he wakes up and gets us out of AF-Pak.

samthesixth said:

"V, Typical comment from you. Elitism with no substance."

Riiiight, and the tooth fairy & Santa are real! LOL!

"Other people have traveled the world and read theory as well."

True, and those with more than the first iota of a scintilla of understanding and intelligence share my conclusions.

The news announcement came over my cell phone this morning—I thought it was a joke at first, a headline from The Onion instead of the New York Times—that the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is Barack Obama.

For what? What has Obama ever accomplished for the cause of world peace?

The Nobel Committee says the prize is "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." Which Obama has accomplished by—what exactly? Giving a speech at the UN?

Are they giving Obama the prize because he is withdrawing US troops from Iraq? But that drawdown began under the previous administration and is possible only because of choices made by George Bush. Obama has merely continued the natural course of the Bush policies.

Is it because he has closed down the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo? Well, he has promised to do so—but his own deadline has passed, and he hasn't done it yet.

Did Obama get Iran to relinquish its nuclear weapons? No, he has merely started a new round of negotiations whose main effect seems to be to give US support to Russian aid for Iran's uranium enrichment.

Has he championed the cause of "democracy"? Obama has sided with a would-be dictator against the constitution of Honduras, and he just cut off funding for an organization that helps document Iranian human rights abuses.

Has he achieved peace in Afghanistan? On the most pressing foreign policy issue of his administration—the most immediate issue of war and peace he has so far been called to decide upon—Obama hasn't even made a decision yet. But he's getting the Nobel Peace Prize.

So I guess it is a joke, after all—a joke by the Nobel committee at its own expense.

The fact that Obama hasn't actually accomplished anything isn't all that unprecedented. When the Nobel committee gave the prize to lifelong terrorist Yasser Arafat, they did not do so because the Oslo Accords were a great success. They did so because the accords were in trouble. Several members of the committee admitted later that their motive in giving the award was to encourage Arafat to stick with the "peace process." It didn't work, of course, and a few years later, Arafat would launch the Second Intifada, importing Iranian explosives to strap to suicide bombers and plunging the Palestinian territories into another round of chaos and bloodshed from which it has yet to emerge.

The new Nobel is also meant for the same purpose: not to reward something Obama has done, but to influence his future action. Lech Walensa—Nobel recipient in 1983 for facing down the Soviets—put it quite clearly: "So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act. This is probably an encouragement for him to act."

This is an attempt by the Nobel committee to play on Obama's vanity in order to influence his decisions on Iran and Afghanistan. The message is: how could you possibly let Israel attack Iran's nuclear facilities, or how could you send an additional 40,000 troops to "escalate" the war in Afghanistan—after we've just given you the Nobel Peace Prize?

In appealing to Obama's moral vanity, they know their man well—and it will probably work.

This is what the Nobel Peace Prize really stands for: irresponsible moral posturing in the service of the leftist delusion that appeasement will bring peace, when all it really brings is more war.

Come to think of it, that makes Barack Obama the perfect recipient.

Robert Tracinski

samthesixth said:

"V, What you just posted is amazingly light for a Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Stack up that against the resume of some of the others and the world can see the shallowness of this choice."

You are deeply mistaken.

samthesixth said:

"Mugabe no longer has day to day control of the police or military. While he is still a figurehead, he no longer is a dictator."

That would be wonderful. Unfortunately, that simply is not the case.

President Obama's Cairo speech alone earned him enough points to get this prize hands down. His bow to the king of Saudi Arabia. His consistent snubbing of European leaders. His betrayal of Poland and the Czech Republic. His outstretched hand that reaches all the way to Iran's nuclear sites and protects them from rain, hail, and Israel. His betrayal of Persians yearning for democracy. His reluctance to look into McChrystal's ball and find some kind of half way plausible strategy for the overseas contingency whatchamegig in Afghanistan.

Even if he had not done all of the above, he would be worthy of being hoisted on high in the Nobel firmament because he has declared war on Jewish construction in choice neighborhoods of al Quds and wannabe Palestine. Donche know, if you want peace be prepared to make war. And if you want the peace of jihad, make war on the Jews. Point your finger at them like a smoking gun. Sock it to 'em like a latter day koranic saint. Grab them by the scruff of the neck and scold them for all the world to see. Sic 'em with Goldstone, saddle them with Abbas, and send them to bed without dinner and ammunition. They wanted planes to fight to win? Stop the program, cancel the contracts, and if they holler strangle them with peace. Play footsy with Hamas, set up a mahjong date with Ahmadinejad, make cuddly eyes at Assad, and secretly decorate the private quarters of the White House with shahid posters, who would dare to protest?

Did you hear the latest? Anonymous sources have leaked to the press a flood of indignation from the peaceful Obama to you know who in the holy land. Aha! You thought he was fed up because his moderate ally Abu Mazen has reverted to PLO same o same o? Stirring up trouble on the Temple Mount because a bunch of French tourists got in the way of some irate Palestinian rocks? Which naturally led the Palestinians to go on a rampage in the narrow lanes of the Old City. How can President Obama call for the creation of a Palestinian state the day after tomorrow when his protégés are rousing a billion and a half Muslims to protect al Aqsa...from French tourists?

No. That's not why the Nobelly anointed young man is indignant. He is pissed off because Israelis are badmouthing him. Big shots and little guys in the street and on the beach, officials and cab drivers and housewives and left wing columnists are criticizing him.

Watch out. Even a Nobel-Peace-Prizer can lose his temper and explode. But then, who would blame him? What's more dangerous for world peace, a flock of Taliban or a gaggle of chuzpadike Israelis?

Hail to the Chief for reaching out to the Taliban and forgiving them for he knows not what they do, reaching out to the Muslim Brotherhood in all its forms and machinations, reaching out to the democratically elected Ahmadinejad and drawing a veil over the rape of the innocents, reaching out to Putin over the half dead body of Georgia...and trying to close Gitmo if only the jack-in-the-box would sit down and shut up.

And if he manages to push his health care revolution bill down US throats, they'll give him the Nobel Prize for Medicine next year. On the other hand, if he can maintain double digit unemployment and bring the dollar down to parity with the yuan he could outdistance Mugabe for the Nobel Prize for Economics.

A Nobel Prize to the wise is sufficient: when you hear the word "peace" praise the lord and pass the ammunition.

it's like why'pn before you poop...it don't make no sense...

I wish I could get a pay check for work I haven't done yet also, but I didn't run for office.

I understand that he has changed things... but it's the noble PEACE price not some award for not being Bush. ......I think Obama is a reasonable man, which i why I'm disappointed by the fact that he didn't decline the award to a citizen who has been dedicated to it's purpose. I'm not upset hat he won, however, I'm not proud to be accepting the award as an american either... ya dig?????

Israel’s own version of Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter combined into one, Shimon Peres, is even worse than many of the Obamessiah worshippers on U.S. soil in gushing over today’s Nobel Peace Prize to Obama. Peres, who basically destroyed Israel and yet has 109 lives in Israeli politics, is the man behind the disastrous Oslo Accords, the “Road Map,” and the “two-state solution” and other measures that have given Islamic terrorists multiple orgasms over the past two decades. For those deeds, Peres was awarded his own Nobel.

It’s telling–but hardly surprising–that the Hebrew Jimmuh’s nauseating, crackhead response to Obama’s Nobel award is similar to that of a certain Israel-hating incompetent who’s allowed Iran to develop a second nuke site under his blind “watch.”

“I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honor,” he said. “In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself.”

Along a similar vein, another laureate, President Shimon Peres of Israel, sent a letter to President Obama on Friday morning, saying: “Very few leaders if at all were able to change the mood of the entire world in such a short while with such a profound impact. You provided the entire humanity with fresh hope, with intellectual determination, and a feeling that there is a lord in heaven and believers on earth.”

Truly barf-inducing. Welcome to the theatre of the absurd.

Israel suffered terrorist attacks galore and continues to self amputate parts of the country to give to the Islamic terrorists who foment the attacks. All of this happened after–and as a result of–Peres’ stupid Oslo Accord, for which he got the Nobel.

The forces of darkness rule right now and it's time to fight back.

I think the US Department of State should issue a diplomatic démarche to the Norwegians for making the US President and the Office of President of the US the laughingstock of the entire world.
Has Obama (Peace be upon him) NOW become the latest of a series of prophets sent by Allah
for the benefit of mankind?
The Cult of Personality has taken over the world. God Save the USA.

Recognizing the importance of reducing the danger of nuclear weapons and restoring American leadership on the global security issues of our time, the Nobel Committee today awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama.

President Obama has "created a new international climate," the Committee said.
"Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position... The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations."

Amazingly, opponents of nuclear disarmament are already attacking the Nobel Committee for honoring President Obama. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called the award "unfortunate," and Rush Limbaugh called it an "embarrassment."

In his historic April 2009 speech in Prague, the President vowed to pursue a world without nuclear weapons. Words are important, but words without action mean little. Thankfully, President Obama has already taken a number of concrete steps toward that goal by:

* Starting bilateral negotiations with Russia for a successor to the START arms reduction agreement.

* Giving a jump-start to diplomacy by restarting talks with Iran that have already proven constructive.

* Pledging to ratify the CTBT, secure loose nuclear material around the world, and host a global nuclear security summit in Washington next year.

* Sending Secretary of State Clinton to an international conference for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

* Securing international endorsement of his campaign for a world without nuclear weapons when he presided over a special session of the UN Security Council, continuing the momentum toward nuclear security and arms control.

This progress is just beginning, and we will need sustained focus to achieve these goals over the coming years. But neo-conservative critics of the President are staunchly opposed to nuclear disarmament. The international community has made a dramatic show of support for President Obama's vision.

(from an email I received a short while ago)