Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Wow, I was going to leave a comment but it seems it'll be overshadowed by some of the other tremendously informative statements above.... What the hell. The Nobel Peace prize has as much VALUE as the American people give it. The World as a whole is hoping that by backing Obama for PEACE that the American people will back him for the same reason only with greater resolve. We live in a CORRUPT government that has a systematic recycling program that just breeds corruption, it bi-partisan! The WORLD knows how fucked up it is and really wants to help us break free inside so they can be freed outside. Its really that fucked up in here and they know it. We have a chance for change, not Obama, but People determined to live in PEACE can drive Obama to PEACE, REAL PEACE! PEACE, NO AMERICAN HAS KNOWN PEACE!!!!! Think about it, please?

........And Obama's nomination in the swill world of the Orwell Peace Prize is in good company. Although they didn't get the prize, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin were nominated. History has proven what kind of 'peace makers' they were and history will prove that Obama is of the same ilk.

Ha ha ha that prize is a joke.....

"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.

im not george bush, wheres my award ?

This is so much a joke. Nominations due 12 days after him taking office. He appears to have won for being elected.
Obama had, and continues to have, zero accomplishments. Like Gore and Carters awards for the Nobel, what a farce.
With this as a barometer, I should win the Pulitzer for the novel I might publish as some future point

Apparantly to be qualified to win the Nobel all you have to do is not be George Bush.

When a statesman wins a prize it's as much about the state as it is about the man. When I heard that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, my first thought that it was actually nod to the United States not the man.

Looking at the Noble Peace Prize through this lens, the prize is a nod to the American people living American ideals. We are a nation where despite our known troubles with race anyone can achieve their dreams and become President of the United States. No matter your political leaning, this is something to be proud of. In face we don't necessarily need to agree all of the time, but we should stop and recognize that we do in fact live in a more perfect union.

Many are too focused on their own perspective to look at this through someone else eyes or too partisan not to stick to the parties line. Fortunately, the Nobel Committee is not fettered with our history or political rivalries or biases. They are looking at this through a longer historical lens that recognizes progress even if some do not. We should all be proud that we are all have the opportunity to live the American dream flawed though it may be.

And next..........Obama wins Nobel Prize for Physics for walking on water..

what is with the ron paul spam?

If it's this easy to get a nobel peace prize for not even achieving anything, sign me up!!
p.s. you werent the only one surprised Obama, believe that.

The Nobel is a joke first Gore for his idiotic lie of a movie now Obama for the audacity of his Hope or perhaps for his help in bringing america down.It seems only anti americans win anything like this.

I'm happy for that. just give a chance to obama. things can't be changed in a day. it takes time. he is trying. at least he tries! many of us could do more and we stay in our cosy home, delivering judgements without even trying to help our next door friends. i'm with obama. finally someone brought hope to believe there can be a better living.

um i believe obama wasnt involved with clinton's deal because he had yet to be in a position to do so.he may have very well been in college at the time.
what has ron paul done.
i mean saying is great but doing is what matters.
has ron paul been smart enough to refine his message to get elected to actually do the things he talks about, or much rather just stand on his soap box preaching.

What is the point of complaning?

It leads to nothing and no results...

Do somethng.

wtf did he do to earn that award... give the award to someone who has/is actually accomplishing something like "Molly Bedingfield"