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That Nobel Peace Prize: Bashes Bush, Handcuffs Obama
Daniel Pipes :: Writings —
"He won what?" is the universal first reaction. And second, at least on the Right: "Why did they do that?" Even the Nobel committee's citation does not pretend Barack Obama has actually achieved anything. Rather, it was given to him "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." That's efforts , not achievements . Reading carefully through the entire citation suggests that Obama is being celebrated for two reasons. Its chatter about "a new climate," the United Nations, a "vision of a world free from nuclear arms," and "great climatic challenges" points to his being the anti-George ...
OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
The Page by Mark Halperin —
Getty Obama wins Nobel. The Nobel Foundation said in Sweden Friday it was "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Wow -- Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... It is a mark of just how badly George W. Bush damaged our reputation in the world, that after just nine months in office, Barack Obama has given birth to a revitalized standing of the U.S. in terms of world diplomacy -- and been recognized for that by the Nobel Committee: ...
Nobel Peace Prize Jumps The Shark
Rhymes With Right —
... Liberalism . n a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. He has created a new international climate, the committee said in its announcement. President Obamas name had not figured in speculation about the likely winner until minutes before the prize was announced here. Likely candidates had been seen here as including human rights activists in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa. ...
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Bitch. Ph.D. —
... Holy Crap! Can't wait to see the righties blow a gasket over this. Its going to be a good day.
Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Hollywood Liberal —
Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize “In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama ‘for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples’ less than nine months after he took office,” the New York Times reports. Said the committee: “He has created a new international climate.” Washington Post : “The committee’s decision to choose Obama from among 205 nominees appears in part to be a rebuke to the Bush administration’s unilateral approach to world bodies and alliances, most notably in its decision to go to ...
Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
"In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples' less than nine months after he took office," the New York Times ...
You Go to Sleep, Then You Wake Up, and Wha Huh?
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Say what now? In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Less than nine months after he took office, the committee said, Mr. Obama “has created a new international climate.” With American forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama’s name had not figured in speculation about the winner until minutes before the prize was announced here. Next: ...
(Even) The International Press Protests -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Corner on National Review Online —
New York Times:
Reporters at a news conference to announce the prize pressed the committee’s chairman, Thorbjorn Jagland, to explain the reasons Mr. Obama had prevailed over other candidates who included human rights activists in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa.
Specifically, reporters asked whether Mr. Obama might not become mired in a war in Afghanistan as Lyndon B. Johnson was in Vietnam. ...
Obam Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Daily Kos —
New this morning: President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his work to improve international diplomacy and rid the world of nuclear weapons -- a stunning decision to celebrate a figure virtually unknown in the world before he launched his presidential campaign nearly three years ago. Someone appreciates him. More: In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to ...
Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Daily Kos —
New this morning: President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his work to improve international diplomacy and rid the world of nuclear weapons -- a stunning decision to celebrate a figure virtually unknown in the world before he launched his presidential campaign nearly three years ago. Someone appreciates him. More: In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to ...
Obama Wins Nobel!
The Washington Note —
Forget the Chicago Olympics foul up. Barack Obama has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize -- the first sitting US President to win the Prize since Woodrow Wilson.
The Nobel citation reads:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in ...
President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Political Animal —
PRESIDENT OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.... I didn't even know he'd been nominated . In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" less than nine months after he took office. "He has created a new international climate," the committee said in its announcement. With American forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama's name had not figured in speculation about the winner until minutes before the prize was announced here. [...] [T]he committee said it ...
The Early Word: Prize Surprise
The Caucus —
From around the world and at home, reaction to the news that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace prize — less than 10 months into his presidency — was mixed with a bit of amusement and confusion. World leaders offered fairly congratulatory statements, ( ...
Even mainstream media stunned, skeptical over Nobel Peace prize
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... award in 2002 for nothing more than speaking out against the policies of George Bush. However, Carter had a legitimate shot at it in 1978 for his work on brokering a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt only a few years after their last war — and didn’t get a share in the Nobel awarded to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat for those efforts. Has Obama done anything remotely significant in foreign affairs, let alone as significant as that agreement, which still continues today? The New York Times should also be cheering, but instead it also questions the thought process of ...
Turn It Down
TalkLeft —
For reasons that are unfathomable, President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: WASHINGTON — President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. [. . .] [T]he Nobel Committee announced in Oslo that it has awarded the annual prize to the president “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” The award cited in particular Mr. Obama’s effort to reduce the world’s nuclear arsenal. Just because the Nobel Committee wants to make fools of themselves, Obama should not have to play along. He should turn it down. ...
No Peace, No Prize
Swampland —
There is a slight whiff of condescension attending the announcement that Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize . There is the sense that he has won simply by not being George W. Bush. Effete Europe is congratulating rowdy America for cleaning up its act and not bringing guns to the dinner table. Well, I'm as relieved as anybody that the Bushian gunslingers have been given the gate and, as regular readers know, I'm a big fan of patient, rigorous diplomacy--and there's a certain lovely irony to any prize that brings the Taliban and the neoconservative Commentary crowd ...
The Rude Pundit — A Brief Note Regarding the Nobel Peace Prize: Well, why the fuck not? Now let's see who is the first conservative asshole who says this makes Obama the new Jimmy Carter. Back in a bit with a look at Michael Moore's new movie. ...
America's Nobel Prize
democracyarsenal.org —
... I sort of think that's why Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace prize today. Today's completely unexpected honor is as clear a sign as you could ever receive that for all of our faults (and we have many) there are millions of people around the world who admire and love what America represents. They yearn for an America that not only adheres to its most basic values, but provides genuine leadership toward their realization - both at home and abroad. I think the Nobel Committee summed it up nicely: ...
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize -- By: NRO Staff
The Corner on National Review Online —
“He won what?” is the first universal reaction. And second, at least on the Right: “Why did they do that?” Even the Nobel committee’s citation does not pretend Barack Obama has actually achieved anything. Rather, it was given to him “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” That’s efforts, not achievements. Reading carefully through the entire citation suggests that Obama is being celebrated for two reasons. Its chatter about “a new climate,” the United Nations, a “vision of a world free from nuclear arms,” ...
Breaking: President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Democratic National Committee —
Early this morning, it was announced that President Obama had been selected as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. From the New York Times: In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced in Oslo that it has awarded the annual prize to the president “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” The award cited in particular Mr. Obama’s effort to reduce the world’s nuclear arsenal. “He has created a new international climate,” the committee said. The announcement, coming extraordinarily early in Mr. ...
Some Mornings You Just Don't Know Whether To Laugh Or Just Slip The Restraints Back On
Winds of Change.NET —
Obama has won the freaking Nobel Peace Prize??
On one hand, the prize itself has been badly devalued by some of it's recent winners - El Baredi? Arafat the kleptocrat terrorist? Jimmy Carter the dupe, Al Gore, carbon profiteer?
AndI have to say that this award - to Obama before he's actually, you know, accomplished anything - devalues it further. It becomes one of those MYV awards bandswith a hot single get before they develop substance abuse problems, enter rehab, go broke, and wind up working at Jamba Juice.
Chait and Kaus both agree that the savvy thing for Obama to do would be to turn it down. It becomes a ...
Tough Room
Opinionator —
Well, hello from Oslo! OSLO — The Nobel Committee announced in Oslo that it has awarded the annual peace prize to Barack Obama, just nine months into his presidency, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” The award cited in particular Mr. Obama’s effort to reduce the world’s nuclear arsenal. “He has created a new international climate,” the committee said. The front end of the The Times headline said it all: “In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy.” O.K., maybe not all, but definitely some. (Does ...
2009 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Barack Obama
Blog For Arizona —
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
From ITN World:
The Nobel Committee announced Friday that the annual peace prize was awarded to Barack Obama, just nine months into his presidency, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation ...
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
Commondreams.org Views —
When I saw this morning's top New York Times headline -- " Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize " -- I had the same immediate reaction which I'm certain many others had: this was some kind of bizarre Onion gag that got accidentally transposed onto the wrong website, that it was just some sort of strange joke someone was playing. Upon further reflection, that isn't all that far from the reaction I still have. And I say that despite my belief that -- as critical as I've been of the Obama presidency regarding civil liberties and Terrorism -- foreign affairs is actually one ...
Depraved, Obscene Absurdities
Once Upon a Time... —
... When you engage in denial, avoidance and lies on this huge a scale, you make possible this. In fact, my title here is very close to the title of the next part of the " ...
Rinku Sen: Obama Should Have Turned It Down
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama's winning the Nobel Peace Prize reminds me of this clothing commercial in which a man whose face you can't see is at an interview or on a date. He's told that he has horrible work history or got the lady's name wrong just before he's offered the job or a nightcap. The slogan, "you get what you're suited for," implies that you don't have to actually deserve a benefit as long as you look the part. ...
