Barack H. Obama won Nobel Peace Prize and Borys has 'nothing' against blacks

[Phoenix Dark]

But has he closed Gitmo or achieved universal health care or lowered nuclear weapons/secured loose nukes or global warming etc etc etc?

Disarmament is really not a good way to uphold peace.

Tell that to Obama

[Human Snorenado]

...why? What has Obama done to win this reward? "Changing the climate of international politics" rings hallow when you consider his diplomatic politics are quite normal and sane compared to the ridiculous actions of the previous administration.

It also rings hollow.

[Mandark]

What's that line about winning the Peace Prize?  "Kill a lot of people, then stop."  Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat were both awarded the prize on that basis.

If you think of this award as going to the office of the President of the United States rather than to Obama personally, that's basically what happened here.

And boy howdy, I thought conservatives were going nuts when Harold Pinter won the award.

[Phoenix Dark]

...why? What has Obama done to win this reward? "Changing the climate of international politics" rings hallow when you consider his diplomatic politics are quite normal and sane compared to the ridiculous actions of the previous administration.

It also rings hollow.

Oh right, the guy with the 3-1 record is making fun of the guy with the 4-0 record, COME ON

While I'm baffled by Obama winning, at least this shows GOP hypocrisy. Last week they CHEERED Obama's "failure" with the Olymics, proclaiming the world had rejected him, that he was on the ropes etc. Now that he's won the Nobel...he's just world celebrity again, the world is out of touch with Americans, they like him too much, etc

make up yer minds

[Bocsius]

Editing the HUSSEIN out of the thread title. 

[The Fake Shemp]

There is a limit on title length and he had to add Borys quote.

... Some redstate blogger was just on MSNBC and got annihilated on camera. Hysterical.

[Phoenix Dark]

what happened? and why is a redstate blogger on teevee to begin with 

[The Fake Shemp]

They were discussing the Nobel Prize thing, and they had a guy from the Huffington Post and redstate.

Redstate dude had to account for the fact that they called the award affirmative action, which he dodged, but when Schuster brought up the point that the President himself thinks he doesn't deserve it, the guy stumbled around some kind of talking point calling people terrorists.

It was totally incoherent, the Huffington Post guy just kind of chuckled at the end.

[Mandark]

And the political capital will create itself. The wingnuts are going to go apeshit about this. And they’re going to do so in the nastiest way possible and damage themselves badly. Specifically, I predict that they’re going to do enough “affirmative action” jokes to irritate the black vote into showing up for a midterm in the same numbers they did for the Presidential. The jujitsu approach of acting graciously and allowing his enemies to demonstrate what kind of people they are is Obama’s chief political strategy.

This part is kind of depressingly inevitable.

[Tauntaun]

This is like OJ getting off all over again.  /borys.

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[Brehvolution]

meh

[Bocsius]

ZH, Editing it out. .

I was going to follow it up with "Yeah, Borys loves black people. He thinks everybody should own at least one." But since you edited yours out, I won't bother.

[Tieno]

smh @ ZH for ruining a perfectly good truth.

[The Fake Shemp]

Oh, conservatives - never change.

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[Oblivion]

Some of my favorite films have black people in them!

Like The Birth of a Nation.

[The Fake Shemp]

I want this recorded in history books:

President Obama's Domestic Critics Not Impressed With Nobel Prize

[Brehvolution]

ZH, Editing it out. .

I was going to follow it up with "Yeah, Borys loves black people. He thinks everybody should own at least one." But since you edited yours out, I won't bother.

smh @ ZH for ruining a perfectly good truth.

Sorry guys. I think I got burned in the past for saying that. My 2 cents isn't worth it here.

[Phoenix Dark]

But Lech Walesa, the dissident turned Polish President, who won the Peace Prize in 1983, spoke for many, declaring: “So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6868905.ece

Borys redeemed

[Flannel Boy]

But Lech Walesa, the dissident turned Polish President, who won the Peace Prize in 1983, spoke for many, declaring: “Nothing against blacks, but so soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6868905.ece

Borys redeemed

Now Borys is redeemed.

[The Fake Shemp]

 

[chronovore]

Kanye: "Yo Barack, I'm really happy for you and I'ma let ya finish, but Mother Theresa is the greatest prize winner of all time."

 

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Crisp. Refreshing. And I was /so/ parched.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=3612108&ref=mp
 

[pilonv1]

Sending more troops to Afghanistan = peace prize? Good jon world

[duckman2000]

Well, you can't expect peace without some war every now and then. Peace comes in different flavors; from the Utopian concept of world peace, to the more realistic option of stability and lessening of future conflicts. But you need to pave the ground, with explosives, before you can lay the foundation for that kind of real peace.

[pilonv1]

But it's not like he's done anything else.

[chronovore]

Has anybody in this thread mentioned that he's the first US President to go on record with "no nuclear weapons" as a goal? No other President has publicly stated that NO nukes is a good idea. Everyone else has been about limitation, non proliferation, basically maintaining the status quo.

[duckman2000]

Well, he can't possibly believe that himself. Nukes are crucial to the stability of the world.

[Phoenix Dark]

Has anybody in this thread mentioned that he's the first US President to go on record with "no nuclear weapons" as a goal? No other President has publicly stated that NO nukes is a good idea. Everyone else has been about limitation, non proliferation, basically maintaining the status quo.

He's also an idealistic do-nothing!

[The Fake Shemp]

That kind of rhetoric is unnecessary, chronovore.

It's obvious that Obama sold us out to Oslo for acceptance into the New World Order, and his socialist regime will be the ruin of us all!

[chronovore]

He's also an idealistic do-nothing!

I can't tell if you're being ironic. Seriously.

[Himu]

Oh, conservatives - never change.

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[Flannel Boy]

The US and Russia have signed nuclear reduction treaties, but they're not going to reduce their stockpiles anywhere close to zero in our lifetimes, especially when Israel, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea have weapons. Obama can say he dreams of a world without disease and pick up his Nobel Prize in Medicine next.

[brawndolicious]

it is kind of ridiculous that they would give out a peace prize every year.  it makes sense for the science fields because there's always important things happening but how often is there a nelson mandela or a gandhi who is actually deserving of the peace prize?

[FlameOfCallandor]

Well, you can't expect peace without some war every now and then. Peace comes in different flavors; from the Utopian concept of world peace, to the more realistic option of stability and lessening of future conflicts. But you need to pave the ground, with explosives, before you can lay the foundation for that kind of real peace.

So your saying that Bush deserved a Nobel Peace Prize? 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

it is kind of ridiculous that they would give out a peace prize every year.  it makes sense for the science fields because there's always important things happening but how often is there a nelson mandela or a gandhi who is actually deserving of the peace prize?

You're an idiot.

[chronovore]

Well, you can't expect peace without some war every now and then. Peace comes in different flavors; from the Utopian concept of world peace, to the more realistic option of stability and lessening of future conflicts. But you need to pave the ground, with explosives, before you can lay the foundation for that kind of real peace.

So your saying that Bush deserved a Nobel Peace Prize? 

Good christ, you're deluded. Bush brought stability to Iraq like a brick brings stability when going through a shop window. There were no Al Qaeda in Iraq before we went there. Hussein didn't like them, didn't tolerate them. Now that we've pissed everyone there off by killing innumerable civilians, Al Qaeda likely has a ripe field for their recruitment drives. It was an oppressive regime before, but it's pretty questionable about whether or not their quality of life has been improved. You know, by being killed. By their liberators.

[AdmiralViscen]

Well, you can't expect peace without some war every now and then. Peace comes in different flavors; from the Utopian concept of world peace, to the more realistic option of stability and lessening of future conflicts. But you need to pave the ground, with explosives, before you can lay the foundation for that kind of real peace.

So your saying that Bush deserved a Nobel Peace Prize? 

So you support Bush now?

[duckman2000]

Well, you can't expect peace without some war every now and then. Peace comes in different flavors; from the Utopian concept of world peace, to the more realistic option of stability and lessening of future conflicts. But you need to pave the ground, with explosives, before you can lay the foundation for that kind of real peace.

So your saying that Bush deserved a Nobel Peace Prize? 

"He" didn't do any of that, though. If anything, I'd guess that the military actions during his regime has laid the groundwork for generations of regional warfare and global terrorism. Attempting to stabilize said bad situation, however, can certainly be considered a peace effort.

[Madrun Badrun]

From Hideo Kojima's blog

 

  President Obama, who declared 'A World Without Nuclear Weapons' in Prague, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Has the era at last started shifting? The start of the Peace Walker plan? I hope that comes to be.

    'Peace will not walk to you'

    'You must both walk towards one another.'

what an awesome plug.

[brawndolicious]

it is kind of ridiculous that they would give out a peace prize every year.  it makes sense for the science fields because there's always important things happening but how often is there a nelson mandela or a gandhi who is actually deserving of the peace prize?

You're an idiot.

Most of the people who get it are deserving of it but there's some major problems with giving one of these out every year.  For one, you have to look at the long-term effects of their actions which automatically disqualifies all those politicians who stopped fighting a war to get one (I guess that would also disqualify Barack from getting one this year).

Plus it gives a bad message that you have to decide on another person deserving of it every single calendar year.  Like it's a routine occurrence to have somebody who creates huge positive social changes.

[Himu]

From Hideo Kojima's blog

 

  President Obama, who declared 'A World Without Nuclear Weapons' in Prague, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Has the era at last started shifting? The start of the Peace Walker plan? I hope that comes to be.

    'Peace will not walk to you'

    'You must both walk towards one another.'

what an awesome plug.

Are you serious?!

[recursivelyenumerable]

Kojima next Nobel winner confirmed