Today’s Qs for O’s White House

Not sure how the Nobel prize will have any impact on his domestic stature. The majority of Republicans hold the Nobel committee in contempt already and consider them part of the liberal conspiracy that also includes all scientists, old Europe, Chavez, educated ‘elites’, Warren Buffet and reality. This award makes no difference domestically, but it does give America a bit bigger moral stick in international affairs.

clinics are being set up as we speak all over america to provide health services to republicans
and right wingers to help them deal with their blood pressure rising over the peace prize being awarded to Obama.
true to their commitment, Dems and Obama provide this medical service to all free of charge

“…and right wingers to help them deal with their blood pressure rising over the peace prize being awarded to Obama.”
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Are you kidding? Laughter is the best medicine and we’ve been having one huge belly laugh after another since this was announced!

Gotta agree with jennifer7, after spending the last 3 days fighting this swine flu thing, Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize award has given me a BIG MUCH NEEDED LAUGH AND WAS JUST THE MEDICINE I NEEDED…LOL…

Ruth Marcus, being less than magnanimous:
“’Mom!’ my 12-year-old yelled from the kitchen. “President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize!’
“I told her she had to be mistaken.
“This is ridiculous — embarrassing, even. I admire President Obama. I like President Obama. I voted for President Obama. But the peace prize? This is supposed to be for doing, not being — and it’s no disrespect to the president to suggest he hasn’t done much yet. Certainly not enough to justify the peace prize.
“‘Extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?’ ‘Captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future?’ Please. This turns the award into something like pee-wee soccer: everybody wins for trying.”

Nicholas Kristof, being less than magnanimous:
“So what do you think of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize? I’m nonplussed — I admire his efforts toward Middle East peace, but the prize still seems very premature. What has he done?
“Obama’s work on the Middle East, mostly through Senator Mitchell’s efforts, are sensible but haven’t produced any results yet. They certainly don’t match the intensive efforts that Bill Clinton made with his Middle East peace negotiations in the fall of 2000. Likewise, Obama’s efforts on nuclear disarmament/non-proliferation are important, but they are purely an aspiration. All the hard work is yet to come — and trying to renegotiate the NPT will be very hard indeed.
“In other areas, Obama has done little. He’s been largely absent on Sudan, Congo, Burma and global poverty and health issues, and doesn’t even have a USAID administrator….”

Well he did once bow to a tyrant that treats women like cattle.
That has to inspire somebody.

obamacrat…I believe this award was made more of political reasoning than that of true accomplishments…but even you statement stretches the bounds of good taste…

What is the reason for our unprovoked attack on the moon? Will the UN Security Council convene a meeting to discuss America’s naked aggression? Is Obama trying to start an interplanetary war?

The Nobel committee should be relieved that they will not be labeled racist like the IOC or anyone else that snubs Obama.
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Nonsense . . . again the right wing brings up race as an issue.

Humility is not the POTUS’ strong point.

Obama named “Bowler of the Year”. for 2010

David,
“The Republican National Committee has been less than magnanimous about this (The President winning the Nobel Peace Prize). The Democrats are now comparing their reaction to the Taliban. What do you think of that? And how does this complicate the domestic political situation for the president?”
The only thing Democrats are guilty of is pointing out the truth.
The Republicans act like pouting children once again. But their comments have been given the seal of approval from their feared and exalted defacto leader Rush Limbaugh: “I think that everybody is laughing. Our president is a worldwide joke. Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn’t deserve the award. Now that’s hilarious, that I’m on the same side of something with the Taliban, and that we all are on the same side as the Taliban.”
I think the more Republicans keep talking like this the more this complicates their “domestic political situation”. It’s all they have going on…mud slinging…talks of treason…the party of no…slowly but surely talking their way into irrelevance.
However, the Political Punch crew seems more interested in stirring the pot, inventing “domestic political situations”, looking for the mud and rarely calling out the Republicans on their constant hysterics and continue to treat their idea of the news like a high brow Drudge…kinda like Politico!

Gibbs: this announcement today represents not the achievements of one person, but the hopes of millions and millions throughout the world of the life and the world that they want to live in
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No. It actually represents the opinion of a small committee in Oslo.

If President Obama had a shred of integrity, he would decline this award, saying that it is premature. He won’t.

During election time we’ve come to accept that the banal nature of mankind will show itself. However, after the election is over, do we have to continue to rest in a bed of shameful meanness?
Will we be defined by what is the most vicious and mean-spirited parts of our nature? Will we be destroyed by foreign enemies, or will we implode by our own divisiveness?
We let issues be the arena that define our venom. Really, though, we don’t care about the issues: we care about being destructive. We want to destroy each other. And we’re not satisfied until someone’s meat is served up on the platter for the dinner of our conceit. Our conceit is simply grounded in the belief that we can overpower “them.” This never-ending need to overpower is rooted at soul level.
But “Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 18 :16) Pride bares within itself the seeds of destruction.
Issues are straw men to prop up the fight. When one set of issues goes away, another set will emerge, but the fight goes on.
How much better it would be to find within ourselves that part that is capable of love. There resides within all of us an energy that is capable of embracing that which is different from itself. That energy does not simply embrace that which is different, it values that which is different. In fact it is the fusion of life’s yin and yang that create the very life force itself. Within the cloak of sameness, differentness must be found in order for the life force to manifest itself. When we can embrace another’s struggle to find something of our own, then new creation emerges.
If we could learn this life principle, then we [and all nations] could “… beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Micah 4:3)

There go the French, acting like Republicans again:
“Obama meritait-il le prix Nobel de la paix 2009?
Oui – 30%
Non – 70%”
(Le Figaro)

…Rush Limbaugh: “…we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn’t deserve the award. Now that’s hilarious, that I’m on the same side of something with the Taliban, and that we all are on the same side as the Taliban.”
Posted by: Patrick in Chicago | Oct 9, 2009 4:40:11 PM
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Well, the depth of the true colors, of the leaders of the Republican Party finally comes out.
Or did it?
Could it be that there is something even more sinister resides deep in hearts and souls of Limbaugh, Beck and the like?…you bet there is!
These people hate humanity. They want nothing less than total domination over other humans.
They hate the ‘Teachings of Jesus Christ’. They hate Jesus himself.
This is clear to anyone who has studied the relatively few ‘Spoken Words of Jesus’ and compares them to the ‘statements and actions’ of the far-right Republicans.
The Republican philosophy, platform, and preferred way of life are exactly ‘anti-Christ’. They are ‘anti-Christ-ian’ in the purest sense of the word!
And the far-right…well as we can see, they are like ‘Satan Incarnate’!
Why do we know this?…Because Satan hates the ‘Teachings of Jesus’ AND Jesus as much as they do!

There was a lot said yesterday. I think reasonable cases can be made for different positions– that the award was premature and needs to be earned in the future, that the award involved politics and a weighing in on America during the Bush/Cheney years, and that the award was deserved by President Obama, as surprising as it was, and makes a lot of sense given his vision and his role as an idealistic yet pragmatic game changer on the world stage. I also think the statements put out by both the RNC and DNC were over the top, but I really liked this the entry regarding the prize from Juan Cole at his Informed Comment blog. Here’s an excerpt–
“The Right in the US objected to Obama getting the peace prize on the alleged grounds that he had not yet done anything to deserve it. But the Right in the United States is to peace as velociraptors were to vegetarianism. They don’t believe in the ideal for which the award stands in the first place. And they find President Obama laughable, so they can’t imagine him getting any awards. They have underestimated him badly and will probably pay a price for that. They misunderstand the Nobel Peace Prize and its history…”
Read the whole thing as well as Andrew Sullivan’s blog on the topic (“All over the world”
“But the Right in the United States is to peace as velociraptors were to vegetarianism– ” that cracks me up. So true!