Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

[Chemical Ollie]

I intend to write a book within the next decade. Based on this, I expect to get the Literature price next year.

I have some good ideas on my job. Based on this, I hope to get the Chemistry price next year.

I know how to fix the economy - hey stupids, don't waste money on crap! Now I expect to get the Economy price as well.

My wife has great boobs. That should earn me the Physics price.

I have stopped beating my wife - that should be awarded with the peace price!

I'm drunk - does that earn me the Medicine price or what? Why else does it exist?

Damn - I'm going for a Nobel Grand Slam 2010!

As you will understand from the above, I don't approve giving the price to Obama. It's way to early. Getting elected is just not enough, you are actually expected to do something to deserve a Nobel Price! Obama got the award for "Not being Bush", which is really ridiculous.

[Zkribbler]

You either love him, or you're a racist.

You either love him or you're an idiot. There's a difference. There are many idiots who are not racist. I imagine you're one of them.

It's very entertaining watching Obama-bashers running in circles while chewing their own legs off in anger over this. My favorite so far is Kuci calling Obama's very humble acceptance speech arrogant. Kuci lives in a bizarro world where up is down, war is peace, poverty is riches, and oppression is opportunity.

[Drake Tungsten]

It's even more entertaining watching you call other people idiots.

[Wezil]

"anger"?

I find it amusing.

[Drake Tungsten]

It's better than amusing. It's comedy gold.

[Wezil]

It's old hat for the Nobel committee (Arafat and Kissinger have already removed any meaning from the award) but it is very amusing watching zkribbler try to argue it was somehow deserved.

*Disclaimer: I'm not even an "Obama hater"

[BlackCat]

Actually, yes. The meme of "omg look i'm ignoring stupid people!" is tired, combative, and mean-spirited. Leave it out of your posts if you want to keep posting.

Nah, let the child keep his play. It's actually quite funny to answer his "I don't read your posts" because he really can't answer no matter what is written.

Putting someone on ignore can be reasonable, but displaying it is idiotic

[Guynemer]

I was at work all day, from 8A to 8P, talking parents down from the ledge of complete bat**** insanity when I diagnosed their respective children with the flu.

This is the first I've seen of this. This is a joke, right? This has Onion written all over it.

[Drake Tungsten]

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1929504,00.html

[DaShi]

God bless America!

[Solomwi]

I almost want to click on zkribby's posts just to see how stupid they are.

No, you don't. Not this time.

[MrFun]

I must admit that it is refreshing to see that most of Obama's supporters here recognize this for the silliness that it is.

Yeah - I cannot find any solid justification for Obama receiving this award.

[Zkribbler]

It's old hat for the Nobel committee (Arafat and Kissinger have already removed any meaning from the award) but it is very amusing watching zkribbler try to argue it was somehow deserved.

*Disclaimer: I'm not even an "Obama hater"

More precisely, I was responding to those who said Obama had done nothing. And I was explaining the Committee's position.

Obama has changed the entire tenor of U.S. foreign policy from saber-rattling to diplomacy, from self-centered hegemonism to multilateral mutual respect. This has provided an atmoshere in which the Iranians and the North Koreans feel it will be productive to return to negotiations. He has lessened tensions with Russia, which had been threatening to blossom into a new Cold War. He has changed the U.S. policy on climate change.

Do I think this is enough for him to deserve the Peace Prize? No. Does Obama think this enough from him to deserve the Pleace Prize? No. He said he'd accept the prize "as a call to action."

He's laid the groundwork for great advances for peace. He's built the foundations. And those things alone are real steps forward towards peace. But now the real work begins.

[SpencerH]

It may have been previously mentioned, but I'm pretty sure (from snippets I've overheard at various times and places) that the medicine Nobel winners know beforehand. That being said, 1) why the pretense over the surprise and 2) why not turn the thing down? If he does anything for world peace at some point in the future then he may actually deserve one but for now its a ****ing joke (that he's the brunt of).

[KrazyHorse]

It would look unappreciative/rude to actually turn it down. His acceptance speech, as it was, seems to strike a decent tone (embarrassed and acknowledging that he doesn't deserve the prize, but finding something positive to say about it)