Alfred Nobel must be spinning in his grave

As if the rich Texas-style BBQ I had last night didn't put me close to indigestion, this little bit of news put me over the top. Time to hurl. Keep bucket by side, etc.

By all historical notes, as well as his poetry, Alfred Nobel was quite the social liberal. He was a practical man, though, and he WOULD NOT have understood giving the Peace Prize to someone who has done nothing, nada, to promote peace from ANY perspective, left or right.

Let's list Obama's "peace accomplishments" (not a long list):

Israel/Mid-east: Bowed to the Saudi King (a despot). No other President had done that. Jawboned Israel to stop building in the Captured Territories. Ho Hum, all Presidents, left and right, have done that. Said he would talk to Iran's President I'm-a-regular-ding-dong (a despot), then threatened him with Dire Consequences over nukes (which are almost ready, according to IAEA). Ho-hum, all Presidents have made such threats. Bribed Kim Jong Il (a despot) to release a couple of Algore's snoopy reporters. All recent Presidents have bribed Kimmy, no big deal there, either. Is reducing troop strength in Iraq. No big deal, we won that war, it's time to bring them home anyway. Held off of his General's request for more troops to the Afghan war (when he heard that he was being considered for the Peace Prize, I'm sure). Big deal, the man wants to shrink the military to insignificance anyway.

Did I forget anything? MAYBE lying about his birth status to gain the position he "won" the Peace Prize for? MAYBE telling the Committee he would do ANYTHING to get the damn prize to shore up his falling prospects here in the USA?

Well, one thing is for sure. The Peace Prize Committee can REALLY pick 'em. First Jimmah Cahtuh and now Barack Hussein Obama. Oh, and the linked Wiki said that the Committee gave the Prize to Alfred Nobel's lover in 1905, presumably for her convincing of Nobel to fund the Peace Prize, showing the bought-and-paid-for nature of the Prize for the past century.

Carter and Obama, now there's a pair to REALLY draw to, and hope you pull a pair of treys, so you can say you had a winning hand.

Can you imagine the dismay of any ACTUAL peace-bringers who might have been nominated and then passed over for this fool?

I should laugh, but I can't, and the real reason I can't is that this mistake proves that Obama-grade idiocy is present all around the world.

It's not of real consequence, except that Obama-mania will now resurface, just in time for the loudest idiots to claim they won the hearts and minds for the complete conversion to Socialism that the idiot world desires for the USA.

Comments

[Poppy]

Hilarious. Alfred Nobel was a 'social liberal'. And you, apparently a hard-core right wing nut job, know what he (as a social liberal) would and would not approve of.

I think the fact that YOU disagree probably means Alfred would be perfectly happy with this award.

I notice that you also have not been paying attention to Obama's accomplishments on the peace front. For one, he diffused what was being described last year as a "new Cold War" with Russia, but mostly scrapping the missile-base plans of Bush for Eastern Europe. Russia since canceled missile deployments near the Polish border.

Also, Obama was encouraging reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey for the last year. Guess which countries just signed a landmark peace deal?

I could easily list another dozen accomplishments, but clearly nothing will change your mind anyway.