Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Um, for what??
I know this is a hijacked, lefty award, but don't they at least have to have accomplished something? Believe me, it's not sour grapes. Even Obama himself doesn't believe he earned it (if he really believed that, he'd turn it down) so what has he done to earn it? I'm not going to sit here and berate him on what he hasn't accomplished, on the broken campaign promises, which they all do, but don't the recipients of this Oscar for politicians have to have actually done something?
Now all you lefties out there, don't go all moonbat on me as usual, just tell me what has he (not to mention Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat) did to earn a peace prize. Carter facilitated the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Arafat blew people up (which is fitting, I suppose, since Alfred Nobel did invent dynamite) So what is President Obama's niche? I know the Norwegian Nobel committee is saying he won it, "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples." If that's the case, why didn't Ronald Reagan get one? Or Margaret Thatcher? Or Pope John John Paul II, or even Lech Wałęsa?
I guess he'll add this to his Grammy award (yep, in case you missed it, he got one of those too for Best Spoken Word for Audacity of Hope...on tape) I guess we'll just have to wait for his Olympic gold medal.
Look, I know he's made some pretty good sounding, if not empty-rhetoric-filled, speeches about international relations and trying to re-build America's so-called "broken image," and he's talking about peace. But he hasn't actually achieved any has he? Isn't he about to send about 40,000 more troops into Afghanistan? Isn't that a "surge?" One that he and the left will definitely embrace this time round and give full credit to, should it show any positive results. In other words, I know he is trying to facilitate peace with "hope and change," he just hasn't yet. And he won't by extending the hand of friendship to every despot and dictator that would cut off his hand the moment he reached out with it. He hasn't had any real good results with Iran now has he? French diplomats refused to shake his hand (not that that means much) and Sarkozy called him naive and, more or less, pompous. He hasn't really done much to discredit that opinion either. And don't think that he's the only world leader that thinks Obama is too young, inexperienced and is treated like a rock star.
And it's not just the right that are bewildered by this. There's praise and skepticism abound on both sides.
Even up here, our very own resident lefty, the Windsor Star's Karen Hall is befuddled.
I know this is a hijacked, lefty award, but don't they at least have to have accomplished something? Believe me, it's not sour grapes. Even Obama himself doesn't believe he earned it (if he really believed that, he'd turn it down) so what has he done to earn it? I'm not going to sit here and berate him on what he hasn't accomplished, on the broken campaign promises, which they all do, but don't the recipients of this Oscar for politicians have to have actually done something?
Now all you lefties out there, don't go all moonbat on me as usual, just tell me what has he (not to mention Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat) did to earn a peace prize. Carter facilitated the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Arafat blew people up (which is fitting, I suppose, since Alfred Nobel did invent dynamite) So what is President Obama's niche? I know the Norwegian Nobel committee is saying he won it, "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples." If that's the case, why didn't Ronald Reagan get one? Or Margaret Thatcher? Or Pope John John Paul II, or even Lech Wałęsa?
I guess he'll add this to his Grammy award (yep, in case you missed it, he got one of those too for Best Spoken Word for Audacity of Hope...on tape) I guess we'll just have to wait for his Olympic gold medal.
Look, I know he's made some pretty good sounding, if not empty-rhetoric-filled, speeches about international relations and trying to re-build America's so-called "broken image," and he's talking about peace. But he hasn't actually achieved any has he? Isn't he about to send about 40,000 more troops into Afghanistan? Isn't that a "surge?" One that he and the left will definitely embrace this time round and give full credit to, should it show any positive results. In other words, I know he is trying to facilitate peace with "hope and change," he just hasn't yet. And he won't by extending the hand of friendship to every despot and dictator that would cut off his hand the moment he reached out with it. He hasn't had any real good results with Iran now has he? French diplomats refused to shake his hand (not that that means much) and Sarkozy called him naive and, more or less, pompous. He hasn't really done much to discredit that opinion either. And don't think that he's the only world leader that thinks Obama is too young, inexperienced and is treated like a rock star.
And it's not just the right that are bewildered by this. There's praise and skepticism abound on both sides.
Even up here, our very own resident lefty, the Windsor Star's Karen Hall is befuddled.
posted by Northern Exposer at 00:12
2 Comments:
Thought you were American?
I think its time you concern yourself with your own communist country.
Canadian politics are boring, man. Have you ever sat through a session of the Canadian parliament? Snooze-fest. There's drama of course, but no juicy stuff. No meat and potatoes. It's too...proper.
And I wonder if you would ask your president the same? He should probably concern himself with his own country instaed of trying to be liked by the rest of the world. "I must be liked! I must be popular!" All at the expense of your national security. He seems to like to interfere in other countries affairs. Honduras ring a bell?
By the way, Canada is a socialist country. Please try and get it right.
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