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Well I think it's smart, this will make it hard for going at war for Obama after he received this price.

I thought this surely had to be from the Onion.

Proost wrote:

Well I think it's smart, this will make it hard for going at war for Obama after he received this price.

It'd be hard for him to do that, anyway, if only for lack of funds.

He's eight months into his first term. This is ridiculous. Nobel Peace Prizes have always had a political aftertaste, but this is nothing but a gratuitous jab at the Bush administration. They might as well have issued a press release saying, "we never liked GW Bush. You're not getting our prize. Nah-nah-nanah-nah."

I'm sure Obama will feel obliged to declare this a great honour. It isn't. It's an insult to him, too.

.tsooJ

An especially crazy detail about this: the deadline for nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize is February 1st, which means he was only president for about a week and a half when his name was submitted.

Its like those cannucks in DOA said: Talk Minus Action = Nobel Peace Prize.

Except Obama aint just no action- that guy increased military spending beyond Bush's budget and called enough air strikes that even the military got concerned of the death rates of targets versus civilians in the body counts.

Hey, winning the Nobel aint no big thing if you got cool hope posters and stuff.

Alien wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

An especially crazy detail about this: the deadline for nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize is February 1st, which means he was only president for about a week and a half when his name was submitted.

Oh, I'll bet every US president gets nominated every year.

.tsooJ

Hm, fair point.

Weren't there rumours that Dubya got nominated?

I made a joke about it elsewhere but I'm already finding people posting this is a sign he's the antichrist.
A few call it the lefty of the moment award.

In general though, most people seem to just think it's wrong and too soon since he's basically done nothing deserving it.

KHannon wrote:

Farmerkev wrote:

In general though, most people seem to just think it's wrong and too soon since he's basically done nothing deserving it.

Yup.  It is just SILLY.  And from a political perspective I think it merely highlights the lack of real progress he has made in his agenda.

I also think it highlights just how horrific the Bush years were.

I hope hope hope he doesn't accept this thing. As usual I hate that the foam-at-the-mouth righties are setting the agenda, but let's face it, this is going to send them into collective psychosis.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

KHannon wrote:

Farmerkev wrote:

In general though, most people seem to just think it's wrong and too soon since he's basically done nothing deserving it.

Yup.  It is just SILLY.  And from a political perspective I think it merely highlights the lack of real progress he has made in his agenda.

I also think it highlights just how horrific the Bush years were.

I hope hope hope he doesn't accept this thing. As usual I hate that the foam-at-the-mouth righties are setting the agenda, but let's face it, this is going to send them into collective psychosis.

While I appreciate the reflexive jab at the right, the left posters here so far haven't thought much of it either.
Can you honestly say your opinion of him won't go down if he accepts it?

Also, ACORN

StaticAge wrote:

Talk Minus Action = Nobel Peace Prize.

There is no Nobel prize for math.
Now we know why.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Update: apparently he's gonna accept it.

Goddammit.

This is what political posturing smells like, isn't it? Saw on /b/ first thing this morning and on the way to work while listening to NPR there was some EU leader simultaneously praising Obama while saying "it carries responsibility for future decisions". This is seriously a strong-arm and the administration is falling for it. GAH