Well written article, but I especially liked the title. VIN DIESEL!

Hey, Barry HO has been President NOT-George W Bush for 9 months, isn’t that enough?

Perhaps he’s in good company with Yassar and Jimmy and Al, but then they actually did DO something.

Neolib Obama must have talked these globaists into a premature orgasim. Time to wake up from the wet dream. They might as well have given the award to Dick Cheney, because I see no difference between the two.

who gives a shit about the Nobel prize anyway

I can’t believe the Nobel committee actually lowered their standards to give a prize to Obama. What has he done to earn it? He hasn’t accomplished a thing. The Muslim countries don’t want to work with him, western countries don’t think he’s a particularly effective leader and most of the folks who voted for him are starting to have second thoughts. Not that any of the above can rightfully complain, but apart from the ones who voted for McCain, the rest of us saw it coming. For as long as Democrats and Republicans maintain their two-party monopoly on politics, we’ll get more of the same no matter which party’s candidates we vote for. Next election, look to third parties. They’re not necessarily better, but the more competition, the harder they’ll all work to regain our trust and confidence.

Yes, he didnt deserve it but its not his fault for getting awarded something. Kissinger negotiating a retreat deserved it? i wouldnt give the nobel to much weight

He deserves it! He has inspired the whole world. The rest of the world is willing to work with him to ensure peace everywhere.He election was the only presidential election that affected the whorld in a positive way.No other event in history has done that.

According to Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who: “ during the preceding year […] shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”

“He deserves it! He has inspired the whole world. The rest of the world is willing to work with him to ensure peace everywhere.”

Yeah, Koolaid is known to produce a euphoric effect on the brain. Drink more!

“He election was the only presidential election that affected the whorld in a positive way.No other event in history has done that.”

LEARN TO TYPE, ASSHOLE!!!

The first paragraph has five ideas:

1) the similarity between the Obama, MLK Jr, Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat, and Mother Teresa 2) the accomplishments of MLK Jr. 3) the accomplishments of Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat 4) the accomplishments of Mother Theresa 5) the (lack of) accomplishments of Obama

Therefore, it should be five paragraphs. Someone, either the writer or the editor, needs to learn how to edit.

Sure, it’s a column, but 150 word paragraphs to start the story are not the way to draw in your readers. And any story of more than 700 words should have more than 7 paragraphs.

The first paragraph has five ideas:

1) the similarity between the Obama, MLK Jr, Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat, and Mother Teresa 2) the accomplishments of MLK Jr. 3) the accomplishments of Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat 4) the accomplishments of Mother Theresa 5) the (lack of) accomplishments of Obama

Therefore, it should be five paragraphs. Someone, either the writer or the editor, needs to learn how to edit.

Sure, it’s a column, but 150 word paragraphs to start the story are not the way to draw in your readers. And any story of more than 700 words should have more than 7 paragraphs.

The Nobel committee can give the prize to anyone they want, despite the opinion of some piss-ant nothing college student. I’m going to start a prize for whiny-ass Americans; you, right-wing media, and the Tea Baggers are on the top of my list. Get over it, get back to work.

I don’t think he got the Nobel as a hopeful thing, as in like “We are giving this to him because of what he says he is going to do” — which seems to be the way you’re interpreting it. Maybe I’m wrong but that seems to be what you’re saying.

I think he got the Nobel partly because of the way he is using his power: he is committed to uniting not just Americans but people around the world. This world-view has bothered some conservatives, for example, but it is what makes him worthy of a Nobel; he knows that the best homeland security is to promote peace and solidarity rather than hostility. And, as Andrew Sullivan put it, “He has already done more to heal the open wound between the West and Islam than anyone else on the planet.” He has undoubtedly changed the international climate for the better, and who else could have brought that about on such a scale?

But then there’s another reason why he got it, and I think this is the big reason. A commenter from reddit.com put it nicely: “This is a classic ploy by the Nobel Committee to shame the recipient into changing his behavior. I’ve seen this drama played out many times in my long life — someone who is obviously not a peacenik gets the Prize and feels tremendous pressure to live up to the honor.”

So, contrary to what you said, I don’t think it’s as simple as the Nobel committee awarding him under the hope and assumption that he’s going to do good things down the road; I don’t think it’s a naively preemptive award. What it is is a recognition of the change he’s brought so far; and a tactful means of holding a man who has such potential to positively change things, to a high principle and expectation.

As an American this makes me very happy. Yeah, it’s nice (or maybe not, everyone has their opinion) that he got such a big award. But it’s much nicer to know that, now, in the back of his mind, whenever he is making big decisions, he has to see those in light of being a Nobel peace prize recipient — and I’d like to think that Obama’s decisions will be affected for the better because of it.

I love how all of a sudden the media and the public act like they give a shit who wins this prize. Who won last year? The year before that? I highly doubt anyone could rattle off those names. And finally, it’s not like Obama went to Norway to campaign for the prize. He won, donated the money, and that’s that. Get over it.

8:26 AM, the comments about shaming the recipient into being more of a peacenik are really important. But if Obama is convinced by this prize to abandon the people of Afghanistan to civil war and reemerging theocracy, then shame on Obama and shame on the Nobel Committee.

It’s a bribe - they want Barry HO to engineer the decline of the USA.

Read this and weep:

Decline Is a Choice The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy. by Charles Krauthammer 10/19/2009

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/056lfnpr.asp

Of symbolic but also more concrete importance is the status of the dollar. The social democratic vision necessarily involves huge increases in domestic expenditures, most immediately for expanded health care. The plans currently under consideration will cost in the range of $1 trillion. And once the budget gimmicks are discounted (such as promises of $500 billion cuts in Medicare which will never eventuate), that means hundreds of billions of dollars added to the monstrous budgetary deficits that the Congressional Budget Office projects conservatively at $7 trillion over the next decade.

The effect on the dollar is already being felt and could ultimately lead to a catastrophic collapse and/or hyperinflation. Having control of the world’s reserve currency is an irreplaceable national asset. Yet with every new and growing estimate of the explosion of the national debt, there are more voices calling for replacement of the dollar as the world currency—not just adversaries like Russia and China, Iran and Venezuela, which one would expect, but just last month the head of the World Bank.

If you can win a Nobel Peace Prize for being in two different wars and considering sending more troops into one of those, then anyone can win the Nobel. I can’t believe that even people all the way in Europe went along with that whole “Hope and Change” thing. Can we trade the President’s prize for the 2016 Olympics in Chicago?

You forgot about the other Peace Prize winners, Yasser Arafat the terrorist and Jimmy Carter the terrorist appeaser.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a leftist ideology prize.

He hits the nail right on the head. The awarding of the prize to President Obama signifies the lack of importance of this previously venerable award

I wouldn’t have given it to him either, but all the hand wringing about it wreaks of Republican sour grapes.

I overheard two girls talking about it in a coffee shop on State Street this morning. One girl said “I wish I were in Canada now with all my mom’s relatives. I can’t believe the $hi++y state of affairs and the morons who voted for him, me included.”

While I wouldn’t be so harsh, I can see how many young people who voted for Obama are now disillusioned with his performance and the accolades he doesn’t deserve. Can we do that blue state secession thing now? That sounds like a lot of fun.

Vin Diesel gave a pretty oscar worthy performance in boiler room. Maybe you should have used someone else.

Vin Diesel gave a pretty oscar worthy performance in boiler room. Maybe you should have used someone else.