Barack Hussein Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize
For a variety of reasons including thunder and rain keeping me awake tonight, I didn’t have time to prepare anything for tonight. I keep a few prepared items for such circumstances. Tonight, one of those items. I also received two more comments which I hope to answer soon.
“Obama is just as deserving of the Cy Young Award
Posted: October 10, 2009
By John Biver
The challenge in writing humor or fiction is that real life is so much more amusing and dramatic than anything our imaginations can muster. Clear-thinking, non-political Americans are now challenged with trying to figure out why Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
He has accomplished as much for peace as he has on the baseball diamond as a pitcher. Watch him throw out the first pitch at last summer’s All Star game (advance to the 40 second mark and be sure to rewind and watch it a number of times). To learn about the Cy Young Award, by the way, click here.
No doubt most people reacted with the same puzzlement witnessed by many in the media—I’ve listed some of the more entertaining reactions below. Matt Drudge ran this link with a quote:
White House Aide: ‘It’s Not April 1st, Is It?’...
The Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry blog renamed the award the ‘The Nobel Intentions Award.’ Drudge’s website also ran these headlines and quotes:
MIXED REVIEWS; ‘EMBARRASSING JOKE’...
PAPER: This makes mockery of peace prize...
Lech Walesa: ‘Too early. He has no contribution so far’...
Oslo ‘political endorsement’...
Drudge’s large, main headline certainly expressed the reaction of billions of people around the globe:
‘FOR WHAT’?
My sister Roseanne Biver made an excellent observation about Obama—‘this is how his entire life has gone.’ That is so true. He hasn’t accomplished anything except winning political office—and his two biggest victories were aided by a lot of luck.
1) Because of the dysfunction of the Illinois GOP, U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald steps down.
2) News leaks out about Blair Hull being accused of kicking his wife and his U.S. Senate campaign collapses just before the 2004 Democratic Party primary.
3) Then, Illinois Republicans can’t even field a sane, credible candidate—to run against him in the general election.
4) Obama gives what is in my opinion a silly speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and he becomes a national celebrity.
5) Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff doesn’t think the caucus states are worth their time causing Team Obama to narrowly defeat Team Clinton.
6) In a nation of over 300 million people, Republicans nominate John McCain for president and then he hires a fatally flawed campaign team.
The video of Rush Limbaugh’s opening monologue about this Nobel Prize is worth a few minutes of your time—it’s posted here. Later in the show, Rush said that ‘the Obama administration is turning into an idiot reality TV show’ much like the Ozzie Osborne show was a few years ago.
A Reuters wire story included this:
‘It would be wonderful if I could think why he won,’ said Claire Sprague, 82, a retired English professor as she walked her dog in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. ‘They wanted to give him an honor I guess, but I can’t think what for.’
Old Claire spoke for many people.
The London based Times Online ran a commentary piece with this headline:
‘Absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize’
Click here and watch one commentator from overseas address the embarrassing nature of the award.
Enough said. Except this—after Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, Michelle Obama was asked what she thought of all the talk about him running for president. Her answer still applies, it’s prophetic, and it’s worth watching again:
VIDEO: ‘He hasn’t done anything yet.’
John Biver is the Editor of Champion News.”
I wonder if the people who awarded the Prize to him would have done so if they had known that he was not going to immediately pull our troops out of Iraq (instead following the withdrawal timeline determined by President Bush and the Iraq government) and was going to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan.
For a variety of reasons including thunder and rain keeping me awake tonight, I didn’t have time to prepare anything for tonight. I keep a few prepared items for such circumstances. Tonight, one of those items. I also received two more comments which I hope to answer soon.
“Obama is just as deserving of the Cy Young Award
Posted: October 10, 2009
By John Biver
The challenge in writing humor or fiction is that real life is so much more amusing and dramatic than anything our imaginations can muster. Clear-thinking, non-political Americans are now challenged with trying to figure out why Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
He has accomplished as much for peace as he has on the baseball diamond as a pitcher. Watch him throw out the first pitch at last summer’s All Star game (advance to the 40 second mark and be sure to rewind and watch it a number of times). To learn about the Cy Young Award, by the way, click here.
No doubt most people reacted with the same puzzlement witnessed by many in the media—I’ve listed some of the more entertaining reactions below. Matt Drudge ran this link with a quote:
White House Aide: ‘It’s Not April 1st, Is It?’...
The Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry blog renamed the award the ‘The Nobel Intentions Award.’ Drudge’s website also ran these headlines and quotes:
MIXED REVIEWS; ‘EMBARRASSING JOKE’...
PAPER: This makes mockery of peace prize...
Lech Walesa: ‘Too early. He has no contribution so far’...
Oslo ‘political endorsement’...
Drudge’s large, main headline certainly expressed the reaction of billions of people around the globe:
‘FOR WHAT’?
My sister Roseanne Biver made an excellent observation about Obama—‘this is how his entire life has gone.’ That is so true. He hasn’t accomplished anything except winning political office—and his two biggest victories were aided by a lot of luck.
1) Because of the dysfunction of the Illinois GOP, U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald steps down.
2) News leaks out about Blair Hull being accused of kicking his wife and his U.S. Senate campaign collapses just before the 2004 Democratic Party primary.
3) Then, Illinois Republicans can’t even field a sane, credible candidate—to run against him in the general election.
4) Obama gives what is in my opinion a silly speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and he becomes a national celebrity.
5) Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff doesn’t think the caucus states are worth their time causing Team Obama to narrowly defeat Team Clinton.
6) In a nation of over 300 million people, Republicans nominate John McCain for president and then he hires a fatally flawed campaign team.
The video of Rush Limbaugh’s opening monologue about this Nobel Prize is worth a few minutes of your time—it’s posted here. Later in the show, Rush said that ‘the Obama administration is turning into an idiot reality TV show’ much like the Ozzie Osborne show was a few years ago.
A Reuters wire story included this:
‘It would be wonderful if I could think why he won,’ said Claire Sprague, 82, a retired English professor as she walked her dog in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. ‘They wanted to give him an honor I guess, but I can’t think what for.’
Old Claire spoke for many people.
The London based Times Online ran a commentary piece with this headline:
‘Absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize’
Click here and watch one commentator from overseas address the embarrassing nature of the award.
Enough said. Except this—after Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, Michelle Obama was asked what she thought of all the talk about him running for president. Her answer still applies, it’s prophetic, and it’s worth watching again:
VIDEO: ‘He hasn’t done anything yet.’
John Biver is the Editor of Champion News.”
I wonder if the people who awarded the Prize to him would have done so if they had known that he was not going to immediately pull our troops out of Iraq (instead following the withdrawal timeline determined by President Bush and the Iraq government) and was going to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan.
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