Is this a joke? My answer would be Aung San Suu Kyi.
The list of nominees is a secret. Those are just people who are believed to have been nominated.
For what? Being a prisoner? Anybody can be a prisoner.
Geez the Republicans cannot et out of their own way. When our President gets awarded the Nobel Peace Prize it is a moment of great pride, or should be. But not if it is Obama…
That’s from the RNCC. Now as citizen’s I think it is ok if folks want to question it. But to mock the selection and to demean the award for political purposes is just bad form. Kind of like cheering when the USA gets dumped by the IOC because you want to portray it as an Obama failure.
They should just shut up, really.
The Weekly Standard is a right wing fish wrap anyway.
How about Stephen Colbert? 
Uh.
This is a phenomenally stupid thing to say, even for you.
Edited because I violated the rules. Either way, Dio, that’s an extremely shitty thing to say – go to hell.
If you’re talking to me-she helped found the democratic movement in her country and refused to leave even after she was offered the chance for freedom. Since 1989. She lost her husband while sitting in prison and hasn’t seen her children in years. She’s a living symbol of ahimsa, Diogenes. And no, there aren’t very many people that can do that, actually.
But seriously, go ahead and mock her. It just reflects on you.
Hey, it turns out she already won-and used the money to establish a non-profit to help people. While in prison. That’s awesome.
The black guy with the hot wife with the bangin’ booty and the mean underbite?
And y’all call me crazy? At my worst I don’t come anywhere near this level of detachment from reality.
Dio, you are motherfucking nuts.
It is rather telling, I think, that in the space of two weeks the Republicans have both cheered the fact that America won’t be hosting the Olympics *and *protested an American President winning the Nobel.
It would be cool for me to add it to my resume, along with winning Time’s Person of the Year a few years back.
Run along.
I’m not an American, and don’t care all that much about the partisan politics of America, but to my mind this prize is doing no favours to Obama politically.
Reason is simple: the greater the expectations, the greater the dissapointment if he fails to live up to them.
Right now, it would be a great accomplishment merely to be a 'caretaker" president, successfully navagating the grave economic, domestic and foriegn policy challenges facing America and the world today without making things worse than they are. Giving him the Nobel prize feeds into the expectation that he’ll do more than that. If he fails to, I suspect many will feel that they have been sold a bill of goods, that Obama is fine with the speeches and charisma but short on substance.
I’m not of course talking about the batshit crazy partisan hacks that think he’s the devil himself, but of the swing type voters he’ll need for a second term.
Of course none of this will matter unless the Republicans get their shit together and offer a real challenger, so far no signs of that. Nor, unfortunately, are there any signs of Obama having the skill that seems to matter most in a US president once he’s actually elected - the ability to charm, bamboozle, and threaten a fractious Congress into actually getting important stuff done.
But with fewer musical numbers.
He’s always like that after he sniffs his mother’s panties.
I didn’t mock her. I asked what’s she done to promote world peace. She a political prisoner. What has her imprisonment done to promote world peace?
That, and this year’s list of nominees had a record of 205 names, out of which 33 were organizations.