Try here or here for starters (admittedly lefty sites so you are forewarned).
http://mediamatters.org/press/releases/200910090019
It is recommended to watch the video for the full effect.
No one ever offers me two women! ![]()
Do the Freeptards count? (I hope they don’t represent the RW’s majority, but not with much optimism.)
You are absolutely right.
I disagree. I think it was terribly easy for people over here who didn’t particularly care about US politics to look around and observe that it was safe to criticise Bush, because everybody else was doing it. It required no courage at all.
Again, I’m not saying that the criticism wasn’t justified. I just don’t like how it has become orthodoxy round here, to the extent that they’re giving prizes to people just for being not-Bush.
You’re right, Bricker. You’re absolutely right. The presence of accomplishments is what matters. It doesn’t matter if they’re towards peace or war, as long as they’re certainly accomplishments. I have to say, given that metric, Henry Kissinger deserved his Nobel Prize far more than, say, Aung San Suu Kyi. After all, she’s done nothing more than lead a movement, give a few speeches, and get put under house arrest for a few years.
Limbaugh agrees with the Taliban and Iran in saying President Obama did not deserve the award
He says “we” several times during his tirade. Who’s he speaking for, Scylla?
Nobel Peace Prize, Big Picture: World breathes a sigh of relief after Bush’s quasi-dictatorship almost leads to WW-III* and welcomes with open arms both the US at large and its current CIC who appears very much headed in the opposite direction – the intent alone is worthy of the prize.
Well played, Scandinavians. Never knew you could drop such a devastating bomb with a Peace Prize.
Live and learn.
::::ducks 'ploding wingnut heads::::
*slight hyperbole for same impaired.
Plus you forgot "Hussein’. Mustn’t EVER forget the ‘Hussein’. Many lolz for roly-poly right-knobs! ![]()
Right knobs, right knobs
Roly-poly right knobs!
Right knobs, right knobs,
Beat 'em up, fun!
Re: the “Obama is Messiah” meme (redux):
I do. I’m in America. That’s what I’m criticizing. I’m already sick of hearing it, and it’s only been about 12 hours since he snagged the thing.
How many other countries do you know of that have a president named “Obama?” I mean, besides Kenya.
So is the latest bullshit that Obama only won because of Affirmative Action?
It’s self-refuting to say that he has accomplished nothing but being elected President of the United States and winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
For anybody who does hate Obama, there’s a bright side to this: there really aren’t any honors left for him, so if you think he’s just in it for the adulation, nothing’s going to top this. He’s won two Grammys, been elected president, was Time’s Person of the Year for 2008, and now he’s won the Nobel Peace Prize. Even if he wins an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and follows it up by being named Playmate of the Year, it’s an anticlimax.
Putting myself in the shoes of a fringe leftists that still makes roughly as much sense as giving the first post-Hitler German leader a prize for being…not Hitler.
While I’m absolutely bewildered as to why Obama won the Peace Prize, I’m going to simply assume that it is a reflection of how a committee of the Storting views the world, and I see no point in getting bent out of shape one way or the other.
Right, which is often the case for Nobel Peace Prizes. Also, for the record, Obama has been working on nuclear disarmament for years.
The award has been given before to a person just for their suffering, according to the head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
I see no explosions. Some laughter, like I said.
Me, in this. I listened to it live. He was laughing his ass off, Obama, being the big unifier finally found something that Republicans, the Taliban, and Iran could all agree on.