One created the Interweb and the other took months to decide what type of puppy to get.
I for one am glad that the Nobel Foundation has relaxed their standards when it comes to the Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine if they had to wait around for someone like Gandhi or MLK to show up. They’d be stuck with a bunch of medals and millions of dollars in prize-money.
The headline on www.nobelprize.org says
“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
So apparently they are just giving people prizes for trying. Since when did the Nobel Foundation start taking their cues from afterschool sports activities where everyone is a winner just for participating?
I suppose they can’t really be blamed for being in awe of President Obama; they must have contrasted his contribution with George Bush’s heroic accomplishments.
I can’t wait to see Time’s ‘Person of the Year’. Maybe they’ll pick me—I have tried really hard not to be a prick over the past year.
So the Nobel Commission has merged with the Special Olympics.
That is so funny! Can I borrow that? I will tonight. Thanks for the laugh in the middle of this insanity!
EXACTLY! XD
Exactly my thoughts.
WHy award him when he has yet to achieve? How strange . . .
It’s amazing how many people get their panties in a twist over a symbolic piece of metal that means next to nothing.
It only means next to nothing once it has been given out like “party favors”!
this just in: USC awared the national championship based on how they might play the rest of the season. brilliant!
This year’s Nobel Prize ceremony was hosted by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith with an appearance from Toby Keith. Enough said.
It’s funny how everyone is taking the comments of those questioning the Nobel Foundations choice as an attack against Obama. Sharp!
My thoughts exactly. I find it hilarious that half the people who comment on your articles miss the point in your sarcasm entirely…
I heard this on the radio this morning and thought the same thing. The radio announcer actually stumbled over her words when she recited the mumbo-jumbo translating to: “Obama’a being awarded for things he’s planning to achieve.”
I think the real question is what took so long for them to give him the Nobel Peace Prize? Obama had been the first Black president for almost 9 months before someone finally worked up the courage to give him a Nobel Peace Prize. Remember when Notre Dame was too afraid to give him a Nobel Peace Prize? It’s good to see that someone has finally recognized all the important work Obama has done. Just think, Obama will get the Nobel Peace Prize again next year if he picks another supreme court justice! In the words of a certain beer commercial: BRILLIANT!
Funny how Obama has done more in half a year than the Republicants have done….well…. period.
That’s not true. It takes a lot of work to start 2 un-winnable wars, betray our constitutional values (such as not torturing), and demolish the economy the entire economy all within the span of a single decade. The republicans have done way more for America (well actualy TO America) than Obama has ever done.
correction: destroy the economy of the entire world
WITNESS!!! ROFLMAO
hahahaha. This is the best. I have to admit. For the sake of democracy.
Jenmeister – The Smiths are hosting a concert event the day after the award ceremony, not the actual ceremony itself. Still ridiculous though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates
An amazing list of humans!
Ghandi for two years after he died it was not given out
MLK 1964
HE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE ****** ***** INSTEAD OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.
(Edited for idiotic language)
Come on now. As much as I agree that Obama doesn’t deserve the Nobel Prize, that’s just tasteless and, frankly, disgusting. Even if he hasn’t saved the world, he still deserves a baseline level of respect.
@CAPTAHAB
It’s really nice to see that you didn’t miss the fact that the post is in no way critical of Obama.
I can’t believe the Web Master left this sick comment on the page .
This goes beyond normal sarcasm; and I feel dirty even responding to the racist douchebag who wrote it.
I can’t believe the Web Master left this sick comment on the page. This goes beyond normal sarcasm; and I feel dirty even responding to the racist douchebag who wrote it.
* Talking to CAPTAHAB- there was a glitch that made my comment go to the wrong person. Sorry
Amazing how a troop surge wins you a peace prize..next year’s winner… the Tailban
I really enjoy your plight to make an insult, but in turn you make a fool of yourself..
I think you meant Taliban.
I’m assuming you have never made a typo then trevor? Never ever not even ONCE!! How good for you! =]
Maybe we should give YOU a nobel prize then hey?
if you can do better, step up otherwise shut up.
I don’t have to do better, I just have to try better :D
Thus far, I rather like Obama. Not that I’m hugely affected, being in the UK. But it’s premature, to say the least, giving him a Nobel Prize this early on in his presidency.
I wonder if they’ll take it away, if he fails to achieve all his aims by the end of his term?
“No, Mr President, you have to give it back. You promised everyone but now you’ve gone and acted like a pin in a balloon factory…”
“who should we give it to this year?”
“lets give it to obama”
“why?”
“hes the first black president”
“well that makes sence i guess..”
what the hell hs he done thats so great for the world? now if he fully pulls every trooper out of iraq , then i might consider it an act of peace or science..
and by trivial knowledge, the Nobel prize for physics is a tie between the clowns from Myth Busters and Leonard and Sheldon from Big Bang Theory!
Impressive, 1 flame war, 2 hours. You definitely deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for that. Maybe we can all share it? ;)
Oh, and BTW, chances are this was a political ploy to “encourage” Obama to make good on his promise to pull all the troops out, and the 1.4mil dollars attached I’m sure wouldn’t help his re-election fund…
For clarification, whether you like him or not, here is what Bush had done in the same time frame as Obama has had so far.
June 7: Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
September 18: Authorization for Use of Military Force
September 28: United States-Jordan Free Trade Area Implementation Act
October 7: Deployed to Afghanistan
On the 7th day, God Rested, and on the 11th, Obama that savior lifted his face to the heavens, and announced “It is Done! For thine pleasure, I proclaim that there shall be world peace, and the wondrous creature called ‘The American’ Shall lead the world to the light of prosperity through socialistic redirection… Now where’s my damn Nobel prize, cause I, Obama The Savior is here!!!”
You’re just upset his PR is still higher than Bush’s was.
Hahaha, whoever said the popular thing to do and the right thing to do were the same?
Umm in a democracy, the popular thing trumps the right thing. Otherwise, it could be a theocracy.
as our sucky public schools like to say, “No child(president) left behind.”
awww here you go obama, here’s a gold star for trying to make a poo-poo
good article sarcasmist. Once more, I completely agree with your statement, and it’s nice to see an example of witty comedy after the storm of cultural refuse Hollywood has been sending at us. Anyways, I can’t wait for the next post. Keep up the good work.
Amazing. Obama continues the policies of the Bush Administration (check out his policies on the war in Iraq and Federal bailouts; Bush had the same time frame and tried to push a bailout through Congress before the end of his term), tries to socalize medicine in the last industrialized first world nation where a person is partially free to choose their own health plan, and ‘talks’ to Russia about reducing nuclear weapons.
For all of that he gets the title of savior and is awarded the Nobel Prize for peace. Shit is f**ked up.
You’re an idiot. First of all, you don’t know what socialism is. Probably because you’re an American, who are pitifully ignorant regarding the world outside their immediate driving distance, history, and philosophy. Can you tell me the difference between Marxism, Communism, and Socialism? Chances are you think they’re “pretty much the same.” Jackass. Second of all, your values aren’t everyone’s — I consider torture and the Patriot Act wrong; utterly, inexcusably wrong and betrayals of the values America was founded upon. Third of all, millions of Americans have no “free choice” *snort* regarding their health insurance. In fact, most Americans have little to no choice on a practical level. I have my insurance because it’s the one my job offers. I can’t get anything else because I have asthma and my medicines cost approximately $1,500 a month. Thank the fundamentalist Christian god I have the right to suffocate. Patriotic Americans like yourself would rather condemn millions to suffer than undertake health care reform, because apparently health care reform is inherently socialist. What makes for-profit companies so trustworthy? Do you realize the anti-health-care reform backlash is orchestrated by lobbyists for the industry? What do youyou care if the multi-billion dollar insurance companies might have to extend coverage to people with pre-existing conditions? Evidently the only offensive thing in America is the government interfering in the free market, because it’s socialist. When a lack of government regulation results in a return of the fuckin Robber Barons! Gee, I wonder who it is that finds that so threatening. And the ignorant of America, who I fear are the majority, fall right in line with the self-serving rhetoric of the oligarchy.
Anon, if that is your real name, please don’t lump all Americans into the same pot as ignorant , burger eating orgie throwers who don’t know the difference between Marxism, Communism, et al. We can Google that shit just as easily as you can, but we chose not to. We chose not to because Democracy kicked their asses and we don’t have to commit those failed governments to memory.
It is a shame your job doesn’t cover your asthma meds and while you were probably having an attack when you wrote your reply (evident by your lack of 02), be thankful you aren’t in a socialized medical system like the one Obama is trying to hustle on us.
But please, don’t cry about you not having choices and being so dramatic about suffocating as the only alternative you have. The choices may not always be pretty but they are there.
Being australian, I simply don’t understand how you STILL haven’t got a proper healthcare system. No seriously, how? I’m asthmatic and my medication costs me 5 dollars a month, oh wait I lie, 5.80 a month.
When I go to the doctors, its free. When I get blood tests and scans, its free. When I go to hospital I dont need cash or insurance because, you’ll never guess what! ITS FREE! And I can not fathom how a country with as much power as america still has one of the WORST health care systems in the world!
Can someone enlighten me? I wasnt babbling for no reason its just, I genuinely don’t understand. Oh and if you attempt to be condescending I shall just laugh whilst chewing on medications you would pay thousands for!
Congrats on the Nobel Peace Prize President Barack Obama.
Hm, wonder if they have “The President who spent the biggest amount of taxpayer money in a 6 month period for nothing” and “The President who brought an entire Nation to its biggest deficit yet” awards? He’d definitely qualify for both!
Oh and I have another one: “The President who has wasted the most time by acting in TV show commercials”
I think we’d all be better off if he took on an acting job. He loves the attention. He’s constantly in various TV show ads. At least he’d be somewhat useful there: he’d bring in a ton of money for TV Stations, because people love him, his speeches and promises so much, so much that they gave him a Nobel Prize for them. And was it really that necessary to make such a big deal out of getting a puppy for the family? Seriously? Come on! Can’t he be a President without trying to make a joke out of the position that he’s in, the position of the US President? He’s practically become a celebrity. I’m sure he knows we have WAY too many around, so he should get to work instead darn it!