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October 10, 2009
Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is "call to action"
Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is "call to action"
WASHINGTON/OSLO (Reuters) - Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision that honored the first-year U.S. president more for promise than achievement and drew both praise and skepticism around the world.
Describing himself as surprised and deeply humbled, Obama said he would accept the award as a "call to action" to confront the global challenges of the 21st century.
"I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations," he said in the White House Rose Garden.
The president, who will travel to Oslo to receive the award on December 10, plans to donate the prize money of 10 million Swedish crowns -- roughly $1.4 million -- to charity, the White House said.
Meet the People Who Were Passed Over for Obama
Sima Samar, women's rights activist in Afghanistan: "With dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of girls past the age of eight. When the Taliban fell, Samar returned to Kabul and accepted the post of Minister for Women's Affairs."
Ingrid Betancourt: French-Colombian ex-hostage held for six years.
"Dr. Denis Mukwege: Doctor, founder and head of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. He has dedicated his life to helping Congolese women and girls who are victims of gang rape and brutal sexual violence."
Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition: "These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civilians are regularly killed worldwide because the unseen bombs explode when stepped upon."
"Hu Jia, a human rights activist and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, who was sentenced last year to a three-and-a-half-year prison term for 'inciting subversion of state power.'"
"Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China's communist system. He now lives in the United States."
Dick Morris nailed it in his column ........
THE NOBEL PRIZE TO OBAMA: EUROPE'S BID TO RE-COLONIZE AMERICA
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Whether it was rewarding Jimmy Carter for criticizing the Iraq War or supporting Al Gore in his crusade against global warming, the Norwegian Parliament - which chooses the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - has sought to use the award as a political tool to influence American politic s. Its prestige and moral power make the prize a potent weapon with which to help steer the direction of the colossus beyond the seas that controls a quarter of the world's economy and most of its military power.
Now, the Norwegians have weighed in to support Barack Obama in his bid to reshape America so it looks more like, well, Norway, or at least like Europe.
European socialism cannot succeed without conquering the United States. If the European Union has high taxes and the US keeps its levies low, business and brains will flow to America. If the EU's labor standards require long vacations, high benefits, and proscribe layoffs and ours' do not, employers will migrate across the ocean to do their business in the States. If the Old World curbs ambition by taxation, regulation, and social opprobrium, the ambitious will flock to the New World as they have done for four hundred years.
So, Lenin was right. Socialism cannot exist in just one country - or one continent. It must dominate worldwide or wealth and power will flow to those who remain committed to the free market. Europe realizes this reality and it makes Obama's election as president of the United States all the more welcome.
The Nobel Prize is really Obama's payback for disciplining the unruly United States and taming it to be a member of the European family of nations. Europe wants to reverse the American Revolution and re-colonize us and it sees in Obama a kindred spirit willing to do its bidding.
Does the United States let its entrepreneurs run wild, coming up with fanciful new ideas and making billions from them? Obama will regulate and subdue business just like they do in Europe. Do U.S. businesses compete by slashing prices, aggressively pursuing markets, and jockeying for market share? Obama will make them behave themselves and stay in line just like European companies do. Do Americans work hard and push aggressively to make as much money as they can? Obama will raise taxes, emphasize community values, and narcotize their ambition by offering government largesse.
And does the United States still believe in a sloppy, contrarian democracy in which ordinary people can directly affect their government, states have powers, and courts can reel in executive authority? Obama will use his rubber stamp majority in Congress to pass new laws regardless of public opinion and make us obey.
In foreign policy, is the United States still willing to stand up, alone if necessary, to protect human rights in Bosnia, in Iraq, and in Afghanistan? Obama will curb this unruly independence and mold it within the fabric of appeasement that has dominated Europe for the past half a century.
All this heavy lifting, this conversion of America into a European state, deserves a reward. And what is a more fitting one than to give Obama than the Nobel Peace Prize? He obviously doesn't deserve the award for economics or, given his health care ideas, for medicine. But the Peace Prize expresses Europe's longing: to take back the nation its overly ambitious and uppity children founded.
“What has President Obama actually accomplished?’ It is unfortunate that the president’s star power has outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights. One thing is certain -– President Obama won’t be receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action.” - RNC Chairman, Michael Steele...yes he actually said something not kissing up to Obama.
Tim Pawlenty who wants us to vote for him for President says “the “appropriate response is to say congratulations” .”.Trust me, that quote is gonna come back to haunt him, if he intends to run for President against Sarah. Obama is going to be looking like the anti-Christ even to Democrats in another three years.
Pawlenty is going to rue the day he ever uttered those words of appeasement.
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Wild Thing's comment........
"The president, who will travel to Oslo to receive the award on December 10, plans to donate the prize money of 10 million Swedish crowns -- roughly $1.4 million -- to charity, the White House said."
Hmmmmm to ACORN perhaps????
The deadline for nominations in a Nobel year is Feb 1 per their web site. Not even two weeks into his presidential term. According to the website..Nobel Prize.org , "Information about the nominations, investigations, and opinions concerning the award is kept secret for 50 years". Of course, that is, unless it leaks.
Now Obama has something in common with Yasser Arafat.
Next Awards for Obama:
Obama Awarded Honorary Birth Certificate!
Obama WINS Kentucky Derby....Michelle pulls away down the Stretch
Obama Wins " Dancing withi the Stars" Trophy
Obama Wins the Amazing Race
Obama Wins World Series
Obama Wins Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500, 24 Hour Sebring Races in the same day.
Obama WINS $10 Million Publishers Clearingi House Sweepstakes
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at October 10, 2009 05:50 AM
Comments
Pawlenty is a placeholder candidate anyway. He doesn't have the stuff to compete against the Seinfield Whitehouse that does nothing but campaign and promote payback for votes. It would have been better to just say nothing than that statement. When will these people realise we don't want wishy washy moderate candidates?
Accountability and honesty has topped the list of concerns over economy, war, health care and the rest. The people who emerge as candidates will have already figured that out by now and be proceeding along accordingly. *cough*Sarah Palin*cough
Posted by: Eden at October 10, 2009 09:22 AM
He had no accomplishments when nominated for the Nobel Appeasement Prize. His only accomplishment to date is to weaken our nation and further embolden our enemies into taking actions that they otherwise may not have taken. What he is doing is furthering the chance of more conflicts. All of these academics and socialist leaning people like Obama are walking around with their heads up their butts.
Oh, his other accomplishment is to hasten our demise into a socialist craphole.
Posted by: Bob A at October 10, 2009 09:25 AM
What was it now, February 11, 2009, The Nobel Committee picked obama. He had been in office for exactly 12 days. What did he do in 12 days that warrants a Nobel Peace Prize. For sure, the fix was in.
Algore got the pirze over Irenna Sendler who save some 2500 Jewish children from the Nazi's in Poland. And Arafat was awarded the prize too. What kind of rules govern this committee ? The past record of winners and now Fridays announcement, says, the peace prize is meaningless.
Posted by: Mark at October 10, 2009 11:03 AM
Dire Straits pretty well summed it up as it was the money for nothing crowd that put the zero in office. Does George Soros own the Nobel Committee too?
Posted by: Jack at October 10, 2009 11:34 AM
obama wins the top 5 places in the Miss Universe pagent.
I think Dick Morris makes a good point. After all, the EU was formed primaily to compete with America economically rather than to work with America.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a farce. It has been a farce for years. It wouldn't surprise me if the prize committee considered Rev Wright.
Posted by: TomR at October 10, 2009 12:12 PM
First Copenhagen, now Oslo. Why doesn't he stay there in the Nordic countries. It would please everyone all around...
Posted by: Eddy Burke at October 10, 2009 12:54 PM
I have been reading some great stuff all morning while waiting for the North Pole playoff game from Coors Field to come on. It is the story of "The World Turned Upside Down" on Wikipedia and other pages. I recommend it. Like most things, I thought I knew a lot about it but I didn't.
At the same time in England as when this song was popular a rich man did something that reached down through the years and inspired me to stop whining and do something. At my most depressed during the last week of December, 1987 I sat in the great hot pools at Lava Hot Springs, Idaho and remembered something I had read 35 years earlier. I got out of the pool and went across the street into a motel and asked some strangers to help me start a Retreat. They did and next February it will be held for the 23rd time.
From a book given me by a church staff member when I graduated from High School in Asheville, NC in 1951.
From Remember Now by Walter Dudley Cavert, Abingdon Press, 1944.
SUNDAY-Week 49
LIGHTING A CANDLE IN THE DARK Read Luke 11:33-36
In an English church in Leicestershire is a memorial tablet with this inscription: "In the year 1653, when all sacred things throughout the nation were either demolished or profaned, Sir Robert Shirley, Baronet, founded this church, whose singular praise it is to have done the best things in the worst times and hoped them in the most calamitous."
A hasty reading of English history will show how turbulent the times were. The king had just been executed in a civil war; the country was torn by strife and dissension; the atmosphere was tense with hate; and the outlook for a united nation was dark indeed. At that time Sir Robert Shirley decided to do something constructive. He built a church.
The worst times demanded the best deeds. If we are disturbed--as we ought to be--over the conditions in our own day, we need to throw our influence on the side of the forces making for righteousness and moral stability. It is always better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.>>
The above was written in 1944, a very bleak year. I remember 1944 and 1945 well. And when I complain about how hard it is for me to climb the basement stairs I remember my father telling me how Company G, 4th Infantry Division walked 81 miles in three days across freezing French mud in December 1944, he with a BAR across his arthritic shoulders at 34 years of age. Ah, would that I were half the man that he was. I took him to his last reunion with Company G at Myrtle Beach in September, 1994, 50 years after that cold December in France. Almost all of them are gone now. I miss them. But you and your little band of followers inspire me just like that book and Dad and Company G do, Chrissie.
Posted by: horace at October 10, 2009 01:06 PM
For what it is worth - this is the man I felt should have being given the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_01/morganDM1303_468x395.jpg
He has paid a great personal price in trying to oust a dictator that has bought the Zimbabwean nation to it's knees. The average life expectancy under this bastard Mugabe is just 37 years. Morgan has been repeatedy arrested and bashed, he lost his wife of many years in a very very suspicious car 'accident'....yet his courage knows bounds in his efforts to give his people democracy and therefore a better future. I feel he has been cheated out of an award that should have been his. Instead they have awarded the Peace Prize to a man that has achieved NOTHING except to deliver well crafted oratory to the already Obama converted. They are placing their stock in a man that literally came from nowhere, having a unprecedented (questionable)rapid rise through politics, and now wields enornmous power on the global stage. Morgan's struggle should be recognised by the international peak body that supposed to reward people for extraordinary personal sacrifice for their fellow man......Obama has done nothing to qualify in this regard. What an absolute disgrace....!!!!
Posted by: Lyn in Australia at October 10, 2009 10:30 PM
Nice post Wild. This quote "Pawlenty is going to rue the day he ever uttered those words of appeasement." Is so true. He is just another RINO and wannabe state run media rock star.
Will the GOP ever get rid of the worthless RINO's????
Posted by: LomaAlta at October 11, 2009 12:09 AM
Major League Baseball announced that Barack Obama has won the American League Cy Young Award because his 'first pitch' was intended to cross the plate.
Posted by: Marvin at October 11, 2009 01:08 AM
WOW. Barack Obama has also won the National League Cy Young Award!! Because he intended to throw a strike.
Posted by: Marvin at October 11, 2009 01:09 AM
Eden, you are right, the next election
will or should be very telling. They
better stop giving us the weak, we are
facing an enemy from within and cannot
afford any more weakness on our side.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:14 AM
Bob A., DITTO that!
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:31 AM
Mark, yes 12 days. Amazing.
I agree, the fix was in from the start.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:36 AM
Jack, good one thanks for the link.
I agree, this has the scent of Soros
on it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:39 AM
Tom, LOL hahahaha Good one!!
"obama wins the top 5 places in the Miss Universe pagent"
I agree too, this Prize has been a joke
for a long time.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:41 AM
Eddy, good point.
"Why doesn't he stay there in the Nordic countries"
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:42 AM
Horace, that was great, thank you so much.
Thank yo ufor sharing about your Dad and
Company G, 4th Infantry Division. Wow amazing.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:44 AM
Lyn in Australia, thank you so much for
telling about Morgan. WOW Yes I agree,
much more deserved to get this then
horrid Obama.
Thank you Lyn.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:47 AM
LomaAlta, thank you so much.
I sure hope they get rid of the rino's
they better check out their donations
and realize we conservatives have
not been donating to the rino's
for a long time.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 11, 2009 01:49 AM
