Barack wins NPPFollow

Pubes has really lost his amusing quality.

It's like he isn't even trying to be coherent or even remotely direct anymore.

I'm not sure how Rep. Barrett expects that to work, exactly. The NPP is hardly a smack on the nose with a newspaper.

My favorite bit of Pubbie whining so far comes from John Bolton:

Better wind it up, then.

Please, for this one time stop being a ***** and just apologize.

Check my sig and remember I never claim to be perfect. Then neither is the spell checker that can't tell when I mis used a word in the contents of my writing.

I expect errors so little boys who tend to think they are something, go driving around so to pick up empty headed college students, all just so they can prove how manly they are, don't impress me.

Still I see you rather go rant how unworthy our President is of the NPP, then be happy he is humble to admit that he doesn't feel he deserves it, compared to those who were given the award before him.

Hey look, we're in agreement on the triple threat here being idiots, but you don't fight stupidity with ignorance.



The decision to give the NPP to Obama was almost certainly not backed by racism or fear of such a label.

Your quote there just shows a list of people who received the award. However, you haven't proven that if Obama hadn't been given the prize, that a large amount of people would have intevitably come out calling them racists because they did not just hand the award over to Obama. Because you cannot prove that, you also cannot prove that the idea of that happening, wasn;t one of what I assume to be several deciding factors.

I also said,



I put more weight on that statement of mine, than on the racism one, I was merely pointing out that it could very well have been the case in our modern world of political correctness and stupidity, that the fact that many people would have been irritatingly dumb enough to call them racists if they didn't give him the prize, could have been one of the factors in deciding whether or not to give him the prize.

Either way, he hasn't done nearly enough to deserve it.

So, really, you're just saying against any evidence to to the contrary that you just know it's true and no one can prove it's not true so it must be true.


Oooooooooooohhhhh-kay then.

Um... Not that this isn't a stupid line of reasoning to begin with, but did you bother to read the article, or watch the video? She was responding to insinuations that Hillary Clintons statements could be interpreted as a call to assassinate then Senator Obama. She was jokingly taking Clinton's side, not expressing a desire of the Right.

She wasn't saying those things, she was jokingly referring to what the Clinton camp was saying. Find someone who's actually advocating for the assassination of Obama and not joking about someone else saying something that might be doing so, and you might be close.


As to the prize itself? Well. If anyone was still unsure as to the utter irrelevance of being a recipient of this prize, here's your proof. The prize is supposed to be awarded based on actions done, not promises made or potential. While there have been some incredibly questionable recipients in the past, you could at least look at some kind of significant and ongoing work towards something which had something to do with peace (even if in a very meandering way).

Obama hasn't done anything. He hasn't fought for anything. He's been a figurehead of a movement infatuated with what he might do, or could do, or maybe even will do, but that's just not even in the same league as folks who ended Apartheid, or helped end an oppressive violent regime somewhere, or brokered a peace between warring factions. Heck. As much as I think Gore's win was absurd, you could at least argue that he was in fact an instrumental figure in the results of the IPCC's decisions and whatever resulting effects that may have.


Obama simply hasn't actually done anything yet. He's talked about what he'll do, but that's not the same thing. All he's actually accomplished was getting elected. What he's actually able to do with that is yet to be seen. I just think that this was a really horrible choice. He's going to be in office at least 4 more years. They couldn't maybe wait and see before deciding to give it to him?


The award isn't supposed to be about encouraging results, but recognizing them. that doesn't mean that you don't congratulate him officially, but I don't think there's anyone out there who legitimately believes that he really should have received it. Ok. Maybe some really nutty liberals (which apparently includes the Nobel prize panel themselves), but that's about it.

Honor roll works differently where you come from...where I come from, it's based solely on grades, so my analogy is accurate based on my knowledge. I'll rephrase it though.

Giving Obama a Peace Prize this early is like putting a student who did some average work the previous year on the current year's honor roll because they said they'd do well.