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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize for …?

The Lady Patriot — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:33:14 +0000

Nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize were closed less than two weeks after Barack Obama had been inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. What exactly had Obama accomplished?

The Associated Press, known for its glowing coverage of Barack Obama, is skeptical. As Jennifer Loven of the AP writes, “The Nobel committee, it seems, had the audacity to hope that he’ll eventually produce a record worthy of its prize.” Even George Stephanopoulos of ABC News is collecting a list of “Best Obama-Nobel Jokes” on his blog.

Ah, so it’s not about what he has done, it is about what he has promised to do! Apparently, the road to the Nobel Peace Prize is paved with good intentions.

I don’t normally watch The Today Show on NBC. However, last night I had watched The Office so when I turned my television on this morning, imagine my surprise when I witnessed this exchange between Matt Lauer and David Gregory.

LAUER: So, what you’re saying in some ways, and, again, not to be rude here, or sarcastic, that in some ways he wins this award for not being George W. Bush.

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“His conservative critics will say, a lot of sizzle here, but not a lot of accomplishment.” Hey David Gregory, it’s not just conservatives! HotAir breaks down the reaction from the mainstream media. While were on the topic of the media, NBC, let me clue you in on a non-secret. This is exactly what we were saying during Obama’s campaign for President. He hadn’t accomplished anything noteworthy in the Illinois State Senate except managing to cast an abundance of “present” votes. He was a Senator in the US Congress for 2 years before running for President, again, with nothing of accomplishment to note. He merely gave a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention. I suppose if giving a rousing speech at a Party Convention is all it takes, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin should receive the next Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaking of Obama speeches, here are a few highlights from his speech this morning.

Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning.
After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, “Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo’s birthday.”
And then Sasha added, “Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.”
So it’s — it’s good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

It’s not that Obama’s little girls commented on current events on their family calendar. A dog’s birthday and a day off from school are rather exciting moments for children. But Malia and Sasha did not write Obama’s speech. He is the one who saw it fitting to include winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the same sentence as his dog’s birthday and the Columbus Day weekend.

BO gets a new bone, Obama receives a medallion, the girls don’t have to go to school on Monday and for the second time in her adult life, Michelle Obama is proud to be an American. What an exciting time for the Obama family!

I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee.

Surprised? You’re not the only one! Millions of people throughout the globe are just as perplexed. For a short moment, the world is united! But Obama is humbled? That’s a considerable stretch.

Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.

Those of us who follow Barack Obama’s speeches are keenly aware that when he says, “Let me be clear” or “Make no mistake” that what follows 90% of the time could earn him a Pinnochio award. Perhaps we’re witnessing the other 10%. After SNL’s skit last week (embedded below), even Obama knows the Left is aware that he has no recognizable achievements.

To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize…

I’d like to expand it and say he doesn’t deserve to be in the company of those who were nominated.

And I know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it’s also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.

There’s the money shot! It’s not what Obama has accomplished, as even he admits, but to provide momentum for his agenda. I see. The Norwegians want us to swallow government-controlled health care, spend more on energy through cap-and-tax legislation and never seek energy independence because they’ve awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to our President? Nice try, but we’re stubborn about our freedoms.

We cannot tolerate a world in which nuclear weapons spread to more nations and in which the terror of a nuclear holocaust endangers more people. And that’s why we’ve begun to take concrete steps to pursue a world without nuclear weapons: because all nations have the right to pursue peaceful nuclear power, but all nations have the responsibility to demonstrate their peaceful intentions.

But we’ll talk to Iran without preconditions!

I am the commander in chief of a country that’s responsible for ending a war and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary that directly threatens the American people and our allies.

Usually, Commanders-in-Chief are responsible for winning wars, not just ending them. I’m glad you have your eyes on the prize. My mistake, wrong prize.

I’m also aware that we are dealing with the impact of a global economic crisis that has left millions of Americans looking for work.

I thought his administration, through spending billions in stimulus funding, had “saved or created” thousands of jobs.

I have to stop here. Reading this dribble from Obama’s speech is getting in the way of my enjoyment of the laugh-fest currently unfolding on Twitter. If you’d like a solid play-by-play, including a good April 1st thought by a White House aide, visit HotAir. The comments are full of hilarity, too.

Good job, Nobel Peace Prize Committee. On the heels of losing the 2016 Summer Olympics bid for Chicago after traipsing to Copenhagen and back, Obama is again a laughing stock of epic proportions.

For the first time in my adult life, I may actually stay up to watch SNL’s opening sketch to see what they do with such rich material.

IOC to the Three O’s: Not in Chicago

The Lady Patriot — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:27:08 +0000

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey were among the delegation that traveled to Copenhagen (in two separate jumbo jets) to pitch Chicago as the host of the 2016 Olympics.

Obama doesn’t have time to talk to General McKiernan in Afghanistan (his own appointee) regarding his request for more troops, economic and political aid but he can drop everything to fly 4000 miles to participate in a 45 minute presentation. (Watch Obama’s presentation on HotAir here.)

Did Obama really think he could trump the last 9 months of his “Apologizing for America World Tour” by making a 45 minute appeal to grant an Olympics bid to a city that’s so “great” it’s called Second City? Even in his attempt, he couldn’t keep himself from telling the IOC that America basically needed the Olympics to restore its good name. In response to a question, he actually said:

“Over the last several years sometimes that fundamental truth about the United States has been lost. One of the legacies of this Olympic Games would be the restoration of that understanding of what the United States is all about and a recognition of how we are linked to the world.”

In short, help us get our groove back, IOC!

In this particular scenario, Michelle Obama is the worse of the two offenders. You’ve seen the audacious quote from her speech to the Chicago 2016 bid team (bold italics, mine):

“As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home.”

Michelle Obama says participating in this presentation is a “sacrifice” but doesn’t exactly explain what’s so sacrificial about packing designer clothes, flying on a private jumbo jet or getting away for a few days with Oprah Winfrey on the taxpayer’s dime. I would call that an extraordinary get-away unlike any I’d ever experienced! “Sacrificial” wouldn’t even make the list of 1,000,000 adjectives!

Michelle Obama wouldn’t know “sacrifice” if it looked her in the face, wearing fatigues, waving an American flag, surrounded by little boys and girls going without their Mommy and Daddy while they fight in an ongoing war in two countries.

If she thinks this trip is a sacrifice then she is out of touch with the American people. So much, in fact, it’s almost painful. Is she ignorant of the climbing unemployment rate? Is she callous to the situation of our military families? Does she know the sacrifices made every day by everyday Americans to put food on the table, to send their kids to school, to make ends meet while she and her husband spend, spend, spend? She should just get it over with and say to the deployed military personnel, military families, unemployed Americans and the fiscally strained, “Let them eat cake.”

HotAir grabbed CNN’s shock and dismay as the IOC makes the announcement. As the anchor grasps for words, I find myself hoping the jaw-dropping is repeated in newsrooms around American in 2010 when the out-of-touch Democrats get booted from Washington.

As @Doc_O said on Twitter, “Cheer up, Axelrod! Obama failed to bring the Olympics to Chicago in 2016, but he’ll bring the Republicans to Washington in 2010.” I sure hope so, as long as they’re conservative Republicans and not RINOs in the form of McCain, Graham or Snowe.

What can we learn from this?

Obama will spend, spend, spend. Michelle will go on lavish overseas trips and spend, spend, spend. The taxpayers will continue to pay for the spending sprees. What we’ll receive in return: Zero. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Wait, that’s not exactly right. We’ll “get” something all right: a huge deficit unlike any we’ve ever seen coupled with skyrocketing inflation. Yes, Bush ran up the deficit in 8 years. It only took Obama 8 months to triple it.

As Obama flies back to America I hope he’s thinking about his next two losses: government-run health care and the hoax of cap-and-tax.

In the meantime, someone hand Valerie Jarrett a Kleenex.