Pardon my ignorance but does anybody know what -exactly- did the Nobel folks cite as the reason for handing the award to this phony?
Was it just all the “we are five days from healing the planet...” crap??
Geir Lundestad, who also awarded the prize to terrorist Yassir Arafat, stated in his memoir, “We thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn’t have this effect.”
Let’s briefly set aside the fact that the Prize was conferred on Barack Obama and concentrate on the reason the Nobel Committee awarded the Prize in the first place.
Since when do we give out awards and prizes to someone who hasn’t even accomplished a damned thing? They wanted to do it solely because they thought it would strengthen Obama?!
On the criteria alone, the Nobel Committee should be disbanded and no more awards given out EVER!. I only know a little of Alfred Nobel - but somehow I have to think that he’s rolling in his grave right now at how this committee besmirched his good name and efforts.
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That’s what happens when you turn the Nobel Peace Prize into a participation medal.
Those brilliant Europeans.
They didn’t want a cowboy President.
Now they have a stampede on their continent.
They gave their Piss Prize to an incompetent and now Europe is being invaded. They are finally connecting the dots and are not too happy about it. It’s the same thing with liberals everywhere. They think that liberalism is the way to go until they actually get what they asked for. Then they blame everybody else but themselves when it all falls apart.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee - unlike the committee for Nobel Science Prizes - is a creature of the Norwegian Parliament.
- Article 1 Section 9:
- No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
Obama isn’t the first POTUS to receive and accept the Peace Prize, but he should be the last - until and unless the prize is posthumously awarded to Reagan. And even then . . .
Therefore Congress should act to preemptively deny any sitting POTUS the right to accept a Nobel Prize without an affirmative Act of Congress (which is, after all, the extent of Congress’ power in the matter).