Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

When I awoke this morning I thought I was hearing unusual sounds coming from outside the house, sounds I couldn't quite identify. Now I realize it must have been the sounds of conservatives' heads exploding.

I have to admit that I didn't really expect this news this morning. It does make me try to remember the last time a Republican president won a Nobel Prize;* even a Republican vice-president. Odd. I suppose they have more important things to do.

OSLO — President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday [9 October 2009] for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” a stunning honor that came less than nine months after Mr. Obama made United States history by becoming the country’s first African-American president.

[Walter Gibbs and Sheryl Gay Stolberg , "In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy", New York Times, 9 October 2009.]

In addition to recognizing Obama's efforts at diplomacy, I can't help thinking that this award also acknowledges the people of our country for finally dumping the disastrous Republican international policies of the Bush Administration, and for having the courage to elect a black man to do it. What a nice idea.
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* Of course, Theodore Roosevelt, famed early RINO.

Posted on October 9, 2009 at 10.43 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Current Events, Raised Eyebrows Dept.

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Friday, 16 October 2009 at 03.09
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    It was a nice idea. I wonder if Obama's straight talk to the Israelis might've had something to do with it.

  2. Written by rightsaidfred
    on Sunday, 18 October 2009 at 15.59
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    Please don't pretend for too long that Democrat policies keep the World safer compared to their Republican counterparts.

    The prize freights a lot of politics, but overwhelmingly it appears to me more evidence that the human race overhypes it's celebrities.

  3. Written by jns
    on Sunday, 18 October 2009 at 22.30
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    I don't know that Democratic policies keep the world safer. I'll have to think on that. I do think they keep the world more pleasant and that might make it all less hazardous.

    I may not disagree about the prize politics. It's a useful prize, there's a good cash purse, but it is vastly overrated in importance. What I find interesting is how much attention / homage Republicans pay to it while they try to poo-poo its importance and use Obama's winning as an indication of its pointlessness. If it's really unworthy of attention, one really should pay no attention to it.

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