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President Jack Squat wins Nobel Peace Prize; UPDATE: Is it legal?

Posted 09 Oct 2009 in Barack Obama, humor, propaganda, stupidity

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Is my calendar wrong? When I woke up this morning and heard that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I wondered if perhaps today was April Fool’s Day (or maybe Groundhog Day). I’d like to know which country Obama brought peace to in the nine days between his inauguration and the close of nominations for the Nobel prize on February 1?

Rather than recognizing concrete achievement, the 2009 prize appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

Awarding hopeychange intentions and speeches devalues the prize itself. It’s bad enough they’ve previously awarded it to Palestinian terrorist Yassar Arafat and they gave it to Al Gore for his specious global warming propaganda. But to now bestow it upon a man who has thus far failed to accomplish anything of merit makes it look like the writers of last week’s SNL skit are more impartial judges than the panel in Oslo.


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UPDATE: In other news, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has bestowed Paris Hilton with the Lifetime Achievement Award and Lindsay Lohan received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
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UPDATE: Michael P. Leahy asks: “Where’s Kanye West when you need him?”
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UPDATE: Say Anything sums up Chairman Zero’s accomplishments that led to his Nobel Prize:

He grew up. He went to college. He got a political science degree then a law degree. He gave some speeches and got elected to public office. He wrote a book. He gave some speeches and got elected to higher office. He wrote another book. He gave some more speeches and got elected President. Then he exploded the national budget deficit and gave some more speeches.

Rob’s nutshell left out Obama’s other notable accomplishment — during his time as an Illinois state senator, he voted “present” 129 times.
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UPDATE: Tommy De Seno takes a look at the president’s first 12 days in the White House according to his public schedule to see what he did to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize:

January 20: Sworn in as president. Went to a parade. Partied.

January 21: Asked bureaucrats to re-write guidelines for information requests. Held an “open house” party at the White House.

January 22: Signed Executive Orders: Executive Branch workers to take ethics pledge; re-affirmed Army Field Manual techniques for interrogations; expressed desire to close Gitmo (how’s that working out?)

January 23: Ordered the release of federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries. Lunch with Joe Biden; met with Tim Geithner.

January 24: Budget meeting with economic team.

January 25: Skipped church.

January 26: Gave speech about jobs and energy. Met with Hillary Clinton. Attended Geithner’s swearing in ceremony.

January 27: Met with Republicans. Spoke at a clock tower in Ohio.

January 28: Economic meetings in the morning, met with Defense secretary in the afternoon.

January 29: Signed Ledbetter Bill overturning Supreme Court decision on lawsuits over wages. Party in the State Room. Met with Biden.

January 30: Met economic advisers. Gave speech on Middle Class Working Families Task Force. Met with senior enlisted military officials.

January 31: Took the day off.

February 1: Skipped church. Threw a Super Bowl party.

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UPDATE: J.P. Freire of The Washington Examiner asks
“Can a sitting president receive a Nobel Peace Prize?”

There’s a problem for President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize victory and it’s not his inexperience. From Article I, Section 9 of “that neglected curio,” the U.S. Constitution:
“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.”

Per Wikipedia, the Nobel Prize is awarded as follows:

“…the Norwegian Nobel Committee consists of five members elected by the Norwegian Storting (the Norwegian parliament).[9] In its first stage, several thousand people are asked to nominate candidates. These names are scrutinized and discussed by experts in their specific disciplines until only the winners remain. This slow and thorough process is arguably what gives the prize its importance. Despite this, there have been questionable awards and questionable omissions over the prize’s century-long history.”

While the Norwegian Parliament has no say in who receives the prize, the role it plays in selecting the committee ties it to the state. Congress will have to vote on whether to allow Obama to accept the prize.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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