Meanwhile, I will state the Nobel Peace Prize to our president was quite a surprise to me. I think it's a little premature but not totally undeserving. Obama is the fourth American president to win the prize and the third to win it while in office. But if all you had to do was give inspiring speeches to win it, why didn't the greatest president ever George W. Bush win it for his numerous speeches about Freedom, Democracy, Justice and smoking out bad guys?? I think this just goes to show that the whole world is anti-American.
*Update:
Disgusting it is to read right wing and Republican reaction to President Obama winning the Nobel Prize. Is there not an ounce of graciousness among them? From what I can gather, Obama winning this award means America is weak, that Obama is weak, that the terrorists have won, that somehow neocons and Republicans are vindicated for the 8 years of war and Freedom Bombs. This award has by no coincidence shook the extremists in the GOP to a new dimension of Fantasy.
Republicans live in a world where they cannot fathom how unpopular they are and how unpopular their ideas are. They cannot imagine that someone who does not support their agenda of war without end, spending freezes, and putting women in their places and the likes could win something as prestigious as a Nobel Prize. Such awards, such popularity, such inspiration is reserved only for Republicans. If not, then the whole thing is bogus.
Josh Marshall has to sum it up best:
This is an odd award. You'd expect it to come later in Obama's presidency and tied to some particular event or accomplishment. But the unmistakable message of the award is one of the consequences of a period in which the most powerful country in the world, the 'hyper-power' as the French have it, became the focus of destabilization and in real if limited ways lawlessness. A harsh judgment, yes. But a dark period. And Obama has begun, if fitfully and very imperfectly to many of his supporters, to steer the ship of state in a different direction. If that seems like a meager accomplishment to many of the usual Washington types it's a profound reflection of their own enablement of the Bush era and how compromised they are by it, how much they perpetuated the belief that it was 'normal history' rather than dark aberration.
**Update:
Always seeing themselves as the true Freedom Fighting peacemakers in the world, Republicans can't handle Obama receiving this award. In a sense they truly believe they alone represent the last remaining tough macho men and share allegiance with any people worldwide also seeking freedom and the struggle against tyranny. It's so obvious that unless they are regarded in such fashion, it's all bogus until they are given their proper respect. Some of the best Republican reaction to Obama's award entirely prove my point.
- Glenn Beck: Obama should turn down the award and give it to the Tea Baggers for standing up to his progressive agenda. Yes because only Tea Baggers are the true Freedom Fighters in the world. If not, then no one is.
- Rep. Gresham Barrett (R-SC): This award should "give the President cause to reevaluate his current course." Receiving the Nobel Prize means you should start doing things differently??? Only in the Republican Fantasy World can something like that be true.
- Hugh Hewitt: He actually used Obama's Nobel Peace Award as a chance to call for more war. Because when you win an award for peace, it only means you should spread war as much as possible. Remember, Hewitt is so deranged that he believes he is on the front lines of battle while sitting in a comfy chair in an office in NYC. When you believe that, I suppose nothing is demented.
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