President Obama "honored and humbled" to win Nobel Peace Prize

A beaming President Barack Obama said Friday he was both honored and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the world's most pressing problems.

[Have a life]

Congratulations, President Obama! Right on!

[AWB]

he has been on the international scene a little overr 6 months, and now he wins the peace prize? What peace has he accomplished? Just shows how meaningless the peace prize is. It manages to demean even the meager accomplishments of the recent past inners.

[Jim]

Sieg Heil, scumbag..If you folks haven't noticed, after the Bush nightmare, this globalist shill has the Federal Reserve printing press in over drive to the tune of 2 trillion. Soon, out dollar will be worthless. How you going to buy food then, eh?

[WhatDa]

Have a life wrote:

Congratulations, President Obama! Right on!

I'll repost this, just because mindless, sightless persons need to see through the fog. Blind Faith.
WASHINGTON (CNN)-- The Barry administration will ask Congress for another $83.4 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of September.
So...he spends $83 bil on war and gets the Nobel peace prize???
So, tell me. What has he done for you?
p.s. I like the whole "right on" thing. Kinda like 70's talk. What are you gonna say if you met him? "Gimme five"? "Dyno-Mite"? "Far out"?

[The World is in Shock]

Financial Times: What Did Obama Do to Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

I am a genuine admirer of Obama. And I am very pleased that George W Bush is no longer president. But I doubt that I am alone in wondering whether this award is slightly premature. It is hard to point to a single place where Obama's efforts have actually brought about peace - Gaza, Iran, Sri Lanka? The peace prize committee say that he is being rewarded for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy." But while it is OK to give school children prizes for "effort" - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

London Times: Absurd Decision on Obama Makes a Mockery of the Nobel Peace Prize

Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America's first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.

Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.

The Guardian: Barack Obama's Nobel Prize: Why Now?

Indeed, the reasoning behind the awarding of the prize to previous American presidents has been easier to discern. Teddy Roosevelt opened the court of arbitration in the Hague and helped mediate a peace treaty between Russia and Japan; Woodrow Wilson was the founder of the League of Nations. Jimmy Carter won his prize for his "untiring efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts".

Telegraph: Obama's Won the Nobel Peace Prize -- WTF?!

Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace prize and I'm still reeling at the shock. Most of us are, I should think. Here are my theories as to how it might have come about:

1. Unlike in most of the rest of the world Obama Kool Aid (TM) remains Oslo's most popular beverage.

2. The Norwegian prize committee's sense of irony is growing ever more sophisticated, as it hinted when it gave the prize in 2002 to comedy ex-president Jimmy Carter, and hinted more strongly when it gave the prize in 2007 to climate-fear-promoting comedy failed-president Al Gore.

3. The other candidates on the shortlist were Robert Mugabe; Osama Bin Laden; Ahmed Jibril; and the late Pol Pot.

[bolderdash]

Giving President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is a "premature canonization" and an "embarrassment" to the process of designating a laureate, a presidential historian says.

"The jury is still out as to what his presidency is going to add up to," Fred Greenstein, author and professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University, told FOXNews.com .

"It's more of an embarrassment to the Nobel process."

[Not Him]

What's next, Dancing with the stars?

[Christine Morales]

The deadline for submitting the Nomination was Feb 1st. He was sworn in Jan 21...3 weeks and he had done absolutely nothing. He does not deserve this award cause he has done nothing but jet set all over the world on our dime. In the meantime...we continue to rot away over here. The political leanings of the Norwegian committee are pretty apparent. Screaming lefty liberals

[LA CITIZEN]

What a joke. President Obama has not accomplished anything to be considered a peace maker like Presidents Wilson or Roosevelt. He was in office barley a week before the Europeans nominated him for the award. The Europeans need to keep out of our political affairs. In the end they will make President Obama the Gorbachev of our times. Loved by the Europeans and a failure at home.

[Rupees are stronger]

Maybe I can be awarded a Grammy first. Then I will do everything I can to learn how to sin. In that order.

[Not Him]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/u...

[bb in Burbank]

Sure reduces the significance of the award to zero.

[bb in Burbank]

What a joke!!

[Mike]

For what? This is in line with all the other peaceniks who never accomplished any lasting peace. Wilson, Carter, Gore. Maybe he can talk the terrorists to death. Wait until Iran gets the bomb and we will see how many peace prizes are handed out then.

[lol at chicago]

cant win a bid for the olympics. why? because obama sux

[SSR]

Rupees are stronger wrote:

Maybe I can be awarded a Grammy first. Then I will do everything I can to learn how to sin. In that order.

Funny, you probably meant to type "sing" but your Freudian slip might make more sense.

[Have a life]

WhatDa wrote:

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I'll repost this, just because mindless, sightless persons need to see through the fog. Blind Faith.
WASHINGTON (CNN)-- The Barry administration will ask Congress for another $83.4 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of September.
So...he spends $83 bil on war and gets the Nobel peace prize???
So, tell me. What has he done for you?
p.s. I like the whole "right on" thing. Kinda like 70's talk. What are you gonna say if you met him? "Gimme five"? "Dyno-Mite"? "Far out"?

This comment coming from a moron that has a monkey as he is profile picture? Ha..Loser...

[tkd28803]

Not Him wrote:

What's next, Dancing with the stars?

Don't give him any ideas...

[LT from Glendale]

Now he has more money in his personal coffers while staggering inflation and joblessness runs rampant in the country. Bush had his faults but he kept the country safe.
What has Obama done? Spend more than twice the money, institute insane ideas like the stimulus package and cash for clunkers and try to push a health care package down our throats instead of cleaning up the one we have.
If he is really "humbled", he should refuse the prize until he earns it.

[Mr Independent]

POSER..........ACTOR.......... LIAR..........NOT my president.