Peace and the Obamessiah

Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, 09 October 2009 18:20.

Four women and one man, all Norwegians of course, have awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Barrack Obama from a field of 172 individuals and 33 organisations. The citation reads “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

I must have missed them. But, apparently, it’s to do with all the fluff about “change” and the “new era of responsibility” mentioned in his inauguration speech (which was written not by him, of course, but by Jon Favreau). The committee’s announcement said:

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”

I’d like to add my own voice to the Mass for Naivety which is “the world’s attention”, amending the committee’s words of wisdom thus:

“Only when the Big Money and the global media barons act together can an empty suit be raised up into a symbol for anything you like, frankly, including whatever people conceive of as progress. The raising up of the Obamessiah was so successful, it is practically inconceivable that anyone else could be awarded any prize whatsoever. Norwegians will never be thought of in the same way again.”

Tags: World Affairs

Comments:

Posted by Alex on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:31 | #

Sad to say, but more than anything probably driving their choice for the prize was that the recipient is an example of the new multi-cultural man that the advocates of Multi-Culturalism are crudely attempting to breed into existence…ie that he is of part African and European race, and has some power. They won’t generally say that aloud as a primary reason, but that would seem to be what is taking place.

Posted by Q on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:45 | #

“Alfred Bernhard Nobel (Stockholm, Sweden, 21 October 1833 – Sanremo, Italy, 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.”

Why not award Jimmie JJ Walker aka “Kid Dyn-o-mite”? Sound crazy? Well, given the bizarre criteria the Nobel Committee currently uses, he would have been a more appropriate recipient than many of its recent. Examples: Yasser Arafat (terrorist [pbuh]) , Nelson Mandela (commie-terrorist), Jimmy Carter (liberal loon), and now the do-nothing affirmative action U.S. president: Mr. B Hussein Obama. Thanks to the libs, the prestigoius prize has become a mockery.

Posted by Bama Man on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:41 | #

Foreigners from England simply do not understand how President Obama is to be celebrated for himself. Norwegian foreigners appear to be much more perceptive.

Remember that Obama openly stated that he was who we have been waiting for. He has a little conflation with the numinous when it comes to himself, and the Norwegians are apparently susceptible to this virus.

He is qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize simply because he is himself.

Posted by Dan Dare on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:08 | #

The Nobel prizes for Literature and Peace long since ceased to have any meaningful function beyond the purely political. Economics of course has been a Jewish preserve since the Second World War.

As for the rest, the recent trends in awards in the ‘hard sciences’ would tend to support the proposition that the various committees that select Nobel laureates do so while operating a clandestine affirmative action scheme.

Posted by Guessedworker on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:45 | #

Thank you, Bama Man. I will try to remember that wise advice.

Posted by John on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:06 | #

A Nobel peace prize to a warmongering, Bush in blackface President. I’m not sure which the committee damaged more—its already tarnished beyond restoration prestige or the reputation or the recipient (who can’t see beyond his narcissism to realize that politely declining the award would have been his best tactical political move.

Posted by the Narrator... on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:09 | #

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”

Yeah, not since Jimmy Carter has there been such a man.

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Posted by Svigor on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:28 | #

A Nobel peace prize to a warmongering, Bush in blackface President. I’m not sure which the committee damaged more—its already tarnished beyond restoration prestige or the reputation or the recipient (who can’t see beyond his narcissism to realize that politely declining the award would have been his best tactical political move.

Precisely. I can’t believe he’s blundered like this. Suggests he really IS drunk on his own Kool-Aid. One good explanation from an iSteve commenter was that this doesn’t stand out for BO; he’s received accolade and position without working for them his entire life - why should this set off any warning bells?

Thing is, this sets his limits right smartly - the smart move was easy - right in front of him - but he fumbled the ball anyway.

He’s going to lose a lot of SWPLs over this. SWPLs don’t appreciate African values in their “transcendent” candidates. More important, they really don’t go for socially and politically clueless. Being sensible enough to know when you should be embarrassed: priceless. The right is going to be pointing and laughing over this for decades to come.

I call it the triple-lending of political shark-jumping.

Posted by Svigor on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:33 | #

I mean, I was shocked for all of three seconds, when I saw the news. Not exaggerating, about 2-3 seconds, then I got a Cheshire Cat grin, because it’s so fucking absurd and everyone with a three-digit IQ will know it. Then I was crestfallen when someone suggested the possibility of him rejecting it - it hadn’t even occurred to me, and I just knew he’d humbly and graciously reject it. Totally the no-brainer move. He’d be Jesus Christ all over again to the lemmings, and even Conservatives would have to acknowledge his making the right move. Little did I know at the time, he’d already accepted. Dunce!

Posted by John on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:26 | #

The Nobels jumped the shark years ago when they gave the award to Woodrow Wilson.

Posted by Agent provocateur on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:35 | #

Actions speak louder than words, alas that seems to no longer be true in this new world order.

Obama joins esteemed company such as “the red cross, Martin luther king and mother teresa” purely based on what he “might achieve in the future” ?

The right words and symbology have always granted power (some might say magic), history proves this beyond doubt.

When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:33 | #