Democrats and Obama supporters throughout the world are telling us that in mocking Obama and the Nobel committee for awarding him the prize, we are really denigrating America. It is all of a piece: hoping Obama fails - in his attempt to socialize the US - is defined as hoping the US fails. Being pleased that Obama failed to bring the Olympics to crime and corruption ridden Chicago is supposed to be a slap at the US by bitter conservatives. And now, we are being told that making fun of Obama’s undeserved Nobel Peace prize is un-American because it was really America’s prize.
Many of the other nominees – the ones who did not win - represent resistance to tyranny in their home countries.
Ross Douhat in the NY Times:
Many of the other nominees – the ones who did not win - represent resistance to tyranny in their home countries.
Ross Douhat in the NY Times:
In any case, it will be far more offensive when Obama takes the stage in Oslo this November instead of Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s heroic opposition leader; or Thich Quang Do, the Buddhist monk and critic of Vietnam’s authoritarian regime; or Rebiya Kadeer, exiled from China for her labors on behalf of the oppressed Uighur minority; or anyone who has courted death this year protesting for democracy in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Let there be no question about it: this was Obama’s prize. It was his reward to not being George Bush, for beating the McCain - Palin ticket, for touring the world apologizing for America, for supporting America’s adversaries and slapping America’s friends. His Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for working to transform America from a “shining city on a hill” to a Euro-like socialist dystopia.
This was a prize awarded for disliking America as it is, her history and her people. This prize was an insult to America.
3 comments:
The prize was an anti-American award to the most anti-American "American" who ever sat in the white house. He diminishes America every minute of every day. We patriots have not done the damage; our president is riding roughshod over our once proud republic.
I wouldn't be so radical about this. I agree - there were people deserving the prize more - that is without a doubt, but I don't think, the committee's intention was to demean America by awarding its president for his efforts. Maybe we just don't know the criteria, on which basis it is decided, who gets to be the winner. Maybe the fact that Obama is trying to improve the political climate within the international relations seems to them as a bigger step towards the global peace, even though the accomplishments were of an optical sort so far. Lorne
Lorne,
They gave the prize to someone who apologizes for America. Someone who sees America - BO (Before Obama) - as fatally flawed. People who honor Obama do so because they agree with his evaluation of America, not because of his accomplishments since they include - so far - of nationalizing two car companies, the financial sector of the economy and of working to cram an unpopular bill through congress to nationalize our health care system.
And please tell me what he has accomplished to "improve the political climate" either in the US or internationally. I have rarely seen such a poisonous political climate in the US while Iran and North Korea are busy at nuclear proliferation and Russia is attempting to re-establish its hegemony over the old USSR and its satellites. The only thing he has done is repudiate George Bush for which he got the prize. In doing so he has cozied up to socialist, communist and Islamofascist regimes while giving Wal-Mart copies of old DVDs to England as a thank-you gift. But don’t worry; they don’t play on English video equipment. This from the gang that promised us “smart diplomacy.”
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