Nobel Rage Prize
Was it really a surprise? Well, yes, the Nobel Peace Prize lost all credibility when it was given to Gorbachev over Ronald Reagan, to Al Gore as a consolation prize. However TB isn't sure anyone had thought it had sunk this low. Let us get a couple of things straight. Obama spouted off a few times on the campaign trail about diplomacy before happily continuing to bomb Pakistan as well as oversee god knows how many covert operations the American government is running. Don't get TB wrong with that statement.
To have him nominated for this badge is as laughable as it is pathetic. Nominations closed within weeks of him becoming Commander in Chief of the forces of the world's most rapidly declining, and thus aggressively cornered super-power. How can a man be awarded for his understanding of peaceful solutions when he can equate the IDF and Hamas on the same moral standing. It's a real shame that the Peace Prize will never, ever, again be taken seriously again. Register your upset
The warning signs were always there though, they did give it to Arafat.
To have him nominated for this badge is as laughable as it is pathetic. Nominations closed within weeks of him becoming Commander in Chief of the forces of the world's most rapidly declining, and thus aggressively cornered super-power. How can a man be awarded for his understanding of peaceful solutions when he can equate the IDF and Hamas on the same moral standing. It's a real shame that the Peace Prize will never, ever, again be taken seriously again. Register your upset
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.The warning signs were always there though, they did give it to Arafat.
3 comments:
That photo is naughty - but I like it!
As for the Peace Prize, a good analogy I've seen is that Obama is a cat burglar and the Nobel is the creaky floorboard - it's exposed more people to what a fraud he is than if he hadn't won it.
Hmm, the last thing I would have put you down as was anti-American.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been a joke for decades - I remember Drop The Dead Donkey mocking the shock of it being awarded to "someone who actually deserves it" and has never killed anyone. "After Kissinger and Begin, the smart money was on either Pol Pot or Vinnie Jones".
Damn, that was a great show!