Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, You too can be famous for doing nothing! You too can receive the most prestigious award for doing nothing! If you can read from a teleprompter, you qualify!!
Why not? This man did!
Nominated just 12 days after being sworn in as President. Nominated on the "HOPE" of what he could do!
I wonder if they wish they could take back that nomination knowing NOW what they didn't know then.
Now I could see if Obama had actually DONE something, that would be a different story, and I'd be saying "bravo, good for him".
But TWELVE days of being President and he's nominated for what 'could happen' with him in office?
HE'S DONE NOTHING TO EARN THIS AWARD!!!
He's probably sitting in the Oval Office laughing at the idiocy of the world.
This from Afghan President Hamid Karzai
""We congratulate, wholeheartedly, President Obama on the award of this
prestigious award," said Karzai. "We recognize and commend President
Obama's vision and leadership with a hope that peace and normalcy will
return to Afghanistan and our region."
On the "vision and hope" note that NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE!!
Yet Hisham Qasim, Egyptian democracy and human rights activist, said he was "shocked" Obama won.
"He has achieved nothing. He's stumbling. He hasn't achieved any of his
promises and nothing is working. He promised to close Guantanamo and
now that's not going to happen, and the Arab-Israeli conflict looks
like it's going to get very nasty."
At least that guys being more reasonable.
Here's the reason given for honoring Obama with this award.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it gave the prize to Obama for his
"efforts to strengthen international diplomacy," his "vision of and
work for a world without nuclear weapons" and for inspiring hope and
creating "a new climate in international politics."
Again, "Vision and inspiring hope" So that's all it takes?
I have a vision and inspiring hope that we can live up to our Country's Constitution and not run it into the ground. Does that mean I can win a Nobel Peace Prize too?? Oh Yippee!! Yay ME!
Even some Obama supporters are having doubts of the validity of this award. Source
He couldn't even get the freaking Olympics for Chicago, but he can get the Nobel Peace Prize?
*UPDATE*
I'm on the phone with my son, and he made a very good point. He said, "If Obama does the right thing, he'd turn down the award, cuz he knows he hasn't done anything to deserve it"
And I agree with him 100%. If the President DOES do the right thing, I would actually have a little more respect for him. And that would be something at least, cuz right now I have none LOL
(and if someone named Darci comments on this blog, please be nice to her, she's scared to post on my blogs because she thinks you'll all hate her.. She is a BIG Obama supporter) HI DARCI!!
So much for gaining respect for him. He accepted it.