Tag Archives: Nobel Prize

Passage Of The Day

October 20, 2009 – 12:05 am

“The Obama prize has generated debate and become an instant punch line around the world. When David Beckham was named ‘man of the match’ in England’s World Cup qualifying soccer game this week despite playing for just 30 minutes, his coach, Fabio Capello, mocked the honor as being ‘like Obama getting the Nobel Prize.’”

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Not That Enthusiastic After All

October 15, 2009 – 10:02 am

Isn’t this interesting?

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Obama’s Nobel Prize: A View From Europe

October 12, 2009 – 7:26 am

Obama’s made all the right noises for a European audience, where he is loved from Latvia to London. He highlights his cosmopolitan differences from the Texas cowboy that he replaced — he’ll talk to America’s enemies, and he’s such a joy at all the right problems. With him, everything can be resolved. And Europeans lap it up.

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Obama’s Nobel Prize: The World as Farce

October 9, 2009 – 9:27 am

The sight of a committee of diplomats reducing themselves to a blubbering gaggle of loons in the hopes of propping up a ludicrous mediocrity is momentarily hilarious, and the upcoming uninhibited goonery from Obama’s admirers threatens to outdo even this, but it is also somewhat sobering. When powerful people make fools of themselves, it behooves us to remember that when the fools are powerful, there is a strong chance that we are all in serious trouble.

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Obama’s Nobel Prize: Editors Roundtable

October 9, 2009 – 9:02 am

We asked The New Ledger’s contributors and editors to share their thoughts on President Obama’s big Nobel Prize victory. “You know, in a very real sense, the Committee missed out on some real worthies. After all, Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have done more to bring an awareness of the danger of nuclear arms to the world than anyone since Truman.”

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Why Obama Deserved It: Andrew Sullivan Explains

October 9, 2009 – 8:32 am

Could you possibly come up with a storyline that more perfectly captures the whole idea of Obama – all talk and promises and of course self-congratulation, and nothing to show for it? At least they haven’t (yet) renamed the prize after him, but I assume that future winners will be given a framed commemorative picture on black velvet of a shirtless Obama astride a unicorn.

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