What I find even more laughable is how liberals can defend this? Even if this was someone I supported in the election (he wasn’t), I would have to admit it is ridiculous, but then again he is in the company of Yassir Arafat, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, so he deserves that!

Jack

Nobody told Hillery about the money that comes with it.

Orson: YPOU can email the Nobel people at
postmaster@nobel.noHere’s mine:Dear Nobel Peace Prize Committee-Thank you for the continuing political satire! Brilliant to make our failed President your world hero! Take him-PLEASE.I come from Norwegian-American stock in the heartland of the US. We used to tell about Norwegian stupidity through “Sven and Ole” jokes. Thank you, dear committee. Now there is no excuse not to set “Sven and Ole” in Oslo, Norway!Our national political satire program on Saturday nights, called “Saturday Night Live” (giving the world stars like Bill Murray and Mike Myers), now has a new angle: a Peace Prize Award too funny to believe as comedy – but now made REAL. Uffda!Only in Norway, now!In the midst of a painful recession only He could prolong, you bring us the joy of an endless butt of humor!-Orson Olson

ORSON! GREAT LETTER! You inspired me to also write the misguided “committee” & urge my fellow like-minded friends to do so as well. I loved your last line so much, I borrowed it – I hope you don’t mind!! Here is the email I sent on Friday:

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Dear Nobel Peace Prize Committee…

YOUR ORGANIZATION IS NOW THE LAUGHING STOCK OF AMERICA!

I’m sorry, that’s inaccurate — let me restate that..

You became the laughing stock years ago when the very bloated & unworthy Al Gore was decorated with your aimless, hollow award over the rightful & much deserving humanitarian, Irena Sendler! Your organization is increasingly becoming a disgraceful obscenity, marring the reputations of any respectable award winners of the past.

It’s ironic that a country more commonly associated with a cruise line rather than sound governance, can’t recognize a sinking ship when they see it. If it wasn’t far too late, it would have served you well after the Jimmy Carter or Al Gore bungles, to un-wedge your giddy faces from the nether regions of the failed, discreditable dullards you so slobberingly adore & reassess your award standards.

On a positive note, however… in the midst of a painful recession perpetuated by YOUR new hero, you have given the American people the joy of an endless butt of humor & further enflamed our zeal to restore our Great Republic!! Thank you.

Free a country from a murderous oppressor and live with ridicule…what a world we live in!

“Norway couldn’t have afforded the award banquet if they gave it to Michael Moore.”

Obama gave Norway an honorable mention during the ‘Worldwide Apology Tour’

ShelbyC: Oh come on, of course people who disagree with Obama are going to joke about this. Hell, could you imagine the reaction on the left if Bush won the Nobel peace prize?

I just never get tired of this sublime form of argumentation, regardless of which side is using it. I get tingly the way the Viagra-cons do for SP and the way the guilty-libs do for BHO.

I,personally,think it was awarded prematurely. As a rule, an award is given for accomplishment (peace). How long did the Nobel Peace Prize Committee take to prepare the list of candidates, when was it done and how long did it take to decide the winner ?

I guess, my last question is – where is there peace? Afghanistan, Pakistan ? PLEEEEASE tell me!!!

Geez, the election was in November ’08. Get over it already!

Over 50% of Norway’s Government Pension fund is invested in the U.S., and there’s no time like the present to buy Obamasure, for those High Return, Low Risk, AAA Rated investments.

Orson: Joke round up (the last two from instapundit):What do Vidkin Quisling and Barack Obama have in common?Norway and they both bring fascism home.Why won’t the US waste a nuke on Oslo? Obviously, its already radioactive.Teddy Roosevelt wins Peace Prize for stopping a war. Carter wins Peace Prize for a lifetime of work. Obama wins Peace prize for breathing.How can Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day that he’s becoming the first President of the United States to bomb the Moon?

JO

I agree that Obama’s achievements do not warrant the Peace Prize. The American electorate, by self-correcting in a manner that restored hope that the United States could regain its moral and practical footing as a leading force for good in our world, was the committee’s likely target. This still would not have been my choice, for several reasons, but it is understandable and within the range of reason.

Sarcastro: Yep, the Prize is only awarded to people who have done something.

You may be on to something there… someone award me a Physics nobel based on what I *might* do in the future!

Sarcastro, you are indeed hilarious… but not in the ways you intend.

Sarcastro: It’s never been used as a nudge for people to keep on doing something!

{ WARNING! The following sentence has been produced in a factory that also processes logic. }

Psst. In order to “keep on doing something”, you have to be “doing something” in the first place, yes?

I am sorry that I hurt you. It was just never meant to be.

OK. Feel better?

Or how is this: I am right-of-center, but forgot to vote for Bush. Twice. Oops, silly me. I probably agree with more than half of your criticisms of the previous administration. BUT . . . Obama has done nothing to deserve this award. AND . . . the Nobel Peace Prize is “starting” to become a parody.

Managed to fight off an army of strawmen without firing a shot.

Sheri: What a pathetic joke! This man makes me ashamed to admit that I’m an American.

Meanwhile, liberals have Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Haven’t you heard -enough- apologies already?

The same group of ultra leftists just gave America’s president the same prize they awarded to Yasser Arafat, the blue helmetted UN Peacekeepers of the 1990′s who ran whore houses in Kosovo, Kofi Anan and the whole United Nations of his era…I could go on.

I think the Nobel panel could do some apologizing.
That’d be good.