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So having received the prize is the best proof of having accomplished something?

Post 1

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 7:23pm

Okay, then what, exactly, has he done. Not said. Not hoped. Not promised to do. Done. What has Barack Hussein Obama actually done?

Post 2

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 7:49pm

Don't those kooks over in Norway vote on this in Late January or February?

Post 3

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 9:34pm

The nomination is due Feb 1. So, in the 12 days between his inauguration (Jan 20) and the day he was nominated, he must have done something worth the nomination. Apparently "not being George Bush" is considered a deed in Norwegian metaphysics. So we are all of us except GWB worthy of the medal?

Post 4

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 9:18am

Every time I read this I chuckle. I immediately get a mental image of Dave Chappelle in "Half Baked" impersonating a Jamaican in rasta gear.

"If I wasn't from Jamaica, then why would I be wearing this hat? "

If he wasn't a peacemaker, then why would he have that award?

I wonder if he gets to keep the Nobel for fighting the proliferation of nuclear weapons once Iran finds the watch battery and paperclip they need to finish their bomb.

Post 5

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 7:20pm

Maybe it was just a slow year ;)

Just for fun, who would you say deserved the prize this year?

Post 6

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 7:53pm

BREAKING NEWS: This just in!!!

Obama wins the Heisman Trophy after watching a college football game!!!

Post 7

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 8:31pm

That's the real tragedy, Doug. The developers of the microlending paradigm, a productive, effective market solution to a real problem got the Nobel a while back and the prize brought them world-wide attention they would otherwise never have gotten. (Obama needs less, not more attention.) By abrogating their responsibility in making a serious choice for who would win this award they wasted their time, violated Alfred Nobel's wishes, harmed the causes that really deserved their attention, and made of themselves a joke which they will never live down.

Post 8

Friday, October 16, 2009 - 3:32pm

Saturday Night Live skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnMYZDsrJM

"I have a majority in both Houses of Congress. I could have required all gays to marry and all cars to run on marijuana, but did I?"

Post 9

Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 11:16pm

Newsflash [beep, beep, beep]:

Obama sends in a third of the troops requested by commanding general; gets nominated for Purple Heart

In other news:

Obama helps disabled child cross finish line in Special Olympics; committee tells boy he must share Gold Medal with Obama; crowd emphatically agrees

In still other news:

Obama awarded Pulitzer Prize for planning to write novel about boy and dog by tree in field

"I've really been thinking a lot about writing this novel," Obama said to the crowd, "it would be about a boy and his dog by a tree in a field." The crowd answered with a standing ovation. He didn't yet have a manuscript or anything, so Obama just signed people's foreheads for his autograph, which reads:

"I'm planning to write this really great novel.

BH Obama"

(Edited by Ed Thompson on 10/17, 11:27pm)

Post 10

Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 10:04am