October 9, 2009
Exclusive: Yes, Virginia: Nobel? Yes. Noble? Definitely Not.
Ruth King
“Mirror, mirror on the wall…Who’s the fairest of them all?”
The Nobel Committee has answered: “Thou Obama, art the fairest of them all.”
The will of Alfred Nobel very clearly stated that the peace prize should be awarded to: "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
And, Obama does fraternize – Venezuela, Russia – and he has extended a very unclenched fist to all Muslim nations, and he is certainly for the reduction of standing armies (our own included) and he promotes the “peace congress” now known as the United Nations.
He deserves the prize – and he is in such august company. As the “Wickies” in Wikipedia admit: “The selection of Nobel Peace Prize winners sometimes causes controversy, as it has become greatly politicized and not related to issues of peace and the list of winners includes people who formerly used violence and terrorism,” but then they cheerfully add, “but then later made exceptional concessions to non-violence in the attempt to achieve peace.” See Yasser Arafat for that one and Anwar Sadat too. In fact, Anwar Sadat’s poster boy, Adolph Hitler, actually made the casting couch for a Nobel in 1939. Hey…so did Stalin and Benito Mussolini. It’s a big world after all.
Oops! I almost forgot Kofi Annan. Geez nobody ever looked spiffier in a tux, so who cares about his dipping his family fingers into the cookie jar of the Oil for Food scandal? Compared to him the laureate Jimmy Carter looks like an old toad in a tux. Even the hyper-inflated prevaricator Nobel winner Al Gore looked better – if a tad like a size 14 stuffed into a size 10.
And speaking of prevarication, remember Rigoberta Menchu? She was a Guatemalan peasant….oops again – peasant is not a very politically correct term now – so let’s call her a “wealth and education challenged” liar. It turned out that her “autobiography” was a total fabrication. Anyway, let’s let bygones be bygones. She did have a tough life.
And speaking of tough life, you know all those so called Arab “refugee camps” housing the fourth generation of Palestinian Arabs in squalid conditions and impairing all efforts, including Israel’s, to resettle them? Well the United Nations Agency that keeps them there while turning a blind eye to their terrorist activities got a Nobel “peace” too. Yup. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees walked away with that one in 1981.
And then there is Mohammed Al Baradei, who is so peaceful he covered up the Iranian nuke buildup to disarm the West. Now that is an exceptional concession to non-violence, wouldn’t you say? And by the way, he gushed when he heard of President Obama’s nomination: "I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honor."
Other Arab “leaders” were not so sanguine, Some were downright pithy.
"Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward," said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. "Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes."
Issam al-Khazraji, a day laborer in Baghdad, said: "He doesn't deserve this prize. All these problems -- Iraq, Afghanistan -- have not been solved...The man of 'change' hasn't changed anything yet."
Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative religious party in Pakistan, called the award an embarrassing "joke."
So much for gratitude to the great outreacher to Islam.
What do you suppose Michelle Obama will wear to the ceremonies? And will she give a press conference to recall how she sat on her daddy’s lap and watched Dr. Ralph Bunche, the first African-American win the Nobel Prize in 1950? Oh! That was before she was born.
In Copenhagen, while strutting for the Olympics, she said she sat on her father’s lap watching Carl Lewis win the Olympics. She would have been 20 years old at the time – a tad, er, late for sitting on daddy’s lap. But time and dates are inconsequential to the First Lady, so I’ll stop the nit-picking.
What’s done is done. He won. A lot of good people have, in fact, won the peace prize but a lot of really noble people such as Irena Sendler and Corazon Aquino and Pope John did not.
Nobel is not a definition of noble.
Noble is defined as:
1. famous, illustrious, renowned, impressive in appearance, imposing, stately, distinguished, famous, showing magnanimity.
He passes those, although his magnanimity is selective and reserved for thugs.
On the other definitions:
2. Having an exalted moral or mental character, lofty, honorable, high minded, having elevated principles and constantly adhering to them, scorning pettiness.
Virginia: He isn’t even a contender.
When the brouhaha settles and the ego is stuffed into his shirt, the mirror may speak again:
“Oh King though Nobel you be, a noble man is fairer to see.”
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Ruth S. King is a freelance writer who writes a monthly column in OUTPOST, the publication of Americans for a Safe Israel.
Reader Comments: Submit Your Comment (13)
Brava!
posted by : John Dendahl
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 12:40 AM
Fantastic piece. We all need a good laugh today after this is what we all woke up to this morning.
Thanks Ruth!
posted by : george
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 01:09 PM
I wonder if the pay czar is going to dictate how much of the prize money Obama can have and/or if the IRS is licking their chops for their "fair share"....
Will they donate the funds to charity or will Michelle soon be on shopping trip to some ultra expensive boutique to purchase another hideous outfit....
posted by : Liz T.
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 01:35 PM
the Nobel was awarded "to enhance his personality" because he "might" do something. I don't know what the O's personality is lacking he's got that "me, myself, and I" thing all wrapped up.
posted by : Cindy M
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 01:57 PM
Tea Party Protest Planned for
10/17/2009
NBC,CBS,ABC, American taxpayers are planning to storm more than 100 mainstream media offices and stations across the nation next week in protest of a media blackout of the growing movement against Obama administration policies.
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Following sparse coverage of a massive 9/12 march on Washington, talk show host Rush Limbaugh urged citizens to bring their protests to the front doors of major media outlets.
posted by : Kevin M
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 04:36 PM
Ha, ha!
I wrote an almost identical commentary over at Jihadwatch.org after researching at Wikipedia.
This suits him well.
It can't possibly contribute more to his already hyper-inflated narcissistic ego, can it?
posted by : al-Kidya
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 04:50 PM
Thanks, Kevin M.
"Rush Limbaugh urged citizens to bring their protests to the front doors of major media outlets".
Rush would also be wise to include the American Library Assoc.(ALA) for their recent announcement that they are implementing censorship policies. This represents a travesty to the 1st Amendment Rights. With a slash of the pen Obama, with support of Egypt took that way in the recent 2009 UN Human Rights Amendment.
President Obama should be impeached as a traitor.
posted by : al-Kidya
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 05:01 PM
I feel Iranians were cheated! If hopes and aspirations qualified for a Nobel prize, we have been hoping and aspiring for peace and democracy for 30 years, where is our Nobel prize?
Arash Irandoost
posted by : Arash Irandoost
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 06:13 PM
What a joke! Obama will donate the million to ACORN - watch him give it to agencies who are involved with ACORN...He has done NOTHING and was nominated only days after his taking office. 12 days of work-mmmmm....Nobel Peace Prize nominee.....You can at least now be sure that this award means NOTHING - and he is now among those others who also were NOT GREAT and did horrible deeds around the world. What an embarrassment we are to the world and our no longer allies who have been trampled on by this sham of a President. Could I just go to sleep and wake up in 2012 when we can relieve our country of this joke of a President. Does anybody care anymore about what we have done to ourselves with this man elected???? Will we be smart enough to get him defeated in 2012 ?
posted by : Paula
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 06:39 PM
My prediction is that this week will mark the mobbed-up Mussolini-modeled modified-Marxist murtadd-Muslim (any/many) mothers-boy's Jump-the-Shark moment!
It's my bet that 0zero's definitive Clinical NarciSSism, his loathsome and fearsome surrogate-mother "spouse's" so-often-tangible envy, rage and hatred, the effect this corruptly bought-and-paid-for-by-the-Islamist-Wahabi's "award" will have on what passes for the one's already deadly dangerous American-Soldier-intensive dithering and inability to deal with the Real World's evil will combine with the universal scorn this abjectly-discredited Yasser Arafat "award" will generate and will create the perfect storm. And that storm will finally fix the sail-eared savant's Floaties and force his resignation.
Look for the new pretender to the "presidency:" Joe the bankers' boy Biden; from September 11 2011, to hold the office for United States of America's already President and Armed Forces Commander-In-Chief-Elect Sarah Louise Heath Palin.
posted by : Brian Richard Allen
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 09:55 PM
UNA DE LAS PEORES SELECCIONES DE LOS ADMINISTRADORES DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LA PAZ.
NO HA SIDO LA ÚNICA DESDE QUE ESTE GALARDÓN SE DEJÓ EN MANOS DE ESA AGRUPACION DE EXTRAÑOS SERES NORUEGOS SOCIALISTAS.
MUY DESACERTADA ELECCIÓN! - LA HISTORIA PROXIMA LO DEMOSTRARÁ.
posted by : AUGUS
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 10:11 PM
A gold medallion and a sack of cash go to the unrealized "efforts" of a president who has failed to keep any of his socialist promises (to date)to "transform" America into a European collectivist knock-off -- though he has helped lay the foundation of totalitarianism here. The Nobel committee awarded Obama the prize in the hope that he will indeed "change" the U.S. into something it and its fellow anti-American manques are more comfortable with: a whipped giant, chained to servitude and sacrifice.
posted by : Edward Cline
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 11:20 PM
It has pretty much been all said, however maybe he does deserve to win the noble prize after all he promised change and he has changed America from a great nation to a nation apologizes for everything that this GREAT COUNTRY has ever done. He is from Chicago and we know what that that means did not Scarface win a prize no he went to prison, I know the Governor of Ill. NO he is going to prison. obama is a liar and a thief he is stealing the greatness of this COUNTRY and the rest of the world likes this hence the nobel prize, but it should be no surprise after all the peanut farmer won the dam thing.
posted by : James Ferguson
Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 12:50 AM
