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Republicans, Hamas, and the Taliban join to condemm Obama’s Nobel.
When I woke up this morning I checked my twitter feed and everyone was going ‘Obama awarded a Nobel, WTF?’
So did I (much like Scalzi, here). While I agree it’ll probably be a liability in terms of the criticisms that he’s a celebrity president and so on, I’m actually cracking up about this because of the completely predictable response from the GOP party machine and spokespeople: instant condemnation. Like celebrating the failure to host the Olympics just because it was a cause Obama championed. You see, when else will the Republican party line up in complete and utter agreement with Hamas (Scott points out below I may have gotten that quote out of context, so grain of salt for Hamas there) and the Taliban and various terrorist groups that are anti-American?
Pre-2008 anything like this would be met with accusations of treason from rightist bloggers.
Either way, it’s funny to me to see the Republican party agreeing with terrorists.
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1. Stephen Granade on Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Ha, that’s a wonderful and scary meeting-of-the-minds there.
2. Scott Janssens on Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:13 am
The Hamas leader praised and congratulated Obama for the award. Be wary of selective quoting.
I find it ironic that the peace prize is awarded to him on a day he’ll start to decide how many additional troops to send to Afghanistan.
3. Tobias Buckell on Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Scott: the Taliban already made the same observation as you, which I linked in the above (though maybe after you commented, as I had to amend the post):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091009/pl_afp/nobelpeaceobamaafghanistan_20091009115554
Thanks for the warning on the Hamas quote, I did not find the original press release for that.
4. Scott Janssens on Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Damn, never thought I’d see eye to eye on anything with the Taliban. Obama really is a uniter!
Hamas reaction: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/obama.nobel.international.reaction/index.html. They both congratulate and say it’s early, express a bit of hope.
If the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded decades after the fact like the Nobel prizes, I wonder if Arafat/Perez or Kissinger would have still won.
5. Tobias Buckell on Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:59 am
LOL.
Yeah, it is odd that they do it for ‘in progress’ stuff, and Arafat’s winning was pretty useless in the long term. It makes a much more politicized tool than a great big accomplishments oriented award like all other aspects of the non-peace parts of the award.
6. Stephen Wrighton on Oct 9th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Actually, as a Rightest Blogger, I wouldn’t have decried TREASON!!1!!1! if Bush (or better yet Reagan, as he did more for World Peace than either Bush, though that’s a bit before my blogging days) had won the Nobel Peace Prize and Leftist blogs/media had gone “Dude! What’s up with that?!”
In fact, I would have jumped in as well.
But think on this, he was President for what, 11? 12 days before he was nominated? And before being PotUS, all he did was mouth off a bunch of campaign slogans–and when it comes to campaign “promises”, in my opinion every politician is a liar.
7. Wyman Cooke on Oct 12th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Hugo Chavez, that paragon of democracy and peace, has condemned Obama’s Nobel. Ye Gohds!
Personally, I think it’s way early. What if Bin Laden strikes America again? President Obama would have to take decisive action then.