O' wins the NO' for doing NADA * UPDATE: Public opinion video added

Do I have to talk about this? Okay, here's what I think. Big deal. Seriously. As if we didn't know the Nobel Peace Prize was a joke when awarded to Jimmy Carter in 2002, our suppositions were confirmed with Al Gore in 2007. Now, we've got Obama in 2009.

Bush frees 50 Million Iraqis from a terrorist regime and gets nothing. Reagan frees hundreds of millions of Europeans from Communism and gets nothing. Do we really care about this prize? I think not.
The only thing this gave us was additional joke capital. I don't work in a deficit. I'm a conservative. We don't spend money we don't have.

Even the libs are joking...because it's a joke. And if Obama has accomplished anything, he's united us to make fun of him. So receive your prize with pride, Mr. Accomplishment. (lest we forget, even SNL last weekend made fun of his lack of accomplishments)

Since I'm all tapped out of jokes. I posted all of mine on Twitter. I'm going to leave you with a few quotes from the media wondering, seriously?

Washington Post:

Obama is the third sitting U.S. president–and the first in 90 years–to win the prestigious peace prize. His predecessors won during their second White House terms, however, and after significant achievements in their diplomacy.

New York Times:

Reporters at a news conference to announce the prize pressed the committee’s chairman, Thorbjorn Jagland, to explain the reasons Mr. Obama had prevailed over other candidates who included human rights activists in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa. Specifically, reporters asked whether Mr. Obama might not become mired in a war in Afghanistan as Lyndon B. Johnson was in Vietnam.

Matt Lauer:

There are no major foreign policy achievements to date … In some ways he wins this for not being George W. Bush.

Peter Breinhart at The Daily Beast:

I like Barack Obama as much as the next liberal, but this is a farce. He’s done nothing to deserve the prize. Sure, he’s given some lovely speeches and launched some initiatives—on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian peace, climate change and nuclear disarmament—that might, if he’s really lucky and really good, make the world a more safe, more just, more peaceful world. But there’s absolutely no way to know if he’ll succeed, and by giving him the Nobel Prize as a kind of “atta boy,” the Nobel Committee is actually just highlighting the gap that conservatives have long highlighted: between Obamamania as global hype and Obama’s actual accomplishments.

The Associated Press:

Rather than recognizing concrete achievement, the 2009 prize appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

Financial Times:

It is hard to point to a single place where Obama’s efforts have actually brought about peace.

Times of London:
(such a great piece, I'm posting several sections)

Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent....

Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace....
East-West relations are little better than they were six months ago, and any change is probably due largely to the global economic downturn; and America’s vaunted determination to re-engage with the Muslim world has failed to make any concrete progress towards ending the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
There is a further irony in offering a peace prize to a president whose principal preoccupation at the moment is when and how to expand the war in Afghanistan.....

The achievements of all previous winners have been diminished.

Norwegian Nobel committee has accomplished a shift in media coverage, even if for an hour, that opponents of President Obama's agenda have not been able to achieve. They, in their slobbering love-affair of all the carbon spewing from the O's mouth, brought the majority of the media on one major talking point: Obama hasn't accomplished anything....(and I'll add) positive.

Big Curtsy to HotAir for doing all the work. I only copied and pasted.


UPDATE:
The AP takes a sampling of public opinion.


Em kay.

So the Washington guy believes the world was giving us a thumbs up for electing Obama?
Someone please explain to me why we give a flying fig about the opinion of Norwegians, or any other foreigners for that matter, when concerning our nation.

- Will they be paying the higher taxes that come with O's election?
- Will they be under the reformed health care that will come with O's election?
- Will they lose loved ones or even their life if America is attacked by terrorist due to our poor national defense that comes with O's election?
- Will their investments equate to jack squat due to the declining dollar that's come with O's election?
- Will they be out of work due to the failing economy that has come with O's election?
- Will they be told what light bulbs to use, what cars to drive, what fat they can't eat, what soda or juice they can't drink, that all comes with O's election?

Again. Why should we give a flying fig (I'm a lady, I'm a Christian, but my mind is definitely using a different word here) about these foreigners? Eh? Why? We do nothing but save their overpriced fannies from the fire, send foreign aid, send troops, be THE SUPERPOWER of good in the world, and we need them to give us a "thumbs up"?
Flying fig.

And to the hoodie wearing Chicagoan who believes awards are given for hard work. Uhhh....tell that to anyone who works on commission. Award comes from results. Not work. And seriously? Appearing on David Letterman is hard work? Having Latino music festivals is hard work? Hosting a Beer Summit is hard work? Standing in front of a teleprompter and giving speeches is hard work?
O wanted this job. He campaigned his Nobel Laurette arse off for it. He got it. And since, he's spent his time flying around giving speeches. If awards come from hard work, I know of a few people who deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, like...plumbers and electricians and small-business owners and police officers and CPA's and computer programmers and business managers and dentists and appliance repairmen and frizzy-headed freelance writers and....