{"id":14964,"date":"2009-10-09T04:37:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T09:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14964"},"modified":"2009-10-09T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T18:28:03","slug":"obama-wins-peace-prize-for-being-not-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14964","title":{"rendered":"Obama wins peace prize for being not-Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Obama the Peace Prize for 2009. Their reasoning according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/oct\/09\/president-barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize\/?feat=home_cube_position1\">Washington Times<\/a> is;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;for &#8220;his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,&#8221; the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.  &#8220;Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world&#8217;s attention and given its people hope for a better future,&#8221; the committee said. &#8220;His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world&#8217;s population.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words,&#8221;Obama is not George Bush&#8221;. He hasn&#8217;t actually accomplished anything, but he campaigns well. So much for any bit of credibility the prize might have had after awarding it to Yassir Arafat or Al Gore. I guess this is the committee weighing in on troops increases in Afghanistan.   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet Bill Clinton is angier than anyone else on the planet about this though. Clinton actually campaigned for the medal. Like everything else, Barack Obama has won it for doing nothing more than talking.  <\/p>\n<p>   What could make this even more stupid? Nominations for the prize closed in February. Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the prize because he brokered peace between Russia and Japan. Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize because he established the League of Nations. Barack Obama wins because he had an Inauguration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Obama the Peace Prize for 2009. Their reasoning according to &hellip; <a title=\"Obama wins peace prize for being not-Bush\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14964\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama wins peace prize for being not-Bush<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}