Barack OBama Just Won the Nobel Peace Prize.

[shadowkat]

Feeling a tad better this morning. Going out in a bit, to get a new bag, gift for my aunt, and whatever else is needed before taking off bright and early to catch the ferry to Jersey, then off to the Poconos. I will be damned if these allergies get in my way. Assuming of course they are allergies. If it talks like an allery (itchy throat), walks like an allery (conjested), and sees like an allergy (watery eyes) - methinks it is an allergy. Taking antihistestimines which are sort of working. I can't take anything really strong like Benadryle (it has an ingredient that interacts really badly with my tremor meds as well as the fact that it has gluten as additive) or psuedphedrine (a metaphetamine which gives me anxiety attacks and also interacts badly with my tremor meds).

Momster called to tell me who won the Nobel Peace Prize.


Momster: Barack OBama just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Me: Uh. Why?
Momster: Because of his ability to reach out and make peace with both muslim and non-muslim countries around the world.
ME (thinking); Well actually he did have a hard sell. He came after Bush, who managed within six months of taking office to piss off every country in the world including the one's that consider the US an allie. (with the possible exception of Great Britain). Then after 9/11 did it again, with his whole arrogant jingoistic you're either with us or against us spiel. I mean the people from other countries on my live journal correspondence list literally wrote: Thank you, America - when we elected OBama and were shocked. They didn't believe we'd do it. And still remained skeptical after the fact. OBama's ability to attain some accord and get many countries to talk with us again in the space of less than a year is actually notable.
Momster: yes, the commentary is that awarding OBama the prize is in some respects a way of kicking the Bush Administration.
Me: So who awards this prize?
Momster: Sweden. [ETA - according to the comments, Momster was wrong. It is Norway. I'm assuming she got her info from CNN or the newspaper, so they were probably wrong too. Stupid journalists. We live in the info age, but...it's mostly unreliable information.]
Me: Sweden? Okay, I guess that makes sense.
Momster: Interestingly enough only two other "sitting" US presidents have received it - they are Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.[ETC: sitting president means presidents who got it while in the office of US president or while they were actually president, not after they left the office.] Regan didn't get it for all his nuclear arms treaties, Carter was the only one of the three leaders during famous middle east camp david talks who didn't. The conversatives are already claiming Sweden gave it to him because he's a socialist and so are they. [Considering it was Norway - this may not work or it may. Are the Norwegians socialist too?]
Me: sigh. You know if Barack Obama is a socialist, so I am. Go socialism. Captialism is so overrated. So is libertarianism for that matter.

[ETA:I apparently kept putting O'Bama instead of Obama, I have no idea why. My guess is that in my head I'm thinking O-Bama, or Oh Bama. And am spelling it accordingly. This is why the whole phonetical or hooked on phonics learning to read method just about killed me in school.]

Comments

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Actually, the Norwegians hand out the Peace prize... ;-)

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I was very surprised by this too... but then I realized that they have given it to inspirational figures before: people who hadn't necessarily accomplished a lot, but who had inspired hope for the future. It is a huge compliment, and the President seems to appreciate it as such....

Reagan's drugs for Arms pretty much prevented him ever being considered..... Just because Republicans admired him doesn't mean he inspired squat.

But I agree w/you: I want the socialism!!

[hazel75.livejournal.com]

Actually, a lot of my liberal friends are upset by this as well and feel that it would have been better handed out to someone who had actually dedicated his/her life to the cause of peace. Not someone who had been in office for 11 days at the time of his nomination.

::shrugs::

[liliaeth]

uhm, just wondering, but is there any reason you keep typing O'bama instead of Obama?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Carter got it, just not at the time but only a few years ago, check it out.

[annegables.livejournal.com]

Okay- I wish to mouth off about this with people who will not tar and feather me. I wish to state at the outright that I have lived in the United States for a period of time. But, as a Canadian, it seems like America has spent the last decade trying to convince the world that the majority of Americans are well...not to put too fine a point on it...idiots! Seriously. Now, Obama gets elected and there is still a portion of America that wants to tear itself apart. Heathcare is bad even though it works everywhere else. And today, Obama shouldn't have got the Nobel. I'm sorry, but wouldn't normal citizens of a country just be over the moon that their president got the Prize? And that it has been nearly a hundred years since the last sitting president received one should mean Americans would be throwing ticker tape parades across the country. But, no....we have to complain and insult and generally act like...idiots!! Okay, end of rant. And, for the record, I liked living in the States. Please, get it together over there and stop trying to convince the rest of the world you have lost your minds. Thank you and good night.