Comments on: Obama’s Nobel: What a Bummer!

By: Taliesin Knol

Taliesin Knol — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:42:54 +0000

Nobel prize to the American people for getting a clue…

By: Taliesin Knol

Taliesin Knol — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:40:45 +0000

Nobel prize on military behalf, to a President fighting two wars. That’d go over well. (like Hindenburg)

By: dduck

dduck — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:26:49 +0000

I have no idea. But at this point, it might be too late. The rabid righties and the right-moderates (me) would blast him for first flip flopping and then for making a Machiavellian move.

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:17:21 +0000

I wonder, dduck: is there a point at which the recipient formally accepts the award (before the actual acceptance speech in Oslo)? You’d think Obama would have said something by now if he were going to pull a Teddy Roosevelt.

By: dduck

dduck — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:42:07 +0000

He still has a chance to do a Teddy Roosevelt. I think if Hilary had had the chance, being a smarter politician (not a compliment), she would have delayed receiving the award.

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:33:45 +0000

Good God! There were 5670 references to “Obamagasm” on Google, including an entry in The Urban Dictionary. So it looks like I wasn’t exactly the first. But I still came up with it on my own. (That’s sort of like being the 5000th person to invent the telephone.)

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:37 +0000

Hallie: Yep, “Obamagasm” was my own brainchild, though I wouldn’t be surprised if other commentators have come up with it, too. (I should google it.) You’re right: Hillary, however liberal and effective she might have been, still would have been perceived by the world as “politics as usual.” Obama was such a clean break from Bush (clean and articulate, as Joe Biden noted) that Europe had its collective “Oh God! Yes!” moment.

P.S. I like your mother.

By: Hallie

Hallie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:17:52 +0000

Haven’t been here is a while. Looking forward to reading the “utopias.” But first, I felt I should say that in all the partisan bickering going on in the country, I had never heard “Obamagasm”— funny.

As far as the “peace prize”, why was everyone so suprised? And, no, there is no way Hillary would have gotten the prize. She’s an old school democrat (way to much baggage) that is, she still represents “Americanism.” Obama represents the dismantling of “Americanism” and the “hope” of a more just world. But as ma used to say, “hope in one hand and spit in the other, see which one gets filled up first.”

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:32:36 +0000

Good point, dduck. I have to wonder if Hillary would have won the prize so soon, but I think you’re right that the herring-reefer smokers were applauding Obama essentially for being their kind of U.S. president: the UnBush.

By: dduck

dduck — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:54:22 +0000

Rick, I don’t totally agree with you on the racial part. I think this herring reefer smoking bunch from Oslo, would have awarded any platitude spouting DEMOCRAT that got elected President, since the main consideration was non-bush sentiment.