O’Donnell Gets Her Peak Wingnut On.
It really is a classic. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell lambasts the President for getting the award because …. wait for it…. the President should be more belligerent and desirous of war. Before we get to that point of the rant, let’s review something that she gets wrong in her third sentence of her guest post:
It’s highly unlikely that they nominated him on the merits of his predecessor, so I am a bit confused about which accomplishments as a community organizer qualified him for this award.
Ah, Christine! That is precisely why the award was made: his predecessor. I will let Kavips explain:
He won the prize not because he was so good… but because: THE REPUBLICANS WERE SO BAD. Horrible really, a national disgrace.. America is paying the price for it today.
This metaphor best describes it.
It’s as if one drained a sewer and let nature take over. Those who stood at its lip and quaffed at the odious stench a year ago, returned one year later to see a few blades of grass and flowers sprouting… noticed a tremendous difference… And to anyone living near that sewer, the difference is cataclysmic… No smell, no putridness, no gagging, all traits experienced under the Republican leadership…
So some credit is due. Obama drained the sewer. But it needs to be remembered, his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009, is not a measure of how he was so great.. he is normal… It reflects instead, that the Republican Party is so vile, stinky, with a putrid smell that makes one vomit, that any improvement, however slight, is welcome.
Get it Christine. The predecessor, George W. Bush, that you admire so much was so God awful that he just may have won his successor the Nobel Peace Prize for the sole accomplishment of NOT being George W. Bush or a Republican. So, you got it wrong, President Obama did not win the Nobel Peace Prize on the merits of his predecessor, he won it on the demerits of him.
But let’s continue with Christine’s rant:
So let’s take a look at what he’s done to achieve world peace during the first few months of his Presidency. […]
In the past few months, the Obama Administration has cut our missile defense spending in the midst of a pending nuclear war, turned its back on Israel in her own fight against Iran, denied access the best equipment for our military, but takes regular jaunts overseas for great photo-ops.
So, let me get this straight, Christine wants nuclear war with Iran and an unnecessary and massive taxpayer spending on the F-22 and a missile defense shield, and with those two objectives she foresees, what? Well, I don’t know what she foresees, but it is not peace. I always love the delicious hypocrisy of a Republican decrying wasteful spending in Washington all the while demanding more and more unnecessarily wasteful military spending. Indeed, Christine gets in a few shots at the President in her crazed diatribe about wasting taxpayer money on the President’s trips abroad. Ok, so in Christine’s world, spending taxpayer money for the President to travel overseas for diplomatic summits and multinational conferences is bad, but spending taxpayer money on a war with Iran, on an absurdly wasteful military boondoggle known as the missile shield, and on unnecessary F-22 fighter planes, not to mention escalating the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, well, all of that spending is ok.
Let’s be honest here. Republicans are in full freak mode today over the Nobel Peace Prize because they do not like the Nobel Peace Prize. They do not like diplomacy. They do not like international cooperation. They do not like the pursuit of a real peace. They will say they want peace, but the peace they seek is a Pax Americana, where America achieves peace through the forced subjugation of the entire planet. What they like is bombs, body counts and war. For that is what brings them their peace.
Add to that the fact that Republicans really really really, and I mean really hate President Obama. He drives them bonkers, rabidly insane. So when you have President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, you have the recipe for Peak Wingnut. A perfect storm of conservative self immolation that would be hysterical if these same conservatives were not also in control of this nation’s only viable minority party.
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F22 – is that the expensive jet that can’t fly in the rain?
The deadline for Nobel Peace Prize submissions is Feb, 1st…just 9 days into Obama’s presidency.
You sir, are a douche bag.
Hehehehe. I love it when conservatives call me names. It means I am right.
Well. kave-man is a perfect name for a republican.
CNN has a great analysis of why Obama won. He was not Bush.
They saw president Bush as a man who had led the world into a disastrous intervention in Iraq and a man heading a gas-guzzling nation who was not prepared to help the world cope with climate change.
They were uneasy about his missile defense shield plans to base U.S. military installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. They felt he had never lived up to his pledge to work as hard on the Middle East peace process as Tony Blair had done on bringing peace to Northern Ireland.
Especially they felt that the internment camp at Guantanamo Bay and the “extraordinary rendition” and torture of terrorist suspects was an affront to democracy which besmirched the reputation not only of the U.S. but of its allies, too.
Europeans were alarmed that Bush seemed to be encouraging the climate change deniers. And although he became readier to listen to his European allies during his second term, they never really took to the man whose instinctive response was to use America’s military might in the world’s trouble spots rather than to stay at the negotiating table and who had little time for the United Nations.
So while the world hated the US under Bush, Obama brought a sense of renewed hope that the US would become what it had usually been: a leader of peace and integrity. Those two elements were nowhere to be found during the Bush years.
Speaking of peak wingnut:
Unbelievable. Rush thinks it’s funny that he’s on the same side as the Taliban and Iran. Ummm…no.
“He was not Bush.”
Apparently, his greatest accomplishment to date.
O’Donnell and all of the wingnuts getting appoplexy about this award need to look at themselves hard in the mirror. My theory is that they are responsbile for this really.
Did you vote for GWB?
Did you cheer on the rollout of the lies on Iraq?
Did you quake in your boots over the “mushroom cloud”?
Did you buy the WMD business — even after Hans Blix came back and said they were not there?
Did you insist that the yellowcake was evidence of a nuclear bomb (bypassing any physics you may have slept through)?
Did you boycott French goods? Eat Freedom Toast and Freedom fries for the duration?
Did you cheer on General Shinsheki’s early shunting-aside?
Did you thrill to the “you’re with us or against us” BS?
This could go on and on and on but if it was not for the spectacular an complete failure of BushCo in the international arena, today’s award would not have been made. If wingnuts had not abandoned pretty much every bit of national morality for a cheap and stupid constant belligerence that was supposed to substitute for real power, this award would not have happened.
So sleep well those of you living with your wingularity — you can count yourselves as the people responsible for this bit of business that just serves to remind you of how failed you truly are.
“This could go on and on and on but if it was not for the spectacular an complete failure of BushCo in the international arena, today’s award would not have been made.”
So… President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is also Bush’s fault?
Many of this site’s FlufferNutters seem to be underground today … perhaps they just can’t find the pieces of their heads that popped off this morning?
Or, like Rush, they have run off to join the Taliban? (Go, Rush!)
Why do they hate America, and Americans, so much?
As for Christine, her world revolves around Mr. Bush; her sun shines only on Republicans; and she just cannot envision that “that man” is president. She is not really an American. She is just a Republican.
This award may amount to a cookie to America for electing a president who isn’t a moron. Maybe it’s faint praise. But let’s take it. Small steps, people.
Where should I start? The F-22 can fly in the rain and in fact was rated the finest fighter in the world. Here is the my case for the F-22 including the fact that an independent analysis says we need more. http://www.delawarepolitics.net/save-the-f-22/
You guys have a problem with the Taliban? Some of you are doing all you can to turn Afghanistan and Pakistan over to them.
The best defense is one we control not based upon the good will of murderous tyrants. A missile defense is better than another treaty to be broken.
The real problem you guys have with Christine’s post is that it is witty and powerful. I am glad that she is on our side. You are just jealous.
Actually, we like the Nobel Peace prize — especially when it goes to folks who have made actual accomplishments.
You know, folks like these nominees who were passed over this year in favor of a guy with no significant accomplishments yet.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/10/meet_the_people_who_were_passe.asp
The real problem you guys have with Christine’s post is that it is witty and powerful. I am glad that she is on our side. You are just jealous.
LOL. Get back to us after she gets beat again in another race she is unqualified for.
You guys have a problem with the Taliban? Some of you are doing all you can to turn Afghanistan and Pakistan over to them.
Actually, that occurred under Bush when we removed our forces in Afghanistan to engage Iraq.
So… President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is also Bush’s fault.
No, it is a result of his failure.
Bush was a horrible failure as president.
No, you guys like it when you get to choose the winner. Why the freakout when Jimmy Carter won? He’s extremely accomplished!
they are too stupid and mean to realize how stupid and mean they are. The rest of the world breathed a sigh of relief when we elected Obama.
How many years ago was desegragation?
And here is a black man winning the Presidency.
I had my misgivings at first, but the more fuck nuts like this virgin bash him, the more I understand why he recieved it.
Why the freakout when Jimmy Carter won? He’s extremely accomplished!
NO one likes to talk about his Military service either….
He is the messiah, after all.
For what it may be worth, here is my reaction to this unbelievably outrageous outburst by Christine O’Donnell, truly a fanatic in our midst.
Why do republicans, who love war, guns and killing so much support a party filled with cowards and draft dodgers? Do they hate America?
The Republican party is filled with draft dodgers and cowards. Both Bush sons avoided military service. So did Cheney and Karl Rove. So did Rush and Michael Savage. So did Rudy, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Republican Conference Chairman Jon Kyl, Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair John Cornyn, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Ensign, did not serve. House Minority Leader John Boehner, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, House Republican Conerence Chair Adam Putnam, House Republican Policy Committee Thaddeus McCotter, National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Tom Cole, all did not serve.
They like war without sacrifice. As long as they’re not the ones sacrificing. The Republican hawks weren’t even willing to pay taxes for the war!
Funniest thing conned-servatives have posted in the past couple days is that Christine O’Donnell is “attractive.” Heh! Sure, if you’re looking for someone with an ass so large it has its own gravitational field.
O’Donnell featured her picture prominently on her campaign signs last time. She obviously thought this was helpful.
They were left over from the time before.
After Bill Clinton was elected military service was deemed unrelated to elected office.
The Nobel Prize should mean something for some one who did something. It will matter little for the country or any Peace effort.
Mike Protack
The Nobel Peace Prize has degenerated into the recognition of the worst of American presidents. Carter got his a bit late. Al Gore got a form of consolation prize. Obama is so bad that the Storting had to jump the gun a bit.
Why be surprised?
“After Bill Clinton was elected military service was deemed unrelated to elected office.”
Well past time for that to happen, wasn’t it?
Rhubard if you are looking for a boyish figure like the New York fashion industry then I guess you are right. If you like beautiful women, then the people you are criticizing are right.