"The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists,  the Taliban and Hamas this morning, in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize -- an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride -- unless of course you are the Republican Party. The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It's no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore - it's an embarrassing label to claim."


DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse

U.S. Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele contended that Obama won the prize as a result of his "star power" rather than meaningful accomplishments.

"The real question Americans are asking is, What has President Obama actually accomplished?" Steele said.
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"The real question Americans are asking is" ?????
It's been a few hours since the announcement. Steele already has his finger on the pulse of Americans?


This should create some crazy cable news for the weekend.
Who will have the craziest sound byte ?

I place my bet on Rush.

fuman wrote on Oct 9^th, 2009 at 10:27am:

Rush may have some serious competition.  Here's the reaction of RedState.com's Erick Erickson:  "I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news."  But don't call these wingers racists!

Obama could cure cancer and his opponents and detractors would still be dickish... the nobel peacw prize is like a grammy or oacar to me, it's some award giving by a bunch of people I don't know, to a bunch of people I don't know, so that they can all feel good about themselves...

Jesus Christ wrote on Oct 9^th, 2009 at 3:18pm:



interesting typo i made...lol.

From TPM:

A State Department spokesperson, commenting on the Obama's Nobel:

Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum,
when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes.

Pdog wrote on Oct 9^th, 2009 at 7:21pm:



ACORN - Teenage Prostitution Dept.

In the interest of being fair & balanced, here are
the voices of the loyal (sic) opposition weighing in
on our President winning the Nobel Piece (sic) Prize:



Lawyer / Dentist / Birther Spokesperson  Orly Taitz:

"No Noble prize, no feather in the hat, will sanitize
the fact that this man is a fraud and is a danger to
National Security. No prize will exonerate him. He
defrauded the whole nation, all 305 million of us
and needs to be removed from the White House
immediately, and needs to be criminally prosecuted
immediately. I hope each and every citizen writes an
open letter to Noble Prize committee, cc White House,
Department of Justice, FBI, congress and state Houses
of representatives and state senates, letting all of them
know, that this Noble Prize is an embarrassment to this
country, it needs to be withdrawn or at the very least
actual awarding of the prize needs to be postponed
ntil legal actions on Obama’s illegitimacy for presidency
are heard on the merits. The whole country and now the
whole World are entitled to see the evidence, showing him
being illegitimate, showing all of the evidence of massive
fraud and treason.

Keep in mind that the prizes are political. There is a lot of
pressure from different political bodies. Obama, just as Gore
before him, is a stooge of the New World Order Crowd, of the
Carbon Exchange, Cap and Trade Ponzi Scheme crowd, and
a protege of Saudi Arabia. These people have bet billions of
dollars and don’t want to let go of their puppet without a fight.
They are trying to pull any string they possibly can to legitimate
this fraud. An award is just one of those strings. Jimmy Carter
got a Noble Peace Prize and he is known as a Saudi Money
stooge who shamelessly appeared on TV, showed zero integrity
and claimed that all criticism of Obama is racially motivated.
After hearing this idiocy, do you still believe in High IQ and
moral integrity of people getting Noble Piece Prize?"




And, as expected, Rush Limbaugh treading the line
between mere sedition and actual treason:

"The Nobel gang just suicide-bombed themselves.
Gore, Carter, Obama, soon Bill Clinton. See a pattern
here? They are all leftist sell-outs. George Bush liberates
50 million Muslims in Iraq, Reagan liberates hundreds of
millions of Europeans and saves parts of Latin America.
Any awards?...Obama gives speeches trashing his own
country and for that gets a prize, which is now worth as
much as whatever prizes they are putting in Cracker Jacks
these days.

This fully exposes the illusion that is Barack Obama.
It is a greater embarrassment than losing the Olympics
bid. And with this "award" the elites of the world are
urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge
in Afghanistan, not take action against Iran and its
nuclear program and to basically continue his intentions
to emasculate the United States. They love a weakened,
neutered U.S. and this is their way of promoting that concept.
I think God has a great sense of  humor, too. ...I think
Obama's the second Kenyan to win.

I think that everybody is laughing.  Our president is a
worldwide joke. Folks, do you realize something has
happened here:  



about and that is he doesn't deserve the award. Now that's
hilarious, that I'm on the same side of something that the
Taliban, and that  
"

Get Off Obama's Back: Second Thoughts From Michael Moore



Friends,

Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, 'Now earn it!'? Give the guy a break -- this is a great day for him and for all of us."

I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?

We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation -- financially and morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?

Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. What keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote last November? C'mon! We're the majority now -- the majority by a significant margin! We call the shots -- and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get busy and do what we say -- or else.

All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change. And for God's sake, don't head to bummerville if he says or does something we don't like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn't get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they've been driven crazy lately. They'll never have it as good again as they've had it since Reagan took office.

But -- do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No! They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we just pack up our toys and go home.

So, at least for this weekend, let us celebrate what people elsewhere are celebrating -- that America now has a sane and smart man in the White House, a man who truly wants a world at peace for his two daughters.

Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself included), have grumbled, "What has he done to earn this prize?" How 'bout this:

The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man -- a man who opposed the War in Iraq from the beginning -- offered to end the insanity. The world has stood by in utter horror for the past eight years as they watched the descendants of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson light the fuse of our own self-destruction. We flipped off the nations on this planet by abandoning Kyoto and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the polar ice caps. We invaded two nations that didn't attack us, failed to find the real terrorists and, in effect, ignited our own wave of terror. People all over the world wondered if we had gone mad.

And if all that wasn't enough, the outgoing Joker presided over the worst global financial collapse since the Great Depression.

So, yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown Chicago, billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the world -- and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel like they had won, too. When you've got billions of people ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in Oslo is the least that you deserve.

One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio).

The fact that this one man could cause this seismic historical event to occur -- and to do so with such grace and humility, never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"!) -- is more than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. 'Cause I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us -- we, the American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected. After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New Orleans -- and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black man they had been raised to hate -- we had all seen enough. It was time for change.

Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you promised to do. We need it. The world needs it.

My prediction for the future? You become the first *two-time* winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! Yeah!

Fred (that's Norwegian for "Peace"),
Michael Moore


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/get-off-obamas-back-secon_b_316480.h...

This is SWEET !!


White House: Fox News Is 'A Wing Of The Republican Party'


White House Communications Director Anita Dunn slammed Fox News in an interview on CNN with Howie Kurtz this morning, saying that Fox News "is more a wing of the Republican Party" than an objective news organization.

"The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," Dunn said.

This follows up on Dunn's comment to Time earlier this week that Fox News is "opinion journalism masquerading as news." And as we've reported before, the White House and Fox News don't have the warmest relationship to start with.

But this morning, Dunn seems to have taken the White House's criticism of Fox News to the next level. For instance, she said that when President Obama talks to Fox News, he approaches it differently than other cable networks.

    When he goes on Fox, he understands he's not going on it really as a news network at this point, he's going on to debate the opposition.

"Let's not pretend they're a news network the way CNN is," Dunn said.

And this: "They're widely viewed as part of the Republican Party. Take their talking points, put 'em on the air."

As an example, Dunn pointed to last fall, when the United States was grappling with a financial crisis, two wars and a historic election.

"If you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election, what you would have seen would have been that the biggest stories and the biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and something called ACORN."

We'll be watching for Fox News' response.

Factory Girl wrote on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 3:19pm:



I still can't see how they gave a peace prize to a president in charge of two wars... then again, i'm sure somewhere some school gave Bush some doctrate...

here's what riffy has been up to during the "layoff"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=druQ6olIfm4&NR=1