Obama wins Miss Universe pagent! Plus Nobel Prize

and MLB To Announce Obama as Cy Young Award Winner!!!

I sweear waking up to the news this morning I thought the ONION had a new cable tv station.

Congrats Mr President but what exactly has he done?

Instapundit has some initial thought and links:


OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE? “For what?”
UPDATE: What do Barack Obama and Yassir Arafat have in common?
Plus, Mickey Kaus: Turn It Down. “Say he’s honored but he hasn’t had the time yet to accomplish what he wants to accomplish.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Doug Mataconis on Facebook: “Teddy Roosevelt wins Peace Prize for stopping a war. Carter wins Peace Prize for a lifetime of work. Obama wins Peace prize for breathing.”
MORE: Heh.
I say, not bad for a guy who’s been acting like Bambi caught in the headlights of history.
STILL MORE: London Times: Absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize. Oh, it was already a mockery.
Meanwhile, Mataconis is on a roll on Facebook: “How can Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day that he’s becoming the first POTUS to bomb the Moon?”
It’s Frank J. Fleming’s world. The rest of us just live in it.
MORE STILL: Various reader comments:
“It’s a peace prize, not a peace peace prize.”
“How do you say ‘jumped the shark’ in Norwegian?”
“Today the Nobel Committee announced a posthumous Peace Prize for Neville Chamberlain.”
“Why not the Cy Young Award, too?”
Plus, Jacob T. Levy on Facebook: ” The US border agent in Toronto– the armed representative of the state who was holding my passport– asked me what I thought of the Nobel, got angry when I was anything less than celebratory, and didn’t want to give my passport back– wanted to keep arguing.”
“Americans want to be loved.”
Posted at 6:59 am by Glenn Reynolds .

Ann Althouse has thoughts at

Friday, October 09, 2009

I wonder if the Dalai Lama is thinking kind thoughts right now.
And Al Gore. What's he thinking?
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posted by Ann Althouse at 7:13 AM 12 comments

Riddle: Why didn't Barack Obama win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: He wrote 2 books.
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posted by Ann Althouse at 7:06 AM 13 comments

Barack Obama has got me tweeting again!
Tweeeeeee!
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posted by Ann Althouse at 7:05 AM 0 comments

You may ask who else was there who should have won the Nobel Peace Prize?
And to that I say: Who else? What are you talking about? When there is Barack Obama in the world why should anyone else get anything?
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posted by Ann Althouse at 6:55 AM 10 comments

Barack Obama can now proceed undistracted by thoughts of what he would need to do to win the Nobel Prize.
Go totally hawkish. Kick Iran's ass. Anything you want. Ah ha ha ha ha.
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posted by Ann Althouse at 6:52 AM 8 comments

The question is not why did they give Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
The question is why didn't he get the Olympics.The story of Barack Obama is the story of winning things when he hasn't yet done enough to deserve them. He is, quite simply, Barack Obama. We understand that. Why didn't the IOC understand? You could see it in that smile on his face, when he concluded his little speech in Copenhagen, that he bore the sublime knowledge he would acquire the Olympics for Chicago. Because he is Barack Obama, the man to whom grand prizes are given.Last Friday, it was so disconcerting. It just didn't make sense. Chicago is out?! Chicago is out?! And now, things feel right again. Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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posted by Ann Althouse at 6:46 AM 46 comments