Bush was never "honored" by the Nobel nabobs..

Because the Nobel nabobs never read the news:

October, 2008, at the President's Conference on International Development, as is often the case, praise for President Bush and his administration was in the air - for doing what? Doing the walk - not just the talk.

Sir Bob Geldof (Humanitarian activist - and Live 8 organizer):

".. a great adventure.. what America was born to do.. the sense that this is America at it's best..

"President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, of Liberia (the first freely elected woman in Africa's history): 

"Under the leadership of President Bush [..] .. What a legacy, Mr. President..." "..America's commitment to democracy and development and to supporting low-income countries around the world has been a signature of foreign policy achievement for President Bush, Secretary Rice, the bipartisan support of the U.S. Congress, and the American people. .." 

Obama was honored by the Nobel nabobs, because they never read the news:

Sen. Obama goes to Kenya in late 2006. He campaigns with and for his friend, Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga. Obama returns home and sends an e-mail to Odinga demanding that for his [Obama's] security [read - security in running for US president] Odinga should never e-mail him directly again.

Odinga, with promises made to the Muslim community Obama's Kenya ghosts:

.. Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

Odinga loses the election. All hell breaks loose:

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.

 

The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.

By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

Obama runs for president. No questions are asked of him, by the national media. Certainly nothing about his efforts regarding "peace" in Kenya. 

Kenya remains engulfed in political unrest. It is not "peaceful." It is bordered by Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda. Let's just say, that it is a region with great national interest - and international interest.

Then Senator Obama, and later now President Obama is subject to what from our national press? Nothing more than a simple curiosity revolving around their excitement that their guy is of Kenyan blood. That's the end of the media's curiosity.

Peace starts at home, Mr. President. You have two choices of home here; Kenya and the US. You have miserably failed in Kenya. Is the US next?

(;~/ gary

I have never considered this a prestigous award. Past award receipients have diminished this award to the same level as a grammy. This year should complete the publics opinion that the award is for snobs and elitist.

            They have taken the meaning of the Nobel and turned it into a booby prize. Who would want it, now? Reagan never got it, and he was the best man to recieve it. Just once, I would like to see someone worthy recieve this piece of junk they call the Nobel prize....                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

This is the first time in my life (61 years) that I have been ashamed to be 50% Norski!

Without President Bush's tenacity to pull through a difficult struggle of brining democracy to the Middle East, we wouldn't be as safe as we are now. President Obama seems to be staying on Bush's course with the current strategy of winning the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and sending additional troops should be proof enough that he cares more about America then he cares about his party, just as President Bush did the same thing: bucking the conventional wisdom of his party to do what is right and just. For these things alone, I believe that in a perfect world, both George W. Bush and Barrack H. Obama would and should share the Nobel Peace prize. And this time it wouldn't be a joke the way it was shared between a terrorist like Yasser Arafat and a good man like Israeli leader Shimon Peres.

...which is too bad, because Reagan was overlooked during his lifetime.

How did he earn the right to be nominated?  Because he recognized that, for thousands of years, this is the only way lasting peace is acheived: http://i481.photobuc...

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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
-- William F. Buckley

"Obama, on the other hand, wins the prizes because, like his Norwegian brothers, he doesn’t see America as exceptional."

This couldn't be more wrong, I'm afraid. America is hated by the left precisely because she is exceptional; precisely because she is the sole exception in the world to the rule that governors should rule the governed. In America, and America alone, the governed rule themselves...via governors appointed and dismissed by them at their pleasure*. Many inroads have been made against the peoples' sovereignty, to be sure, but this remains the reason she is hated and the reason why those who lust after power over the whole world are determined to destroy her--and have totoday all but finished the job.

(*) There is far more to it than this, of course, but the point still stands.

"He has described his own country as an arrogant power that’s too greedy, too insular, and too uneducated."

Indeed, and this is because Obama's fidelity is not to America--if America is defined as that country established by the Constitution of the Founders. Barack Obama, like all leftists, despises that country. The America Obama loves is the new, emerging America--an America defined as a country ruled by intellectual elites for the good of the citizens...as the elites see it.

It is this fundamental equivocation that allows despots like Obama to praise America out of one side of their mouths and trash her out of the other. When he's praising, he's not referring to anything having to do with the America of the Founders--our America; he's referring to the coming authoritarian state, or to whatever building blocks of it already exist and are actively working toward the old order's destruction. When he's trashing, he's referring to our historical, Constitutional, representative democracy, or some aspect of it that still survives and is actively seeking to defend and maintain itself in the face of attacks by such as Obama.

For instance, in the above quote, America is "arrogant" because the American people insist upon keeping her exceptional. We who love our Constitution (perhaps an early version of it) and cling to our institutions and traditions--we who insist that our leaders look out for OUR best interests and not those of our enemies...we, and hence, our country, are "arrogant" for not throwing up our hands in surrender to Obama and his fellow one-world tyrants. "Greedy," "insular," and "uneducated" are all gratuitous insults tacked on to flesh out the preceding "arrogant" for his leftist listeners, who understand the code:

"Greed" is the arrogance of not giving the fruits of your labor to whomever Obama thinks you should give them to.

"Insularity" is the arrogance of not giving a damn what the Norwegians think you should do, nor what they think in general.

"Lack of education" is the arrogance of not agreeing with leftist assumptions about things and therefore coming to entirely different and contradictory conclusions.

"The self-loathing international community loves a self-loathing American."

Wrong again. The international community couldn't love itself more. Likewise, Obama couldn't love himself or the coming despotism he's trying to inaugurate any more. What Obama loathes, which the international community of leftists also loathes, is our America, the old America.