Ridiculous! Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Back in 2007, when Al Gore won the "Nobel Peace Prize" I posted an article called "Nobel Peace Prize:  a Leftist Farce."  Today this leftwing organization again covered itself in shame by awarding the prize to another leftwing incompetent, Barack Obama.  The UK Times Online has the best summary and description of this year's award (hat tip Left Coast Rebel):

Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.

Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.

Bloomberg agrees with the Times Online.  They write:

While the Nobel committee has been faulted in the past for making political statements with its choice of laureates, the Obama award marked the first time it honored a head of state for laying out a vision rather than for practical accomplishments.

The honor is a “premature canonization,” said Fred Greenstein, a historian at Princeton University. “It seems to me that it is an embarrassment for the Nobel process.”

Paul at Powerline says the award may prove a negative for Obama:

If it's any consolation to readers who have expressed distress, I think this award will prove to be an embarrassment to Obama, and possibly a negative for his presidency, here at home. The award is so absurd that even leftists have taken note...

I think this award will seal Obama's image as vastly overrated ...

The Nobel Peace Prize is a leftist farce.  I pegged it two years ago.  The prize today is awarded on the basis of the recipient's ideology, not on the basis of any actual accomplishment.  The name of the prize should be changed to the Nobel Prize for Leftwing Dogma, or maybe "the Moonbat Award."

Nobel Peace Prize: A Leftist Farce

Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts at desseminating a massive lie, that global warming is man made and caused by CO2 emissions. In recent years, critics have been saying that the Nobel Peace Prize is most often awarded to leftists and anti-American extremists, and 2007 proves once again that it's true.

Prior winners of the Nobel Peacenik Prize include Nelson Mandela (1993), Yasser Arafat (1994), Kofi Annan (2001), and Jimmy Carter (2002).

Earlier this year Al Gore also won an Oscar for his propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth. This, in spite of its errors and false premises. But then, the Academy of Motion Pictures gave an Oscar to Michael Moore for the same thing, "best documentary," for his highly biased and deliberately slanted film, "Bowling for Columbine" in 2003. For the Left, there is no such thing as objective truth, there is only the collectivist cause and any and all means to advance it.

The Left creates its own fake causes and awards fake prizes to the fakers who advance them. It's enough to gag a maggot.