Rasmussen: Majority of Americans Believe Nobel Peace Prize Politically Influenced, Europeans React to Obama’s Controversial Win (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 14, 2009
From a new poll from Rasmussen Reports:
Americans are much more skeptical of the motivation behind the awarding of the prestigious international Nobel Prizes following President Obama’s win Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% of American adults now believe that politics plays a role in the awarding of the Nobel Prize.
Three previous US presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize: Woodrow Wilson [liberal Democrat], Franklin D. Roosevelt [liberal Democrat], and Jimmy Carter [liberal Democrat]. Never has a Republican president been awarded the prize… not even Ronald Reagan, despite all his efforts (not just lofty talk and a teleprompter, but real work) internationally that eventually brought down the insidious Berlin Wall. No wonder so many Americans are suspicious of the political motivations and leanings of the awarding of the Nobel prize.
Europeans’ reactions to Obama’s win…
CNN: Majority of Europeans React Negatively to Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | October 2009
Some online reactions on day of announcement…
CNN: Online Reaction to Obama Winning Nobel Prize
Commentary from Kenya TV…
Kenya TV: Nobel Peace Prize Goes To Obama | October 2009
Additional reading on Obama’s Nobel prize:
Patterico’s Pontifications: Obama: Did I Mention I Won the Nobel Prize?
Gateway Pundit: Top Quotes From This Year’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Obama’s Nobel Response: 10 Sentences. 16 Uses of I/Me/My
Teh Resistance Blog: Cry “Racist!” And Let Slip the Coons of War and Dear Reader Receives Booby Prize for Not Winning the Olympics
Nice Deb: Bam Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Frugal Café Blog Zone: “All Hat and No Cattle”: Times UK Writer, an Obama Supporter, on Why Obama Should Not Have Accepted Nobel Peace Prize and DNC Warning: If You Joke about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, You’re a Terrorist… Oops, Unless You’re a Democrat
Thomas Del Beccaro: Big Government: Reagan Was Nobel, But Obama Got the Prize
Diary of a Mad Conservative: If he’d done this before last Friday, maybe the Nobel prize wouldn’t be his and “The value of the Nobel Peace Prize has been diminished”
Washington Examiner: Huh???!!!!! Even pro-Obama press is stunned by Nobel decision
Jeffrey Jena, Big Hollywood: Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: My Nobel Prize, Please!
The Powers That Be: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Joins Illustrious Ranks of Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat and Al Gore
BluEyedDaizy: Because teleprompters aren’t allowed to win…
Publius, Big Government: BREAKING! Obama Wins More Awards! and Rush Limbaugh Reacts to Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Win and Nobel Peace Prize? Whiskey, Tango… and AP: President Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Dana Show: Obama gets Nobel Peace Prize … for what?
Power Line: Changing the Climate, One Winner at a Time
Doug O’Brien, Big Government: Obama and the Nobel: Right Man, Wrong Prize
Hot Air: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. No, really. Update: “It’s not April 1, is it?”
Dandelion Salad: Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
The Mahablog: Prize for Not Being George W. Bush?
RedState: Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: He’s Becoming Jimmy Carter Faster Than Jimmy Carter Did.
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Yes, The World Has Lost Its Mind
The Anchoress, A First Things Blog: Why don’t you “hate” Obama?
Pirate’s Cove: World Stunned As Obama Wins Peace Prize
Moderate in the Middle: Update: World jumps shark, awards prize to apologetic wonder with no achievements;TOTUS wins the Nobel Peace Prize, seriously, BWAAAAHAAAA!! Time for a tune! John Barrowman ‘You’re So Vain’
Right Pundits: Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize Winner Joke!
American Digest: There He Is…. Mister A-MER-I-CA!: Nobel Committee Now Officially Not Worth the Dynamite It Would Take to Blow Them Away
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: It’s All About Him, Not Us
Sister Toldjah: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Goodtimepolitics: Obama now joins a list of controversial nobel peace prize winners
The Spyglass: Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Rightwing Nuthouse: OBAMA WELL DESERVES PEACE PRIZE – AFTER COMMITTEE LOWERS THE BAR
Designated Conservative: From The Onion? VIDEO UPDATE: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize and More!
Daniel Kalder, Big Government: SATAN RULES! The Shocking True Story Behind Obama’s Nobel Win
Northern Thoughts And Reflections: Obama’s Peace Prize; He did what to get it?
Moonbattery: Barack Obama Wins Yasser Arafat Peace Prize
American Princess: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize. Seriously.
The Daily Beast: Obama’s Nobel Farce
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People’s memory is not only short, but tends to conform to what they believe should be true. When things don’t happen the way they think they should, they come up with all sorts of self-serving reasons why they didn’t.
Why doesn’t the President deserve the Nobel Prize? For half the country it is only because they did not vote for him, did not believe he could win and have been told repeatedly that he is something he is not. The cognitive dissonance here is so loud many would prefer believing aliens as an explanation rather than confronting reality.
If you want the real history behind the prize, then read my short piece on it on my blog.
The president hasn’t done ANYTHING to have earned the Nobel Peace Prize. And many people who feel that way are Democrats who did vote for him, or people in other countries who have been keeping tabs on what is going on with Obama and analyzed who else was on the list. The prize was awarded to him for what he might do… utter nonsense. It has nothing to do with “short memories,” as you put it.
The prize is political and has been for decades. To think otherwise is naive. Ronald Reagan was instrumental in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall… no prize. More than 100 people who have been active in peace activities for years were on the short-list for the Nobel this year, no prize. Giving Obama the prize for what he “might” accomplish in the name of peace is like giving Sean Penn an Oscar today for a film performance he might give in a few years. It demeans the prize and those who have won it who were worthy of winning it.
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