Obama’s Checklist in Norway… Snub the King, Bash America, Then Grab That Cool Nobel Peace Prize
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 10, 2009
What a week for Obama. He ignores his country’s unemployment numbers and his own falling job approval polls to jet out to Norway on Air Force One to pick up a Nobel Peace Prize that a majority of people throughout the world say he hasn’t earned… his snubbing of the King of Norway and publicly bashing America again just adds to the same-old, same-old outrage at our Dear Leader.
Are we becoming numb to this clueless, arrogant Clown in Chief’s gaffes and blunders yet? Hope not… 2012 is still more than three years away.
From Instapundit, “SMART DIPLOMACY:” Obama snubs King:
News outlets across the region are calling Obama arrogant for slashing some of the prize winners’ traditional duties from his schedule. “Everybody wants to visit the Peace Center except Obama,” sniped the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, amid reports the president would snub his own exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center. “A bit arrogant—a bit bad,” proclaimed another Aftenposten headline.
“It’s very sad,” said Nobel Peace Center Director Bente Erichsen of the news that Obama would skip the peace center exhibit. Prize winners traditionally open the exhibitions about their work that accompany the Nobel festivities. “I totally understand why the Norwegian public is upset. If I could get a few minutes with the president, I’d say, ‘To walk through the exhibition wouldn’t take long, and I’m sure you would love the show. You have no idea what you are missing.’”
Meanwhile, the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet is reporting that the president has declined an invitation to lunch with King Harald V, an event every prize winner from the Dalai Lama to Al Gore has attended. (The newspaper’s headline: “Obama disses lunch with King Harald.”)
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The American president is acting like an elephant in a porcelain shop,” said Norwegian public-relations expert Rune Morck-Wergeland. “In Norwegian culture, it’s very important to keep an agreement. We’re religious about that, and Obama’s actions have been clumsy. You just don’t say no to an invitation from a European king. Maybe Obama’s advisers are not very educated about European culture, but he is coming off as rude, even if he doesn’t mean to.”
From Ace of Spades HQ: Obama: It’s Nice the King Wants to Meet With Me and I’m Sure Your Peace Center Is First-Rate and Gold-Standard, But Seriously, I’m Just Here to Pick Up My Trophy and the Money
Howard Stern wrote something like “I don’t even breathe anymore unless I’m being paid.”
I sort of see Obama doing something like that. Jaunting around the world to pick up awards and medals that celebrate his many accomplishments at doing nothing. “I don’t show up unless there’s a ribbon and a hunk of gold at the end of it.”
And about that weird spiral light seen in the Norwegian skies… there are laughs a-plenty all over the Internet on what that spiral is exactly, but check out the post AND the readers’ comments here for some rib-ticklin’ funny stuff: IMAO: Weird Spiral in Norway. Maybe left-wing space aliens welcoming Obama to Norway? LOL.
Norway spiral - strange light phenomenon seen in the night sky above Skjervoy in northern Norway early Wednesday. According to some reports, the unexplained light may have been caused by failure of a new Russian anti-submarine-based intercontinental missile which was being tested across the Norwegian-Russian border
A funny from late-night show talk host Craig Ferguson:
There was a lot of controversy for President Obama in Norway, because apparently, he snubbed the Norwegian royal family. He snubbed them by canceling lunch with them. And I’m like, well don’t be silly, Norwegian royal family. Even if the president doesn’t invite you, just show up and crash the party. That’s how we do it in America.
UPDATE, April 9, 2010: Add another name to the growing “Obama Snub List” — Unreal. Barack Obama Snubs Czech & International Hero Vaclav Havel at Nuclear Summit
Additional reading:
American Thinker: Obama snubs Norwegian king
Scared Monkeys: Barack Obama not Just Offending Americans … Now The One Snubs Norwegians with Canceled Nobel Peace Prize Appearances
The Guardian: Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama’s snubs
Godlike Productions: Obama Snubs King Harald of Norway
Diary of a Mad Conservative: It must be date night in Oslo
Sister Toldjah: Mysterious spiral light shines over Norway – Could it be … Obama?
VotingFemale Speaks!: Is Obama offended by Norway’s ‘whiteness?”; BHO snubs royalty and concert but likely will blame Bush for it
New York Times: Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Evokes ‘Just War’
Hot Air Green Room: Obama defends war while accepting a Nobel Peace Prize
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Presidential Crumbs of Kindness
Radio Vice Online: Obama bashes America during Nobel acceptance speech
Hot Air: Obama’s Nobel speech: Sometimes war is necessary and Examiner analysis: More than 10% of stimulus jobs are phony and Porkulus job numbers “wildly exaggerated”: Boston Globe?
Gateway Pundit: Obama Tells GOP to Stop Scare Tactics As Dems Agree to Blow Billions More on Another Failed Jobs Creation Plan and Obama Unemployment Rate Remains in Double Digits — 10.0% and Dem’s NEW Jobs Plan will Only Cost America $300 Billion and House Republicans Ask Team Obama to Quit Repeating ‘Saved or Created’ Nonsense
GayPatriot: If Obama is really concerned about cutting the deficit, he should take lessons from a certain former Governor and Hey, Ma’am, what about the jobs in California?
MotorCityTimes: Obama ‘Plans To Spend’ Our Way Out Of Recession
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: The Real Santa
VotingFemale Speaks!: Breaking: Obama announces proposals aimed at saving a job, His and 76% Prefer Free Market Economy, DHS Watch List Must be HUGE! lol and CBC Threatens ‘Actions’ against Obama over unemployments; Pelosi claims Socialism’s failures are Bush’s Fault! hahaha and Between 100,000 and 200,000 doctors officially reject ObamaCare and Number of Democrats Falls to Four-Year Low, so says Rasmussen Poll; butt kicking of Socialism mounts
The New Ledger, Big Government: Unpacking the Job Numbers, Roadblocks for Bernanke, and the Future of Mainstream Media
Ace of Spades HQ: Polls: Pollster.com’s Aggregated Average Puts Obama Underwater: Carville’s Democracy Corps Says Conservatives Make Big Gains
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Pres. Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize… for Doing What, Exactly? and Eye-Rolling Time… Obama Now Claims He “Created or Saved One Million Jobs” (video) and Obama’s Disintegrating Economy: Worst Unemployment, at 10.2%, Since 1983… Obama Takes a Mini-Vacation, Still Hasn’t Gone to Fort Hood (video) UPDATE: He Has Gone to Ft. Hood, Finally and Illegal Immigration from Mexico Slowing, Has Dramatically Dropped Because of America’s Plunging Economy and Please Send in Clowns to Replace Obama Morons: Pay Increases Were Counted as Recovery Program’s “Jobs Saved” and Exaggeration Proclamation: Obama’s Economic Plan Overstated, by Thousands, Jobs Claimed Were Created
The Powers That Be: Obama Cardboard Cutout Sits In For Actual President in Norway and Unemployment Stimulated Again
The New Ledger, Big Government: Economy in the Lurch: Negative Interest Rates, the Fed Audit, and Geithner in the Dock and Do the Democrats Have Any Solutions on Jobs? Anything at All?
Steven Green, Big Government: The Political Landscape: The Slobs Versus the Snobs
Mike Flynn, Big Government: Obama Stimulus Numbers: The Return of Enron-Style Accounting
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Big Government: Mr. President, Where Are the Jobs?
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Obama – we must spend our way out of this recession
Outside the Beltway: Congress to Investigate Fake Districts
Jumping in Pools: Obama Approval Under 50% According to Quinnipiac, Fox News, Rasmussen, and Gallup Polls
Michelle Malkin: The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map and The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Index
Tai-Chi Policy: Just How Bad Is The Democrat’s Spending?
Doug O’Brien, Big Government: More Stimulus Math: Cooking the Books on Stimulus Jobs
The American Pundit: Pork-Loving Senators Diverted Billions in Funds from Troops
Nice Deb: Bam Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Washington Examiner: Huh???!!!!! Even pro-Obama press is stunned by Nobel decision
The Powers That Be: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Joins Illustrious Ranks of Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat and Al Gore
Kathryn Jean Lopez, Big Hollywood: Bruce Jenner: Obama’s ‘Done Nothing’ to Earn Nobel
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?
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?”
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The big ‘O’ ran on a platform of ‘ hope and change.’
Rush says that should be ‘Hoax and Chains’.
I like that.
Obama has dissed, and dismissed some of the most powerful leaders in the world.
I’m surprised POTUS hasn’t dismantled the Statue of Liberty, and sent Her back to France !!!
OMG !!
Wait,……Jobs created. WOW !!!! You go POTUS, you go.
Obama did, however, rudely send back the bust of Sir Winston Churchill to Britain, which had been a gift from the UK some years back… Churchill despised socialism. Can’t have Winston staring at you disapprovingly when you’re dismantling the Constitution and redistributing the wealth, after all.
Vicki, the bust was a gift from Great Britain right after the 2001 attack on our Country.
When Obama ‘gave it back’ to the U.K., Brown said “it was a gift to your Country, if you don’t want it put it in a museum.” (rough quote).
Obama sent it back, along with DVDs that won’t work on the 50 cycle system Europe uses.
Obama is either ignorant, or the most arrogant president we have ever had in that position.
Remember the ‘reset button’ Hilliary gave the Russians? Arrogance, or ignorance?
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