Majorities in US, UK say Nobel was undeserved
PoliticsHome, a news and opinion aggregator with operations in both the USA and UK, conducted a poll/survey in the two countries about reaction to Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The site says the poll was taken via email, so I’m not sure whether its accuracy compares to those conducted by telephone. But with more than 1,400 respondents in the US and more than 1,300 in the UK, I suspect it’ll do as a rough gauge of public sentiment in the two countries.
According to PoliticsHome, 39 percent of Americans polled said Obama deserves the award, compared to just 22 percent in the United Kingdom. Fifty-two percent of Americans believe that he did not deserve it, compared to 62 percent of Brits.
Pluralities in both countries also believed that awarding the prize to Obama diminished the award’s credibility.
As I indicated earlier, I’m with those who believe the prize is undeserved at this point, and I also think it did diminish the prestige of the award. While Obama has done a good job in his nine months in office; I just don’t think that qualifies him for the Nobel Peace Prize. The world is full of good, smart people struggling to do right in important jobs, and most of them don’t deserve the prize either.
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The Professor
October 12th, 2009
12:24 pm
You can do better.
RW-(the original)
October 12th, 2009
12:25 pm
Majorities in US, UK say Nobel was undeserved
Well duh…even the recipient said he didn’t deserve it.
USinUK
October 12th, 2009
12:27 pm
boy-howdy, I thought this horse was well nigh on dead already. must we continue to flog it???
meanwhile … some WAY cool pics … (I mean … dolphis, sharks AND whales!!! ohmy!!!)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/6307490/The-great-sardine-run-dolphins-sharks-whales-and-birds-competing-underwater-for-fish.html
RollerGirl
October 12th, 2009
12:28 pm
I called that there would be backlash , at 6:03 friday morning haha.
Damn, I’m good. Heck, I’m the best!
jt
October 12th, 2009
12:28 pm
This fresh from the Norway Post-
Letters from our readers with comments and reactions to President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize is still coming in on Sunday morning. And while the majority are negative, we have now received a few positive e-mails as well.
However, for every positive reaction there are more than five negative ones, at last count.
When we wrote the first article on this subject we had only received negative reactions, and one reader wrote: – I’m very disappointed to read on this website the negative slant regarding Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Why did you only report the negative reactions? Have you no positive emails to report on?
The answer is, as we also wrote in the article, there were none. It took nearly 24 hours for the fiirst positive letter to arrive, and one of them read:
- I am ashamed that you have received negative emails from us here in the United States. I grew up in Norway and I am very proud of what the Nobel Peace Prize Committee did was to give the awarded to President Obama. I was distressed when President Bush said that “either you are with us or against us”. I am very proud of Norway and I apologize for these awful remarks of the Americans.
Let me just repeat what we have underlined in earlier reports: Reactions are mixed here in Norway too, but mostly in the positive, although many express the veiew that it was a bit early for Obama to receive the Prize now. Others describe it as an investment in the future, a Prize for hope.
http://www.norwaypost.no/content/view/22610/1/
Hef
October 12th, 2009
12:33 pm
Hmmmmmm-seems about right. My soon wife to be who is a staunch Obama supporter(and sleeps in the garage since nov 08),thought is was well deserved based on life’s accomplishments to that point. Of course I disagree and it’s good to see this poll reflect it.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
October 12th, 2009
12:34 pm
I think he should be given the Miss America title, the World Series and Raspberry, PPphhhhbbbbbtttttttt, mmmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
jt
October 12th, 2009
12:37 pm
The above news article stated-
“However, for every positive reaction there are more than five negative ones, at last count.”
Three paragraphs later states-
“Let me just repeat what we have underlined in earlier reports: Reactions are mixed here in Norway too, but mostly in the positive, ……”
The Norway Post is undoubtably a “legitimate” news source as per the WhiteHouse.
http://www.norwaypost.no/content/view/22610/1/
Normal
October 12th, 2009
12:39 pm
I said it once and I’ll say it for the last time. By accepting the award, President Obama is allowing himself to be played as a dupe. A political pawn for a political gotcha on the previous Administration. It’s an embarrassment to him and to our country. President Obama is doing himself no favors…just sayin’.
See y’all next thread…to paraphrase USinUK, this dog has done huntin’…
Jefferson
October 12th, 2009
12:40 pm
Many cannot handle reality or drugs. Acceptance is the road to take.
RW-(the original)
October 12th, 2009
12:43 pm
boy-howdy, I thought this horse was well nigh on dead already. must we continue to flog it???
You surely must have noticed by now that Jay B likes his dead horses flogged to the point of being tenderized.
stands for decibels
October 12th, 2009
12:45 pm
boy-howdy, I thought this horse was well nigh on dead already. must we continue to flog it???
Troll chow! Gitcher troll chow here!
jt
October 12th, 2009
12:46 pm
Letter to the editor of the Norway Post-
“I’m very disappointed to read on this website the negative slant regarding Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Why did you only report the negative reactions? Have you no positive emails to report on?”
The Editors Reply-
“The answer is, as we also wrote in the article, there were none. It took nearly 24 hours for the fiirst positive letter to arrive,”
USinUK
October 12th, 2009
12:50 pm
“You surely must have noticed by now that Jay B likes his dead horses flogged to the point of being tenderized.”
I would say this one is practically pureed … oy.
in other news … next year’s Glasto Sunday morning headliner is a bit of a stretch for me
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8303387.stm
I mean, Neil Diamond … cool … Tom Jones … cool … Dame Shirley Bassey … WAY cool … but, Andy Williams … mmmmm, not so much.
USinUK
October 12th, 2009
12:53 pm
dB …
“Troll chow! Gitcher troll chow here!”
I s’pose so …
… but, then, it is a Monday … and a holiday, at that, so I guess one can let the softball go …
Nothing Is Free
October 12th, 2009
12:55 pm
What liberals will sacrifice for their sacred leaders.
N.O.W. is practically a non-entity after they had screamed about workplace sexual harassment and then supported Clinton.
Now the Nobel people are giving awards for potential. LOL!!!
I don’t know why liberals whine so much about FOX News.
Hey libs: Here’s a rope. All you need is a tree and a low hanging branch. Have fun.
Nothing Is Free
October 12th, 2009
12:58 pm
**“You surely must have noticed by now that Jay B likes his dead horses flogged to the point of being tenderized.”**
Jay is just a liberal who sees when his liberals on his blog are being brutalized, trying to defend the indefensible. So he thinks up yet another quickie in order to allow his libs to save face.
No wonder he is pushing out articles several times a day.
Normal
October 12th, 2009
1:01 pm
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jt
October 12th, 2009
1:02 pm
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USinUK
October 12th, 2009
1:02 pm
NiF –
“trying to defend the indefensible”
please, illustrate that point. nowhere in the above post does Jay defend anything – in fact, just the opposite.
you might want to get that knee of yours seen by a doctor, it seems to have some mighty serious jerking tendancies.
USinUK
October 12th, 2009
1:04 pm
jt –
so … why is it people don’t visit Norway for their fine cuisine??? eeeesh.
Gale
October 12th, 2009
1:05 pm
I have heard that lutefisk glows in the dark.
Gale
October 12th, 2009
1:07 pm
There is some yummy food to be had in Norway. But judging from the examples I’ve seen/eaten, lutefisk is not one of them.
Brad Steel
October 12th, 2009
1:10 pm
Well, there appears to be some fertile common ground for the Osama bin Laden, Glen Beck, Al Qeada, the Taliban, Real americans, the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Hatin’ Obama will be a cosmic leap for global peace.
Paul
October 12th, 2009
1:10 pm
I wonder if the Nobel Committee was aware his administration just declared war against a domestic news organization —
Seriously, look at the last American recipient of the Peace Prize. VP Gore – for global warming?
Peace prize? Peace? I suppose one could stretch a case that somewhere down the line competition for resources as a result of policies that led to global warming will also lead to warfare and so the award was based on heading of a might have been, just like the Pres’s award it based on a might will be. Still and all, Alfred Nobel’s rolling over in his grave.
Nothing Is Free
October 12th, 2009
1:20 pm
USinUK
And you may want to get out that dusty old elementary school book called “Reading comprehension”
I said this:
**when his liberals on his blog are being brutalized, trying to defend the indefensible.**
So you took from that, that I was saying that Jay was defending the indefeasible. LOL!!! Well, yes, you guys are pretty indefensible, but that’s not what I was saying.
This is almost as funny as when you said that the Lady Muslim was wagging her finger at ping pong players when she was wagging her finger at two officers text messaging.
Here is the sentence: **Fardila readied her unit for duty – breaking up a ping pong game in the station house, wagging her finger at a couple of text messaging officers.**
And from that you concurred that the penalty for p[ing pong was a wagging finger. LOL!!
TnGelding
October 12th, 2009
1:29 pm
Well, it shows you can’t fool most of the people very often. Maybe he’ll develop some of the Clinon work ethic and strive to make sure he deserves the next one.
jconservative
October 12th, 2009
1:31 pm
Deserved? Who cares. An American won something. Winning beats the hell out of not winning. And that is a nice chunk of change headed for this country. And a total of 11 Americans were awarded Nobel prizes.
The only one we were shut out on was Literature which went to Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer living in Germany. (I am sure all ya’ll have several of her books in your homes). They could have given it to an American writer, say William Goldman.
This is a perfect case of mountain out of a molehill.
Peadawg
October 12th, 2009
1:33 pm
Duh! Do the results honestly surprise anyone besides Mrs. Godzilla and Cynthia Tucker?
@@
October 12th, 2009
1:40 pm
This comes as no surprise to me, jay. And still, his plans are to accept the NPP at the ceremonies in Oslo?
Oddly enough, there’s another winner from Chicago albeit for the Ig Noble Prize.
http://www.artuji.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/gas-mask-bra.jpg
A huge crowd gathered at the Sanders Theater in Harvard University last night to honor the winners of the 19th Ig Nobel awards. For 2009, the Ig Nobel carried the theme “risk.”
And one of the winners is the ingenious bra that one can easily convert into a gas mask when needed. Elena Bodnar won this for public health prize division.
Imagine that! Exposing boobs in the interest of gas.
Re your previous thread:
I cannot believe the Obama administration, Himself included, has waged an “all-out” war against FOX.
Do they really think that portraying themselves as the wife who feigns “the persistent headache” will prove beneficial?
Add, yet another, to this administration’s long list of strategic blunders.
Scooter
October 12th, 2009
1:41 pm
Well, I can’t do much with any tact.So, I’ll just say that Obama getting the Prize is hogwash.
Turd Ferguson
October 12th, 2009
1:41 pm
AHH HAHAHAHAHAHAAA! More hilarity for a rainy day.
Nothing Is Free
October 12th, 2009
1:41 pm
jconservative
**This is a perfect case of mountain out of a molehill.**
That’s your opinion. Most of the Conservative Right in this country has said all along that Obama has done nothing and is incapable of doing nothing but make pretty speeches.
This fortifies this argument .
Obama was a Junior Senator who had voted “present” 129 times. He has never ran a business and has never been a leader of anything. And now he wins the Nobel Peace Prize because of his having “good thoughts”.
He is a joke, as is his entire administration. Unfortunately what he is continuing to do to my country is not funny at all.
Karen Carpenter
October 12th, 2009
1:42 pm
“Obama and Mondays always get me down…”
Nothing Is Free
October 12th, 2009
1:43 pm
Hey Jay.
Better think of something fast. Your folks are getting reamed again.
stands for decibels
October 12th, 2009
1:54 pm
He has never ran a business
He would of ran one if he knew how to conjumagate a verb.
Bosch
October 12th, 2009
1:56 pm
USinUK,
Cool pics. It’s like the shark/whale/dolphin version of Ryan’s or Golden Corral on a Sunday.
Nothing Is Free
October 12th, 2009
1:56 pm
Stands for decibels
It’s debating skills like these that put Obama into office.
RollerGirl
October 12th, 2009
1:59 pm
If Barry could make a wish….I think he’d pass
Can’t think of anything he needs…
No Jobs, No troops, No healthcare bill…
Sometimes, all Barry needs is the air that he breathes, and a mirr-or!
All Barry needs is the air that he breathes, and a tele-prompter!
pat
October 12th, 2009
1:59 pm
I congratulate the president on his award.
My view isn’t a matter of deserving vs. non-deserving. I see it as a foreign intrusion into American policy. Most of the world would like to see a weaker U.S., which they believe would be in their best interest. Alas, when you are on top, everybody wants to knock you down. Giving obama the award is a way of forcing him to live up to their definition of what peace is.
If obama’s foreign policy fails, there will be anything but peace and we will be in a worse position to deal with the aftermath.
For instance, if we take a hands-off approach with Iran, Israel may feel compelled to take a hands-on approach. What will follow will not be peaceful.
Iran has threatened and already indeed acted hostile towards Israel, I would not expect much patience from out Jewish brethren. They are surrounded by enemies; they have little wiggle room for error. If Iran goes unchecked, expect Israel to act. Do not expect a single inspector to set foot in an Iranian nuclear facility. They are buying time and nothing else.
Turd Ferguson
October 12th, 2009
2:00 pm
“We dont need these Norway types telling us where the Bear Shyt in the buckwheat”.
Turd Ferguson
October 12th, 2009
2:03 pm
pat
October 12th, 2009
1:59 pm
Touche’!!! Just as some of us more intelligent types were speaking on Friday. Manipulation, pure and simple.
ByteMe
October 12th, 2009
2:03 pm
I like Tom Friedman’s idea: Accept the award on behalf of the US Military
#1 Foxy Lady
October 12th, 2009
2:05 pm
Obama wins!!!!
All you hating losers can suck it.
Obama is #1.
Horrible Horace
October 12th, 2009
2:06 pm
The Norwayneians would be really surprised if, after giving Obama the Satanic Prince of the World award, he declared war on them. Now that would really funny.
Kayaker 71
October 12th, 2009
2:10 pm
The only thing that would have made Bookman open yet another thread on this subject is if Sarah Palin had won the Nobel. Either one is about as deserving.
jconservative
October 12th, 2009
2:14 pm
Nothing Is Free and others
How did an award from a private organization in a foreign country suddenly become an American political crisis? No one in this country had a vote. So one cannot blame the Republicans or the Democrats, or the Liberals or the Conservatives, or the Congress or the Supreme Court.
If Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq & Iran are problems that are 10 on the scale, Obama getting the Nobel has got to be down around .01 or lower.
And, of course, this is my opinion. Do not feel insulted because it is different from yours.
Gale
October 12th, 2009
2:16 pm
“if Sarah Palin had won the Nobel.”
That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard this morning.
Nothing Is Free
October 12th, 2009
2:19 pm
#1 Foxy Lady
**Obama is #1.**
Yaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Barrack Hussien Obama, mmmm, mmmmm, mmmm.
Ra, ra, ra!!!!!
Number 1!!! Number 1!!!! Number 1!!!!!
Anyone who does not agree with Foxy Lady is a hater.
So yes, this person does sound like an imbecile, but so does the Nobel Committee.
So Foxy Lady, you are practically Norwegian.
Angry Black Man
October 12th, 2009
2:19 pm
Jay
I agree with you that the award was premature and non-deserving. I also agree with some of the posters that this topic has been well debated.
A point that this topic brought to mind that has not been discussed is that in the U.S. you can dissent with the ruling party and not be subject to torture, jail, or even death. Imagine if Kim Jong Il had won that prize and the North Korean people came out and said he didn’t deserve it.
All too often, we take for granted the country which we live in. We can vehemently oppose the president and make that known without living in fear of our life. Reading the previous blog entry made me laugh. People defending 24 hour cable as “news”. All they’re peddling is sensationalism to sell advertising. If you want real news, go to Reuters or AP. I try to listen to all sides of the debate when I want opinions. When I want facts, I don’t depend on any one cable news source to be unbiased.