The Repubs have started on the "Obama first nobel prize winner that kills" meme

[Catherine Vincent]

I just googled it and it's spreading fast. Of course if you mention there were others like Yassar Arafat, then they take joy in equating the President with Arafat.

[Statistical]

1. Well it is somewhat ironic.

That is the risk with giving someone the peace prize based on potential. You can end up with some ironic situations.

Personally I don't think Obama SHOULD have gotten the Peace prize WHEN he did. At the end of his Presidency is the prize was deserved he could have been awarded it at that point.

[LeftishBrit]

2. What about Henry Kissinger?

And are the Republicans *against* killing Bin Laden then?

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Ding, ding, ding. I'll take "American governmental mass murderers

for $1,000, Alex."

[crickets]

23. Spot on. -nt

[Nye Bevan]

3. Hint: bringing up Arafat is *not* the best strategy to counter this (nt)

[Richardo]

4. I'd add Kissinger to that list.

Just a thought.

[undeterred]

5. If this mission had been carried out in the year after 2001

think of the innocent lives that would have been spared.

It would have been worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize, although it is only possible to see that in the hindsight that sees a horrendous presidency that wasted over a million lives.

[NoGOPZone]

6. Like others who've already posted, my first thought was Kissinger nt

[MasonJar]

28. Are you saying the Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize? If so, I'd

forgotten. That would be an enormous travesty. He engineered the deaths of thousands for Reagan et al.

[TwilightGardener]

7. Removing a terrorist isn't necessarily anti-peace. In fact, I hope it helps

bring about the end of the war sooner.

[coalition_unwilling]

11. "Removing a terrorist" - nice sanitary language you're using there.

While I hope the war ends sooner too, I doubt that executing someone without a trial will do the trick.

But the jury's still out (npi).

[TwilightGardener]

12. Splattering his brains across the room, then. However it had to happen, one

major proponent of violence is gone. That's not against the goal of peace. I think it furthers it.

[coalition_unwilling]

13. Except there's that little problem of executing an accused person

without giving them a trial.

I think we will have to agree to disagree.

[rucky]

8. I thought he didn't kill anyone, so he doesn't deserve the credit?

And Bin Laden is still alive, and he's also been dead for several years now?

[Wickerman]

10. Serioiusly? That is all they got?

Like they actually give a shit about peace of the Prize.

Keep on trying on the "bad-Obama" memes guys. Throw enough against the wall maybe something will stick. Or, not.

[dgibby]

18. They're really reaching, aren't they?

Throw anything against the wall and hope it sticks. Pathetic, just pathetic.

[tularetom]

14. What happened to the part where Obama wanted to sing kumbaya to the terrorists?

I thought Obama was a wussy liberal who just wanted to reason with al Qaeda.

He went from that to a cold blooded killer awfully quick, huh?

[Catherine Vincent]

15. Yes, bringing up Arafat is not a good response

But I also thought of Kissinger too. When they did award Pres. Obama the peace prize, I thought they shouldn't be awarded to any President since they have the authority to start wars. If anything, they should receive it after their presidency.

[hakko936]

16. Nonsense....

First, I don't think Obama should have gotten the Nobel when he did. It seemed to be based on his goals, not his accomplishments, but that is another issue.

Obama did exactly what he should have done in this situation. He allowed the intelligence and military communities to devise a very sound plan to rid the world of OBL. He then had the stones to order the attack even though there was a possibility it could go wrong, and almost did.

The only thing I fault the administration for is changing the story after the fact. It was initially reported from the White House that OBL put up an armed fight and that is why he was killed. Changing the story to killing an unarmed man makes it look like and assassination. I don't have a real problem with assassinating OBL, but the court of world opinion might.

BTW, I think Arafat getting the Nobel was a complete joke.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. So, having won the Nobel Peace Prize

ties his hands when it comes to using the military for anything? I'd have a big issue with him having the prize if he was invading and/or occupying other countries like what Bush was doing but judiciously using the military to hunt down and capture/kill the most wanted terrorist in the world isn't unseemly to me. I suppose that we can all imagine the hue and cry, particularly from the Repubs, if he refused to pull the trigger on Bin Laden because he's a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

[RegieRocker]

19. Careful insanity is contagious.

[JVS]

20. Arafat, Begin, Teddy Roosevelt, Kissinger, Wilson.

[kestrel91316]

21. If they are so all-fired worried about killing (NOW), why do they respect

the Nobel Prize at all? Are they seriously aware of Alfred Nobel's line of work?

One more pathetic instance of their regimented, black-and-white thinking. They simply don't understand nuance or compromise or anything involving a third way.

[buddysmellgood]

22. You know, if they want to keep bringing up the fact that the world

was so pissed off with Bush, that Obama got the NPP, that's fine with me. What's the worst case there? Oh, he should only have been considered for the NPP. Too bad.

[originalpckelly]

24. Many killers have been given that prize. But you who never was?

Gandhi.

It says a lot of about the value of it.

[EFerrari]

25. The more they attack him, the bigger we'll know they think this is.

They'll lose this one, anyway.

[WilliamPitt]

26. Good.

I hope they keep talking about it.

[devilgrrl]

27. Killing is only okay when the GOP does it.

And no, I don't condone killing.

[justiceischeap]

29. How does one expect the President of the US, who happens to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner

not kill someone. I can't think of a single president that doesn't have blood of some sort on his hands. I'm pretty certain one item in the job description is ability to kill people with a word.