Bill Kristol & Liz Cheney on Obama Nobel Prize: “Farce” “Anti-American”

John McCain said today of President Barack Obama‘s Nobel Peace Prize that, “As Americans, we’re proud when our President receives an award of that prestigious category…Americans are always pleased when the President is recognized by something on this order.” According to Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney on Fox News Sunday — not quite.

Said Cheney: “I think the president himself understands he didn’t earn this prize…therefore the notion that he’d go to Oslo to accept the prize just sort of adds to the farce.” She noted the wording of the citation and took it to mean that the Nobel committe “would like to live in a world in which America is not dominant” and speculated that Obama, in his speeches about global diplomacy, had convinced them that “President Obama also doesn’t believe in American dominance.” Said Cheney: “I think unfortunately they may be right.”

Kristol, for his part, joked that he should have gotten the prize because just as Obama had given a few good speeches, he’d written a few good columns. Er, yes, indeed. “This is an anti-American committee, they’ve now given the prize to President Obama — I think he should have refused it, respectfully, but I think the second-best thing would be to go over and give a pro-American speech on December 10th.” On the matter of Obama’s belief in American exceptionalism: “I don’t think he’s a believer in it in the way perhaps some previous American presidents have been.”

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Compare and contrast with John McCain’s diplomatic, if not effusive, response here.

(Via FireDogLake.)

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• m

  Ironic that Kristol says Obama doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism, when the award was given to Obama because the Committee thought that he had properly taken the leadership role in the world that America is destined to take.

• TfT

  This was a topic on far more than FNC today Rachel.

  Why not put up the video of the ABC Sunday show wherein the panel broke out into laughter when Donna Brazzile claimed “Obama deserved this”? George Stephanopolous’s reaction was quite typical — “he deserved this?” (followed by a loud guffah). Why not quote Tom Friedman in the NYTimes wherein he write the acceptance speech for Obama to include this: “But I will accept it on behalf of the most important peacekeepers in the world for the last century — the men and women of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.”

  Obama will never live it down now — he will forever be known as the President who received the Nobel Peace prize for nothing — or as George Will stated (quoting from the committee’s announcement) for his “attitude”!

• TfT

  PS: I put no blame on this on Obama, but rather the obvious adulation/adoration of the lefty socialists who awarded this prize to him. He is afterall The One.

• Nachi

  Bill & Liz. Certainly a couple of the more intellectualof the scabrous Repugs in the stadium. Bringing us all ever closer to the unwashed masses. Yup.