61% Of Americans Say Obama Didn’t Deserve Nobel Prize, Plurality Not “Glad” He Accepted It

Proof • October 25, 2009

You can’t blame Obama for the Nobel committee deciding to give him the award. He didn’t ask for it, and was indeed surprised when they awarded it to him. But I think it’s fair to be annoyed with him for accepting it.

The majority of Americans do not believe President Barack Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize (61%), but the public is split in its personal reaction to the announcement. Asked if they are “glad” Obama received the prize, 46% of Americans say yes and 47% say no. …
The USA Today/Gallup poll conducted about a week after the announcement did not ask Americans whether they believe that the award may ultimately be deserved, or whether it was appropriately given in anticipation of the potential of the Obama administration’s peace efforts. The central question simply asked whether Obama “deserved” the award, and found Americans by roughly a 2-to-1 margin saying no rather than yes.
Not surprisingly, reaction to the awarding of the prize is partisan, although support for Obama’s receiving the prize among Democrats is perhaps not as large as might be expected. Fifty-nine percent of Democrats say the award is deserved, which can be contrasted with the 84% of Democrats who in the same survey approve of Obama’s job performance. Independents and, in particular, Republicans are highly likely to say Obama did not deserve to win the prize.

Ed Morrissey suggests that it would have been needlessly insulting to the international community for Obama to decline the award. I disagree. What should be insulting to the international community is the fact that this award has been given to people who so often don’t deserve it. Al Gore. Yasser Arafat. These people, like Obama, did nothing to earn their Nobel Peace prizes. That’s the insult.
Obama turning down his award would have been an admirable moment of humility and integrity from a world leader.
Sadly, Obama is short suited in both of those attributes.

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http://Array TheTodd

These type of polls always work better if they include “I don’t have an opinion” as a choice.
AKA WOOF

All dogs got checks.
Monkeys?
So, what charity did the phony bastard
alegedly donate the Nobel prize money too????
sayanything-3960

Go ahead and apologize.

That isn’t the same thing as asking whether Obama should have accepted it. Work on your reading comprehension.
jimmypop

did not ask Americans whether they believe that the award may ultimately be deserved,

what the heck kind of question would this have been? for Gods sake… these liberals dont have any shame any more.
sayanything-9974

Obama himself said he did not deserve it. I think he deserves it as much as Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat. The main prerequisite for the award seems to be a willingness blame a and condemn the USA. This award would have been declined by many Americans. Obama had only been if office for a couple of weeks when the vote was taken. I’ll be damned if I can remember what happend to secure the award for Obama. I wish he was able to get himself and the Democrats the Darwinism Award. Now that is something he deserves.
sayanything-559

61%?!?!?!?!.. that's it?

*shakes head*
sayanything-6955

Pollsters must have counted voicemail as an approval for the "ONE"
sayanything-3960

Plurality Not â€œGladâ€ He Accepted It

Where does the article say that? In fact Gallup didn't even ask whether he should have accepted it. In fact the article never even used the word accept. Work on your reading comprehension.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

From the article:

Asked if they are â€œgladâ€ Obama received the prize, 46% of Americans say yes and 47% say no

Go ahead and apologize.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

Ok, tough guy. Believe what you want.

Your reading skills are about on par with your legal analysis.
sayanything-3960

Do you really think that receive and accept mean the same thing.?

This is just another typical dishonest post from you.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

Yes, everything you disagree with is a lie. Whatever gets you through the

night, I guess.
sayanything-3960

Do you really believe the following asks the same thing?

"Are you glad Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize?"

"Are you glad Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize?"

You would have to be a moron to believe those are the same queswtion.

The word receive does not imply any action on Obama's part that people are upset about while the word accept does.

Like I said, typical dishonest post.
sayanything-1317

If people are unhappy he received it, they're not likely to be happy he accepted it.

Kinda like, if I'm unhappy my girlfriend is kissing another guy, I'm certainly not going to be happy about her having sex with him.

You didn't major in logic did you, Lioncourt?
sayanything-15046

Well said, just what I had in mind!
sayanything-3960

You didn't major in logic did you, Lioncourt?

Obviously you didn't.

Just because all A is B does not mean all B is A.

Receive and Accept do not mean the same thing. The questions do not mean the same thing. Rob is taking his views and giving them to the people who took the poll.

Typical dishonesty.
sayanything-342

So, what charity did the phony bastard alegedly donate the Nobel prize money too????
sayanything-4416

Bitter sore losers on Parade!
Ozcar

"Bitter sore losers on Parade!"

Okay shithead, what HAS he done to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?

EOTIS
sayanything-1317

"Just because all A is B doesn't mean all B is A."

Nifty, you use irrelevance to mask incompetence? I never said all A is B or all A is B. In fact, if we want to use stupid terminology…B is A+something. So if people don't like A, they will not like B. See the reference above. If I do not like my girlfriend kissing other men, I certainly do not like her having sex with them.

If people do not like Obama being awarded the Noble Prize he doesn't deserve, they most likely don't like him accepting a prize that even he admits he doesn't deserve.

Again, you failed basic logic didn't you.
sayanything-3960

If people do not like Obama being awarded the Noble Prize he doesn't deserve, they most likely don't like him accepting a prize that even he admits he doesn't deserve.

I don't agree with you. I don't think most the country minds him humbly accepting the award.

However, the point is that this is a poll. Polls ask specific questions. Rob claimed this poll said something it didn't. He refuses to make a correction. That is dishonest, but as I said it is also typical.
sayanything-2361

I think the semantic hair you're splitting in this application is very thin. Yes, he possibly could have worded better but the meaning is clear.
Ken

"If people do not like Obama being awarded the Noble Prize he doesn't deserve, they most likely don't like him accepting a prize that even he admits he doesn't deserve."

I disagree. I don't think Obama deserved the award at all, but I don't really have a problem with him accepting it. Afterall, I don't deserve a Nobel Prize, but I sure as hell would accept it. For all his faults, I think Obama handled the awarding of the prize in an appropriate manner. While I don't think it's a huge issue, the headline of the post is misleading.
sayanything-1317

Fly is right Lion, you're splitting a very thin semantic hair and you know it. And we both know that most of the time the two questions will reach the same result. You're trying to play lawyer, and you're not very good at it.

Ken, perhaps you feel that way, but most would not. For the vast majority of people, the questions "does he deserve" and "should he have" are the same. If you don't deserve an award, and you know it, you shouldn't accept it. I'd have seen such a move as an astonishing act of humility on Obama's part.

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