RNC Response Sets The Tone: What Has Obama Accomplished?

That was response b.

The correct response would have been:

We're proud of President Obama and this honor which he has received while representing this nation. Today, all Americans can take pride in this country. We look forwards to working with President Obama to help make this country and this world truly a "shining city on the hill".

The Nobel Peace Committee sure got folks talking about peace today. Hell, the other nominees are probably getting more press as well as folks say "real deserving winners such as..."

Shorter Steele: "That prize is rightfully mine! I was supposed to be the first black president! Rotten theiving bastard! Rotten Eurotrash bastards! I hate you! I hate all of you! Waaaaaahhh!"

What has Obama accomplished, Steele?

Most importantly, he's not you.

the question is "what has steele accomplished?" obama is about to overhaul health reform

The opposition party delivers once again.

Just when I think the GOP has hit bottom they produce a golden sentiment for the ages.

Michael Steel calculus:
Yesterday; GOP vs Liberals
This morning; GOP vs Liberals + the rest of the world

Wow, I actually agree with Mike Steele on the part about Obama not backing up rhetoric with concrete action. The planets must be in some weird alignment...

EAT. IT. STEELE. hahahahahahahahha!

Seriously. Eat it.

I never went in for afterglow, but GOD this feels good. I'm going to relish every single statement from the GOP saying that Obama is an undeserving nigero. STEW IN THEM BITTER JUICES BIOTCHES!

HAHAHAHAHA.

The message I think we're missing is that the Nobel prize is really going to us. They're rewarding us for officially ending segregation in the biggest way possible. I haven't felt this good since I hugged a Kenyan man on election day.

Hooray for Barack, but a much bigger Hooray for US! The people who overcame chauvinism!

Whitenoise, I'm loving it now we can describe these thugs as noted Taliban sympathizers!

How is this any worse than the comments by liberals on TPM Café's thread?

Seemly like only the Taliban and the Republicans are bothered by this...

I don't let me kids keep company with bad people, you never know what may come out of their mouths. Their words just might influence my kids in the wrong way.

DNC Response -

The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists — the Taliban and Hamas this morning — in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize.

Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize — an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride — unless of course you are the Republican Party.

The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim.

Let's see. Actual Obama accomplishment? It would appear that he effectively and efficiently restored the respect of the world for America.

And don't the Rethugs just hate that!

"President Obama won't be receiving any awards from Americans..."

Hey, I'm an American and I just made up an award for President Obama. Its the Most Right Wing Nutjob Heads Exploded award. I thought the Nobel Peace Prize was an Onion piece when I first saw it. Then I got warm fuzzies just imagining the Malkin-ite, et al response.

I guess this means that Michael Steele won't be bringing the fried chicken and potato salad to the Nobel Peace Prize party.

What has Obama accomplished? He stopped the U.S. from leading the world to Armegeddon, just for starters.

You know that bus that Bush and Cheney were driving towards the cliff? He stomped on the brakes and he's heading it in the opposite direction. There will be a negotiated end to Iran's nuclear weapon production, instead of the Cheney plan for launching an all out attack on them.

I think the committee's decision was as much a gesture of gratitude to the American electorate for having come to its senses as it was recognition for anything Obama has done or is attempting to do. Hope is a valuable commodity to those who have lost it.

By the way, Steele, everybody thinks that the Republican brand tastes like shit. What little support you have left are people who happen to like the taste of shit.

If he'd stopped at "The real question Americans are asking is, 'What has President Obama actually accomplished?'" he'd have looked downright savvy.

I rarely find anything Steele says to make much sense, but he's on the money this time. I guess even a broken clock is correct twice a day. Obama winning the peace prize isn't merited. He's pursued pretty much the same policies as Bush/Cheney, and they clearly didn't merit a peace prize anymore than Kissinger did.

Alternate read of Steele :
The country is still in the ditch that the GOP ran it into. How can you honor Obama when he still hasn't repaired all the damage my party has done to the country.

Rush :
The rest of the world likes an America when it's not beligerently forcing it's way through the world, ignoring the damage caused by reckless beligerence.

Shorter Steele: I'm an asshole

Sometimes the vile and hateful political environment prevents us from seeing how the rest of the world views our president and what he is trying to do.

Obama is more than the non-Bush. He is more than the we-will-not-torture and we-will-extend-the-open-hand president. He is the first president that I can recall since JFK who has not only inspired billions on this planet who hope for peace, but who has also started the process, the practical framework, for actually getting some measure of peace.

His first major project in the Senate was nuclear de-escalation -- not grandiose speeches -- but on-the-ground work to secure Russian bombs. His presidential campaign showed that he was not politically afraid to be willing to talk to scary people. His framework for the mideast is the first time a president has tried to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian problem in a first term -- indeed a first year. His speech directly to the Arab people, his speech in Berlin, his speech at the UN, his clever maneuvering to be the first president to open talks with Iran in decades, his emphasis on global warming (which will cause more damage to the third world than any number of wars) -- all these showed that you have to get out of the ditch of before you can walk, you have to walk before you can run, you have to run before you can see the goal.

The Nobel Peace award goes sometimes to a past accomplishment and sometimes to a promising dream and sometimes to a combination of future results predicated on current groundwork. The last is the most valuable.

More filling for the shit taco. Chow down, Mike.

I love this Conservatives are falling apart

Am I the only one that thinks Michael Steele looks like a Muppet?

I just looked at the stats on this post and laughed.

71 COMMENTS AS OF NOW AND ZERO RECOMMENDS!!

HA-HAH!

One thing he's accomplished: HE WON A NOBEL PRIZE ... nitwit.

Well Michael, he has in one year accomplished much more than you have in your entire lifetime. That is what bugs you most, isn't it.

I would like to as Mr. Steele what has the previous Republican President done Oh thats right go to war. What has Mr. Bush done for peace, the economy and jobs in the last 8 years? He is coming in a trying to unscrew what Bush managed to screw up in 8 years.

If it were not for Obama, Steele would not be head of the RNC. Clearly Steele benefited on a very personal level from Obama's election and should be able to extrapolate to the rest of the world, the positive effect that Obama, in asking to be elected President of the United States and getting elected, has had on the world.

The Nobel Committee is recognizing how someone who believes in social justice took it upon himself to say Yes We Can change the world, and by getting elected, did it overnight.

The whole what has Obama done meme is a great smokescreen. Anything that the Republicans know about they'll block or throw a tea party. Change is happening all around, and as long as we keep them blind to it by distracting them with Healthcare. Let them keep saying that.

I want Obama to become the real-world version of Wyld Stallions now, just so that we can hear all these people berating the notion of world peace.

Never go into a peace war with liberals when survival is on the line. Classic mistake.