Nobel committee disses Bill Clinton

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Friday, October 9, 2009 - 2:54 PM Share

It's gonna be fun watching the right writhe over President Obama's Nobel. But what about poor Bill Clinton-the only Democratic president since LBJ not to be so honored?

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BILL KELLER

6:10 PM ET

October 9, 2009

We too often begrudge someone honored....

...and pity someone not. Neither the good work they do nor the value of the honor benefit from this. Good work carries its own benefit for the one who does it.

When Bill Clinton was first elected for a short period he had created an abatement of vitriol which like the snake on the jack lashed back.

Maybe the Nobel will lengthen the period before the vitriol regains its strength.

CASH

7:13 PM ET

October 9, 2009

Yeah, everything about Obama

Yeah, everything about Obama must drive the Clintons crazy. Not only did he come out of nowhere to smash Hillary's unbeatable war machine, but he's now giving Bill a lesson in how to function as president in a toxic political environment.

First Al wins a Nobel. Now Obama. What's Bill got going for him -- that silly Clinton Global initiative schmooze-fest?

DEA

9:50 PM ET

October 9, 2009

Don't Be Such A Suck-up

Obama needs more time before he can achieve Clinton's accomplishments. He may do it, but it needs time. Hillary won the popular vote too, and no the caucus count did not prove otherwise for Obama. YOU HAVE A LOW IQ

NWC STUDENT

7:38 PM ET

October 9, 2009

It's not just the right...

It's not just the right that are pretty much flabbergasted at what Obama has done to recieve it. There's really no denying it...his list of accomplishments is pretty thin thus far, although it may be robust when it is all said in done, you don't give out awards for something you haven't done yet.

Even David Gregory said this morning, that he won basically because he wasn't George W. Bush.

Don't you think this trivializes the award a bit?

DEA

9:48 PM ET

October 9, 2009

Cash, You Are Living In Complete Fantasy

Hillary won the popular vote, just not the majority of delegates. And no, Obama needs more time before you can say he meets his levels of achievement. Even a liar like Yassir Arafat won it

BRETT

9:17 AM ET

October 10, 2009

If Arafat and Rabin got the

If Arafat and Rabin got the Nobel for Camp David, Clinton surely deserves it, considering the amount of effort and time he put into two major pushes to get the Israel-Palestine peace process going, as well as other efforts (like an attempted Israel-Syria reconciliation).

He certainly deserves it more than Obama, who has gotten some things going but not really actually done anything on the peace front.

TOM RICKS

3:04 PM ET

October 10, 2009

also Al Gore

I mean, even his vice president won the prize!

BILL KELLER

9:30 PM ET

October 11, 2009

Adding a price to bad conduct, vitriol and....

Maybe just maybe the Norwegians were advising, those who, as a curse or genetic disability, were given to heart,neck and skull hardening that another significant part of civilize humanity places a priceless value upon our President.

And there is a large cost if the Lilliputians among us fail to appreciate it.