Barack Obama has said a controversial “No, thank you” to the King of Norway’s very kind and very obligatory lunch invitation! Sometime before or after Obama’s hawky peace prize acceptance speech, everyone expected our President to feast upon Scandinavian pleasantries, possibly in a palace, with the King, like people did constantly in Medieval times. Who would not want to do this?
Someone who has A. already eaten and, you know what, is actually having a large dinner that night so he’d just rather not or B. someone who is ASHAMED of all the peace he is launching at Iraq.
The White House has cancelled many of the events peace prize laureates traditionally submit to, including a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee, a press conference, a television interview, appearances at a children’s event promoting peace and a music concert, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honour at the Nobel peace centre. [...]
According to a poll published by the daily tabloid VG, 44% of Norwegians believe it was rude of Obama to cancel his scheduled lunch with King Harald, with only 34% saying they believe it was acceptable.
“Of all the things he is cancelling, I think the worst is cancelling the lunch with the king,” said Siv Jensen, the leader of the largest party in opposition, the populist Progress party. “This is a central part of our government system. He should respect the monarchy,” she told VG.
Definitely B.
[Guardian via Daily Intel]
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This is America, buddy. If you want our President to kiss your ass, you best be sittin’ on a whole buncha oil.
Siv: Fuck you and your cracker ass king too.
Herring
Medieval-style mead, turkey legs and wenches are just not Obama’s thing. Needs more arugula.
[re=475604]Aflac Shrugged[/re]: Well, Norway is not exactly modest about its petroleum production.
Needs more bowing.
[re=475604]Aflac Shrugged[/re]: Umm actually…
Honestly, I think Norwegians should be happy he didn’t call them a bunch of stupid tards for giving him the peace prize in the first place.
Also, the king’s name is Harald for God’s sake. I bet he has a purple crayon for a scepter.
[re=475604]Aflac Shrugged[/re]: Whatcha talkin’ ’bout. The Norweigeiners have shitload of oil
[re=475604]Aflac Shrugged[/re]: Actually, the North Sea has a lot of oil, and Norway has a big oil industry. Maybe he shoulda.
There goes Minnesota’s electoral votes.
[re=475604]Aflac Shrugged[/re]: I know they’re sitting on all that North Sea crude up there, Af, but they make their humble pie out of lutefisk, myseost and pickled pig’s feet. It’s too much to ask Barry to eat that!
Hopey must’ve found out they were going to serve lutefisk.
[re=475611]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]: Holy shit. This *is* a faux pas. Obama, what have you done?!
He cancelled because he knew all the king wanted to talk about was Tiger Woods.
[re=475622]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: I dunno. Lutefisk is pretty much the same coming out as going in.
Well, Obama’s roots are in Kenya, so forget Norway.
He probably would have bowed to him and caused another kerfuffle. also, TELEPROMPTER!!!1!!
I just googled “king” and found out that it means the same thing as CZAR — what is the deal with this guy and czars? Makes you wonder …
Maybe he thought they were going to pick him as the 13th warrior, and he didn’t want to kick grendel’s ass after getting the peace prize.
Someone at RedState is crying right now over the missed opportunity to freak about Obama bowing to King Harald.
[re=475645]Cicada[/re]: Hahaha! I called it!
[re=475637]Gopherit[/re]: Damn. Those seconds I wasted trying to figure out if I could add something about Erick Erickson’s masturbatory habits have bit me in the ass.
Do they serve lutefisk at these ho-downs? Cuz that’s a deal breaker right there.
He remembered how much that bow he made to the Japanese king made the important internet site RedState hate him, and decided no to do it.
[re=475645]Cicada[/re]: Dammit, how did I miss your comment saying the exact same thing?
May I just say that choklit cake made with canned frosting is an abomination before the LORD?
I love the photo illustration of the new Obama “chocolate” quarter that is being put into circulation.
Instead of lunch, they should have scheduled a beer summit. Our Hopey would not pass up the opportunity for a good kegger.
You go to war with the cake you have, not the cake you want.
[re=475626]V572625694[/re]: [re=475636]TGY[/re]: [re=475649]Joshua Norton[/re]: I don’t understand all the hate for a simple dish of lye and fermented whitefish.
Haha, I just urped a little writing that description. Seriously, people eat that crap?
[re=475651]SmutBoffin[/re]: And I missed Gopherit’s comment saying something very similar. We are the hive mind. Bleep blorp.
“He should respect the monarchy”
Well, I’m sure if you asked nicely he’ll bow to them?
[re=475657]Cicada[/re]:
Yum. Fish Jello.
I doubt even Martha could pull that one off.
[re=475659]Cicada[/re]: Invoking RedState does give the joke some much-needed panache, methinks.
Fuck RedState. For reals. ‘buncha needle-dicked bugfuckers and warped housewives.
[re=475648]Cicada[/re]: That’s what you get for being all fancy with ut wurds.
As someone once said:
“Peace is a wonderful thing that we all must relentlessly strive for … Now watch this Predator attack.”
[re=475671]Joshua Norton[/re]: Plus, if you get gas from eating Lutefisk, you’re pretty much classified as an incendiary device and it’d be embarrassing if Barry was prohibited from boarding AF-1 on the return flight.
[re=475671]Joshua Norton[/re]: Even the guy from Bizarre Foods hates lutefisk. That’s what you get for making a desperation food into a traditional holiday meal.
[re=475645]Cicada[/re]: Nah, they’ll just be OUTRAGED over Obama not showing proper respect to this important foreign leader. And, of course, fail to notice the cognitive dissonance involved.
Add this to the list of things Barry has done which I do not understand at all. This, appointing Dana Perino for something, and not prosecuting anybody.
It’s a dinner, for fuck’s sake, with a funny-named king of a country that everybody likes. It’s an easy photo-op.
I don’t know why it was done but I never liked Norway that much- I’ve not forgiven them for being Nazi Sympathizers in WWII. However, I am pretty sure Hopey doesn’t make these decisions himself.
Yeah, Siv, because Americans have such a long, storied tradition of respecting monarchies.
Eat shit and die, Finland. Or whatever you are.
Obama previewed the dining options when he took the kids to Disney World EPCOT’s Norway Pavillion (Akershus Royal Banquet Hall)…and Orzag found he could get a better deal on Ground Beef and Pork Dumplings (kjottkaker) served with Mashed Potatoes, seasonal Vegetables, and Lingonberry Sauce at the Woodbridge, VA IKEA.
Linie Aquavit Glacier Shot $8.25? Neger, vær så snill!
So you don’t have to watch, let me write the FOX News banner that will appear on the screen for this story: “Obama Insults Norway’s King?” It will appear as the “news” reader presents a text suggesting that (1) Obama has understood FOX had a point about him bowing to the Emperor of Japan, but (2) he’s overreacted by doing the opposite.
And that second part might actually be correct.
[re=475728]Jukesgrrl[/re]: “Obama Insults Norway’s King and Apologizes for America. Again.?”
NORWAY, NO HOW!
Drudge Report: Norwegians Incensed Over Obama Snubs…
NewsMax.: Obama Irks Oslo Ahead of Nobel
Frankly, I agree with his not going on kiddie shows and folderolling with the royalty after *that* speech, and with the whole retardedness of the award being given to him in the first place borne in mind. Get in, say what needs to be said, make your position clear, get out, get back to work on wrapping up those wars.
Narwhale! (I have no idea)
[re=475766]Carrie_Okie[/re]: B-52s, Rock Lobster:
Here comes a stingray
There goes a manta-ray
In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dog-fish
Chased by a cat-fish
In flew a sea robin
Watch out for that piranha
There goes a narwhal
HERE COMES A BIKINI WHALE!
We were at a party
His ear lobe fell in the deep
Someone reached in and grabbed it
It was a rock lobster
We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn’t a rock
It was a rock lobster
Apparently no liberals in the US or in Europe listened to Obama when he said for the last 2 1/2 years that he fully intends to open a can of whoop-ass over in Afghanistan. Now when he says, “No really, I’m serious!”, all of a sudden he’s a Quisling.
[re=475688]Gopherit[/re]: Lutefisk ain’t so bad. I’m making some this Saturday to serve with the pickled herring. Just drink enuf aquavit.
Now *rotfisk* – now that’s some nasty shit.
[re=475763]chascates[/re]:
Drudge Report: Norwegians Incensed Over Obama Snubs…
NewsMax.: Obama Irks Oslo Ahead of Nobel
American Thinker: Norweigians Riot, Burn Oslo in Response to Obama Effrontery and Uppityness
[re=475609]chascates[/re]: I was also looking for a herring joke, but didn’t think to consider your minimalist approach. (smacks forehead)
Any I suppose it’s just a coincidence that the King of Norway is white?
[re=475705]finallyhappy[/re]: What?!? Norway was INVADED by the Nazis and a wacko with 2% of the vote called Quisling was installed as puppet dictator.
[re=475626]V572625694[/re]: This Norske-American has eaten Norwegian food. And would rather not, ever again. Kudos to your president, for if you eat Lutefisk, the Norwegians will have already won. And you’ll have this awful urge to go to a small liberal arts school in Minnesota, also.
Security risk? I mean, not just from accidentally choking on the leather necklace holding your glög cup because there was too much allspice and you fell in front of a herd of stampeding reindeer because it was either that, or step out onto the ice where the blond boys were bathing, wearing nothing but colorful neoprene footies.
You know what Obama should have done? Not go to Oslo in the first place and feigning humility and then blowing off the king? You don’t start to play a game and then quit it, damned flake.
Whatever.
Re: lutefisk: What is this obsession with lutefisk? I mean, come on, the only person in the known universe who doesn’t acknowledge that it’s a biological weapon sadly mislabeled as food is my grandmother.
[re=475705]finallyhappy[/re]: Re: WWII: Yes, we especially enjoyed the part where we were invaded.
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