Nobel peace prize.

whaaaaat???

is it april fools day? wtf?

It has to be a joke. No way this guy did anything and I mean anything for world peace.

Congrats Mr. President.

Another thing our President and Former President Jimmy Carter have in common!

this has to be a make-up call for Chicago...i mean cmon...

Girardi has new competition for manager of the year.

Congrats to our President.

Just someone needs to tell me, an Obama supporter, just what he did to deserve it. Even I am stumped.

Congrats to our President.

Just someone needs to tell me, an Obama supporter, just what he did to deserve it. Even I am stumped.


He stopped the war and brought the troops home.

He has brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to his new Empire.

Well, at least it may explain why he's been dragging his feet concerning Afghanistan. It would be kind of hard to win a prize for "peace" if you're beefing up your troops in another country.

maybe?? :shrug:

http://www.mutineermagazine.com/img/blog/0709/beer_summit.jpg

OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his calls to reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons and working for world peace.

The first African American to hold the country's highest office, Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January.

I was reading that nominations have a strictly enforced deadline of February 1. He would have only been in office for 11 days at that point. I'm a big Obama supporter, but this seems really bizarre.

WTF? Im not an Obama supporter and Im still trying to figure out what he has done in 10 months besides the beer summit.

They must have "fallen under his spell"....

I am stumped too as was the president. But we will have to wait 40 years to find out why the Nobel Committee selected Obama.


But thinking back on the months following his election, the rest of the world perceived Obama in a much greater "light" than Americans. When was the last time the election of a US President was celebrated so publically in foreign countries.

maybe?? :shrug:

http://www.mutineermagazine.com/img/blog/0709/beer_summit.jpg


I think Vin is right....gotta be the beer summit.

:beer:

I was reading that nominations have a strictly enforced deadline of February 1. He would have only been in office for 11 days at that point. I'm a big Obama supporter, but this seems really bizarre.

Tom brings up the most valid point as the nominations are in by 2/1. And Lee brings up the most likely point that the world views Obama better than we do here in the states.

The Voice always gets things in perspective
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/10/barack_obama_no.php

If the Nobel Peace Prize hadn't already jumped the shark as a political farce when it was awarded to Yasser Arafat, it surely has sealed its fate today . . . what a joke . . . I would think that even Obama himself must be just a bit embarrassed by this accolade awarded, apparently, upon merely the expectations of what the Nobel committee "hopes" he will achieve

P.S - even the progressive wingnuts at WBAI were stunned by the award to Obama as being without merit at this point in his presidency

Congrats to our President.

Just someone needs to tell me, an Obama supporter, just what he did to deserve it. Even I am stumped.

Ditto on both.

hahaha...Village Voice...hahaha...was that written by a high school junior??...only place you can read politics and Michael Musto's review of cock rings...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867711.ece

The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself.

Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.

Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.

The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s decision to “strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. Many people will point out that, while the President has indeed promised to “reset” relations with Russia and offer a fresh start to relations with the Muslim world, there is little so far to show for his fine words.

East-West relations are little better than they were six months ago, and any change is probably due largely to the global economic downturn; and America’s vaunted determination to re-engage with the Muslim world has failed to make any concrete progress towards ending the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

There is a further irony in offering a peace prize to a president whose principal preoccupation at the moment is when and how to expand the war in Afghanistan.

The spectacle of Mr Obama mounting the podium in Oslo to accept a prize that once went to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi and Mother Theresa would be all the more absurd if it follows a White House decision to send up to 40,000 more US troops to Afghanistan. However just such a war may be deemed in Western eyes, Muslims would not be the only group to complain that peace is hardly compatible with an escalation in hostilities.

The Nobel committee has made controversial awards before. Some have appeared to reward hope rather than achievement: the 1976 prize for the two peace campaigners in Northern Ireland, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, was clearly intended to send a signal to the two battling communities in Ulster. But the political influence of the two winners turned out, sadly, to be negligible.

In the Middle East, the award to Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt in 1978 also looks, in retrospect, as naive as the later award to Yassir Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin — although it could be argued that both the Camp David and Oslo accords, while not bringing peace, were at least attempts to break the deadlock.

Mr Obama’s prize is more likely, however, to be compared with the most contentious prize of all: the 1973 prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho for their negotiations to end the Vietnam war. Dr Kissinger was branded a warmonger for his support for the bombing campaign in Cambodia; and the Vietnamese negotiator was subsequently seen as a liar whose government never intended to honour a peace deal but was waiting for the moment to attack South Vietnam.

Mr Obama becomes the third sitting US President to receive the prize. The committee said today that he had “captured the world’s attention”. It is certainly true that his energy and aspirations have dazzled many of his supporters. Sadly, it seems they have so bedazzled the Norwegians that they can no longer separate hopes from achievement. The achievements of all previous winners have been diminished.

In keeping with this theme, I would like to announce that I've won a Pulitzer Prize. I'm starting work on the book later this afternoon.

Talk of the town everywhere-

http://eci.ofasoft.com/index.php?topic=24676.0

In keeping with this theme, I would like to announce that I've won a Pulitzer Prize. I'm starting work on the book later this afternoon.


Have the 2010 NY Mets accepted their World Series Trophy yet? Or is that what your book is going to be about?

They might as well give him the Cy Young Award for his girly first pitch at the All-Star game this year while they’re at it

http://raymondpronk.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/obama_pitch.jpg


But the kooky Liberals on the commitee are probably very disappointed because back then they probably expected he’d have all the world’s problems solved by now.


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In keeping with this theme, I would like to announce that I've won a Pulitzer Prize. I'm starting work on the book later this afternoon.
In other news of the day, from the world of sports, this just in: Jerry Manuel, skipper of the New York Mets, has been named by Major League Baseball as 2009 National League "Manager of the Year" in recognition of his extraordinary efforts to maintain a positive outlook for the future prospects of the team in the face of mounting injuries and defeats suffered by his team.

"Political satire became irrelevant when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize"--satirist Tom Lehrer, explaining why he decided to retire from writing political humor.

"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far," former Polish President Lech Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, said Friday. "He is still at an early stage."Talk about devaluing the award . . . just consider, for a moment, the struggle and accomplishment for which Lech Walesa was recognized by the Nobel Committee.

Talk about devaluing the award . . . just consider, for a moment, the struggle and accomplishment for which Lech Walesa was recognized by the Nobel Committee.
Solidarinosii!

From the entertainment world, this news just in: the remainder of current season of Dancing With The Stars has been cancelled, the judges having awarded this season's trophy to President Obama and First Lady Michelle for their turn on the dance floor at the Inaugural Ball.

i guess the award ain't what it used to be...

Jody Williams...1997 recipient in a 2007 speech

In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.
"Right now, I could kill George Bush," she said at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. "No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that."

awww...so peaceful

well, she did say she wanted to kill him nonviolently... :P

I guess Lech Walesa has thrown in his lot with the Taliban, too :rolleyes:

A top Democratic National Committee official reacted furiously to a statement from Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele mocking -- and describing as "unfortunate" -- President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.

"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," DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO. "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," Woodhouse said.

It has to be a joke. No way this guy did anything and I mean anything for world peace.

He bombed the moon to keep those crazy lunar terrorists from attacking us! :P

us sec. of health kathleen sebelius should win the nobel prize for medicine.
she showed the world how to sneeze into their arms.

I'm curious as to how he's going to spend that $1.4+ million he's going to receive...

I'm curious as to how he's going to spend that $1.4+ million he's going to receive...
The First Lady needs new shoes

[QUOTE=vtred]hahaha...Village Voice...hahaha...was that written by a high school junior??...only place you can read politics and Michael Musto's review of cock rings...

Would much rather read that then the bullshit you read on Fox.com

i don't read foxnews.com...the layout is horrible...nice try though...but if you're getting your news from The Village Voice...well...i really have no rebuttal...

I never thought I'd say this, but I kinda feel sorry for Bill Clinton, who has been completely eclipsed by the dawning of the age of Obama . . . having said that, I would have paid good money to have seen his reaction when he heard the news that PBO had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as a sitting president only 9 months into his term of office . . . Clinton's head must have near exploded

From Carol Felsenthal, one of Clinton's biographers:

When I checked my BlackBerry this morning while stumbling to the kitchen to make coffee, I saw the headline "Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize." My first thought was, "This must be a hoax." When I saw the "News Alerts" from the Washington Post and the New York Times I knew that it wasn't.

As a biographer of Bill Clinton (Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House), my second thought was, "I feel his pain." Clinton has lusted after the Nobel Peace Prize for years -- starting seriously at the end of his second term when he thought he could win it if, in the waning days of his second term, he could only bring the Israelis and Arabs together.

Not even as towering an ego as Bill Clinton expected to win it while a sitting president, as Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt had (but not even they came anywhere close to winning it before they had spent even a year in the White House).

For himself, Clinton saw the Nobel as a grand post-presidency honor. On leaving the White House in 2001, once he shed the stigma of his scandals, and particularly the Marc Rich pardon mess, Clinton looked to the post presidency of Jimmy Carter, a man he disliked intensely (see why in an earlier post, "Carter and Clinton: They Genuinely Dislike Each Other") and the international outreach that won Carter the Nobel in 2002.

And Clinton learned from his predecessor. He boldly and effectively has used his Clinton Foundation and his annual and highly successful Clinton Global Initiative to do genuinely important, ground-breaking work in some of the poorest countries in the world.

The main stories this morning in the Times and the Post included not a word about Bill Clinton. President Obama who humiliated Clinton and his wife in the primaries, now stands on the Nobel stage not only with Jimmy Carter , who saw Obama's promise early, but also with Al Gore, who won his Nobel in 2007 and whose relations with Clinton have been frosty since 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, and, especially, since Gore lost the 2000 election and blamed Clinton.

And now Bill's wife, Hillary, is Obama's Secretary of State, battling for position with Obama's various White House Czars charged with overseeing the most explosive parts of the world.

No novelist, not even a Nobel Laureate in Literature, could make this stuff up.

He bombed the moon to keep those crazy lunar terrorists from attacking us! :P


Would those be the lunatics?

wow.

Well, congratulations to the President, but :idunno: :confused:

I'm curious as to how he's going to spend that $1.4+ million he's going to receive...

Spread the wealth -- take Joe the Plumber out for a :beer: or two*!


(* = That will qualify him for the Nobel Prize in Economics next year)

He's donating it to charity.

Would those be the lunatics?

When I heard about this plan, couldn't help thinking of Cloverfield.

He's donating it to charity.

ACORN?

;)

I get the feeling he's not particularly thrilled about this...like he needed MORE pressure put on him...

In discussing the wackiness of this with some friends, we decided to think outside the box and introduce some broader speculation as food for thought. Of course there is no tangible evidence to support this (again as mentioned already this is speculative) but since the committee that chooses the winner is composed of highly intelligent people who know what they are doing, could this be a case of highly intelligent people screwing with America because they know if they pick Obama, the folks who eat up the different flavors of slurry that various media sources feed them will go nuts with this?

The way I see it is if Obama won or not, it makes no difference here in terms of advancement of issues within our nation. However, him winning seems to only affect media activity and the shouting of all the media's sock puppets. It becomes yet another distraction from the real issues (good job all media sources at giving Obama another free pass *sarcasm*). Not winning it would've just been another day as usual.

Not winning it would've just been another day as usual.


Would anyone have known he was even up for the award?

Someone in the media expressed the idea that Obama was awarded ths prize as a slap in the face to George W. The idea was that George W is extremely dispised in Europe.

What most seem to ignore is that Obama had absolutely no role in being awarded this honor. Yet the focus of the attack is Obama, not the committee who made the selection.

It would be rather ironic if in the next seven and a half years if US Forces or interests are attacked with NBC weapons and Obama retaliates in kind...

It would be rather ironic if in the next seven and a half years if US Forces or interests are attacked with NBC weapons .


peacocks? Conan??

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Found the real reason lol:

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