Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

[Dumpster 0]

No Shit. According to CNN.

[Frenchy68 0]

He's also in the running for the MLB World Series MVP!

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[justinb138 0]

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No Shit. According to CNN.

Didn't realize they gave those out for simply not being Bush.

Edit: He's even doing a really shitty job of not being Bush.

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Citizens of Afganistan definitely support this noble decision :)

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Didn't realize they gave those out for simply not being Bush.
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Sky's foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said: "There will be people who will say this is a marvellous, inspired, award.

"But next year let's give it to Miss World. Every year Miss World comes on and says I want world peace and the world free of nuclear weapons. It's a hope, an aspiration.

"This is a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush. And I think it has been devalued."

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Here is the list of people who have won this prize since 1980. I'm seeing a lot of far left wing liberals and muslims........


Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:

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— 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama

— 2008: Martti Ahtisaari

— 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore

— 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank

— 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei

— 2004: Wangari Maathai

— 2003: Shirin Ebadi

— 2002: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter

— 2001: United Nations, Kofi Annan

— 2000: Kim Dae-jung

— 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres

— 1998: John Hume, David Trimble

— 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams

— 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jose Ramos-Horta

— 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

— 1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin

— 1993: Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk

— 1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum

— 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi

— 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev

— 1989: The 14th Dalai Lama

— 1988: U.N. Peacekeeping Forces

— 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez

— 1986: Elie Wiesel

— 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

— 1984: Desmond Tutu

— 1983: Lech Walesa

— 1982: Alva Myrdal, Alfonso Garcia Robles

— 1981: Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

— 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?!

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that is because they're not war-mongering, right-winged republicans! are you serious!?

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[justinb138 0]

If Obama had actually enacted some (any) change in US foreign policy in comparison to the Bush presidency, I could see it as a possibility.

[Lefty 0]

Obama must be so embarrassed by this.

Provoking a reaction isn't the same thing as saying something meaningful.
-Calvin

[metalslug 36]

I like Obama, but to award this to a president less than nine months into his first term, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, seems very odd.

Of course, I can only criticize if I have someone in mind who deserves it more.
My vote for this year would be Morgan Tsvangirai

[TomAiello 26]

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Here is the list of people who have won this prize since 1980. I'm seeing a lot of far left wing liberals and muslims......

Yes, but to this point they've been liberals who've actually done something.

I'm no fan of Jimmy Carter, for example, but he's clearly put a lot of work into promoting peace, and has achieved some successes.

At this point, Obama has achieved...the escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Now there's a major achievement for peace in the world.

-- Tom Aiello

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My vote for this year would be Morgan Tsvangirai

Concur. I have no idea how you can say that Obama is more deserving than Tsvangirai.

-- Tom Aiello

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[Lefty 0]

Fair enough. I've got a long list of people who deserve it equally as much as Obama: me, you, Clint Eastwood, whoever came up with the design for these New Balance shoes I'm wearing, Chicken McNuggets, etc.

I mean, what's the criteria for winning the Nobel Peace Prize nowadays?

Provoking a reaction isn't the same thing as saying something meaningful.
-Calvin

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I mean, what's the criteria for winning the Nobel Peace Prize nowadays?

Talking well and smiling pretty. The prize committee acknowledged that he hadn't done much, but basically said they gave him the award for attitude and potential, and to try to help him achieve his goals.

I feel like I'm in surreal-land.

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
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[1969912 0]

WTF?

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[justinb138 0]

So how is the prize committee going to react if Obama decides it's time to go after Iran?

What would it say about the value of the prize if the current year's winner starts a war?

[yoink 321]

In the next 5 years I intend to develop clean nuclear fusion and a system to remove excess Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere...

Can I have my Nobel prize for Physics now please?

[lawrocket 3]

I nominate Ron Jeremy. For decades he has given hope to all fat, hairy apes that they can expecte regular threesomes with hotties.

I would also like to encourage the following to be awarded the Peace Prize:

Turkey, for bringing an end to conflict with Armenia;
Kim Jong-Il, for his humane efforts at bringing non-greenhouse gas generating power to North Korea;
Former President George W. Bush, for showing that nuclear weapons don't have to be used.
Santa Claus, for bringing hope to all the children of the world:
NASA, for letting us know cataclysm is way less likely than the prior unlikeliness in 2036;
Mt. Pinatubo, for preventing global warming in the 1990's.
Al Gore, because he's just so kick ass and the IPCC because they peddle such fear to the world.

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"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," said former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate.

"This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act," Walesa said.
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"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

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Here is the list of people who have won this prize since 1980. I'm seeing a lot of far left wing liberals and muslims........

When they give out a war prize you'll see our right wing leaders showing up in the win column. Heck, they might even give Cheney a lifetime achievement award.

[millertimeunc 0]

I held the door for someone yesterday, and I'm thinking about hosting a barbecue next week. Can I have my prize, too?

The best things in life are dangerous.

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I held the door for someone yesterday, and I'm thinking about hosting a barbecue next week. Can I have my prize, too?

Texas or Carolina barbecue?

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"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," said Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee.
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"It's an award coming near the beginning of the first term of office of a relatively young president that anticipates an even greater contribution towards making our world a safer place for all," Tutu said. "It is an award that speaks to the promise of President Obama's message of hope."
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"In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself," ElBaradei (IAEA) said.
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It's the Nobel HOPE Prize now.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[millertimeunc 0]

Carolina, of course. That's the only kind! (dons flame suit)

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When they give out a war prize you'll see our right wing leaders showing up in the win column. Heck, they might even give Cheney a lifetime achievement award.

True. Guys like Kissinger will be at the head of the line. Yeah. Good luck ever getting a Peace Prize, Henry!!!

Is the Peace Prize Committee nothing more than a circle jerk?

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