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twitterReid: Obama won Nobel Peace Prize with ‘new type of politics’
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This Sept. 24, 2009 file photo shows President Barack Obama chairing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at the United Nations headquarters. President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday Oct. 9, 2009 for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
Published Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 | 2:15 a.m.
Updated Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 | 9:25 a.m.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released a statement this morning on President Barack Obama winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, calling the president an inspiration to the country.
“By ushering in a period of optimism in American politics, President Obama has become a great source of pride and inspiration for many Americans. I congratulate the President on this tremendous honor that he has earned with his dedication to a new type of politics based on hope instead of fear," Reid said. "I am confident that the President will work to continue to live up the ideals of this award throughout his term in office.”
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.
Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the honor, and planned to travel to Oslo to accept the prize, which he said he does not see "as a recognition of my own accomplishments," but rather as a recognition of goals he has set for the United States and the world.
"I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative figures that have been honored by this prize," Obama said.
Many observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline and has yet to yield concrete achievements in peacemaking.
Some around the world objected to the choice of Obama, who still oversees wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has launched deadly counter-terror strikes in Pakistan and Somalia.
Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said their choice could be seen as an early vote of confidence in Obama intended to build global support for his policies. They lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation, and praised his pledges to reduce the world stock of nuclear arms, ease American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthen the U.S. role in combating climate change.
Aagot Valle, a lawmaker for the Socialist Left party who joined the committee this year, said she hoped the selection would be viewed as "support and a commitment for Obama."
"And I hope it will be an inspiration for all those that work with nuclear disarmament and disarmament," she told The Associated Press in a rare interview. Members of the Nobel peace committee usually speak only through its chairman.
The peace prize was created partly to encourage ongoing peace efforts but Obama's efforts are at far earlier stages than past winners'. The Nobel committee acknowledged that they may not bear fruit at all.
"He got the prize because he has been able to change the international climate," Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said. "Some people say, and I understand it, isn't it premature? Too early? Well, I'd say then that it could be too late to respond three years from now. It is now that we have the opportunity to respond - all of us."
After the prize was announced, Jagland compared the decision to give it to Obama to the prize was given to German Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1971 for his "Ostpolitik" policy of trying to find common ground with Eastern Europe, which was under Communist sway.
He said the same thing was true when then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev got the prize in 1990 after he had launched perestroika and glasnost, and allowed Eastern Europe to emerge from Kremlin control.
The selection to some extent reflects a trans-Atlantic divergence on Obama. In Europe and much of the world he is lionized for bringing the United States closer to mainstream global thinking on issues like climate change and multilateralism. At home, the picture is more complicated. As president, Obama is often criticized as he attempts to carry out his agenda - drawing fire over a host of issues from government spending to health care to the conduct of the war in Afghanistan.
U.S. Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele contended that Obama won the prize as a result of his "star power" rather than meaningful accomplishments.
"The real question Americans are asking is, What has President Obama actually accomplished?" Steele said.
Obama's election and foreign policy moves caused a dramatic improvement in the image of the U.S. around the world. A 25-nation poll of 27,000 people released in July by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found double-digit boosts to the percentage of people viewing the U.S. favorably in countries around the world. That indicator had plunged across the world under President George W. Bush.
Asked whether the prize could be seen as praising Obama's reversal of Bush administration policies, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, a senior political adviser to the right-wing populist Progress Party told the AP that: "I guess you could read it like that."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has made no secret of his admiration for Obama, called the decision the embodiment of the "return of America into the hearts of the people of the world."
But Obama's work is far from done, on numerous fronts.
He said he would end the Iraq war but has been slow to bring the troops home and the real end of the U.S. military presence there won't come until at least 2012.
He's running a second war in the Muslim world, in Afghanistan - and is seriously considering ramping up the number of U.S. troops on the ground and asking for help from others, too.
"I don't think Obama deserves this. I don't know who's making all these decisions. The prize should go to someone who has done something for peace and humanity," said Ahmad Shabir, 18-year-old student in Kabul. "Since he is the president, I don't see any change in U.S. strategy in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Obama has said that battling climate change is a priority. But the U.S. seems likely to head into crucial international negotiations set for Copenhagen in December with Obama-backed legislation still stalled in Congress.
Former Polish President Lech Walesa, who won the prize in 1983, questioned whether Obama deserved it now.
"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," Walesa said.
"This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act," Walesa said.
Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, the peace prize is given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Like the Parliament, the committee has a leftist slant, with three members elected by left-of-center parties. Jagland said the decision to honor Obama was unanimous.
The award appeared to be at least partly a slap at Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama's predecessor for his largely unilateral military action in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
"Those who were in support of Bush in his belief in war solving problems, on rearmament, and that nuclear weapons play an important role ... probably won't be happy," said Valle, the Nobel Committee member.
The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of "a new climate in international politics" and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the center of the world stage.
"You have to remember that the world has been in a pretty dangerous phase," Jagland said. "And anybody who can contribute to getting the world out of this situation deserves a Nobel Peace Prize."
Until seconds before the award, speculation had focused on a wide variety of candidates besides Obama: Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a Colombian senator, a Chinese dissident and an Afghan woman's rights activist, among others. The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year's prize, though it was not immediately apparent who nominated Obama.
Obama is the third sitting U.S. president to win the award: President Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906 and President Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize in 1919.
Wilson received the prize for his role in founding the League of Nations, the hopeful but ultimately failed precursor to the contemporary United Nations.
The Nobel committee chairman said after awarding the 2002 prize to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, for his mediation in international conflicts, that it should be seen as a "kick in the leg" to the Bush administration's hard line in the buildup to the Iraq war.
Five years later, the committee honored Bush's adversary in the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore, for his campaign to raise awareness about global warming.
In July talks in Moscow, Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed that their negotiators would work out a new limit on delivery vehicles for nuclear warheads of between 500 and 1,100. They also agreed that warhead limits would be reduced from the current range of 1,700-2,200 to as low as 1,500. The United States now has about 2,200 such warheads, compared to about 2,800 for the Russians.
But there has been no word on whether either side has started to act on the reductions.
Former Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, said Obama has already provided outstanding leadership in the effort to prevent nuclear proliferation.
"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 said. "He has shown an unshakable commitment to diplomacy, mutual respect and dialogue as the best means of resolving conflicts."
Obama also has attempted to restart stalled talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, but just a day after Obama hosted the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in New York, Israeli officials boasted that they had fended off U.S. pressure to halt settlement construction. Moderate Palestinians said they felt undermined by Obama's failure to back up his demand for a freeze.
Obama was to meet with his top advisers on the Afghan war on Friday to consider a request by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to send as many as 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan as the U.S war there enters its ninth year.
Obama ordered 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan earlier this year and has continued the use of unmanned drones for attacks on militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a strategy devised by the Bush administration. The attacks often kill or injure civilians living in the area.
Nominators for the prize include former laureates; current and former members of the committee and their staff; members of national governments and legislatures; university professors of law, theology, social sciences, history and philosophy; leaders of peace research and foreign affairs institutes; and members of international courts of law.
In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."
The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.
Sun staff contributed to this report.
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April Fools!!!
Congratulations Mr. President.
All patriotic Americans should be proud of a President who receives such an honor.
The republicans are throwing a nuclear hissy fit over this. I think it may be too early to tell whether he'll live up to the honor, but don't let that stop the republicans from criticizing a win for the United States.
Republicans hate America, I guess. Remember when they were the ones calling us "traitors" for decrying Bush's policy of alienating us from the rest of the world and making us the most hated nation on earth? Well, look who's being unpatriotic now!
First The Olympics, and now The Nobel Peace Prize. How sad to see Republicans rooting against America.
Otherwise, congratulations to President Obama for being recognized for his effort to restore our standing in the world community!
lookie lookie at the stupid pathetic republican liars...
rooting against the president of the united states...
absolutely un-american...
pathetic...
absolutely pathetic...
and to think their guys were w the scum bag liar loser clown and cheney the evil doer...
scum bags who started a war based on lies...
lies that cost over 4,000 americans their lives...
lies that will cost this country over $2 trillion when all is said and done...
who the hell would want to join the stupid pathetic lying republican party these days...
nobody!!!
Yeah for America!!
Upon receiving the word that he got the prize his head swelled up so big that his ears finally fit.
He is still a pathetic stupid little liar. The worst excuse for a president ever. Send him back to the Chicago gutter where he came from.
Good for him. Good for America. Good for the world. As he said in his remarks this morning, it's perhaps more about encouragement to advance his global policies than anything he's accomplished. Still, a nice feather. The wing-nuts in our country will denounce it, of course. Haters.
I think of this with the same disdain my parents and grandparents had when MLK, Jr., was awarded the same prize. It should have gone to the Pope, instead of 2 Marxist-Leninists.
Obama: stupid pathetic liar...
absolutely un-american...
pathetic...
absolutely pathetic...
scum bag liar loser clown the evil doer...
scum bag lies...
lies that will cost this country over $2 trillion when all is said and done...
besides shove america toward bankruptcy, ruin the dollar, usher in inflation, borrow money from foreign governments, apologize to the world for america, bow to a prince, side with a future dictator (zelaya), etc......WHAT HAS HE ACCOMPLISHED?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING...
lookie lookie at the stupid pathetic republican liars...
boo hoo hoo...
wah wah wah...
throwing tantrums...
like children...
absolute children...
who the hell would want to join the stupid pathetic lying republican party these days...
nobody!!!
look I am all for the president winning the award if...... he had actually done something. one should not receive the award because of his ideas to improve a country, it would be like giving the award to miss America and her thoughts on world peace.
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! The Nobel prize committee has just announced that American President Obama has been awarded a second Nobel prize, this one for economics. They said this was for his brilliant handling of the Unted States economy and especially his stimulus program which restored full employment, saved the stock market, and restored the real estate market to its former values and created prosperity for all Americans. Hail to you Obama!
isthis4real?
The answer is yes, this is what the Nobel committee considers accomplishments! Add to your examples, his cancelling of the missile shield defense systems for our Eastern European allies, his allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, his worldwide apology tour, his overall program to weaken American in every way, morally, financially, and especially, militarily.
These are indeed real accomplishments of Obama in the eyes of the Nobel committee and he is a deserving recipient to stand alongside Carter(whom he will eventually replace as the worst US President of all time), Gore, Arafat, and El Baradai.
lookie lookie at the stupid pathetic liberal liars...
boo hoo hoo...
wah wah wah...
throwing tantrums...
like children...
absolute children...
who the hell would want to join the stupid pathetic lying democratic party these days...
nobody!!!
Who came in second?
Who knew you could fight two wars and still win a peace prize...
What do Carter and Obama have in common???
Maybe more then we thought...
Did Castro come in second?
Or was it Chavez?
Next, they will be saying that the Taliban are good folks and lets sit down and talk to them.
Maybe ACORN can sign them up with the Democratic Party...
This is a riot... Made my day...
Hey birdbrain it sure is nice to see you live in a glass house.You talk about bashing this JOKE FOR A PRESIDENT WE NOW HAVE,and every chance you get you bash on the past administration!You all by yourself shows whats wrong with the democrap party.YOU MY FEATHERED FREIND ARE ONE SICK PUPPY!!!In 2010 there will be change,but not the change i think your hopeing for.And as for this fool for a president,he ll be lucky if he sees his whole term through!!!
This is a JOKE, right?
"... based on hope..." I have to take a chemistry exam tomorrow and I hope the teacher grades me on "hope," also! Yes, I'm so full of "hope" that I think I deserve an "A+++++"
Harry Reid with his nose up Obama's butt again!
The funniest part of Prez Barrys 'prize lies in the fact the the nomination process for the Nobal prize closed when he had been in office for a mere TWELVE DAYS.
On second thought ... it ain't that funny!
Birdiedreamin, edgewise, atdleft, ksand99 and many others... Typical Democrats thinking; Let's get something for doing nothing... lmao
President Obama winning the Noble Peace Prize is ridiculous. Even if someone agrees with his policies, I don't understand what would prompt them to believe he should be granted this honor. He has done absolutely NOTHING extraordinary. Anyone who can honestly place Obama in with the ranks Martin Luther King Jr. or Mother Theresa is a completely deluded idiot.
I'll starting listening to you whackos when you can logically tell me "Why" you think Obama is such a great man, until then I will keep laughing at your silly asses!
lookie lookie at the stupid pathetic lying republican responses...
an absolute joke...
thumper offers up some old and tired fear mongering...
sad...
truly sad...
larry the loser imitates me...
not for nothing larry...
but did anyone ever tell you that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery...
hee hee hee...
so are you trying to flatter me...
or are you just too stupid to move beyond the talking points you memorize on cluster fox...
hmmm...
pathetic...
absolutely pathetic
and gibbie the clown...
well...
anyone that looks up to karl "i have no morals whatsoever" rove has got to be a complete and total loser...
what a nest of maggots there must be over at the nevada policy research institute...
a nest of maggots to be sure...
bottom line...
who the hell would want to join the stupid pathetic lying republican party these days...
nobody!!!
Not to belittle our President, but what exactly has he done, other than utter platitudes that many before him have, to deserve this award? North Korea is as problamatic as ever; Russia has intensified its' aggression toward their former "Baltic States"; the Middle East is every bit the powder keg it has been for decades, and Iran only last week managed to yet again deflect international effort's to stop their hell bent effort's to make a nuclear bomb. Even the French President (!!!) has been critical of Mr. Obama's effort's on the world stage as being "...naive". Apparently, "hoping" for world peace is tantamount to achieveing world peace, at least as the Nobel panel view's it.
I just want to see Boy George, Lott, Blair, Sharon, Tenet, Olmert, Cheney, Frist, Hastert, Delay, and Boehner, all HANG, dangle, and crap their pants, for their Iraq-NAM war crimes and crimes against humanity. It will happen!
I can't believe how optimistic this absurdity has made me feel! Zippydoodah! Next, we'll see Obama, who sneaks cigarettes, get an award from the Cancer Society.
Only a twelve day gestation period? Now that's progress since Lent is 40 days. The Messiah is here!
Birdie, lets be honest, Obama has done as much for peace as I have - talk about it. And come on, nominated after 10 days in office? Really? But hey, I'd recommend reading my graduate thesis on peace, but in between the erudition and talks of capitalism helping to increase world peace I'm not sure which would make your head explode first.
Oops! We need a new President. Obama can't HANG Boy George and his Nazi posse, since he will accept the Nobel Peace Prize. "Dang me, dang me, they oughta take a rope and hang me, high from the highest tree, LAURA would yu weep for me".
Dingo: what about Neil Mallon Bush? Why have you excluded him from your list of those who should crap their pants? Is this something you learned in the Navy?
Gosh I feel really stupid right now! I like to think I am up on current events but I can't for the life of me remember what President Obama accomplished in his first two weeks in office to earn Nobel Peace Prize consideration, let alone win the award.
This comes as no surprise, the selection committee was a bunch of leftist morons just like obuma.
Hopefully this moron of a president will do just one thing in the next 3+ years. He has done nothing so far.
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hey gibbie the clown...
save us the arrogance skippy...
please...
like i said before...
if you look to karl "i have no morals whatsoever" rove for advise...
you have to be an idiot...
a complete and total idiot...
i must say...
it is absolutely fascinating how often you losers use arrogance as a defense mechanism...
sad...
truly sad...
and please...
we are not impressed that you have more than one degree...
you see skipster...
many of us also have multiple degrees...
and guess what skippy...
many of us didn't get our degrees from football schools...
got that skipster...
bottom line...
you aren't that bright...
get over yourself son!!!
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What an outpouring of LOVE from our righty's.
Save some of your venom for yourselves, kids.
Eight years is a long time, compared to 9 months!
Larry, that's 7 years, 3 months from now.
I'm still failing to see what some of you think Obama did to deserve this award.
The award was for apoligizing and bowing to Muslims. After all his first 10 years of life were in Muslim training. Was it not Barry Soetoro???? As for Reid far to many hits to the head a long time ago but those hits do mount up. Real awards are for accomplishments not mouthing meaningless words.
Obama won the award because of his efforts that so contrasted with the lies, deceit and unilateralism that marked the previous pres. If the shrub hadn't been such a total disaster, then Barrack wouldn't have seemed so incredibly bright, promising and dedicated to bringing the world out of the dismal wars and economic disasters Mr Bush led us into.
Breaking News from Reason TV on Barack Obama:
http://reason.tv/video/show/barack-obama...
Lets just say it already, its because he is our 1st. historical Black President..Oh, my...what next, an Oscar perhaps, LOL..
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listen up boys and girls...
if johnnie boy "i flushed my soul down the toilet in a failed bid to become president in 2008 because i got slimmed by w the scum bag liar loser clown and cheney the evil doer and karl i have no morals whatsoever rove in 2000" mccain and sarah "dumb as a bag of rocks" palin had won...
make no mistake...
we would be debating whether or not we should invade iran right now...
got that skippies...
so let's all get down on our knees tonight and thank god obama won...
and obama displyed his brilliance in his little speech this morning...
he put the world on notice that radical islam is not america's problem...
it is the world's problem...
contrary to what some snot nosed spoiled punk wanna be cowboys from the prior administration think...
that is why i love the guy!!!
airweare - so what I understand from your post is - Obama didn't win the Noble Peace Prize because he did anything great, he won because Bush sucked?! Wow that's great! Something to be proud of lmao... as I've stated before completely deluded idiots... lmao
I cant wait for the comeing change.Hopefully we wont have to read anymore posts from birdbrain!It amazes me just how blind you are!I would love to hear what dagrees you have,and just what school would give you one with your one sided veiws!!!YOU MY FREIND IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA,BLINED BY LIES FROM A PARTY THAT COULD CARE ONE BIT ABOUT YOU!!!OR ANY AMERICAN FOR THAT MATTER!!!!
airweare; Absolutely correct.
You know, if the Republicans would spend half as much of their energy doing something positive,
instead of constantly playing GOALIE against the Dem's, they might actually be able to accomplish something.
At least put on some protective headgear; the big slap-shots to the noggin have got to take a toll.
what a bunch of maggots there must be at the nevada policy research institute...
maggots, maggots everywhere...
and...
this self respecting proud liberal democrat will never step foot in the venetian ever again...
besides the wynn is next door and far far nicer!!!
Yes it had to do with Muslims. And Latinos. And South American leaders. And Europe. And China. And Africa. Poverty. Energy. And addressing the reality of our world.
So different from the Bush years. Peace doesn't blend with the lies, hate, me-first, (and last!!) of the Bush legacy.
It's the leap from such a disgusting loser to a person who is thoughtful, literate, concerned and engaged that impressed the panel.
gmag39 only a democrat could be proud to win a prestigious award based on the fact that they don't suck as bad a someone else" ha ha ha ha ha ha
air,
welcome back.
OBOOMA,SMOKE AND MIRRORS MY FELLOW AMERICANS,SMOKE AND MIRRORS!!!
Nobel peace prize winner - Just like Jimmy Carter. I guess they give these thing to those that so weaken America that there is nothing but a white flag as our options.
And on top of that, it comes on the day he attacks the moon.
regardless of party affiliations, what did he do to deserve this award. ideas and concepts are not a valid reason. can anyone actually give a valid reason?
the republican dirtbags are mad about this latest of events; they acted the same when carter and al gore won; they'll survive.
Hey porter1rockwell,
After a tough slog, I am back. And your kind words are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
air
Whether it was rewarding Jimmy Carter for criticizing the Iraq War or supporting Al Gore in his crusade against global warming, the Norwegian Parliament - which chooses the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - has sought to use the award as a political tool to influence American politics.
I still can't keep from laughing at the total irrelevance of the award.
Now they can place a picture of Obama right next to Carter. That's the real prize...
Mad? Who in their right mind could be mad it Obama's selection for a nobel prize. It puts the entire award in it's proper perspective. Right smack in the bottom of the stink filled European style socialist barrel.
For years I have been wondering what Carter did to deserve the award. Now I know... NOTHING!!!
I am just giddy with excitement.
Yeah, it's official. Republicans hate America. They didn't want our city Chicago to host The Olympics. They don't want our President to be honored with The Nobel Peace Prize. They seem to celebrate the idea of this nation failing.
How pathetic, and I'm hopeful this will only turn off even more rational people. If the GOP keeps putting itself in a more right-wing extremist corner, they'll just be making next year a cakewalk for Reid and 2012 one for Obama.
NEWS ALERT to Atdleft...
Chicago never had a chance at the Olympics. Just another waste of time and money for the taxpayers...
Obama receiving the nobel prize is either an embarrassment or a joke...
This nation is not failing... It's the Obama Administration and the Democrats in control of Congress who are failing...
Fair and balanced minded independents will change the makeup of the House and Senate next year and the Administration a few year later...
Jeez, the Republicans really have been taken over completely by the teabagger extremists. "Independent"? Ha! And Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh count as "news"?
Republicans apparently want America to fail. The same hypocrites who called anyone who criticized Bush a "traitor" are now crapping all over every attempt to make this nation a more perfect union.
He hasn't even been in office for a year. I would have given him some time to prove himself more instead of giving it to him so soon.
The Commander in Chief should now be awarded the Medal of Honor for his conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while leading a brigade of ACORN workers in totally destroying the American way of life.
Here is what Air means by Obama and latinos and muslims, and peace, and poverty:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xap296_...
Nada, zip, zero...
By all accounts an ok skit, but true.
Winning the Nobel Prize now has about as much respect as winning a bucket full of warm spit.
Larry,
where on God's green earth will you find "fair & balanced minded independents"?
Would these be people like your "fair & balanced" friends from Fox? Yer funny!!!
@atdleft-
No, these people don't hate America, they're just saddened at how low the bar's fallen to be considered heroic.
If Mr. Obama had a decent bone of modesty in his body, he'd politley decline the award. This would be a mark of tremendous character. And vice versa.
Copious amounts of Kool-Aid are being served up at the emporor's sartorial parade, and you are curbside with a Big Gulp.
Substance, not style, is what they lament.
Republicans are a disgrace to this country. May they all DIAF!
So, Come off as a pansy,Get a trophy. Who's boots will he lick next?
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Hey Doc... What does DIAF mean??? Inquiring minds need to know...
How are Republicans are a disgrace to this country?
This noble stuff is great...
Can you imagine the post office issuing a postage stamp with Carter's, Gore's and Obama's pictures on it... Now no matter how you feel, this here is funny stuff...
Spock, internet tough guy. Ya know, they say that people like you, who enjoy threatening others over the internet, are trying to make up for a low self esteem and are also compensating for missing manhood. I love internet tough guys. Truth is, you are probably, 40, living in mom's basement and unemployed. Come on now spocky boy... quit with your trekkie ways.
Al Gore received a Nobel prize in his crusade against global warming. Jimmy Carter won his Nobel prize by being the King of Peace. And now, Obama received the nobel award for his peace efforts during the first 12 days/weeks of his presidency.
Putting these three awards in the proper perspective equates that Global Warming is no more then a pile of warm Polar Bear dung...
After leading the American apology tour in Europe and Egypt what did anyone expect.
I am not mad, angry, unpatriotic or any of the other lame names the crazy left have posted, I am bewildered. What has he done?
I guess this means he will never leave campaign mode and actually do something.
Words speak louder than action these days. Welcome to the new world I guess.
Does this mean the Peace-Monger is pulling out of Afghanistan?
Now now Larry Vegas, lets be honest. Thanks to Al Gore's efforts the climate has ceased warming all by itself. At least for now. Gore put the climate on notice!
Where does this leave Bill Clinton? This means that Bill is the only Democrat president in the last forty years who did not get the nobel peace prize. Even Bill's VP Al Gore got one...
Bill should have gotton one for his peace efforts with Monica...
I voted for Bill, he should have got a nobel prize for that alone...
I heard that Obama is going to give the 1.4 million dollar prize to charity...
Is he giving it to ACORN???
Guys birdiedreamin is a complete idiot, anyone who reads his comments can see that he is an unducated moron. Ignore his rants, he is a miserable, negative idiot.
I think the report was in reference to his date night with his wife, somehow spell check did not make the correction, should have read, Piece Prize.
wego, wow!! understatement of the year. ROFLMAO
Doc, pretty tough talk for somebody who "put it out there". I guess a weasle like yourself doesn't like being challenged. Well, boo hoo, pansy.
BTW, tough talker, what does DIAF mean?
Democrats in a fix. lol
Harry Reid: "Where can I get one of them thar Nobel prizes? Afterall, isn't I the one who announced Peace In Our Time by declaring the Iraq war lost?" Don't foget Ole Pinky in his time of need.
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Doc, pretty tough talk for somebody who "put it out there". I guess a weasle like yourself doesn't like being challenged. Well, boo hoo, pansy.
BTW, tough talker, what does DIAF mean?
Democrats in a fix. lol
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Demographics speak for themselves. Democrats are more educated than Republicans. Look it up, not a joke. Republicans don't have an idea what politics are.
Conservatives fail to realize that they're classic liberals. noobs.
Beautiful Mr Meowington, absolutely correct!
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I want the guy back that did not get the peace prize. I felt safe and had more peace about where we were and where we are going!.
Some say the economy tanked under that other guy , I say the economy tanked as soon as we all realized we were getting this baffoon and realized we were all screwed!
"May they all DIAF" means, Dems in a fix? You punk chicks are hard core, At least have some sort of dignity little girl's.
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Hey Doc... You state that "Republicans are a disgrace to this country. May they all DIAF!"
Why are Republicans a disgrace to this country?
What does DIAF mean???
Mr. Meow, you are obviously drunk on stupidity, sober up and try posting again.
Hey Mr Meowington...
Since you are so much more educated then the rest of us, can you tell the rest of us what DIAF means?
Oh never mind... The Doc finally fessed up...
"Die in a fire." Pretty tough stuff there Doc...
Wow, I didn't do anything those days following Jan 20th...where's my Nobel?
I guess that's downside to not being a one term democratic president.
Get it together nurse holliday . You seem to have a problem with your manners, How typical of a puss in boots.
Why Did YOU Remove My Commnents?
Spock, if you got the sack, come to Nellis. Oh, and don't beg the MP's for help.
emperorjoe: You can pick up your Nobel at the corner ACORN store.
The only catch is that they will put your picture along side of Carter, Gore and Obama's...
Hey Trekkie, you go to bed already? Momma's milk ran out?
Harry Reid should get a presidential medal of freedom.
H1V1 flu shots should not be given to dittoheads or hate talk radio shock jocks.
ACORN should get one too, a piece prize.
Are you inviting me to the base? Either your not very smart or your not very......Listen, If your in the millitary I have respect for your service and you as a person. That being said, This sack is ready junior.
Hey thanks.
Our moron of a president won the award with a new kind of politics "All talk and no show". Although he can't speak without a script or we see how dumb he really is. Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh.
Another two step backwords for the African American race.
African American's can win awards because of their color instead of merit. Pathetic!!!
This is just like afirmitive action.
I get the feeling that all the right wing posters would like to create some concentration camps to house all the blacks and latinos so us white pure breed Americans can live peace.
Lets face it Obama is a winner. Not bad for a half white Half bright Democrat. Stupid Pathetic Lying Democrat that is. Are you in there birdiedreamin? I got it figured the Acorn don't fall too far from the tree.
I watched "Real Time with Bill Maher" last night and he was bewildered by the "gift".
His reasons: were we are still fighting two wars and Obama is still practicing Rendition.
Yeah I guess Bill just joined the crazed right wing because he can think as well.
Drink the kool-aid you members of the blind faith club, because as Liberals you are going to have a lot of explaining to do.
Good thing osama obama is an atheist. Or these lib nut jobs would want to nominate him for sainthood.
Hey gilrus47... Where do you get the feeling that all the right wing posters would like to create some concentration camps to house all the blacks and latinos...?"
It appears to me that you are race baiting in the worst possible way.
And by doing so... you gilrus47 are a racist and a bigot...
Doc probaby works at the Nellis gas station or bowling alley.
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I didn't know that the Doc was a nurse... I guess I am a dumb donkey...
Mr Meow: "Demographics speak for themselves. Democrats are more educated than Republicans. Look it up, not a joke"
Errrr.....I did. You are the joke.
"While equal percentage of Republicans and Democarts have graduate degrees, Democrats are significantly more likely to have no college education at all."
The Gallup Poll, Public Opinion 2000, IBN 79-566667, page 240.
Nobody asked me what my edecation level was back in 2000. I thinks I was a registered Democrat back then...
Right Larry. You and Sherman Fredericks.
Sorry gmag, I don't know any Sherman Fredericks...
And I was a registered Democrat back in those days. I even voted for Bill Clinton. But now I am an Independent voter who votes for the best qualified...
You can look at any poll.
The majority of the people that have a college degree vote Republican.
The majority of the people who have only a high school degree or less vote Democratic.
Also.....if you have been convicted of a crime then about 80% of them vote Democratic when they get their privilege back.
So the Democrats have a lock on the convict vote.
They also have a lock on the illegal immigrant vote, too. (hint....hint....the main reason why they are constant pushing for lax immigration law ande enforcement....just pure lust for power. They could care less that illegals drain resouces like schools, medical care, police and prisons. They could care less that illegals suppress wages here in the USA.)
Hey Rock,
"just pure lust for power" is what your party did for 8 years under the prior administration.
They did a hell of a job on that, I'll grant you.
Lined their pockets big time as our men and women of the military were dying. And just what did your party do about that immigration problemo when they had a chance? As for the convicts voting Democrat, I would assume many of them are former Republican pols.
Hey Rock,
These guys just can't get Bush off their minds. I bet they get a mental organism every time the Bush name comes up.
Bush never abandoned his troops in the field. Obama doesn't understand that...
http://www.watchblog.com/democrats/archi...
DIAF=Draw in a fight.
oh and PvtRock, it's a poll. Not actual statistics.
Mr. Meow:
I take the analysis done by the Gallup company over some guy who is writing some blog in his underwear in his mom's basement.
Also, just a FYI, the underwear in some mom's basement blogger only looked at Red states vs. Blue states and assumed everbody in the Red states voted Republican and everybody in the Blue states voted Democratic.
But heck......if you think that is superior expert analysis then go with it.
I think it is funny you (being a Democrat) is claiming that Democrats are smarter and yet you cited some babbling on some guy's blog.
Obama can't talk without a script. Bush couldn't talk with one.Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, can't fool me again.Majority of those that have a high school degree or less vote Democrat. Majority of the KKK vote Republican, Stromm Thurman, George Wallace,David Duke,Joe Wilson,ie.
How safe I felt with the other President that didn't get a Nobel Prize. Oh wait, didn't we get attacked on his watch?I miss the color coded alerts that made me feel secure.And we still don't know who is responsible for the anthrax mail while on his watch.All that was but forgotten with our focus on WMD's.Poor GW should get some kind of award.Glenn Beck make up something.
NEVER has someone been given so much praise and credit for accomplishing so little
Obama has been rewarded all his life for doing nothing so this should come of no surprises to anyone.
What this does point out is that the other countries are seeing Obama and clan socialist direction as positive and they're just giving him advance on future earnings to progress their agenda here in the USA. They know Obama and clan will kowtow to them knowing that when they're done in office the fees that will be paid to them for public speaking will provide more wealth to their greedy coffers.
Obama is a disgrace and he should be ashamed for what he is doing to America.
Obama didn't win anything. This award was given to him for doing nothing just as all the other rewards he has received throughout his career, doing nothing. Everything he has attained was provided on a gold platter, from his education to being elected, its called affirmative action. Obama is a good speaker when he has the teleprompter to read from otherwise he is stupid and can't say anything intelligent or with substance. If he was a white man, he wouldn't be in office and he wouldn't have the received the award.
What they do like about Obama is the progression of the socialist programs Obama and clan are cramming down our throats. Obama is a disgrace and he should be ashamed for what he is doing to America.
LMAO. Racist much?
There is more decency (and intelligence) in one of Obama's farts than in the entirety of your being, its2hot.
I hate to go there, but sometimes it's just too easy...
airweare and the rest of the lefties should know the quality of one of Obama's farts because they all have their noses stuck there...
Sorry... But a little bird made me say it...
airweare:
Obama and the rest of you lunatics have no decency let alone intelligence. The only award Obama deserves is for being the best con artist of century.
Take a look around and see what the lunatics have done to America and now what Obama is doing to America. Obama and the rest of you lunatics are desecrating America and turning us in a cesspool of freaks and enabling the slow, dumb, and lazy welfare blood suckers not to work.
The only award Obama deserves is what that he actually worked for and earned, the Dumbest President. But not for Obama being African American, he would not be doing what he is and the media sure wouldn't be giving him a free ride. On the other hand, if he were white, he'd be removed from office and prosecuted for lying when the oath of office was taken, to protect and serve all of America.
Why has the Obama Campaign spent $1 million defending lawsuits that they claim are frivilous?
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Well at least in 2010, the dems lose power in both houses and in 2012 , bye bye Barrack. So I guess he can keep his peace prize award. He should be happy, he has fundamentally changed the way we do politics in America. If you consider giving all three levels of government back to the repubs. Dems enjoy the presidents great and deserved victory... It will be his last.
Doc, does this mean we're not friends anymore?
President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize presented a clear opportunity for bipartisan support on the ridiculousness of it all. But, of course, that's not what happened. Supporters of the President hit the news networks to talk about how, after just 11 days of his presidency, President Obama 'deserved' the award.
What a bunch of angry for no reason douches posting here. What do you care if the President receives an award from another country. Your anger for Mr. Obama has clouded your ability to comprehend that your President is liked in other parts of the world. In politics that can go a long way to getting others to play well in the sand box. I swear....a lot of you are just plain "stuck on stupid". I get it... Some complain that he hasn't been if office long enough to deserve such an award. Those same nitwits cry that he's been in office long enough to fix the financial crisis, two wars, health care and tie it up in a pretty bow of curing cancer. Wow
Maybe bin laden will give Obama an award for his hesitation in Afghanistan...