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Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Barack Obama has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The BBC opines: "In awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian committee is honoring his intentions more than his achievements. After all he has been in office only just over eight months and he will presumably hope to serve eight years, so it is very early in his term to get this award. ... The committee does not make any secret of its approach. It states that he is being given the prize 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples.' This is of course an implied criticism of former US president George W Bush and the neo-conservatives, who were often accused of trying to change the world in their image." The Washington Post collects more reactions from around the world.
First Paul Krugman, now this. How irrelevant is the Nobel Prize these days?
Just a bunch of elitists scratching their own backs.
It is moot whether Obama deserves it or not. Bush definitely deserves this! ;)
Considering the first year of his predecessor, not doing even one thing could actually in theory be considered doing the right thing at this point..
It seems just, oh, 8 years ago, that people were saying the president wasn't doing anything, etc, and everyone cried "he's just getting started!" - Now those
same people who cried it out back then, are on the other side this time accusing Obama of not doing anything yet..
Pot, meet kettle.
On a seperate note, WONDERFUL Sneakers reference in the sig.
As well as "you're going in the right direction, keep it up."
Bush made it clear mid-dark skinned people weren't welcome, and Obama is trying to turn around all of the hate towards Muslims. I think there are more deserving winners, but encouraging America to keep working for peace is going to be a highly effective gambit, much more than awarding someone whose work is behind them.
So not agreeing with the strategy, but I can understand it.
He's obviously a Republican.
Spending your money to help people is socialism, giving your money to people who worked for it is good. Even if all they did was build stuff to kill people with, even if its our own people. Military suppliers are honest businessmen pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, while single mothers and people whose parents didn't insist on them getting a good education should be punished for their poor decision making. Having children outside of wedlock can be avoided by keeping your legs together you dirty hooker, everyone knows birth control isn't 100% effective. After all, if we help one out we have to help them all, and that's when government increases and taxes go up.
I'm pretty sure that's correct, I've watched Fox News before.
Don't knock oratorial skills - it's pretty much all the Fuhrer had going for him and look what
he accomplished.
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This is an insult to everyone who has honestly earned this award in the past (excluding Algore). This make the award worth less than the toilet paper I used this morning. I wouldn't even hire anyone with this award now.
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The international community is in love with BO because of his constant apologies for how evil the USA was in the last decade and his meekness now. Personally, as an American citizen, I could give a rats fuck what the international community thinks about us. The sad thing is before his 1st term is over, we will be hardly distinguishable from most of the European countries in terms of economics and social and political policy.
What exactly has he done to deserve the prize? Would it not have been better to wait until he got done with his presidency first?
As a non-American, I'd say the prize is justified alone because he treats foreign countries like peers, not pawns (think "fraternity'). This much was obvious from day 1 of his presidency, and it came as a great relief after 8 years of Dubya's lunacy, arrogance and ignorance (if you pardon my French).
Say out loud: I'm an Aspie and I'm somewhat proud, I guess. Uh. Can I write an email in all caps instead? Hm...
is all it is
What a fucking joke. How about just trying to get along with republicans? Maybe start by not ramming record amounts of deficit spending and a health carew plan that most people don't want, need, or will ever use, down their throats. Messiah Obama and his flock of idiots just got yet another farse prize for blowing kisses at bomb making Iranians/Koreans, the desire to work with the Taliban, and pissing in Israels cheerios. But talk with the republicans about saving some money (something they also sucked at, just not as bad). No way, never gonna happen. They will cozy up to terrorist and dictators, but it will be a cold day in hell when they shake hands with a neo-con American. This is just another prize for being the anti-Bush which is kind of a joke giving that Obama kept Bush's secretary of defense (Robert Gates) and made a big show of reappointing his chairman of the Fed (Bernake) to a 2nd term. Two of the primary architects of the "Bush economy" and the "Bush war". Both of which Obama has chosen to continue pretty much on course. Obama is a grade A piece of crap. He made it into that office based on a combination of Bush hatred, pro-black racism, and on a bunch of promises he can't keep. Organisations like moveon.org, the daily Kos, and Acorn all did despicable things to get him there. They even called Bill Clinton (who I supported) a racist during the primaries, something they do everyday to some anti-Obama person, it's their standard retort these days. Things that if the republicans had done they would have crucified them for. It goes to show just how stupid the average American is. Steal their money, piss all over 1/2 of them that didn't vote for you, then give yourself a pat on the back for promoting peace in the world. So have another glass of Koolaid Obama fans, that sort of week propaganda is what he is really all about and you just can't seem to get enough of it. Drink up...
Another international organization awarded Glenn Beck the International Pee Prize, for what he is doing to his pants.
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In any case, why is "the US President acted only in the interests of the US" a bad thing? At worst, it's a neutral thing.
When you go and punch a random guy in the face without provocation because you didn't like him, and say that it was "just acting in your own interest", why should other people in the neighborhood like it? Even if the guy you've punched was otherwise an asshole, now they know you have an inkling to randomly attack people that you don't like. It's generally not looked upon well.
If you don't care about how world at large (or at least other western countries) perceive USA at all, that's another story (and a valid position). But if you do, then clearly Bush was disastrous for this, and Obama is rapidly improving things.
The prize was for getting rid of George Bush.
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People from Slashdot. From the actual site:
As members of governments are allowed to send in nominees, I am pretty sure that G. W. Bush and any POTUS before him has been nominated for this particular prize every year they were in office. No this doesn't imply that they decide on the nomination date. Why do you think that? Are you stupid?