President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, page 4
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reply posted on 9-10-2009 @ 06:48 AM by grover
reply to post by ejaylinz

While I am as flabbergasted as everyone else by this award what you need to realize is that Obama could be anointed by Christ Jesus himself in front of the entire nation and the hard right would find a way to criticize him for it and claim it was a fraud.

Their opposition to him is not based on reason or logic or really even on policy...its visceral almost psychotic in nature and to be fair to them (at least some of them and hopefully a majority) not based on race but simply because their side lost...that a liberal Democrat is in office.

As for the Nobel prize it makes no sense to me either...other than his address to the Muslim world I cannot think of anything world shaking that he has done yet to deserve it...I mean the Israeli's are thumbing their noses at him...Iraq is still a mess and no one has won in Afghanistan since Tamerlane.


reply posted on 9-10-2009 @ 06:48 AM by InOurNature

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened. 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. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population. For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." Oslo, October 9, 2009


"Okey"


reply posted on 9-10-2009 @ 06:48 AM by Chevalerous
Originally posted by Wachstum
the swedish commitee made a political decision: The price is not for what he did, but what he will hopefully do in the future. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy: We give you the nobel peace price and from now on, you must prove yourself worthy. If not, people will make fun of you...

Sounds like a futile hope



Yep! this political move by the Norwegian Nobel Commitee is frikkin' brilliant!

Now they are forcing Obama to live up to the peace prize and therefore, he can not do as he like with the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and eventually in the end - Iran!

This also put a lot of pressure on him and his administration regarding the Israeli-Palestinian situation.

If he's defending Israel when and if too many Palestinian children are dying, the world will turn their backs on Obama for not pressuring Israel!

When I woke up this morning and read this news I was like: WTF!!

But now I suspect that this is a brilliant political move by the Norwegian Nobel Commitee.


BTW! the main big Swedish Nobel Commitee has little to do with the "Peace Prize" beside that Alfred Nobel was Swedish.

Before 1905 - Norway belonged to Sweden and they were counted as one country with a union between the two.

Therefore they decided that the Nobel "Peace Prize" would be located in Oslo-Norway to avoid political corruption etc.

Alfred Nobel's will stated that the prize should be awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Norway and Sweden were at that time still in union, and with Sweden responsible for all foreign policy, Nobel felt that the prize might be less subject to political corruption if awarded by Norway. The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the king, on December 10 (the anniversary of Nobel's death), and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. "In Oslo, the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee presents the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of the King of Norway. Under the eyes of a watching world, the Nobel Laureate receives three things: a diploma, a medal and a document confirming the prize amount.

en.wikipedia.org...

Ahh my gawd! these are crazy times we are living in!

Obama the peace-keeper are uniting the world - through world peace!

Will this make him what the religious folks would call: The Anti-Christ?
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