Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize!
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Nice.
Im sorry. He has been in office for 9 months for fcks sake. You can't get a Nobel Peace Prize for ideas, and that is all he has so far. Don't get me wrong, I love the guy and I love what he is doing, but at least wait till something happens!
What a Norwegian-American arse kiss.
Go and search who recieved the first NPP and what he got it for. Irony?
What a Norwegian-American arse kiss.
Go and search who recieved the first NPP and what he got it for. Irony?
In his acceptance speech he invited all birthers, teabaggers and other assorted frothers to dine in the corn in his pooh.
Seriously though, a bit premature I would have thought.
Seriously though, a bit premature I would have thought.
This is intended as a slap in the face for Bush as much as it is intended as an award for Obama.
Maybe america will listen to his healthcare ideas now... Maybe this is a conspiracy!
I would think it's a little premature, but you have to admit, it's pretty funny that all it took was 9 months of cleaning up the ****storm of the last president to win a Nobel peace prize.
Kinda says something about Bush.
Kinda says something about Bush.
People are going to be real sore today about this. They'll bitch that nobody ever gives out a Nobel War Prize so the whole thing is irrelevant.
If you look at the last 9 months, I would actually argue that we have done a lot towards promoting peace in the world. Not more than most other presidents but definitely more than the last one. Our actions over the last 8 years have caused less peace in the world, and in the last 9 months we have turned around a lot of the perception. And that is what the prize reflects.
But we still have a long way to go.
If you look at the last 9 months, I would actually argue that we have done a lot towards promoting peace in the world. Not more than most other presidents but definitely more than the last one. Our actions over the last 8 years have caused less peace in the world, and in the last 9 months we have turned around a lot of the perception. And that is what the prize reflects.
But we still have a long way to go.
Yeah....I think there HAS to be people more deserving who have devoted significant chunks of their lives to furthering....um...nobel peace prizery.
He almost should have turned it down....
He almost should have turned it down....
#1 Take a look at the list of other NPP laureates then tell me that.
#2 Flat out not true. He more or less has given the US an about face in foreign policy when compared to the last Pres (Bush). He's closed Gitmo (big problem there, this process isn't completed but its well underway) and has started pulling troops out of Iraq. I'd hardly call those ideas.
Think before you speak, kiwi-frog
"Ohhh, sorry, Mr. President, Chicago has no hope in hell of getting the Summer Games..but we do have some lovely consolation prizes, Johhny, tell him what he's won.."
After all, it's a prize, it's called winning the prize, not earning it.
This, the anti-climatic moon explosion, Jon and Kate and Levi Johnston are why I may finally go liberal hippy and quit watching TV or reading news.
After all, it's a prize, it's called winning the prize, not earning it.
This, the anti-climatic moon explosion, Jon and Kate and Levi Johnston are why I may finally go liberal hippy and quit watching TV or reading news.
Is the Pres allowed to take money from a foreign government?
Haha Jon, you are kinda right, my wording was wrong.
I believe that if Obama's ideas come into fruition, then sure, give him a prize.
I just think it's a little early to be popping the champagne bottle...
I believe that if Obama's ideas come into fruition, then sure, give him a prize.
I just think it's a little early to be popping the champagne bottle...
When the foreign government is china and the goal is distributing feel-good money, then yes.
Actually, given the amount of time he's been in office and the amount of bureaucratic bs he has to go through to get stuff done nowadays, I am honestly rather impressed by the amount he has accomplished and started in his time in office. Think back, how much had Dubya accomplished in his first 9 months?
Something interesting I've found, regardless of your opinion of him:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
Keeps track of the current status of his campaign promises. All things considered it seems like he is doing quite well.
I think we should get rid of all weapons, nuclear or otherwise.
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wow, i thought you couldn't get a NPP if you where at war with more than one country at a time
I say hell yes. He's made it this far and I think the work he has done considering the pile of sh!t he was given to work with is one hell of a feat.
I agree that there is still a lot to do, but the fact tat we are less hated throughout the world is a huge bonus.
I agree that there is still a lot to do, but the fact tat we are less hated throughout the world is a huge bonus.
I can't wait to hear what the birthers and wingnuts are gonna say about this. Can you imagine a group of people so far disconnected from reality that they view receiving a Nobel Peace Prize as a bad thing?
But I think the bar should be set a little higher than that to win a NPP....
"Hated less"
Even a big Obamaphile like myself doesn't know what he did to deserve one.
Maybe it was just a weak field this year and the NPP committee was like, "FU Bush".
Isn't the disconnect a requirement to be a birther? And just you wait, I give it not even a day before the nut jobs find a way to condemn the Nobel peace prize as further evidence that Obama is a socialist/fascist/commie/whatever.
*edit. And I think its a bit too early also.
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Toooo FRACKIN EARLY !!!! I'm sorry, but WTF. WTF has he done over the past DECADE deserve this honor. 9 friggin months.. WTF. Someone needs to create a rage virus so this effed up world of ours will end when Zday commeth. When it happened, I'm sure there was a worldwide W T F?!
Pot, this is kettle, kettle, this is pot, notice you are both black.
I'd like to pose the following question:
Who else was in the running?
Who else was in the running?
That's what I'm curious about. Who else was in the running? Is there someone that deserves it more?
apparently there were 205 nominees for NPP this year. IMHO, at least 10 were more deserving than BO
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/who-were-the-nobel-nominees/article1312931/
But how many had to follow in Bush's footsteps?
I agree that this is at least a 50% slap in the face to Bushies of the world.
You're off by 50%...
Which ones and why do you feel they were more worthy candidates? (and don't just ctrl+c/v from that article).
Seems like this belongs in here somewhere......
What, it was 75%? Or was it 25%...?