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Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize!

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binary visions

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The Joker said:
Joke. He is a world leader. It's part of his job description to keep the peace. To quote Chris Rock, it's like a father being awarded for feeding his kids.
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In fairness, that father sure looks like a hero when he takes the kids away from a dad that waterboarded them before bed every night...
 
rockofullr

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This is how they should have worded it:

"Here you go Mr. Pres here is your prize for not starting any wars. Please keep it up!!"

Signed,
A bunch of Norwegians
(dictated but not read)
 
stevew

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that SNL skit happened a week early.

hooray for picking out a dog.
 
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jimmydean said:
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.
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so it's basically

"you like me! you really, really, like me!"
 
J-Dubs

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OK everybody, calm down.

This is obviously just a part of the vast left wing conspiracy to assassinate Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

Their heads will surely explode once they get on the air and start ranting. Just wait and see. I think Rush's show starts soon. Grab some popcorn and set the dvr.
 
jonKranked

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In his speech, he admits he just as surprised as everyone else. And he made the smart move of declaring this a "call to arms". He obviously recognizes the international community thinks its time to put up or shut up.
 
fluff

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MMike said:
I can tell you though, I now feel WAY better about myself for accepting the "longest drive" trophy at our company golf tournament. (which I won in a fraudulent way)
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I'm glad to hear that you don't play golf in any serious way, that would be so uncool.
 
chicodude

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the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
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Unlike the scientific and literary Nobel Prizes, usually issued in retrospect, often two or three decades after the awarded achievement, the Peace Prize has been awarded for more recent or immediate achievements. Some commentators[who?] have suggested that to award a peace prize on the basis of unquantifiable contemporary opinion is unjust or possibly erroneous, especially as many of the judges cannot themselves be said to be impartial observers.
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I don't have a hard on for obama, I did hear on the radio that sometimes they give out NPP to people as a way to motivate. (Anyone confirm this?)
 
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DaveW

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MMike said:
But I think the bar should be set a little higher than that to win a NPP....

"Hated less"
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It's kinda weird the way world opinion of the USA has gone from,
"We like you guys but your president is a f*ckwit"
and now under Obama it's changed to,
"Your presidents cool, but what the f*ck is up with you guys??"

Most of that I think is brought about by the massive coverage given to tea baggers etc etc I think. :think:
 
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MMike

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Ok....not sure what to make of this.

I got this email today. It's from one of our customers. He's a Mexican operator that ferries workers to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. I've never met him. But he has taken to sending out blanket emails to everyone in his inbox. I guess I must have been cc'ed on an email in the past. I've no idea otherwise how he has my address.

But this is what he sent out:

My good American friends,

Below you will find a &#8220;PERSPECTIVE&#8221; of how the Prize issue is seen from Mexico, the &#8220;backyard&#8221; of the U.S. (quite true, in spite of our Mexican national pride).
It is NEVER my intention to judge or submit an opinion on U.S. Politics (God knows I will never intend such a nonsense). THIS IS JUST A PERSPECTIVE. I kindly request you read it considering Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s wise opinion: &#8220;Nothing can be fully understood if it is not observed at least from THREE different perspectives&#8221; (L. da V.).
Well, here is a different perspective. I assume total responsibility of the concepts I wrote below.

God bless.

"His name"
MEXICO

A WELL DESERVED PRIZE
The Nobel Prize recently awarded to Barack Obama has very significant meanings in and outside the US: In the US is a direct strike to the conspiring extreme right headed by TV commentators like Rush Limbaugh.

Some extremists had requested the removal of the President. Others, less radical, argue that Obama was not born in the US and that his father is from Kenya. Nationality has always been determined by the place of birth, and Hawaii IS part of the U.S. Other detractors base their arguments on ideological issues: Obama is a &#8220;reversed racist&#8221;; he hates whites and will force whites to seat on the back seats of buses. Even more, Obama is a &#8220;socialist&#8221; because he granted medical care to those who do not have it; to them, the recent praise by Gordon Brown to the English Public Health System is a proof of the &#8220;dangerous reddist&#8221; the English Prime Minister is. Needless to say, this attacks are not new, they are the same old controversy between the Federation and the States, the &#8220;elitism&#8221; and the &#8220;populism&#8221;, Hamilton and Jefferson, but with the vicious ingredient of slander and racism.

Not only by the fact of delegitimizing his domestic detractors and critics, the Nobel awarded to Obama has a GIGANTIC international effect. Why Obama was awarded?, his detractors question, when he is only 9 months old in his administration and still has 3 years to go? The answer is rather simple, in about 300 days Barack Obama has transformed the international political scenario favoring diplomacy, dialogue and peace.

Instead of &#8220;attack first&#8221; as stated by the atrocious &#8220;preemptive war&#8221; policy proclaimed by Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld, Obama gave priority to dialogue, communication and negotiation. If these methods fail, it will not be US fault, but Iran&#8217;s, North Korea&#8217;s, Syria&#8217;s, Israel´s or Palestine&#8217;s instead. Knowing (by reading the Gospels) the way Jesus Christ thought, it is easy to predict His opinion in regards to the &#8220;preemptive war&#8221; policy (I have the right to kill my neighbor who lives on the other side of the city, because I &#8220;suspect&#8221; he acquired a gun and &#8220;I assume&#8221; he will attempt to use it against me). In his speech in Cairo, Obama opened to dialogue the difficult doors of the Arab World. He urged Palestine and Israel to seriously negotiate, to comply with all treaties previously agreed and to bring to the table new policies for the new Century. He effectively isolated Netanyahu and his nuclear pretension against Iran; but he offered Iran to negotiate the issue, while he criticizes the domestic repression of Ahmadinajed and the Ayatollah Khomeini and in fact, Obama allied himself with the emergent democratic Iranian society, vital in a Country that is called be the greatest power in the Middle East.

In Iraq, Obama had let them domestically organize towards a National agreement between shiita, sunnie and kurd ethnicity.

In Afghanistan he is currently facing two roads: the military proposed by General McChrystal (Generals are always pro-war) or the one proposed by Vice-president Biden. Obama and the Secretary of Defense, Gates will choose one; most probably not the best one, provided that the Taliban is an invisible guerilla, the Central Government is a corrupted illusion, and the political scenario is graffiti of regional leaders with the threaten of the increasing influence of the Taliban in Pakistan.

In Eastern Europe, Obama made clear his respect for the established regimes, but he did not grant privileges to the former &#8220;Iron Curtain Countries&#8221; like Poland, Czech, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary while he made it clear to Moscow the Cold War is over and all issues are on the table for a new age of cohabitation without weaknesses.

The big problem is China and his powerful paradox: the strongest emergent economy ruled by the most totalitarian regime in the World. With Beijing, there are no choices but to deal with the present Government and support the unavoidable evolution of China towards a more democratic regime, more according to modern economic reality and society in a Country with a multi-Millennium heritage.

All of the above mentioned issues do not have a final solution yet, perhaps they never will, because each one is a piece of a World immersed in a continuous evolution. This is precisely what Obama seems to clearly understand, instead of proclaiming and imposing a non-negotiable single policy conceived by and for a single Nation, he accepts the political, economic and cultural diversity of the rest of the World and is willing to deal with it, to negotiate, dialogue and agree&#8230;.instead of invading and imposing. THIS IS A MONUMENTAL CHANGE IN THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES.

To me, its initiator, Barack Obama, deserves the Nobel Prize for what he has already accomplished, and it will also be a remarkable incentive to run the rest of the journey.

"his name"
MEXICO
PS. I will NEVER agree with the pro-choice alternative: A HUMAN embryo is a PERSON from the very moment of conception, thus experimenting with frozen HUMAN embryos for stem cells research IS actually a true assassination of which Obama is FULLY responsible&#8230;.but that is a different issue. "initials" (Master in Bioethics)
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Westy

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That was too long to read MMike. If there was a burrito recipe in their could someone cut it out for me?
 
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you guys are ridiculous. has he not officially passed anything on paper? no he has not. but him being elected says more to the world and impacts the world more than anything the other candidates have done. the whole yes we can ideal was one of the most influential of all time. by the united states electing an african american, that says a lot. remember, actions speak louder than words. and him being elected in and of itself has changed the world more than anyone has realized.
 
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BikeLuvR904 said:
you guys are ridiculous. has he not officially passed anything on paper? no he has not. but him being elected says more to the world and impacts the world more than anything the other candidates have done. the whole yes we can ideal was one of the most influential of all time. by the united states electing an african american, that says a lot. remember, actions speak louder than words. and him being elected in and of itself has changed the world more than anyone has realized.
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What I want to know is when Obama is going to address literacy issues in the US populace?
 
jonKranked

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BikeLuvR904 said:
you guys are ridiculous. has he not officially passed anything on paper? no he has not. but him being elected says more to the world and impacts the world more than anything the other candidates have done. the whole yes we can ideal was one of the most influential of all time. by the united states electing an african american, that says a lot. remember, actions speak louder than words. and him being elected in and of itself has changed the world more than anyone has realized.
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Yo, "Yes we can", I'm real happy for ya and I'mma let you finish, but "I like Ike" was the best campaign slogan of all time!
 
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