President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

[CrusaderFrank]

The Obama effect....

A loss of popular support has ended many terrorist groups, and it is a plausible scenario for al Qaeda. Support can be compromised through miscalculation, especially in targeting, and popular backlash. The Real Irish Republican Army and India's Sikh separatists come to mind. Or a campaign can fail to convey a positive image or progress toward its goals, which amply applies to al Qaeda.

While the group continues to be dangerous, the faltering popularity of this campaign with most Muslims provides clear evidence of this dynamic underway.

For instance, a Pew Global Attitudes Project poll released in September showed a remarkable drop in support for suicide bombing and Osama bin Laden in key Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey and Jordan. In Pakistan, whereas some 41 percent approved of suicide terror attacks five years ago, that number has fallen to a mere 5 percent today.

Commentary: Al Qaeda's support is fading - CNN.com

98% of suicide bombers who have yet to blow themselves up support Obama.

Terrific

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

The Obama effect....

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889886,00.html

 

[jillian]

You guys have always considered it meaningless.

I woke up when Arafat ( a terrorist ) won the award. I knew then that something was amiss with the "Nobel Peace Prize".

Arafat was a former terrorist...but then so was 1978 winner, Menachim Begin who took part in the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people, in the 1940's.

That wasn't a terrorist act. The King David Hotel was the military command center for the Brits in Israel and was a military target. The Irgun also warned the Brits to get out before the bomb went off.

Arafat killed babies in carriages and school children on buses. Those weren't military targets.

Or do you not know the meaning of the word "terrorist"?

Arafat wasn't a "former" anything... he took U.S. money to sit down at the peace table and then, after getting about 98% of what he was asking, he said he couldn't sign the agreement because he'd "be drinking tea with Rabin".

And Suha took all that money and put it into her French bank account.

 

[L.K.Eder]

I woke up when Arafat ( a terrorist ) won the award. I knew then that something was amiss with the "Nobel Peace Prize".

Arafat was a former terrorist...but then so was 1978 winner, Menachim Begin who took part in the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people, in the 1940's.

That wasn't a terrorist act. The King David Hotel was the military command center for the Brits in Israel and was a military target. The Irgun also warned the Brits to get out before the bomb went off.

Arafat killed babies in carriages and school children on buses. Those weren't military targets.

Or do you not know the meaning of the word "terrorist"?

Arafat wasn't a "former" anything... he took U.S. money to sit down at the peace table and then, after getting about 98% of what he was asking, he said he couldn't sign the agreement because he'd "be drinking tea with Rabin".

And Suha took all that money and put it into her French bank account.

sorry jillian, but the king david hotel bombing was a terrorist attack. a textbook example even.

 

[Ame®icano]

Just found out.

My only question is...why? What has he done? I thought they gave out the award for actual accomplishments...not plans to accomplish something.

I asked the same question... Then I realized I know the answer.

Obama was awarded the "I hate America" Prize. Remember Cairo, Berlin, UN speech, talking down America, making apology for our greatness.

It makes perfect sense to award the guy who never once mentioned America's exceptionalism, but so inwardly saw America's flawed enough to fundamentaly change it.

While the United States is in financial ruin from protecting peace in the Middle East, or before that in southeast Asia, and before that in Europe, they are dubbed too powerful, too wealthy, too aggressive, by those who never miss a meal in their palatial mansions and castles, while we lose our young kids. For what?

Bottom line is... Well I can't fault Obama for this "honor", simply because he is truly a representative of what the Nobel has become, has lost from its original intent and how it is now used against any project undertaken by the United States. Does it sounds familiar? The same status the United Nations has sunk to while allowed to be on our soil, using our resources at great expense to our nation, when it is constantly publicized we are "late with our annual dues".

Just wait until some part of the world need our help again. They will crawl to America for help, for humanitarian or military assistance, for money we don't have.

We all know Obama's promises. Let's nominate him for a Nobel every year. Not just for peace price, but for literature, economics, all of them. For as long as he lives.

 

[rubberhead]

Republicans can't see this for what it is. This is a stunning rebuke by the international community over what Bush and the Republicans did for the last eight years.

If they had gone after Bin Laden and destroyed the leadership of a terrorist organization that perpetrated the largest attack against the United States in modern history, it might have been Bush receiving this award.

Instead, after the Iraq debacle, the US was seen by many as an international threat equal to terrorists groups because we have bigger and better weapons and had no conscience about using them or invading a country we didn’t like.

The Republicans have adopted the Timothy McVeigh strategy of "let's bomb the world". Instead of showing even the tiniest bit of reflection or introspection, they say, "Screw 'em". They haven't learned a thing and have made it clear they won't. So sad.

So they should give the Prize to everyone who's not Bush... Where's mine?

 

[jillian]

sorry jillian, but the king david hotel bombing was a terrorist attack. a textbook example even.

In your opinion...

but attacking a military targets isn't a terrorist attack.

And THAT is textbook.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

Arafat was a former terrorist...but then so was 1978 winner, Menachim Begin who took part in the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people, in the 1940's.

That wasn't a terrorist act. The King David Hotel was the military command center for the Brits in Israel and was a military target. The Irgun also warned the Brits to get out before the bomb went off.

Arafat killed babies in carriages and school children on buses. Those weren't military targets.

Or do you not know the meaning of the word "terrorist"?

Arafat wasn't a "former" anything... he took U.S. money to sit down at the peace table and then, after getting about 98% of what he was asking, he said he couldn't sign the agreement because he'd "be drinking tea with Rabin".

And Suha took all that money and put it into her French bank account.

sorry jillian, but the king david hotel bombing was a terrorist attack. a textbook example even.

Nope, a military attack that came with a prior warning of the event.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bHkH779qg]YouTube - Obama: Nobel Peace Prize 'A Call to Action'[/ame]

 

[Coyote]

I woke up when Arafat ( a terrorist ) won the award. I knew then that something was amiss with the "Nobel Peace Prize".

Arafat was a former terrorist...but then so was 1978 winner, Menachim Begin who took part in the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people, in the 1940's.

That wasn't a terrorist act. The King David Hotel was the military command center for the Brits in Israel and was a military target. The Irgun also warned the Brits to get out before the bomb went off.

Irgun, the group which carried it out was a terrorist organization. The warnings of the bombing were inadequate and incomplete - no one warned who had the official power to carry out an evacuation, so there was none until it was too late. 91 people were killed, most of them staff, clerks, typists, messengers and other low level workers. All of them innocent. It was a very powerful bomb and Some of the deaths occurred on roads and property outside the hotel and in adjacent buildings. Lest you think Irgun should be absolved of terrorism because they only concentrated on "military targets" they were responsible for planting land mines in a number of Arab markets including one in Haifa that killed some 70 people. I doubt they were "military targets".

A bomb thrown by the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi from a speeding taxi today killed eleven Arabs and two British policemen and wounded at least thirty-two Arabs

...and a rather ironic article which points out the fine line between "terrorist"/"freedom fighter" in a commemoration event not much different from that of the Palestinians celebrating their terrorists.

or here: a list that reads much like Hamas or Hezbolla: Hamas: A Pale Image of the Jewish Irgun And Lehi Gangs

Irgun was a terrorist organization plain and simple and no amount of white-washing will change that.

Arafat killed babies in carriages and school children on buses. Those weren't military targets.

Or do you not know the meaning of the word "terrorist"?

I think I know better than you do, the meaning of this hard to define term.

Arafat wasn't a "former" anything... he took U.S. money to sit down at the peace table and then, after getting about 98% of what he was asking, he said he couldn't sign the agreement because he'd "be drinking tea with Rabin".

And Suha took all that money and put it into her French bank account.

Hindsight is 20/20.

 

[namvet]

BTY Arafat's uncle hunted jews for the Nazi's. so the killer gene must have been passed down

 

[Meister]

You guys have always considered it meaningless.

I woke up when Arafat ( a terrorist ) won the award. I knew then that something was amiss with the "Nobel Peace Prize".

Arafat was a former terrorist...but then so was 1978 winner, Menachim Begin who took part in the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people, in the 1940's.

I'm just letting you know when I woke up to the NPP. 1978? I was wondering when, and where I was going to get my next lid.

 

[Coyote]

I woke up when Arafat ( a terrorist ) won the award. I knew then that something was amiss with the "Nobel Peace Prize".

Arafat was a former terrorist...but then so was 1978 winner, Menachim Begin who took part in the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people, in the 1940's.

I'm just letting you know when I woke up to the NPP. 1978? I was wondering when, and where I was going to get my next lid.

 

[Navy1960]

So now we are discusssing Arafat who was by the way was only interested in the plight of Palaistians as long as he benefited from it and make no mistake Arafat was a terrorist from a young age when he was smuggling weapons into Israel to his participation in the Munich Olympics killings to numerous murders.

The Munich massacre is an informal name for events occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually murdered by Black September, a militant group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization
Munich massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Awarding this coward and low life scum a peace prize was and still is the biggest farce that the Nobel prize committee ever voted upon. While the Obama award may have been premature, there is no way that anyone can compare a scum like Arafat to President Obama although I am sure many would try.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

This is the funniest thing I've heard in a while.

 

[theHawk]

According to George Stephanopoulos the first reaction from White House staff on hearing the news was -
"It's not April 1, is it?"

Surprised and Humbled, President Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize - ABC News

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

Arafat was a former terrorist...but then so was 1978 winner, Menachim Begin who took part in the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people, in the 1940's.

That wasn't a terrorist act. The King David Hotel was the military command center for the Brits in Israel and was a military target. The Irgun also warned the Brits to get out before the bomb went off.

Irgun, the group which carried it out was a terrorist organization. The warnings of the bombing were inadequate and incomplete - no one warned who had the official power to carry out an evacuation, so there was none until it was too late. 91 people were killed, most of them staff, clerks, typists, messengers and other low level workers. All of them innocent. It was a very powerful bomb and Some of the deaths occurred on roads and property outside the hotel and in adjacent buildings. Lest you think Irgun should be absolved of terrorism because they only concentrated on "military targets" they were responsible for planting land mines in a number of Arab markets including one in Haifa that killed some 70 people. I doubt they were "military targets".

A bomb thrown by the Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi from a speeding taxi today killed eleven Arabs and two British policemen and wounded at least thirty-two Arabs

...and a rather ironic article which points out the fine line between "terrorist"/"freedom fighter" in a commemoration event not much different from that of the Palestinians celebrating their terrorists.

or here: a list that reads much like Hamas or Hezbolla: Hamas: A Pale Image of the Jewish Irgun And Lehi Gangs

Irgun was a terrorist organization plain and simple and no amount of white-washing will change that.

Arafat killed babies in carriages and school children on buses. Those weren't military targets.

Or do you not know the meaning of the word "terrorist"?

I think I know better than you do, the meaning of this hard to define term.

Arafat wasn't a "former" anything... he took U.S. money to sit down at the peace table and then, after getting about 98% of what he was asking, he said he couldn't sign the agreement because he'd "be drinking tea with Rabin".

And Suha took all that money and put it into her French bank account.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Moving the goal posts

 

[Vast LWC]

I'm really at a loss here. I have no idea why they gave Obama the Peace Prize.

And the things is, Obama is just as confused by it as everyone else.

He himself said he doesn't know what he did to deserve it, and was surprised they gave it to him.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The NPP to Obama is the international community's rejection of the Bush years ~ rightfully so.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

The NPP to Obama is the international community's rejection of the Bush years ~ rightfully so.

They might as well have given it to Bush.