President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

[Immanuel]

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

I agree, but honestly, I think it would have had much more impact if they had awarded it to him after he had been in office one year. At this point, it looks like nothing more than what you said, but after one year, it would have been a clear statement of rejection of the Bush years.

Edit: What I mean there is that today it just seems like they are saying "We didn't like Bush so we are going to humiliate him by awarding his successor for nothing at all". But, if they had waited a year, it would have been an outright slap in the face of the Bush policies and a clear approval of the work President Obama was completing.

Immie

 

[jillian]

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.

why would they have given it to mr pre-emptive attack?

 

[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.

why would they have given it to mr pre-emptive attack?

Why would they give it to mr. bomb innocent civilians? Makes just as much sense either way.

 

[MalibuMan]

This is absured. Where's Reagan's peace prize? He actually did something like end the cold war!

 

[rubberhead]

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.

why would they have given it to mr pre-emptive attack?

Well, for starters, he actually did something. The only thing Obama has accomplished is picking out a dog.

 

[Ame®icano]

Speaking of Arafat, Peres and Rabin... they won Nobel Peace prize.

But did they signed anything?

 

[Sarah G]

A couple of cute twitters regarding Obama's Nobel:

Congrats to President Obama but I find it a bit odd he won the nobel peace prize the same morning the U.S. declared war on the moon. Joy Behar

Nobel announcement elevates Glenn Beck threat level from "crying" to "shrieking" -Chris Lehmann

Update: Nobel Prize awarded not just to those who are not George Bush; must also not be John McCain. -Ana Marie Cox

Obama also awarded Nobel prize in chemistry. "He's just got great chemistry," says Nobel Committee. -Ezra Klein

I can't believe I just won an OSCAR after only having a couple of pitch meetings! Thanks everyone! -Drew Carey

For a guy who won the Peace Prize, Obama didn't seem to be helping with the whole Jon & Kate debacle. -Moe

They should institute a Nobel Prize for driving conservatives crazy. -Matty Iglesias

 

[Vast LWC]

I think we all agree here, including Mr Obama, that the Nobel Prize people are wrong.

I mean, you can't really tell them to take the Peace Prize back, I guess, and as President you'd be creating some bad relations by doing that.

But Obama has made it clear that he for one thinks he hasn't done enough to deserve it.

 

[Sarah G]

I think we all agree here, including Mr Obama, that the Nobel Prize people are wrong.

I mean, you can't really tell them to take the Peace Prize back, I guess, and as President you'd be creating some bad relations by doing that.

But Obama has made it clear that he for one thinks he hasn't done enough to deserve it.

No they're not wrong. Let somebody like World Net Daily give some R a prize...

 

[mal]

I think we all agree here, including Mr Obama, that the Nobel Prize people are wrong.

I mean, you can't really tell them to take the Peace Prize back, I guess, and as President you'd be creating some bad relations by doing that.

But Obama has made it clear that he for one thinks he hasn't done enough to deserve it.

He could've said that he wasn't Worthy, and to Grade him a couple of Years...

Would have been... Statesmen like...

But then again...



peace...

 

[JimH52]

I have been asking myself what the GOP stance should be. Well, after considerable thought I feel the GOP should counter this obvious slap in the face to their beliefs by adding a new initiative to their platform. The new initiative could be something like:

"SAY NO TO PEACE!"

"DOWN WITH PEACE!"

"MAKE WAR, NOT LOVE!"

Yup, I think they should take a stand on this! That will teach those peace loving fanatics!

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

I have been asking myself what the GOP stance should be. Well, after considerable thought I feel the GOP should counter this obvious slap in the face to their beliefs by adding a new initiative to their platform. The new initiative could be something like:

"SAY NO TO PEACE!"

"DOWN WITH PEACE!"

"MAKE WAR, NOT LOVE!"

Yup, I think they should take a stand on this! That will teach those peace loving fanatics!

And what peace has Obama advocated? Was his bombing of innocent civilians in Pakistan peaceful? How about the escalation of the war in Afghanistan? How about our continued occupation of Iraq? None of that amounts to peace from where I'm sitting.

 

[tigerbob]

Obama was chosen because he deserves it.

He has single handedly destroyed the mythology of islamic extremism.

Really? ***t is why he won the prize? Glad you explained ***t bit of knowledge to myself, and all on this thread. Appreciate it, Chris.

You are welcome.

From the unrest in Iran to the Pakistanis taking on the Taliban to Hezbollah losing the election in Lebanon, Obama has the extremists on the run.

All without spending a dime.

Isn't diplomacy great?

Is this something he learned at Hogwarts?

 

[tigerbob]

I think this is one of the funniest days of my life. I was anxious to see what the GOP response would be to Obama being awarded this prize. I have been laughing all morning at the "Party of No."

Rather than give Obama even a tiny bit of credit for his efforts for peace, they have, predictably, dismissed and criticized the decision. FUNNY!

As was previously stated in this thread, the GOP will be remembered for its negative stance WITH EVERYTHING. FOX, rather than give this news any air time is covering a car chase in Texas and singing the gloom and doom of Health Care reform. FUNNY!

CNN should send a letter to FOX criticizing them for not covering the Nobel Peace Prize, just like FOX sent a letter to CNN about the tea baggers....FUNNY!

THANK YOU FOX FOR MAKING MY DAY!

Give it a rest Jim. There's a pretty big difference between a "tiny bit of credit" and a Nobel prize.

 

[tigerbob]

There are thousands of people able to submit nominations. It's not that surprizing that at least one of those persons nominated Obama. However, being nominated is not the same as being selected. So saying "What had he done in ten days" is a pretty hollow argument (even though I agree that he didn't deserve the prize).

It would be nice to know who gets the idea of nominating Obama after just ten days in the office.

You know, for how dumb it is, I can give you one even more bizarre. Some member of the Swedish parliament nominated Hitler in 1939.

But retracted it after a few days.

 

[tigerbob]

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.

This may be a rebuke by the Nobel committee, but from what I've seen in the foreign press most of the international community is, to say the least, surprised.

 

[tigerbob]

Yes, the international community just kicked the American neo-con community dead in its collective dead ass. You folks have been rebuked permanently.

Can you provide some links to examples of the international community (not foreign politicians who have a vested interest in sucking up to Obama) saying that they wholeheartedly agree with this?

 

[Coyote]

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.

No one is defending giving it to Arafat or saying he wasn't a terrorist, just pointing out the hypocrisy that constantly brings Arafat up but ignores the fact that Begin was also a terrorist and than excuses it.

It's hard to make sense of the Nobel Peace Prize sometimes, and this is one of those times.

 

[NO!bama08]

LOL. I heard that he was only in office two months when the voting was closed! This removes all credibility from the Nobel Prize. Imagine that..... Obamacorn the socialist idiot elected by idiots wins the Nobel Prize. Can't quit laughing.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

LOL. I heard that he was only in office two months when the voting was closed! This removes all credibility from the Nobel Prize. Imagine that..... Obamacorn the socialist idiot elected by idiots wins the Nobel Prize. Can't quit laughing.

Feb. 1, 2009 the voting closed. So more like two weeks.