2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Barack Obama

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#1 sh4d0wc4st3r
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What is your guy's reaction to this announcement?

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#2 Crypto138
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I have not heard about this. Link?
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http://www.foxnews.com/ I know it is fox news but the irony is win
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#4 sh4d0wc4st3r
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[QUOTE="Mafiree"]http://www.foxnews.com/ I know it is fox news but the irony is win

www.cnn.com it's just announced less than 15 minutes ago. turn on your TV to CNN or something.
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[QUOTE="sh4d0wc4st3r"][QUOTE="Mafiree"]http://www.foxnews.com/ I know it is fox news but the irony is win

www.cnn.com it's just announced less than 15 minutes ago. turn on your TV to CNN or something.

It is on the fox site Under the header is 60k troop request
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#6 GulliversTravel
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Having the balls to stand up to Israel with absolutely nothing to gain is recognition in itself.
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#7 dazman31
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Good on him.

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wwoooooooooooooooooooo usa usa . that is all
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#9 KG86
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Oh **** the right-wingers are going to go nuts.

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what the **** ? Is all I have to say.

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#11 weezyfb
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what the **** ? Is all I have to say.

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for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." not that hard to comprehend
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#12 fl4tlined
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it kinda makes me wonder if he deserves it i mean he hasnt really done much....

not saying i liked bush hell nah

actually bush getting it would make this a whole lot funnier and ironic to the max

but alas this will do

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#13 Rec-neps
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With over 100 candidates on the list I'm sure there was someone on there who deserved this reward much more than obama did.. you know someone who can actually deliver what they say.

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#14 lonewolf604
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has he actually done much?
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#15 Shhadow_Viper
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Hell Yes! That is great news. For all the flack he catches it is nice to see recognition where it counts.

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#16 Nifty_Shark
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I have nothing against the man but I don't think he deserves this award. Not in the meantime at least.

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#17 Danm_999
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With over 100 candidates on the list I'm sure there was someone on there who deserved this reward much more than obama did.. you know someone who can actually deliver what they say.

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Did you have someone in mind or were you just unhappy they picked Obama?
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#18 GenTom
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for his work in nuclear disarmament, new dipolomatic relations with the world, closing gitmo, i definitly think he deserved it. And he receives a nice £1.4m.. good retirement :P

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#19 Mafiree
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Nomiations* end on February 1, 2009 for the award.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567175/Nobel_Prizes.html

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#20 GenTom
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[QUOTE="Mafiree"]

Nomiations* end on February 1, 2009 for the award.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567175/Nobel_Prizes.html

and so, from then until now, the 5 panel members assess the impact of each nominee.
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#21 Mochyc
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I don't get it, what has he done? I'm not saying he's a bad president at all, I just don't understand why he deserve this instead of many other great people.
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#22 Gamerz1569
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What did Obama do to receive such an award? So what if he was the first black US president still doesn't change the fact he hasn't done much (or maybe he has which I am unaware of)

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for his work in nuclear disarmament, new dipolomatic relations with the world, closing gitmo, i definitly think he deserved it. And he receives a nice £1.4m.. good retirement :P

GenTom

Problem is, he only talk about it, he only change anti-nuclear shield program that my country had involved and repered relations with russia as result.... , thats it. All other current "pease operations" stuff is stated by Bush, Iran still yell about nuclear stuff as it was.

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#24 Tjeremiah1988
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Its a bit too early for such an award and I think it can kinda hinder in his success.
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#25 KDIDDY78
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umm for what?...what has he done in 9 months? this dimishes the award...must be a kick in the nutts to george bush...yeah thats it. Barrack should now thank bush instead of blaming him

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#26 AdrianWerner
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Horrible, simply horrible decision. The comitee has made a farce out of the award

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#27 imthemostwanted
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He also won the McDonald's Monopoly game! Some guys have all the luck.
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#28 Shame-usBlackley
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has he actually done much?lonewolf604

Nope.

All he's done is apologized over and over again in the hope of repairing "damaged relations" with foreign countries. He's given speech after speech, but when it comes time for another country to help this one, they've told him to pound sand or made him look even more moronic and naive than Bush. He went over to Europe and they all told him how much they loved him, but when he asked them to give us troops to help with Afghanistan they told him no. Then when he gave his big, bloated, pompous speech on nukes at the U.N., Iran made him look like an ill-informed, doe-eyed nobody by admitting they have a secret weapons site and launching a few test missiles in the air for good measure. Meanwhile, he removed the missile shield over our ally countries in Europe, which sounds like DEFENSE DISARMAMENT, not NUKES. He also flew to Copenhagen with Oprah to try and get the Olympics to come to Chicago while his Afghanistan commander was begging him for more troops, and he's spent so much money (quadrupled the deficit in ONE YEAR) that foreign investors are calling for another form of currency than the dollar because they know this guy's finishing the job that Bush started by bankrupting the country, and that there is a very good chance that all the DOLLARS they've invested will be worthless due to hyperinflation when the house of cards comes tumbling down. He promised that unemployment wouldn't hit 8 percent if he got his crapulus bill passed, and now we're going to be passing 10 percent any day.

Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize, too, and he was about a spineless, do-nothing, self-loathing, douchebag. I'd say the award is a perfect fit. The ONLY thing Obama has really done right is ordering the SEALs to perform the Snipefecta on those idiot pirates who were holding that captain hostage -- that's about it. Granted, that WAS awesome (and we haven't seen much on pirates since we've started SHOOTING BACK, have we?), but it's certainly not much in terms of history.

EDIT: AND he let Nancy Pelosi handle the first draft of his (signature campaign promise) health care bill. What kind of a moron takes his supposedly "term-defining" agenda item and lets an unpopular socialist like Pelosi handle how it gets written? And then Obama got all upset when the country kicked it back in his face and he had to go on TV and say he was going to introduce his own bill, which he STILL hasn't done. This guy's ten pounds of BS in a five pound sack. He talks and talks, but does nothing. And what he does do is horrible. The guy's a mess. He has ZERO legislative experience, and it shows. He has ZERO business experience, and it shows. You've basically got a Junior Senator who used to work for Acorn running the country. And IT SHOWS.

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#29 feryl06
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I agree. What president hasn't said that? Yea, he closed gitmo, but that was due to international pushing. Seems like this award was given too early for him. I guess all you have to do now to win this peace prize is to just say that you'll do all these things instead of showing it.... Any world leader can make promises of a better tomorrow---but let's wait and see before we give him an award for doing something that's not yet been accomplished. [QUOTE="ShadowriverUB"]

[QUOTE="GenTom"]

for his work in nuclear disarmament, new dipolomatic relations with the world, closing gitmo, i definitly think he deserved it. And he receives a nice £1.4m.. good retirement :P

Problem is, he only talk about it, he only change anti-nuclear shield program that my country had involved and repered relations with russia as result.... , thats it. All other current "pease operations" stuff is stated by Bush, Iran still yell about nuclear stuff as it was.

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[QUOTE="lonewolf604"]has he actually done much?Shame-usBlackley

Nope.

All he's done is apologized over and over again in the hope of repairing "damaged relations" with foreign countries. He's given speech after speech, but when it comes time for another country to help this one, they've told him to pound sand or made him look even more moronic and naive than Bush. He went over to Europe and they all told him how much they loved him, but when he asked them troops to help with Afghanistan they told him no. Then when he gave his big, bloated, pompous speech on nukes at the U.N., Iran makes him look like an ill-informed, doe-eyed nobody by admitting they have a secret weapons site and launching a few test missiles in the air. Meanwhile, he removed the missile shield over our ally countries in Europe. He also flew to Copenhagen with Oprah to try and get the Olympics to come to Chicago while his Afghanistan commander is begging him for more troops, and he's spent so much money (quadrupled the deficit in ONE YEAR) that foreign investors are calling for another form of currency than the dollar because they know this guy's finishing the job that Bush started by bankrupting the country, and that there is a very good chance that all the DOLLARS they've invested will be worthless due to hyperinflation when the house of cards comes tumbling down. He promised that unemployment wouldn't hit 8 percent if he got his crapulus bill passed, and now we're going to passing 10 percent any day.

Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize, too, and he was about a spineless, do-nothing, self-loathing, douchebag. I'd say the award is a perfect fit. The ONLY thing Obama has really done right is ordering the SEALs to perform the Snipefecta on those idiot pirates who were holding that captain hostage -- that's about it. Granted, that WAS awesome (and we haven't seen much on pirates since we've started SHOOTING BACK, have we?), but it's certainly not much in terms of history.

Jimminy cricket!

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[QUOTE="Shame-usBlackley"]

[QUOTE="lonewolf604"]has he actually done much?links136

Nope.

All he's done is apologized over and over again in the hope of repairing "damaged relations" with foreign countries. He's given speech after speech, but when it comes time for another country to help this one, they've told him to pound sand or made him look even more moronic and naive than Bush. He went over to Europe and they all told him how much they loved him, but when he asked them troops to help with Afghanistan they told him no. Then when he gave his big, bloated, pompous speech on nukes at the U.N., Iran makes him look like an ill-informed, doe-eyed nobody by admitting they have a secret weapons site and launching a few test missiles in the air. Meanwhile, he removed the missile shield over our ally countries in Europe. He also flew to Copenhagen with Oprah to try and get the Olympics to come to Chicago while his Afghanistan commander is begging him for more troops, and he's spent so much money (quadrupled the deficit in ONE YEAR) that foreign investors are calling for another form of currency than the dollar because they know this guy's finishing the job that Bush started by bankrupting the country, and that there is a very good chance that all the DOLLARS they've invested will be worthless due to hyperinflation when the house of cards comes tumbling down. He promised that unemployment wouldn't hit 8 percent if he got his crapulus bill passed, and now we're going to passing 10 percent any day.

Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize, too, and he was about a spineless, do-nothing, self-loathing, douchebag. I'd say the award is a perfect fit. The ONLY thing Obama has really done right is ordering the SEALs to perform the Snipefecta on those idiot pirates who were holding that captain hostage -- that's about it. Granted, that WAS awesome (and we haven't seen much on pirates since we've started SHOOTING BACK, have we?), but it's certainly not much in terms of history.

Jimminy cricket!

Too bad most of that information was incredibly biased... does he watch much FOX News?
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#32 KDIDDY78
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I agree. What president hasn't said that? Yea, he closed gitmo, but that was due to international pushing. Seems like this award was given too early for him. I guess all you have to do now to win this peace prize is to just say that you'll do all these things instead of showing it.... Any world leader can make promises of a better tomorrow---but let's wait and see before we give him an award for doing something that's not yet been accomplished. [QUOTE="ShadowriverUB"]

[QUOTE="GenTom"]

for his work in nuclear disarmament, new dipolomatic relations with the world, closing gitmo, i definitly think he deserved it. And he receives a nice £1.4m.. good retirement :P

feryl06

Problem is, he only talk about it, he only change anti-nuclear shield program that my country had involved and repered relations with russia as result.... , thats it. All other current "pease operations" stuff is stated by Bush, Iran still yell about nuclear stuff as it was.

umm gitmo is still open!...hasnt closed anything yet

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#33 Shame-usBlackley
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Too bad most of that information was incredibly biased... does he watch much FOX News?GodofBigMacs

How can the truth be biased? Try discrediting anything I said.

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#34 -Sun_Tzu-
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I doubt he accepts it for himself, if at all.
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He gets money for winning the Nobel peace prize and here I thought that money was the root of all evil....
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#36 SaintLeonidas
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Im a huge Obama supporter but I cant say that I agree with this. I mean he has taken steps in the right direction and there is a lot he wants to do but he has only had a chance to do so much and there were probably people that were much more deserving, and Obama probably knows this.
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Too bad most of that information was incredibly biased... does he watch much FOX News?GodofBigMacs

And considering CNN has gotten in the propagandabusiness, you might want to branch out a bit into other channels, chief.

Look familiar?

How about now?

Or maybe this is better?

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Hasn't done enough in the short time time warrant it IMO. Heck, I reckon even John Howard did more in his time as PM of Australia than what Obama has done in the past 9 months in terms of international relations

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[QUOTE="GodofBigMacs"]Too bad most of that information was incredibly biased... does he watch much FOX News?Shame-usBlackley

And considering CNN has gotten in the propagandabusiness, you might want to branch out a bit into other channels, chief.

Look familiar?

How about now?

Or maybe this is better?

that's just Obama mania man. Kind of like Leo mania after the Titanic. But holy crap the first link is a disaster. Miley Cyrus beat? ugh

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#40 domatron23
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Well I'll be darned, I wasn't expecting that at all.
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what a joke
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#42 Shame-usBlackley
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[QUOTE="Shame-usBlackley"]

[QUOTE="GodofBigMacs"]Too bad most of that information was incredibly biased... does he watch much FOX News?Nifty_Shark

And considering CNN has gotten in the propagandabusiness, you might want to branch out a bit into other channels, chief.

Look familiar?

How about now?

Or maybe this is better?

that's just Obama mania man. Kind of like Leo mania after the Titanic. But holy crap the first link is a disaster. Miley Cyrus beat? ugh

There's another word for it:

Indoctrination.

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haha in your face Obama haters.
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#44 Engrish_Major
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Cool. Funny how its always Democrats who win it. (At least since Kissinger in '73)
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#45 Gooeykat
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This is an embarrassment, he should not accept this award. Almost as bad as when Yasir Arafat won. I can almost guarantee Obama is wishing this didn't happen.

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#46 comp_atkins
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i saw this and like most people my reaction was WTF?
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#47 Bourbons3
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Good on him. Now all we need is Walter Mondale, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden to win, and we'll have a full house on Democrats in the last 40 years.
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Absolute joke

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He deserves recgnition for some of the things he hasn't gone ahead with, whatever his reasoning.
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[QUOTE="lonewolf604"]has he actually done much?Shame-usBlackley

Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize, too, and he was about a spineless, do-nothing, self-loathing, douchebag. I'd say the award is a perfect fit. The ONLY thing Obama has really done right is ordering the SEALs to perform the Snipefecta on those idiot pirates who were holding that captain hostage -- that's about it. Granted, that WAS awesome (and we haven't seen much on pirates since we've started SHOOTING BACK, have we?), but it's certainly not much in terms of history.

nope.. not at all... http://www.edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/07/somalia.pirate.attack/index.html