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Cool. Funny how its always Democrats who win it. (At least since Kissinger in '73)Engrish_MajorKISSINGER won a nobel peace prize?!
[QUOTE="Engrish_Major"]Cool. Funny how its always Democrats who win it. (At least since Kissinger in '73)VandalvideoKISSINGER won a nobel peace prize?!http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/ Surprising, huh? I am also shocked by Obama winning the Peace Prize, because honestly, what has he done so significant other than apologize to foreign countries and trying to reconcile with the Muslim world (without any tangible results?)
Nominations needed to be in before February 1st 2009. Obama was sworn in on January 20th. So Obama was nominated only 10 days into his term as President.
The honorable thing to do would be to decline the award and say there is still too much work to be done. But this is Obama we're talkin' about so.....
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.
Rec-neps
^ this, I find it terrible of them to award this to a man whose policy to end a long lost, overly-drawn out war is to sent thousands more soldiers into it.
-Peace sells, but who's buyin'
has he actually done much?lonewolf604he's started the process to a lot of things but hasn't finished much at this point. it's only been 9 months. they said the award is also to encourage the direction he's going on. basically that he's taken a lot more diplomatic steps. off the top of my head, Cuba, North Korea, Russia have all improved. Iran is coming back to the table for talks. He's started initiatives to reduce nuclear arsenals in the EU Russia and US. completing will take more time of course.
Ehhh, this makes little sense to me. I don't see how anyone, even Obama supports, could agree with this award.
Asked why the prize had been awarded to Mr Obama less than a year after he took office, Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve".
So the Nobel Peace Prize is now more of a proactive award. I wish my boss gave me proactive raises based on the quality of work I am 'trying' to achieve.Ehhh, this makes little sense to me. I don't see how anyone, even Obama supports, could agree with this award.
Asked why the prize had been awarded to Mr Obama less than a year after he took office, Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve".limpbizkit818
http://www.foxnews.com/ I know it is fox news but the irony is winMafiree
has he actually done much?lonewolf604He donated buckets of KFC... No, being serious, not really. The nobel prizes on peace and literature have many many wrongs... Some of them have politic groundings. Like this one...
So the Nobel Peace Prize is now more of a proactive award. I wish my boss gave me proactive raises based on the quality of work I am 'trying' to achieve.[QUOTE="limpbizkit818"]
Ehhh, this makes little sense to me. I don't see how anyone, even Obama supports, could agree with this award.
Asked why the prize had been awarded to Mr Obama less than a year after he took office, Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve".FragStains
ppl get "Green Awards" and others all the time for projects that they sponsor and support but haven't actually completed.
ppl also get promotions sometimes for bringing in clients even if the deals aren't closed yet. heck we get hired for what ppl think we bring to the table.
Ehhh, this makes little sense to me. I don't see how anyone, even Obama supports, could agree with this award.
Asked why the prize had been awarded to Mr Obama less than a year after he took office, Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve".limpbizkit818
OHHHhhhh....So they want to support his socialist agenda. So they want to support his befriending of tyrants like Chavez and Castro and Ahmadinejad and all of the enemies of freedom in world. Only shows what a worthless and irrelevent award that the Nobel Peace Prize has become. Obama doesn't deserve anything. He is done nothing to deserve the award. His resume is paper thin. I can't wait to boot his butt out of office in 2012. It will be a cold day in h*** before he socializes my country.
This man has no substance. He is all about image. He is an egomaniac trying to prop himself up.
[QUOTE="GodofBigMacs"]Too bad most of that information was incredibly biased... does he watch much FOX News?Shame-usBlackley
How can the truth be biased? Try discrediting anything I said.
Are you kidding?I hope you are because if not you are making yourself look really bad(bitter?) right now. Alright though, I'll bite... Starting from the top:
"All he's done is apologized over and over again in the hope of repairing "damaged relations" with foreign countries."
Sorry, that's an opinion. And certainly not a fact. I'm pretty sure he's done something other than apoligize in the last 9 months.
"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."
Uh, source?
"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."
So, he's not the President of Europe is he?
"Then when he gave his big, bloated, pompous speech"
"Iran makes him look like an ill-informed, doe-eyed nobody"
That's a fact?
"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. "
Hard to believe that is only two sentences... but thanks for actually having some facts for once. However, there's a lot of speculation in there. "there is a very good chance that all the DOLLARS they've invested will be worthless" A very good chance is not a fact. Yes, we are bankrupting this country(my opinion), but don't underestimate the powers that be. They will ensure that our dollar is well taken care of(my opinion again).
"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."
Good point if true. I don't have a source to confirm that promise, but I actually think we are at more than 10% unemployment right now. I think they are fudging the numbers to make it look better than it is.
"Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize, too, and he was about a spineless, do-nothing, self-loathing, douchebag."
I completely disagree with you. Sure it's a fact that he won the prize, but it's not a fact that he was a spineless, do-nothing, self-loathing douchebag. You do know he was instrumental in bringing some peace to the Middle East without killing everyone(Bush's policy), don't you? Remember the conflict with Egypt and Israel, and the spineless, do-nothing peace treaty he negotiated between them? How many times have they fought each other since then? Isn't that interesting? Peace is actually not that difficult in the Middle East, if you have the right people doing the right things. He is a shining example of how that is true.
You know what? You make everyone who doesn't support Obama look bad. You spout out your insults and opinions as if they are facts, and act like everyone else is crazy for not having the same opinion as you. I am actually very worried about the direction our country is going in, but people like you do more harm than good. Shame on you.
Hot ammonia from fresh urine is one of the best ways of getting rid of oil marks on the road. He would be doing us a service :PLike I said in the other thread, he just gets everything handed to him. He could take a wizz on the street and get an award for cleaning public roads. :roll:
Pirate700
[QUOTE="Pirate700"]Hot ammonia from fresh urine is one of the best ways of getting rid of oil marks on the road. He would be doing us a service :P:P Why didn't I think of that.Like I said in the other thread, he just gets everything handed to him. He could take a wizz on the street and get an award for cleaning public roads. :roll:
jimmyjammer69
while i think that this award was premature i don't think the election was just handed to him. it was the product of much hard work and planning. remember that Clinton was the heavy favorite early on.Like I said in the other thread, he just gets everything handed to him. He could take a wizz on the street and get an award for cleaning public roads. :roll:
Pirate700
Sadly he's going to continue getting a free ride and everything handed to him for that reason and the almost God like image the media has given him. :(Obama seems pretty good and all but I feels as the Nobel Prize is saying this
Obama was awarded the 2009Nobel Peace Prize for "being the first black president"
999realthings
Nominations needed to be in before February 1st 2009. Obama was sworn in on January 20th. So Obama was nominated only 10 days into his term as President.litewo
Alot of people are leaving this part out of their discussion.
[QUOTE="litewo"]
Nominations needed to be in before February 1st 2009. Obama was sworn in on January 20th. So Obama was nominated only 10 days into his term as President.joseph_mach
Alot of people are leaving this part out of their discussion.
:lol: Oh man that's a good catch.[QUOTE="litewo"]
Nominations needed to be in before February 1st 2009. Obama was sworn in on January 20th. So Obama was nominated only 10 days into his term as President.
Alot of people are leaving this part out of their discussion.
Good point, but when did they choose the winner? If that was more recent than Feb 1st then it is more important.[QUOTE="joseph_mach"][QUOTE="litewo"]
Nominations needed to be in before February 1st 2009. Obama was sworn in on January 20th. So Obama was nominated only 10 days into his term as President.bdever32
Alot of people are leaving this part out of their discussion.
Good point, but when did they choose the winner? If that was more recent than Feb 1st then it is more important.The point is, he shouldn't have even been in the running.[QUOTE="litewo"]
Nominations needed to be in before February 1st 2009. Obama was sworn in on January 20th. So Obama was nominated only 10 days into his term as President.joseph_mach
Alot of people are leaving this part out of their discussion.
That's so embarrassing. I hope he doesn't accept.[QUOTE="joseph_mach"][QUOTE="litewo"]
Nominations needed to be in before February 1st 2009. Obama was sworn in on January 20th. So Obama was nominated only 10 days into his term as President.jimmyjammer69
Alot of people are leaving this part out of their discussion.
That's so embarrassing. I hope he doesn't accept.Why wouldn't he? He's so smug and full of himself there is no way he wouldn't take it.Good point, but when did they choose the winner? If that was more recent than Feb 1st then it is more important.The point is, he shouldn't have even been in the running. i guess they nominated him in advance hoping he'd achieve something prize worthy by the time the awards came around... but i agree, this award makes little sense.[QUOTE="bdever32"][QUOTE="joseph_mach"]
Alot of people are leaving this part out of their discussion.
Pirate700
Shame on you.
bdever32
Obama asks for more troops from Europe
NATO says "POUND SAND."
Yes, giving a huge No Nuke speech and just a day later getting dumped on by Iran saying effectively, "Ha-ha, weaponized plutonium ***tches" and having them fire off test missiles to cap it off doesn't look good. At all. It shows that for all his talk on ending nuke proliferation, the bad guys in the world don't take him seriously, or even view him as a threat. Do you really believe Iran is intimidated (or interested in talking peace) in any way by Barack Obama?
Your dollar argument is peurile, infantile. "They'll take care of it" sounds like a great strategy. Worked great with Bush, right? And it's getting even better under Obama. Do me a favor: Stop voting.
The 8 percent is absolutely true, and it shows exactly how this guy has no control or grasp of the situation. He's spending money to try and keep from going broke, and it's not going to work. The world (including the communist Chinese) knows this, and that's why they want a new currency. Oil is currently traded ONLY in dollars, and Obama's (and Bush's before him) policies are devaluing the currency so much that the rest of the world is sick of it.
Carter was a MESS. Did you not see what happened to Iran under his watch? He was completely cowed by terrorism -- Iranians had taken 70 people hostage and it wasn't until Reagan came in and manned up that the situation was taken care of. He's a self-loathing Southerner -- he still thinks his fellow countrymen from the south are all racist and just said as much recently, and then tried to recant it when it blew up on him because he's a coward who can't even stand by his convictions. He also did NOTHING to stop inflation. He's a shining example of what NOT to do and be. Yet the liberals keep allowing him to waft around, like a stinky fart. Why is that? Because the democratic party has been hijacked by liberals who think Carter was ****ing AWESOME.
Being well-informed is not shameful. ;)
[QUOTE="Pirate700"]The point is, he shouldn't have even been in the running. i guess they nominated him in advance hoping he'd achieve something prize worthy by the time the awards came around... but i agree, this award makes little sense.That's bad enough but then he wins the damn thing. That means no matter what they were giving him the award. This whole first term (which I pray will be his last) will just be one giant inauguration and ceremony. People are going to be ignoring all the crap he does, or lack there of, and tossing awards his way like they are going out of style.[QUOTE="bdever32"] Good point, but when did they choose the winner? If that was more recent than Feb 1st then it is more important.comp_atkins
haha in your face Obama haters.GazaAliI am not an Obama hater and I think this was a stupid decision. I mean who were on this list for the 2009 award? Kadahfi? Obama is now on the same list as Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Al Gore (I alway lol'ed at that one)
Anything that makes Republicans angry makes me happy.
Obama winning the Peace Prize makes me VERY happy. I don't even think he deserves it, but I'm happy that it ticks off the conservatives that dislike Obama.
awesome post dude:DAnything that makes Republicans angry makes me happy.
Obama winning the Peace Prize makes me VERY happy. I don't eevn think he deserves it, but I'm happy that it ticks off the conservatives that dislike Obama.
Netherscourge
There's a mature and rational reason to support something. Supporting something for the sole reason of it pissing someone else off is why many people should not be allowed to vote. :| And I hate to break it to you but the vast majority of people on either side don't agree with him getting it.Anything that makes Republicans angry makes me happy.
Obama winning the Peace Prize makes me VERY happy. I don't eevn think he deserves it, but I'm happy that it ticks off the conservatives that dislike Obama.
Netherscourge
[QUOTE="GazaAli"]haha in your face Obama haters.Franko_3I am not an Obama hater and I think this was a stupid decision. I mean who were on this list for the 2009 award? Kadahfi? Obama is now on the same list as Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Al Gore (I alway lol'ed at that one) Agreed. Give it to him once his term is up, then it's not as politicized, and you can tell if he even deserves it. Giving it to him now will likely just lead to disappointment for the Norwegians.
[QUOTE="Franko_3"][QUOTE="GazaAli"]haha in your face Obama haters.linkthewindowI am not an Obama hater and I think this was a stupid decision. I mean who were on this list for the 2009 award? Kadahfi? Obama is now on the same list as Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Al Gore (I alway lol'ed at that one) Agreed. Give it to him once his term is up, then it's not as politicized, and you can tell if he even deserves it. Giving it to him now will likely just lead to disappointment for the Norwegians. Well if people don't give him a break and let him achieve something we will be happy
It also shows that the rest of the world doesn't like America's Republican core and all their war-mongering and xenophobia.
The world likes America's Democrats because they listen and talk to other countries on the same level, instead of looking down at them with arrogance.
Republicans are a foreign policy nightmare.
[QUOTE="Franko_3"][QUOTE="GazaAli"]haha in your face Obama haters.linkthewindowI am not an Obama hater and I think this was a stupid decision. I mean who were on this list for the 2009 award? Kadahfi? Obama is now on the same list as Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Al Gore (I alway lol'ed at that one) Agreed. Give it to him once his term is up, then it's not as politicized, and you can tell if he even deserves it. Giving it to him now will likely just lead to disappointment for the Norwegians. The prize was given to Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in the middle of their terms. Giving it to someone when they're most active in their efforts only makes sense.
[QUOTE="linkthewindow"][QUOTE="Franko_3"] I am not an Obama hater and I think this was a stupid decision. I mean who were on this list for the 2009 award? Kadahfi? Obama is now on the same list as Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Al Gore (I alway lol'ed at that one)The_Last_RideAgreed. Give it to him once his term is up, then it's not as politicized, and you can tell if he even deserves it. Giving it to him now will likely just lead to disappointment for the Norwegians. Well if people don't give him a break and let him achieve something we will be happyHis own party isn't letting his idea's through because they are total crap. Nobody is "not allowing" him to accomplish anything.
I absolutely agree with that. If I was from another country, I would be frightened if someone like George W. Bush was in office. :|It also shows that the rest of the world doesn't like America's Republican core and all their war-mongering and xenophobia.
The world likes America's Democrats because they listen and talk to other countries on the same level, instead of looking down at them with arrogance.
Republicans are a foreign policy nightmare.
Netherscourge
Wow. It seems like Obama was caught off guard too. :P I don't know who else was considered, but at the very least it's nice to recognize Obama's efforts rebrand American relations abroad. Though the move appears to be very political on the committee's part.Sajo7
A Chinese dissident and an Afghan Women's Rights activist were among those not awarded the prize.
[QUOTE="Netherscourge"]I absolutely agree with that. If I was from another country, I would be frightened if someone like George W. Bush was in office. :| yeah, i was when Bush was in Office how someone like im could be re-elected after cheating his way for the first term scares me stillIt also shows that the rest of the world doesn't like America's Republican core and all their war-mongering and xenophobia.
The world likes America's Democrats because they listen and talk to other countries on the same level, instead of looking down at them with arrogance.
Republicans are a foreign policy nightmare.
Maniacc1
[QUOTE="Sajo7"]Wow. It seems like Obama was caught off guard too. :P I don't know who else was considered, but at the very least it's nice to recognize Obama's efforts rebrand American relations abroad. Though the move appears to be very political on the committee's part.Shame-usBlackley
A Chinese dissident and an Afghan Women's Rights activist were among those not awarded the prize.
Oh but Obama is so awesome though
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