what a joke !!!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/...ace.prize/index.html

"Nominations for the prize had to be postmarked by February 1 -- only 12 days after Obama took office. The committee sent out its solicitation for nominations last September -- two months before Obama was elected president".

My question is what did he do in those 12 days to deserve this recognition???

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Was Barack Obama a good choice for Nobel Peace Prize?

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Another affirmative action award. A welfare Nobel Prize.

More like a dangling a carrot being drawn down the road of socialism. What other president has been more open to the idea of socialism? What other president apologizes to foreign interests for adherence to past policy to our benefit? This is a Trojan horse. I would like to see the voting record on this award.

We're still in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nothing has changed. There is no peace in either country nor any solid in place plan to effect it.

Politics aside, I suspect this is being used to manipulate him since he comes across as being open to allowing a foreign interest to affect his decisions as it applies to us.

Here are some truths and some for the public consumption commentary.

Yet Hisham Qasim, Egyptian democracy and human rights activist, said he was "shocked" Obama won.

"He has achieved nothing. He's stumbling. He hasn't achieved any of his promises and nothing is working. He promised to close Guantanamo and now that's not going to happen, and the Arab-Israeli conflict looks like it's going to get very nasty."

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it gave the prize to Obama for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy," his "vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons" and for inspiring hope and creating "a new climate in international politics."



The Afgans praised, obviously why. But who was it that started that conflict? it was Bush.

The bigger surprise is when the nominations had to be turned in. 12 days in, kinda soon, don't you think?


Even your guy had some things to say;

The winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, anti-communist Polish leader Lech Walesa, was quoted in The Wall Street Journal as expressing surprise.

"Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast -- he hasn't had the time to do anything yet," the paper's Web site quoted Walesa as saying.

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"Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast -- he hasn't had the time to do anything yet," the paper's Web site quoted Walesa as saying.

Exactly.

Some truth

"In an increasingly challenging and volatile world, President Obama has given a sense of hope and optimism to millions around the world" and "has shown that the only way forward is through genuine cooperation with other nations."

Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, last year's Peace Prize laureate, said it was clear the Nobel committee wanted to encourage Obama on the issues he has been discussing on the world stage.

****ari Muta Maathai, the Kenyan who won the 2004 Peace Prize, said Obama's win will help Africa move forward.


Carrot and stick.

Right. So Afghanistan and Iraq shouldn't have happened. What's that got to do with Obama winning a Nobel Peace Prize? And not just winning, but winning over people who actually have tangible things to show for their years of hard work rather than just promises and plans. People who've actually made a real difference in the world. Like the guy who has built 130 schools for girls in remote areas of Aghanistan and Pakistan commonly ruled by opium dealers and warlords. Obama didn't deserve this. So far, he's done squat.

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Obama didn't deserve this. So far, he's done squat.

Some history is in order here.

During the Clinton years he withdrew most of the on the ground activities of the CIA. He favored a more covert tact of spying. That played out real well since the planning and so forth of 9-11 happened on his watch.

Bush turned that around and brought the war to the terrorists and off our soil. If Bush wanted Iraq's oil fields, we would own them by now. Why is gas still over 2.00 a gallon then?

It isn't just here, although completely correct, that people are asking why he won. More importantly, we don't need the worlds approval to question something. That sort of logic is what provoked this to begin with.

Now what's he to do? They've already given him the award before the act. Doesn't he feel obligated to further undermine American interests? Looks to me these clowns think they got themselves a puppet. Obama needs to tell them to shove it.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/...ace.prize/index.html

"This award is not simply about my administration," he said. It "must be shared" with everyone who strives for "justice and dignity."

"The Nobel recipient receives a prize of about $1.4 million."


Hmmmmmm, wonder if he's going to share the prize too?

A speech or two is all it takes? That kind of cheapens the award then, doesn't it?

I don't know, but it seems to me that building those 100 plus schools in an area where it was overrun by Taliban and drug dealing is a little more significant.

Obama's platform was all about what I'm going to give you. Free medical, free housing, free this that and the other. Not much was said about the wars in comparison to the domestic economic issues.

He better man up and remember who he is president of. This is nothing but a way to obligate him to their interests. The award should be refused. That would be a vote for America.

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The award should be refused.

He already accepted it. Is he allowed to change his mind based on temporary insanity? LOL!

If Obama had any decency, at all, he would refuse it

No, it isn't just me. Most of the world is chiming in with the same objections and question. What did he do?

BTW, I am not disgruntled. Disappointed we didn't win, yes, but not overly upset about it either. Being disgruntled, that only happens when you don't plan for things in plain sight.

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What did he do?

Here's what he's done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5Kl38fSVY