President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

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16 Oct 2009, 4:29 pm

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next time they ask for your vote for the Nobel Prize you can nominate someone you like.

Thanks, but no thanks. They can keep the good stuff they smoke to themselves. :wink:

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18 Oct 2009, 10:05 am

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Boomshika wrote:

well i felt like something should be said in light of all the negativity. there's bound to be people who disagree with anybody in history who have won a Nobel Peace Prize, but i seriously doubt the poster of this thread started it with the intention that it would cause so much controversy. not one person said anything positive about why he might not be such a terrible choice to be awarded this prize. i just have no idea why the mention of Obama draws so much hostility and negativity.

Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician and member of the five-person Nobel committee that chose this year’s winner, said the choice of President Barack Obama was primarily related his stance on nuclear disarmament.

from the Wall Street Journal
Paul Sonne reports on the Nobel Peace Prize.
Associated Press
President Barack Obama chairing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at the United Nations headquarters. “There is a criticism about the war in Afghanistan, and I understand that,” said Valle in a telephone interview. “But this was primarily an award on his work on and commitment to nuclear disarmament – and his dialogue. Of course there will be criticism, because he hasn’t achieved his goals yet. It will take time, but this is a support.”

Valle said the committee last met on Oct. 5, and that the decision to choose Obama was unanimous, especially after Sept. 24, when Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to chair a U.N. Security Council summit-level meeting. At that meeting, the Security Council passed a resolution calling for a strengthened Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ahead of negotiations on the issue with Iran in Geneva.

“That strengthened his name, so to say,” Valle said. “It’s a challenge to him, of course, to continue going on in this way.”

She said she hoped the award would help Obama get the U.S. to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and aid him in progressing on climate change in Copenhagen. She added that she supported Obama’s recent decision to drop U.S. plans for a missile-defense shield in Central Europe. “He is giving hope to people who believe in dialogue instead of threats of using military tools,” she said.

Earlier, at the Nobel press conference, committee chairman Thorbjørn Jagland defended the choice of Obama.

“If you look at the history of the Nobel Peace prize, we have, on many occasions, tried to enhance what many personalities are trying to do,” he said. “For instance, when Willy Brandt got the prize back in the 1970s. He launched Ostpolitik in Europe, which was so important to what happened in Europe many years later. For instance, giving the prize to Mikhail Gorbachev, who changed the world completely. And now to President Obama, who is contributing to improve the international climate.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/0 ... the-prize/

Keeping the peace topic

Like a former Prime Minister of Canada (Lester B. Pearson), President Barack Obama of the United States is diplomatic, and peace oriented. I was thinking about why he was awarded the Prize and I hope he uses the spirit of the prize to continue his diplomatic efforts. Contrary to what many may think, I believe Mr. Obama is a sincere, dedicated politician, and that he is too shrewd not to live up to being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. If not, then he will be remembered for not doing so, and this will not bode well for future Peace Prize hopefuls in politics.

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19 Oct 2009, 1:54 am

CloudWalker wrote:

sinsboldly wrote:

next time they ask for your vote for the Nobel Prize you can nominate someone you like.

Thanks, but no thanks. They can keep the good stuff they smoke to themselves. :wink:

Chongin' away on some political influence. :hic:

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20 Oct 2009, 10:15 am

As I consider my self a humanist and believes that there needs to be another party at least, so here it is plain and simple. Just another decline in the history of the world (As the "Noble" award is mainly a joke) and another win for the "New World Order". As everything he does makes me cringe in disguist. Enjoying your "Major" Capistism/Socialism people yet?

Regards, my fellow americans,

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20 Oct 2009, 6:27 pm

I just read all of these responses and was going to simply say: "Resist the NWO"...... but Jeff said it better....

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29 Oct 2009, 10:36 pm

I am a supporter of the President, but I didn't agree with the prize. My choice would have been a posthumous award to Neda Agha-Soltan, the Iranian woman whose death became a symbol of the movement after the rigged election in that country. Maybe someday...but not now.

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