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Barack Obama's peace prize starts a fight (Not Satire)
Timesonline ^
| 10-9-09
| Catherine Philp
Posted on 10/09/2009 5:52:07 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
[SNIP]
In a clear swipe at his predecessor, George W. Bush, the committee praised the “change in the international climate” that the President had brought, along with his cherished goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
[SNIP]
But Lech Walesa, [SNIP], who won the Peace Prize in 1983, [SNIP], declaring: “So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far.”
Mr Obama’s domestic critics leapt on the award as evidence of foreigners fawning over an untested “celebrity” leader.
[SNIP]
The Nobel Peace Prize is a notoriously difficult award to predict, but yesterday's decision was clearly a political choice, with three of the past six peace awards going to Bush adversaries.
In 2002 the prize went to Jimmy Carter as an explicit rejection of the Bush presidency in the build-up to the Iraq war. In 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei, the UN atomic agency chief who had clashed with Washington over the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, was honoured. In 2007 Al Gore received the prize for his warnings on climate change, denounced by President Bush as a liberal myth.
[SNIP]
Thorbjørn Jagland, the committee chairman, made clear that this year’s prize fell in that category. “If you look at the history of the Peace Prize, we have on many occasions given it to try to enhance what many personalities were trying to do,” he said. [SNIP]
But Bobby Muller, who won the Nobel Prize as co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, told The Times: "I don't have the highest regard for the thinking or process of the Nobel committee. Maybe Norway should give it to Sweden so they can more properly handle the Peace Prize along with all the other Nobel prizes."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; jagland; nobelpeaceprize; nobelprize; norway; obama; sweden; thorbjornjagland; waronbush
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To: Indy Pendance
Clearly a profound insult to every real American.
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posted on
10/09/2009 5:53:32 PM PDT
by
gunnyg
(SUFFER NO FOOLS -Gunny G)
To: gunnyg
The Nobel Peace Prize ranks right up there with the Stalin Peace Prize.
3
posted on
10/09/2009 5:54:52 PM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
To: Jabba the Nutt
He’s the joke of the world, and those leaders are playing him like a bad piano. Give him praise, and he’ll bend over.
4
posted on
10/09/2009 5:55:54 PM PDT
by
Indy Pendance
(Live Free Or Die)
To: gunnyg
We Conservatives need only hold our voices still a moment to hear the Leftwingtard alliances being rendered into steaming piles of poop.
We hold the Peace Prize committee in the same esteem we hold Obama and his running dog lackeys.
There's really nothing to say about these people beyond "they deserve each other".
5
posted on
10/09/2009 5:56:18 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Indy Pendance
SNL should have a field day with this joke!
To: Jabba the Nutt
Or the Chamberlain Peace Prize.
7
posted on
10/09/2009 5:56:50 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
To: Indy Pendance
This is the grand daddy of Affirmative Action awards.
8
posted on
10/09/2009 5:57:12 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
To: Enterprise
Big BINGO
9
posted on
10/09/2009 5:58:16 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
To: Jabba the Nutt
1950 - 1955 (International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples)
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posted on
10/09/2009 5:58:51 PM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
To: Indy Pendance
The only thing the committee has done is successfully made Obama into a world wide joke. Bravo!
11
posted on
10/09/2009 5:58:59 PM PDT
by
dragonblustar
("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
To: gunnyg
“Clearly a profound insult to every real American.”
Based on the quotes, also a profound insult to those who deserved and won the award. It hasn’t had serious meaning for years now.
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posted on
10/09/2009 5:59:30 PM PDT
by
EDINVA
(Obama CAN'T see the Olympics from his back porch !)
To: immadashell
I hope so! Someone on our local talk show said, if SNL does it, it’s a green light for the main stream pressitutes. You can slowly see some cracks in the media that they’re getting off the kool-aid.
To: Indy Pendance
Maybe Norway should give it to Sweden so they can more properly handle the Peace Prize along with all the other Nobel prizes." The Peace Prize Committee is appointed by the Norwegian parliament. There is no special insight, knowledge, worldly wisdom, or intelligence involved.
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posted on
10/09/2009 5:59:38 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Indy Pendance
They’re Eurotrash with anti-American values.
“the committee praised the “change in the international climate” that the President had brought, along with his cherished goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons.”
WTF- he is allowing iran to go full speed ahead to obtain nukes, and he went on a worldwide apology tour. A-holes, all of ‘em.
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posted on
10/09/2009 6:01:27 PM PDT
by
Canedawg
(FUBO)
To: Enterprise
"In 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei, the UN atomic agency chief who had clashed with Washington over the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, was honoured."
Well that cinches it, Barry is getting the 'prize' for the same of what El Baradai has been doing, running interference for the mooselimbs so they can have time to acquire nuclear weaponry and take over the world. Yeah, that sure looks more and more like Barry is outed, being compared to El Baradai and Carter.
16
posted on
10/09/2009 6:01:52 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
To: Indy Pendance
He’s the joke of the world, and those leaders are playing him like a bad piano. Give him praise, and he’ll bend over.
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EXACTLY!!!! They have his ego ‘nailed down’...that’s for sure! They’re using him for the ‘useful idiot’ he is!
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posted on
10/09/2009 6:01:52 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
('They're drinking the juice.'~ Barack H. Obama)
To: Indy Pendance
“And with this ‘award’ the elites of the world are urging Obama to not do the surge in Afghanistan, not take action against Iran and its nuclear program and to basically continue his intentions to emasculate the United States.” - Rush Limbaugh
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posted on
10/09/2009 6:02:21 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
To: Enterprise
“This is the grand daddy of Affirmative Action awards.”
Unfortunately, this is all too true.
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posted on
10/09/2009 6:05:09 PM PDT
by
tessalu
(Obama should not ever fool us again.)
To: Indy Pendance
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posted on
10/09/2009 6:05:30 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(A mob of one.)
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