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I just don't have the words for this one, other than, yea, he won all right, Nobel PIECE Prize. He's a PIECE of work. This man has got to be one of the most arrogant men I have ever seen. To think that after not even a full year of playing Senator that he was capable of running a country and a military, he has got to be a real PIECE of work. To think that after only twelve days in office he deserved the recognition of what the Nobel Peace Prize is supposed to recognize, he has got to...

President Barack Obama should follow the example set by North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho in 1973 and refuse the Nobel Peace Prize. Many are criticizing the decision to award Obama the Peace Prize. This isn't the first controversial decision by the Nobel committee. It is inconceivable that the Commander in Chief of a nation whose troops are actively engaged in armed combat should be awarded a peace prize. I happen to support the U.S. role in both conflicts, but recognize that involvement in war is inconsistent with receiving the Nobel Prize. If Obama has made an "extraordinary effort" for...

Dr. Laura Schlessinger contends that President Obama should reject the Nobel Peace Prize — and what the prize has come to mean. The popular talk show host opened her program Friday by telling her 9 million listeners that she believes the Nobel committee has become an anti-American organization that has sought to use its awards to influence world opinion and American policy to its own ends. She noted that in 1994, one of the three recipients to whom it awarded the Peace Prize was Yasser Arafat, for his “efforts to promote peace in the Middle East"

But that was then, and this is now. As the historian Robert Dallek told Obama recently, "War kills off great reform movements." As the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne reminded the president, his supporters voted for him not to win a war but to win a victory on health care and other domestic issues. Obama's priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?

Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today before he had his breakfast. The only problem is that he's done nothing to win it, unless of course you buy the idea that flowery rhetoric and great intentions are deserving of such an honor. The only person who has contributed less content to deserve this award in the world is Al Gore. Between Al's contentless and largely fictional "An Inconvenient Truth" and Barack's "Audacity of Hope" media campaign, the two of them together might have enough contributions to win the wrapping paper and box it will be shipped in. The...

And the Winner Is…In a somewhat startling announcement, the Downtown Athletic Club awarded the prestigious Heisman Memorial Trophy to President Barack Obama. Usually the Heisman is given to college football’s best player and Obama is the first non-athlete to ever win the award. At a ceremony this morning Club president Reginald Smithton said President Obama received this award for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen and support college football” and specifically cited Obama’s suggestion that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) hold a college football “playoff” to determine a national champion for its top teams, commonly referred to as Division 1-A.

Stevie Wonder sings We are amazed but not amused By all the things you say that you'll do Though much concerned but not involved With decisions that are made by you But we are sick and tired of hearing your song Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong 'Cause if you really want to hear our views "You haven't done nothing"! It's not too cool to be ridiculed But you brought this upon yourself The world is tired of pacifiers We want the truth and nothing else And we are sick and tired of hearing your song Telling...

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October 9, 2009 Comment: Absurd Decision On Obama Makes A Mockery Of The Nobel Peace Prize Michael Binyon The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself. Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to...

President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

In it’s announcement the committee also said "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future…. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population." In its effusive praise of the President the committee continued with these words "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people...

Twitter has been criticized as a time-waster -- a way for people to inform their friends about the minutiae of their lives, 140 characters at a time. But in the past month, 140 characters were enough to shine a light on Iranian oppression and elevate Twitter to the level of change agent. Even the government of Iran has been forced to utilize the very tool they attempted to squelch to try to hold on to power.

Washington - The video gave substance to what seemed so far away. We saw the look in her eyes as they went lifeless. We heard the sounds of her friends and family as they begged her to hold on. And she became the personification of the struggle for democracy in a country where voices for freedom are quelled. Her name was Neda Agha-Soltan, and without Twitter we might never have known that she lived in Iran, that she dreamed of a free Iran, and that she died in a divided Iran for her dreams. Neda became the voice of a...

The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in Oslo on Friday, often generates a certain amount of controversy. This year's award to peacebroker Martti Ahtisaari seems to take the prize back to its roots. Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, whose will both funded and set up the terms of the Nobel prizes, decreed that the Peace Prize should go to whoever "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the holding and promotion of peace congresses." In recent years, though, the prize has gone to environmental champions, human rights...

Iranian "Mothers For Peace" Protest To Ahmadinejad Tehran, 8 Dec. (IPS) In a move to demonstrate their, and the nation’s preoccupation from the antagonistic attitude of the Iranian Government with the international community, more than 600 Iranian women told the clerical-led authorities that they would not support the regime’s nuclear ambitions if war is the price to pay for it. United in a new organization named “Mothers For Peace”, the signatories of a petition warned the fanatic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he should stop at once all nuclear activities if it is to cost Iran a war: “We all know...

THERE is a beautiful congruency about Al Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 24 hours after a High Court judge had declared it illegal to screen his 'man-made' climate change propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth in schools, unless accompanied by contradictory information to correct its scientific falsehoods. The judge identified nine scientific errors that would mislead pupils. It takes more than nine inconvenient untruths, however, to deflect the Nobel Peace Prize committee from its political purpose. For aficionados of irony, last week was a deeply satisfying experience. To see the humbugs of the Nobel committee embracing the charlatan Gore to...

Speaker Pelosi meets with Vice President Gore on global warming Reactions to Gore's Nobel win As progressives all over the United States and the world celebrate the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the IPCC, leaders and media outlets everywhere are reacting to the news. First, an excerpt from a terrific Reuters analysis (/sarc): The Nobel Peace Prize he won on Friday was a blow to U.S. President George W. Bush and his widely criticized environmental policy and will long be savored by the man who lost the bitter 2000 presidential election by a whisker. The...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, who opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, was named Monday as the winner of the 2007 Sydney Peace Prize. Blix led the hunt for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and argued against the 2003 invasion -- which was joined by Australia -- saying the United Nations should be allowed to continue inspections instead. The citation for the 50,000 Australian dollar (41,000 US) award noted his "principled and courageous opposition to proponents of war in Iraq," his life-long advocacy of non-violence and his leadership of disarmament programs. Blix, a Swede,...

The media can and will ignore one point of view in favor of another (while downplaying the less favorable), because they can. Because they disagree. I’m here to tell you, though, that Al Gore’s contributions to society and world peace or no less important than Limbaugh’s. That’s not to say Rush should win, more than Al Gore shouldn’t. But I’m not on the committee, and (God willing) never will be. So, like Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter, Al Gore may well win the Nobel Prize. And Limbaugh, like Gandhi and Pope John XXIII, will not.

Excerpt - The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below".