Congratulation, President Obama!!!

Kakato

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Then don't. Just answer the question
Well if you didnt bother to read when I first did I sure aint going to go look for it again and re post it,dont be lazy.
If you cant bother to read the responses then dont post.
Juan posted some of his accomplishments first page,did you gloss over that too?
 

Dexter Sinister

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I've been a little suspicious of the Peace Prize committee ever since it awarded the prize to Henry Kissinger (Le Duc Tho had the grace and sense to refuse the joint offer, to his great credit in my view) and Yassir Arafat. Two of the nastier men with power in the 20th century, in my not very humble opinion.
 

Cannuck

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I don’t understand why conservatives would be so upset by the president’s award;

What does being conservative have to do with it? I would have voted for Obama if I were American and would probably vote for him again in 2012. That has nothing to do with whether or not he deserves the Nobel Prize. The only people I see bringing politics into this are those that support his award nomination. That's not surprising as they can't really argue the pro side of this issue with reason. It's far easier to label everybody as partisan.
 

SirJosephPorter

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Massive sh*t fits by the right wing all over the USA when the news was disclosed.

HAHAHA!!!!

Gopher, to be fair, some Republicans are showing some common sense, some common decency.

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Blogs from CNN.com

Mike Huckabee is advising his fellow Republicans to temper their criticism of President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize award.
In a posting on his blog, the former GOP presidential candidate writes that members of his party must be careful their comments don't sound like "right-wing whining."
He is quite right of course. What the conservatives are saying does come across as whining.
 

SirJosephPorter

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I don’t understand why conservatives would be so upset by the president’s award; considering the fact that His Excellency openly considered that the award belonged to every United States citizen, the vitriol being directed toward the president is a cause for concern. Shouldn’t there be at least some sense of pride at the fact that an annual award, one where people are considered across the globe for the honour, was bestowed to an American. Where is the national pride and patriotism? Is pride, patriotism and the recognition of excellence only permissable during a Republican Party of the United States presidency?


Exactly what I have been saying, FP. These days for the Republicans, party comes first, the country comes second (ironically, they have been accusing Democrats for decades of being unpatriotic).

Whatever their political disagreements with Obama, one would think that they would be happy for him, and even happier for their country, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But since the prize was won by a Democrat, none of that matters, hatred of Obama comes before their love for their country.

The same type of mentality was evident in Chicago decision. Rather than Chicago get the Olympics, Republicans were actually ecstatic because USA didn’t get it (because Obama supported Chicago getting the Olympics). That is why there were champagne celebrations at the Republican headquarters, on the talk radio, right wing blogs because USA didn’t get the Olympics.

It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the Republicans hope that USA loses in Afghanistan, that Taliban and Al Qaeda takes over Afghanistan, just so Obama could get it in the neck.
 

Stretch

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just the corrupt rewarding the corrupt......I feel sorry for the genuine previous winners, they must feel belittled............
 

TenPenny

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Cmon peeps,im sure you can come up with something better then what you have so far for justifying someone who wants a nuke free world to not be recognized for his push for dialouge and peace instead of bombs.


Normally, the Nobel prizes are given to people who have accomplished something, not people who want to accomplish something.

That's the difference.
 

earth_as_one

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Nobel prizes should be for what you've done (past tense), not what you intend to do.

I intend to write a great book one day. Nobel prize for literature please...
 

Cliffy

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I haven't seen any reason, so far, for Obama to get this prize, but I see even less reason for all this gnashing of teeth over it.
 

Colpy

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I haven't seen any reason, so far, for Obama to get this prize, but I see even less reason for all this gnashing of teeth over it.

Which is exactly why I kinda ducked out of this conversation awhile ago.....it is, after all, their money to give.....they can hand it off to Donal Duck for all I care........

it is a "shrug" subject....who cares?

And Obama handled it as well as anyone could expect. He knows it is undeserved, and that is a huge credit to him.......
 

Niflmir

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BELIEVE ME. The 9/11 folks are all for this award for the most part.

I digress.

There is no conspiracy and by announcing Obama the winner of the Nobel it has pretty much made the Nobel a non-issue.

So having Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize wasn't enough to convince you of this fact? You needed Obama to actually win the award to be convinced?

The peace prize is all politics, pure and simple. Because the prize for sciences has a certain amount of deserved (although politics come in here as well) prestige, they are able to give these prizes out for peace and use that prestige to have influence they otherwise would not have.

You shouldn't need much evidence to believe that basic truth. The fact that you use Obama's award as the straw that broke the strawman's back is just laughable. It is funny to make such a fuss and cry "Politics!" about something which is blatantly obvious already.
 

Kakato

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More hating? You sure are full of it, huh?

Many times?

Did I mention I don't care what you hate?

Like I said, sure pinning a lot on the hopes that he'll do something.

Good luck with your new job, there Mr. Prez ...... living up to the award.
I'm not sure what your point is here,you asked a question and I repeated the same answer you got the first time you asked it.
You can keep asking but if you cant comprehend the answer then dont waste my time.
I put one peep on ignore allready and if you find I'm not repeatedly answering your one question again then rest assured I will have 2 on the list.;-)

Carry on
 

lone wolf

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I'm not sure what your point is here,you asked a question and I repeated the same answer you got the first time you asked it.
You can keep asking but if you cant comprehend the answer then dont waste my time.
I put one peep on ignore allready and if you find I'm not repeatedly answering your one question again then rest assured I will have 2 on the list.;-)

Carry on

You've spent more time sliding around giving an answer. The job of pompous moron is already taken