Congratulation, President Obama!!!

[AnnaG]

Sure they do. George Bush. Or even better, Joan of Arc.

Grow up.

 

[Risus]

Here are a few hints to the ignorant and unwashed:

President Obama’s First 100 Days Show Environmental Progress and Promise

Obama Achieves Key Environmental Milestones in His First 100 Days as President

By Larry West, About.com

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On April 29, 2009, President Barack Obama reached the end of his first 100 days in office, the arbitrary yardstick that Americans have been using to evaluate the performance and potential of chief executives since Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932. On Inauguration Day [January 20, 2009], I set out a dream environmental agenda for President Barack Obama’s first 100 days. In my five-point list, I called on Obama to:

1. build a green economy
2. get serious about climate change
3. create a new clean energy policy
4. mitigate the Bush legacy; and
5. respect his scientists.

In his first 100 days, President Obama has done a remarkable job of addressing all of the issues on my agenda, and then some. Here is a list of the Obama administration’s key environmental accomplishments during the president’s first 100 days in office:

• Worked with Congress to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a $787 billion economic stimulus package that includes nearly $100 billion in green spending to help get the economy back on track and to create millions of clean-energy jobs.
• Outlined a "clean energy" vision for America.
• Appointed an outstanding “green team” of top advisors, federal officials and cabinet secretaries.
• Sent Congress a proposed budget that makes clean energy and the environment top priorities and includes funding for energy and environmental programs throughout the federal government.
• Declared carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare, setting the stage for regulating greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming if Congress fails to pass legislation to address the issue.
• Protected more than 2 million acres of wilderness land and several rivers with the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009..
• Re-established the United States as a leader in international climate negotiations.
• Restored critical protections under the Endangered Species Act, which had been removed by a last-minute rule change in the final days of the Bush administration.
• Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its decision to deny California a waiver under the Clean Air Act, which would have enabled California and 17 other states to impose stricter-than-federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.
• Reversed the Bush rule that opened the door to mountaintop removal coal mining and canceled several individual mountaintop mining permits.
• Put offshore drilling and oil shale exploration on hold and restored protections for public lands.
• Announced a new initiative to lease U.S. coastal waters for the purpose of generating electricity from wind and ocean currents.
• Repeatedly reaffirmed science and the rule of law as the standards by which federal environmental decisions shall be made.

"It is difficult to overstate the tremendous progress President Obama has made in just 100 days,” said Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope in a statement. “He has moved swifter and smarter than any president in recent memory. While naysayers warned of doing too much too quickly, President Obama maintained his resolve and his boldness is backed by overwhelming majorities of the American public. "President Obama has done more to lay the foundation for the clean energy future in three months than has been done in the previous three decades,” Pope continued. “His economic recovery plan, the budget, and a sweeping set of executive branch actions amount to a huge down payment on a cleaner, more prosperous future.”

You need to get your head out of your butt. The prize is for 'PEACE'. I don't see anything in your list related to peace. Especially where he is actually planning to escalate the war in Afganistan...

 

[Risus]

The question is, who else should the award have gone to?

There is nothing to say the award has to be awarded.

 

[Risus]

According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."


Pulled off the net. So how does Obama qualify again?

Wow! EagleSmack and I actually agree on something!!! 8O

 

[Colpy]

Anna you will have to assume the title of ignorance yourself. I sure as hell won't attach it to you. Obama has measurably added to the good will the U.S. currently enjoys. Obama has been very well received in every country he has visited including Canada. Obama has done a lot more than just not being Bush.

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I thought you didn't like deficit spending....which is about all Obama has done.

Look, I have absolutely nothing against the guy.....he has done many things that I actually like.....including a push to reform health care, and stepping away from some of the abuses of the US Constitution instituted during the Bush administration.......

But the Nobel Peace Prize?

I thought the Peace Prize was supposed to mean something besides jumping on the Cult of Personality bandwagon.

Well, I guess if they gave it to Yassir Arafat, they'll give it to anybody

 

[Cannuck]

Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and a major armaments manufacturer, specified that the Peace Prize be given "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

...and how did he do that in his first 11 days as President. Please be specific.

 

[EagleSmack]

Wow! EagleSmack and I actually agree on something!!! 8O

Well the bottom line is that you hate all that is American and when the world hated America you were in your glory.

In Obama you saw a threat to the joy you experienced (during the Bush years) being squashed. And indeed it was a threat. The world wasn't singing your tune. Everyone HATED Bush and you relished in that. But when Obama came around you saw a change in the wind.

So you want the world to hate Obama in with that they will continue to hate and bash the USA.

Am I close?

 

[AnnaG]

Well, I guess if they gave it to Yassir Arafat, they'll give it to anybody

lol Thanks, Colpy! There's another one for me.

So far:

I'm not Bush
I promise the world will be more peacable
I'm not Taliban
and I have brown skin and wear a white and black thing on my head sometimes (baseball cap)

 

[SirJosephPorter]

I rest my case on why you are not worthy.

You mean I am not worthy of the Nobel Prize? I will agree with you on that.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

There is nothing to say the award has to be awarded.

I don’t know about that, it may well be that they have to award it every year. At least I don’t know of any year when it was not awarded.

 

[Kakato]

...and how did he do that in his first 11 days as President. Please be specific.

Go back about 3 pages,this isnt about the president getting the prize,but him as an individual so the 11 day thing is moot if your not going to go back farther then that.

Former prize winners also nominate the winners.
I'm going for turkey now and I imagine there will be 50 posts when I get back.:lol:

This reminds me of how all the peeps in the states applauded when Chicago didnt get the olympics.
Pretty sad what the USA has denigrated into,hopefully Obama can pull them out of it.

Just pure hate,

 

[Cannuck]

Can someone please nominate me today? I've got a year to do something before these Prizes are doled out again next.

I'll nominate you if you nominate me.

 

[AnnaG]

Seems to me there's people all over the world that expressed surprise and scorn about Obama getting the prize. I guess all those people around the world hate Obama. lol
I guess that surprise and scorn translates to hate, at least in those weak of mind.

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

Gideon Rachman, a foreign affairs columnist for The Financial Times, wrote an online blog under the headline "What did Obama do to win the Nobel Peace Prize?"
"I am a genuine admirer of Obama. And I am very pleased that George W. Bush is no longer president. But I doubt that I am alone in wondering whether this award is slightly premature. It is hard to point to a single place where Obama's efforts have actually brought about peace -- Gaza, Iran, Sri Lanka?

Hamas official Ahmed Yousef also congratulated Obama, "though it is early for him to be awarded this prize.

The winner of 1983's 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.


Kofi Annan, the former U.N. secretary general who won the peace prize in 2001, called the choice "unexpected but inspired."

- http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/obama.nobel.international.reaction/

Yep. Hateful. lmao

 

[Kakato]

lol Thanks, Colpy! There's another one for me.

So far:

I'm not Bush
I promise the world will be more peacable
I'm not Taliban
and I have brown skin and wear a white and black thing on my head sometimes (baseball cap)

The reason Yassar got it is 2 links back,right from the peeps that gave it to him.
You should really read up on what the prize is about,your hatred is blinding you from facts.:roll:

 

[Cannuck]

Starting to make some peeps look rather foolish.;-)

The only "peeps" looking foolish are the ones defending this award. Five plus pages of this drivel and nobody has been able to post any substantive reason for giving the Prez this award. Yes, he's better than Bush and he seems to give lots of people the warm and fuzzies...so does Santa.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Well the bottom line is that you hate all that is American and when the world hated America you were in your glory.

In Obama you saw a threat to the joy you experienced (during the Bush years) being squashed. And indeed it was a threat. The world wasn't singing your tune. Everyone HATED Bush and you relished in that. But when Obama came around you saw a change in the wind.

So you want the world to hate Obama in with that they will continue to hate and bash the USA.

Am I close?

I kind'a liked George Bush Jr.

Look at all the material he gave Will Farrell.
That should be worthy of a Nobel Prize itself.

YouTube - Will Ferrell, You're Welcome America, Mission Accomplished, George W. Bush

 

[Kakato]

It's not our desicion so who really cares except for some that dont even know what the prize is about.
They seem to be trying to get some mileage out of this and its really a non story that we will now be bombarded with on tv for a week untill the foilers launch their new conspiracy and then it will be worse then the 9/11 CT's as far as spamming the web go's.

 

[EagleSmack]

You mean I am not worthy of the Nobel Prize? I will agree with you on that.

Even your humor falls far short.

Shouldn't you be making dinner?

 

[Cannuck]

Well if your agreeing with someone who you say is a Lib farce then what does that make you?

FAIL!;-)

Looks like we have Joey II

 

[EagleSmack]

It's not our desicion so who really cares except for some that dont even know what the prize is about.
They seem to be trying to get some mileage out of this and its really a non story that we will now be bombarded with on tv for a week untill the foilers launch their new conspiracy and then it will be worse then the 9/11 CT's as far as spamming the web go's.

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.