In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses." AP|||Its quite funny if you ask me. I think this is the International community dissing Obama and his speeches. Think about it. They even said that they gave it too him for his speeches not for anything he actually did. Read between the lines. The rest of the world is laughing at us.|||Never before, has a prize meaning so much, been given to a man who did so little, for reasons that mean nothing.
I believe he won the peace prize because he neutered the United states by appeasing the enemies who are attacking us. Endangering Israel as it has never been endangered before. All the talking heads are saying America has a new tone in peace negotiations. New tone? Maybe they mean the whining pleas of a coward?
Awarding him his economics prize won't be done just yet. They are waiting for the collapse of capitalism in America first. I believe once that is accomplished the prize in economics is his.
Obama care hasn't been passed yet either. Making America a third world medical provider is a major goal as well. That prize could well belong to Obama.
The Obama theme song from now on: Courtesy of the Beatles.
He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man please listen,
You don't know what you're missing,
Nowhere Man,the world is at your command
He's as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Nowhere Man, don't worry,
Take your time, don't hurry,
Leave it all till somebody else
lends you a hand!
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man please listen,
you don't know what you're missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!
He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody!|||The idea of Alfred Nobel was to award achievement with money in hope that the money will support further effort. This is also why only living person can get the award.
Mother Teresa could use some $1 million for her cause. And a large sum of money freed Enstein from his job as patent office clerk.
Obama already has in his disposal trillions to promote peace and prosperity, if he desires, what for does he need extra $1 million? I certain that some humanitarian building schools in Afghanistan could use the mone and use more wisely. Much more wisely.|||Obama Wins Yasser Arafat “Peace” Prize: World Amazed
Yes, that’s right, this year’s Nobel “Peace” Prize goes to Barack Obama. What’s the appropriate response: incredulity? Nah: the Nobel Peace Prize is a thoroughly discredited politically-correct coefficient of liberal transnational socialism. Barack Obama was tailor-made for this dubious honor, just as Yasser Arafat was. No, the appropriate response should be a compound of contempt and irritation, contempt for the bloviating Norwegians who once again have distinguished themselves by their sanctimonious fatuousness (”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 . . . .”), irritation at the fact that this pseudo distinction will, in the eyes of the credulous, tend to legitimate the actions of the most anti-American and incompetent President in history.
The Times (no, not The New York Times, which is purring with pleasure at the news, but the London Times) is correct:
%26lt;%26lt;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 re-engage with the world.
Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.%26gt;%26gt;
Bottom line: this action is less the awarding of a prize than a kick in the teeth aimed at traditional American power and prestige.
As usual, Andy McCarthy cuts to the chase:
%26lt;%26lt;I’m not all for Americans winning international prizes, especially the Nobel Peace Prize. In fact, I’m vigorously against it. The transnational progressives who pass out these accolades believe America is the problem in the world, the main threat to peace, the impediment to “progress,” etc. The award is a symbolic statement of opposition to American exceptionalism, American might, American capitalism, American self-determinism, and American pursuit of America’s interests in the world.%26gt;%26gt;
Exactly. If you are pro-American, you must be anti-the Nobel Peace. I am pro-American, ergo, etc. And Andy is to be commended, too, for his suggestion that we rebaptize this discreditable faux-honor with a more suitable name:
%26lt;%26lt;After a number of years, the NFL renamed its Super Bowl trophy after its most fitting recipient — it’s now called the Vince Lombardi Trophy. I’d like to see the Nobel Foundation follow suit. If today’s headlines said, “Barack Obama Wins Yasser Arafat Prize,” that would be perfect.%26gt;%26gt;
[UPDATE: a friend reminds me that this year's Nobel Peace Laureate, B. Obama, has just refused to meet last year's Nobel Peace Laureate, the Dalai Lama: what do you make of that?]|||You can't get the answer for fifty years. "The statutes of the Nobel Foundation restrict disclosure of information about the nominations, whether publicly or privately, for 50 years. The restriction concerns the nominees and nominators, as well as investigations and opinions related to the award of a prize."
The Nobel Committee isn't big on transparency.|||He's debating whether to send more death to Afghanistan, and he gets the "peace" prize.
What a joke.
Tex A's answer is typical of the blinders many Obama supporters wear. If he is truly committed to ending, as you call it, "republican warmongering", why has he not withdrawn our troops from the nations previously warmongered?
It is absolutely within his power, each and every morning, to call the troops home.|||Many names were nominated by February, but the decision for who gets the prize was just made, and it was made on the current situation. He deserves it even if it's based on February. This shows why...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/…
I understand it's hard to hear anything positive about Obama with all the screaming from the right, meant to distract you from the good things Obama does. Our media totally sucks.
"A 25-nation poll of 27,000 people released in July by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found double-digit boosts to the percentage of people viewing the U.S. favorably in countries around the world. That indicator had plunged across the world under President George W. Bush."
Obama has taken a much more multilateral approach than Bush did in the last eight years, and the world applauds it. Peace talks and negotiations with North Korea, Iran, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia. Outreach to the Muslim world. Drawing down in Iraq. Bringing Russia to the table over Iran (and against China) was HUGE. Nuclear disarmament talks. Strengthening the US role in combatting climate change.
Thousands of nominations were made right after Obama took office and his name was thrown into the hat, yes. But the talks and the decision about who was to win the prize *just took place*.
Obama is giving the money to charity, btw.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09…|||It certainly surprised him and his administration. Perhaps backing away from the Wolfowitz Strategy of "carry a big stick, hit first, then talk." counts as working for fraternity between the nations.
Lighten up. These are the sama guys that gave Adolph Hitler the nobel peace prize. Take it for the joke that it is.|||Even though the nomination deadline is February, that doesn't mean the award is based on what was done by the deadline. The committee determined that he has done more to further the goal of peace this year than any other nominee.
To piegowdealer: Are you confusing the Nobel Peace Prize with Time's Man of the Year?|||AP: "Obama's election and foreign policy moves caused a dramatic improvement in the image of the U.S. around the world. A 25-nation poll of 27,000 people released in July by the Pew Global Attitudes Project found double-digit boosts to the percentage of people viewing the U.S. favorably in countries around the world. That indicator had plunged across the world under President George W. Bush."|||It is not what he did, but what he didn't do that got him the award. Obviously not acting in the best interest of the country and apologizing to the world got him an award that has lost it's meaning.|||I guess they're looking at his entire life instead of just his presidency - you know - working for Acorn, Community Organizing, being 'present' in Congress, and most of all.....living with Michelle without beating the crap out of her.|||You should ask the Nobel committee. It is their prize to give as they please. They really don't care that you don't like their selection.|||People were dancing on the streets all over the world when he won....if that doesn't count as working for fraternity between nations, then nothing will.|||Dear numnuts,
please look at when he was nominated, not just when he won.
Thanks,
reason and intelligence|||He defeated the US Republican Party last November. The world appreciates it.|||He rid the world of Republican warmongering.|||Good question. He hasn't done anything.|||Why don't you ask the Nobel Peace Prize Committee? They gave him the award, we didnt.|||This whole thing is a joke. He did nothing to earn it and everyone knows it.|||If Osama was honest he would turn it down, but good luck on that one.|||Easy answer. It doesn't. The whole thing is ridiculous|||All this was was a snub to Bush,Obama doesn't deserve it,just like Gore doesn't.|||its sad living with heads in sand|||The nomination was in February. That's not when they voted.
By ending the boondoggle missile defense shield project in Eastern Europe, appearing at the G20 conference and before the UN, winding down the War in Iraq, beginning the closing of Gitmo, actually treating detainees as humans, and beginning to have actual trials for accused terror suspects Obama has done more to contribute to world peace than has been done by an American leader for over eight years.
In the words of the Nobel Commitee:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
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.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Oslo, October 9, 2009
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