Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama for Diplomacy!

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Vote of confidence?

For what? "Change"? For a President that has done nothing yet except read a teleprompter? The award is for accomplishments not what-might-be-accomplished. How about giving the award to the people working on an HIV vaccine or cure? Now there's a vote of confidence!

Yeah, that global prestige and vote of confidence sure helped us get the summer Olympics. That worked really well for us, didn't it?

Let's see what Mr. Compassion does with $1.4M in his pocket.
 
I am a steadfast supporter of Barack Obama, and even I was surprised by the Nobel award. Over time, I believe he will prove himself worthy of it.

Peter, you can kvetch about Obama all you want, but I'll be able to trump you for the next fifty years with this: George W. Bush.
 
History has a tendency to change perceptions.

Folks are saying GWB was the worst president ever. Hardly! Great, no, but there have been A LOT worse.

<shrug> it'll be interesting to see what is said in 20 years. I remember folks dissing Reagan for years -- but even more-than-left-of-center NPR now credits his policies with destroying the USSR and ending the cold war.

Nothing stays the same, not even people's perceptions.
 
Oh, Hunter.....twenty years from now, history's view of GWB will make today's view of him seem rosy.

More to the point, twenty years from now, we'll realize to what extent Bush was a front for the machinations of Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld. There is a lot to be revealed on that front.

I did not vote for Reagan, but he was certainly less destructive than GWB.
 
> I remember folks dissing Reagan for years -- but even more-than-left-of-center NPR now credits his policies with destroying the USSR and ending the cold war. <

Thanks for the giggle. If you haven't already, read a book called "Memoirs" by Mikhail Gorbachev. The collapse of the USSR had everything to do with Boris Yeltsin and Pope John Paul II, and nothing to do with Ronald Reagan. All Reagan did was grandstand at the proper time, but it made for a wonderful photo-op.
 
I hope Obama wins again ....

I think oversea's countries appreciate the style and grace, and less lecturing to them. It took many long years to get where we in the USA are today. I plan to continue to be supportive of President Obama, he has had approx 9 months to work on his agenda and policy, lets not forget that he won the election in Nov. and the problems were much bigger and more complex on Inauguration day. I would like to see President Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize, again. alr2903
 
Well, This Is A Fine Kettle of Fish

It has been apparent for the past several years the rather "Left" leanings of the Nobel Prize committe, and this cements everything.

In order for Mr. Obama to have won this award he would have had to been nominated about eleven days after being elected. So just what exactly had he done to promote "world peace" before then?

This is nothing more than an award to tick off the former administration, conservatives, and reward Mr. Obama for being the first black president of a country many in Europe and elsewhere consider backwards when it comes to race relations.

One only had to observe the crowds in some European countries as Mr. Obama made his Peron style Victory Tour the summer before he was elected. The more liberal European countries in general embrace anything or one that in their eyes will bring the USA more into line with their own polices.
 
> This is nothing more than an award to tick off the former administration, conservatives <

Well if that's true, which it clearly isn't, it did its job perfectly.

Most people who look at a complete list of Nobel recipients can find at least one person they object to. In 1973 Tom Lehrer stopped performing, because he said Henry Kissinger's Peace Prize rendered political satire obsolete. LOL
 
Well Then

Tell me what exactly did Mr. Obama do by eleven days after winning the election that was so great in the matter of "diplomacy"? The man probably didn't even know where the loo was in the Oval Office by eleven days of his election (and remember we are speaking of his election date, which occurs in November, not taking office in January), much less launch any great diplomatic missions.

Whole thing is quite clever and very neatly done.

L.
 
Do they have a public ceremony or anything when the recipient receives the Nobel Peace Prize? If so, I hope Obama can fit it into his very busy schedule. Maybe somewhere between Letterman and ? I didn't realize the Nobel Peace Prize became a popularity contest. Talk about politics!!!!!!
 
It must have been all the speeches he read off the teleprompter. Just thinking, maybe the teleprompter-in-cheif should've got the peace prize!
 
I really enjoy watching the conservatives here seethe about Obama. I apologize that he hasn't solved the quagmire of crises he inherited--including an economy in collapse--during his 9 months in office. This isn't a typical recession; it's going to take time to stabilize the economy and get people back to work---especially since we are now more focused on paying off personal debt and putting funds into savings than making purchases and hiring services.

I'm confident he will prove himself a very effective president, both in domestic and global matters. We gave Bush and company eight years to wreak their havoc; it's only fair we give Obama the same amount of time to show what he can accomplish.
 
> Tell me what exactly did Mr. Obama do by eleven days after winning the election that was so great in the matter of "diplomacy"? <

Nobel prizes are frequently awarded, not for past accomplishments but simply to encourage particular courses of action, and accomplishments:

"We want to emphasise that he has already brought significant changes," Geir Lundestad, the secretary of the Nobel Committee, told AFP, citing progress in multilateralism, disarmament and the fight against climate change as examples of Obama's achievements.

"We do of course hope that there will be many concrete changes over the years but ... We felt it was right to strengthen him as much as we can in his further struggle for his ideals," added the influential secretary.

"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."

 
Hunter,

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Be sure to let us know how your first cake turns out!

Were you able to access that database on induction fields?
 
I find it funny.....

That people are only looking at Obama's Presidency. The PP is NOT just based on that. It is looking at his TOTAL public career. Yes, very humble beginnings, but non the less, He has always strived to bring people together to work for the common good. I do support Obama. Yes, there are things he has done that I don't agree with, but that does not make him the "Big Bad Wolf". Nobody agrees with everyone 100% of the time. But just because you don't agree with friends, relative, co-workers,etc doesn't me you have to throw them under the bus. It's a very sad day with we as American's cheer for failures, and protest against accomplishments.
 
The prize for advancing peace. Just by being elected the president of the United States, a man gave the world hope for a better and brighter future. Isn't it the least bit flattering that the world can still look to this country, look to us as citizens of humanity and see good? Even after all we have done to counter that in the last decade, we are still seen as one of the best possibilities for true leadership to a better life for all. It was obvious very early on in the campaign that the opposing candidates were not capable of inspiring the level of hope and vision of a better world that Obama had and it was also plainly obvious that it wasn't just the man, he was merely the inspiration that things can change, that the world could be a better place. We could look at him not as a savior to deliver us from darkness, but as an example of what we should all strive to be to our planet and our fellow human beings.

The reasons the committee had for choosing as they did have been plainly stated for anyone literate and they have indeed set the bar pretty high for our president which is really to say all of us. Only a tiny minority of the citizens of this planet believe that the Bush terms in office were anything but the true embodiment of hell on earth and the legacy, sadly, goes on still today. Mothers and fathers around the globe are still falling to the floor, crying in agony because their children are dead, killed in Bush's Iraq. THAT is his legacy and history will judge him for it just as it has for all other mass murderers in our world. The truth is out there, anyone can find it, more and more are every day.

Stupidity can be very aggressive and it's easy to believe that the loudest voices must be the truth. Few are paying any attention to them anymore and they are unable see that they have become little more than a source of amusement for the rest of the world. No longer even playing the part of Court Jester, they have proven themselves to be petulant children that have nothing to offer except a return to the darkness they helped create in the previous twelve years. Screaming "NO, NO, NO" and stomping their feet in tantrums, they fail to realize that the world is moving forward without them.

What part should we all play in creating a more peaceful world? What will inspire all of us, even those now screaming "Get to the back of the bus where you belong!" to do more to help our fellow human beings? The "better angels of our nature" will hopefully prevail.
 
Panthera...

I did! And with the help of Yahoo Translate (formerly bablefish)I even could read it :)

Thanks for the info.
 
My pleasure,

At this point, I really wonder why induction stoves aren't being subsidized by the public utilities and Whirlpool/GE not encouraged to build them in the US.
The energy savings are enormous, one of the few 'new' technologies we could ramp up quickly.

Instead, we have almost none in the US and what we do have are expensive and not all that good.

Weird.
 

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