Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize 2009
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jasonk282
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It's already in the media that he is going to accept the award in December
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
"heads exploding" within the context of a Nobel thread....:bowdown:
LOL....
"Dynamite" post dude!! :1orglaugh :rofl:
ratbastid
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What statement did he make at the UN? He made a speech at the University of Cairo about among other things mid east peace.
Like I said MLK was award it for his ideals....otherwise why hasn't every other leader of the SCLC been awarded a NPP???
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) was awarded the NPP. What did he accomplish beyond the ideals he stood for???
Again, you are far more likely to be awarded a NPP for ideals than accomplishments as peace is generally a multi-party concept....and as with the case of the Dalai Lama or MLK...you can do as much as you can and still not "accomplish" anything if the other parties remain intransigent.:2 cents:
This doesn't surprise me in the least. The Nobel Prize Committee lost all credibility when they gave Al Gore the Nobel PEACE Prize for doing nothing but going around the world, making millions of dollars, and giving people his distorted views about the weather. If Gore gets it, of course they are going to give one to Barrack Hussein Obama.
The Nobel Peace Prize is officially a joke.
The Nobel Peace Prize is officially a joke.
Nobel Prizes are awarded by the Swedish Nobel Organization except the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee comprised of 4 or 5 members.
Are the Swede different than the Norwegian ??? It is a political award just like the Physics, Chemistry, Medicine awards etc.
Why nobody complained about those awards ? Actually many many scientists have complained in the last 3-5 years Nobel prizes have gone to scientists who made things that are useless. And was not picked up by the press or here.
The Physics Nobel Award gave to the guy who first proposed the theory that iron was the impurity in the fiber optic tube that caused the loss of energy instead of awarding the Nobel Prize to the real Bell Labs scientists who actually built the fiber optics tube
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has stated their reasons and I believe it is "fair and square" Obama "hope" do something good in next 3 years !
Are the Swede different than the Norwegian ??? It is a political award just like the Physics, Chemistry, Medicine awards etc.
Why nobody complained about those awards ? Actually many many scientists have complained in the last 3-5 years Nobel prizes have gone to scientists who made things that are useless. And was not picked up by the press or here.
The Physics Nobel Award gave to the guy who first proposed the theory that iron was the impurity in the fiber optic tube that caused the loss of energy instead of awarding the Nobel Prize to the real Bell Labs scientists who actually built the fiber optics tube
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has stated their reasons and I believe it is "fair and square" Obama "hope" do something good in next 3 years !
jasonk282
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Reagan and Gorbachev both had a great hand in ending the Cold War yet neither was award the NPP? But Obama might do "something" abd he gets the award. It's a partisian award and now we are the laughting stock of the world.
Hell Bill Clinton did more to promote peace than Obama "ideas" will ever do.
Hell Bill Clinton did more to promote peace than Obama "ideas" will ever do.
The Soviet Union collapsed from within...Until they did...Reagan was escalating the Cold War....not trying to end it per se. Russia's collapse just happened on his watch.:2 cents:
meesterperfect
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Next they should give him a Daytime Emmy for Best Actor In A Drama Series , now for that I'll support him
I can't wait until he wins his overdue BET award!
jasonk282
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Thorbjørn Jagland (chair, born 1950), member of Parliament, President of the Storting and former cabinet minister for the Labour Party. Member and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2009.
Kaci Kullmann Five (deputy chair, born 1951), former member of Parliament and cabinet minister for the Conservative Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2003, deputy chair since 2009.
Sissel Rønbeck (born 1950), deputy director, Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren), former member of parliament and cabinet minister for the Labour Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1994.
Inger-Marie Ytterhorn (born 1941), former member of Parliament for the Progress Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2000.
Ågot Valle (born 1945), member of parliament for the Socialist Left Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2009.
Norwegian Labour Party---is a social democratic political party in Norway,
Conservative Party ---The party is committed to fiscal free market policies, including tax cuts and little government involvement in the economy BUT....social policies are quite liberal
Progress Party---The Progress Party identifies itself in the preamble of its platform as a libertarian party, built on Norwegian and Nordic traditions and cultural heritages, with a basis in a Protestant and humanist understanding of life. Its main declared goal is a strong reduction in taxes and government intervention.
Socialist Left Party---was founded in 1973 as an alliance of the Socialist People's Party, Communist Party of Norway, Democratic Socialists - AIK and independent Socialists
Yea it's not partisan towards the left at all. Like I said before the award is a joke
Kaci Kullmann Five (deputy chair, born 1951), former member of Parliament and cabinet minister for the Conservative Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2003, deputy chair since 2009.
Sissel Rønbeck (born 1950), deputy director, Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren), former member of parliament and cabinet minister for the Labour Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1994.
Inger-Marie Ytterhorn (born 1941), former member of Parliament for the Progress Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2000.
Ågot Valle (born 1945), member of parliament for the Socialist Left Party. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2009.
Norwegian Labour Party---is a social democratic political party in Norway,
Conservative Party ---The party is committed to fiscal free market policies, including tax cuts and little government involvement in the economy BUT....social policies are quite liberal
Progress Party---The Progress Party identifies itself in the preamble of its platform as a libertarian party, built on Norwegian and Nordic traditions and cultural heritages, with a basis in a Protestant and humanist understanding of life. Its main declared goal is a strong reduction in taxes and government intervention.
Socialist Left Party---was founded in 1973 as an alliance of the Socialist People's Party, Communist Party of Norway, Democratic Socialists - AIK and independent Socialists
Yea it's not partisan towards the left at all. Like I said before the award is a joke
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Is that a question or a statement? Gorbachev was awarded the prize in 1990. Then again, he is a socialist communist Marxist leftist red so it would figure he would win it I guess....:dunno:
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1990/1990k.html
om3ga
It's good to be the king...
Just got in, and my :2 cents::
I admit if I was American, I'd vote for Obama in the last election (yeah I voted for Tony Bliar in 1997 too - will he never learn?) - but my first reaction to today's news was "WTF?"
I haven't searched the net yet for the reason(s) behind Obama's award, but I do hope more information is forthcoming, otherwise it will be interpreted as nothing more than international politicking - worse, it could devalue the award itself.
I admit if I was American, I'd vote for Obama in the last election (yeah I voted for Tony Bliar in 1997 too - will he never learn?) - but my first reaction to today's news was "WTF?"
I haven't searched the net yet for the reason(s) behind Obama's award, but I do hope more information is forthcoming, otherwise it will be interpreted as nothing more than international politicking - worse, it could devalue the award itself.
jasonk282
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Question, thanks for answering.
He deserves the award if not for just not being GWB lol but for also this single action alone so far as president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07prexy.html
"U.S.-Russia Nuclear Agreement Is First Step in Broad Effort"
MOSCOW — President Obama signed an agreement on Monday to cut American and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals by at least one-quarter, a first step in a broader effort intended to reduce the threat of such weapons drastically and to prevent their further spread to unstable regions.
Mr. Obama, on his first visit to Russia since taking office, and President Dmitri A. Medvedev agreed on the basic terms of a treaty to reduce the number of warheads and missiles to the lowest levels since the early years of the cold war."
Mr. Obama hailed the arms agreement as an example for the world as he pursued a broader agenda aimed at countering — and eventually eliminating — the spread of nuclear weapons, a goal he hopes to make a defining legacy of his presidency.
While the United States and Russia together have 95 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, Mr. Obama also views Russia as an influential player in deterring nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.
“This is an urgent issue, and one in which the United States and Russia have to take leadership,” Mr. Obama said. “It is very difficult for us to exert that leadership unless we are showing ourselves willing to deal with our own nuclear stockpiles in a more rational way.”
All our talk of not wanting other countries to develope nukes is hollow as long as we have so many.Between us and the russians we have 95% of all nuclear weapons in the world.The world is not safe with any country possesing them and Obama is to be highly commended and deserves a "peace prize" for re-starting talks with the russians on radical reductions in arsenals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07prexy.html
"U.S.-Russia Nuclear Agreement Is First Step in Broad Effort"
MOSCOW — President Obama signed an agreement on Monday to cut American and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals by at least one-quarter, a first step in a broader effort intended to reduce the threat of such weapons drastically and to prevent their further spread to unstable regions.
Mr. Obama, on his first visit to Russia since taking office, and President Dmitri A. Medvedev agreed on the basic terms of a treaty to reduce the number of warheads and missiles to the lowest levels since the early years of the cold war."
Mr. Obama hailed the arms agreement as an example for the world as he pursued a broader agenda aimed at countering — and eventually eliminating — the spread of nuclear weapons, a goal he hopes to make a defining legacy of his presidency.
While the United States and Russia together have 95 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, Mr. Obama also views Russia as an influential player in deterring nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.
“This is an urgent issue, and one in which the United States and Russia have to take leadership,” Mr. Obama said. “It is very difficult for us to exert that leadership unless we are showing ourselves willing to deal with our own nuclear stockpiles in a more rational way.”
All our talk of not wanting other countries to develope nukes is hollow as long as we have so many.Between us and the russians we have 95% of all nuclear weapons in the world.The world is not safe with any country possesing them and Obama is to be highly commended and deserves a "peace prize" for re-starting talks with the russians on radical reductions in arsenals.
StanScratch
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Lotta burning hatred going on for a peace prize.
om3ga
It's good to be the king...
No hate here - if Obama deserves it, fine with me.
Let the Obama-haters stew, is my opinion. Reading some F.O. threads, I get the impression that some people won't be happy until the man, his family & cohorts are run out of DC...
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
God damn you, FOMM! Here we just got a good, irrational, emotional, biased, opinionated and subjective discussion going in this thread and you have to spoil it all by introducing facts into the equation! What a buzz-kill you are, man! :1orglaugh:
meesterperfect
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ok so he got the trophy for signing a paper.
results?
RESULTS!
the point is: hey look guys, we have signed a treaty, a treaty saying "we will destroy 25% of our nuclear weapons, still leaving us enough to destroy the planet 1 million times over.
Aren't we such good people now?
I'm sure Iran and korea and others will
take that into consideration, especially now since Obama has won the trophy.
Sorry, that was hateful irrational emotional biased and opinionated.
I take it back.
Go Obama!
And to my special lady "We did it baby!".
results?
RESULTS!
the point is: hey look guys, we have signed a treaty, a treaty saying "we will destroy 25% of our nuclear weapons, still leaving us enough to destroy the planet 1 million times over.
Aren't we such good people now?
I'm sure Iran and korea and others will
take that into consideration, especially now since Obama has won the trophy.
Sorry, that was hateful irrational emotional biased and opinionated.
I take it back.
Go Obama!
And to my special lady "We did it baby!".
