OT - So why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel Prize?
Too_Many_Tools
Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
Prize?"
A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
answer.
Hint : Ask a liberal...he will tell you why....with a smile on his
face. ;<))))))))))))
TMT
Harold Burton
<d2d1b8e1-5533-49ff...@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>,
Too_Many_Tools <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> With the announcement of our President Obama winning the Nobel Peace
> Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
> Prize?"
Because idiot lefturds control it? Hey, they awarded it to Le Duc
Tho...and Joseph Stalin was nominated for it.
Snicker.
Bill Smith
Bush, quite obviously, wasn't nominated because he wasn't qualified.
It, apparently, doesn't bother liberals when one of their own is
nominated. I know a liberal who says it's perfectly okay for Obama to
win this prize, even though he freely admits that his idol doesn't
deserve it. further, he says, that if Obama doesn't earn it, it will
be the (currently powerless) Republican's fault.
Bill Smith
mr dude@harvarduniversity.edu
> With the announcement of our President Obama winning the Nobel Peace
> Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
> Prize?"
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> A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
> answer.
Ummmmmmmm...because Bush didn't want to suck terrorist dick???
Sid9
"Bill Smith" <squa...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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bush,jr could win a a Nobel prize...it would HAVE to be The Nobel
Booby Prize.
bush,jr in effect handed Obama the Nobel prize with his arrogance and
belligerence.
The world was delighted to see bush,jr go.
The world is delighted to have an American president who could reason
Peter Franks
> With the announcement of our President Obama winning the Nobel Peace
> Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
> Prize?"
He didn't come up with "Cash for Clunkers".
Sid9
"mr du...@harvarduniversity.edu" <fost...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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bush,jr sucks Saudi oil sheikh's dicks.
Saudi oil sheikhs finance terrorists bush,jr kisses them and holds
hands.
John R. Carroll
It didn't top "Mission Accomplished".
LOL
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John R. Carroll
squirltop
I've seen plenty or 'conservative' interpolations of liberals words
and meanings and I wouldn't trust yours for shit.
Harold Burton
"Sid9" <si...@belsouth.net> whined:
> bush,jr sucks Saudi oil sheikh's dicks.
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> Saudi oil sheikhs finance terrorists bush,jr kisses them and holds
> hands.
Care for some cheese with that whine?
Snicker.
squirltop
And faggy Bush and faggy blair
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1800000/images/_1801773_bushblair300.jpg
Nobel nomination for Bush and Blair
Harald Tom Nesvik, a member of the right-wing Party for Progress, said
that he had nominated the two world leaders for fighting terrorism and
promoting world peace.
"The background for my nomination is their decisive action against
terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest
threat to peace," he told the Associated Press news agency.
"Unfortunately, sometimes... you have to use force to secure peace."
'Unlikely'
However observers say that the pair are unlikely to win the award
because Bishop Gunnar Staalsett, one of five members of the secretive
Nobel committee, has spoken out against the air strikes in
Afghanistan.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (left) with Nobel Peace Prize
The UN and its Secretary General Kofi Annan won the prize in 2001
Although the committee does not divulge the names of those nominated,
those who put names forward may reveal their choices.
Mr Nevik has the ability to nominate because he is a member of a
national legislature.
Nominations for the prize were due in to the Nobel awards committee by
1 February, however as long as they are posted before the date they
can still be accepted.
Prestigious
The Nobel Peace prize, named after Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel,
has been awarded in a glittering Oslo ceremony every October since
1901.
Last year a total of 126 individuals or organisations were nominated
for the prestigious award, the winner of which receives just under $1
million.
It is expected that the events of 11 September will prove influential
in this year's award, and some observers are predicting nominations
for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and architect Guy Tozzoli, who
designed the World Trade Center.
Last year the Nobel Peace Prize was won by the United Nations and its
Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
Harold Burton
<52df56a7-a993-4e2d...@z24g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
squirltop <squi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Your problem.
Snicker.
Bill Smith
So please, by all means, tell me why Obama qualified, in the first
ten days of his presidency, for the NPP?
Bill Smith
Bill Smith
So Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize because he's better than
Bush? So is my dog Spot, can he have one too?
Bill Smith
CalifBill
"Too_Many_Tools" <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Actually the awarding of the prize to Obama, who was nominated a month in to
his term, has done even more than awarding the prize to Al Gore to make the
prize irrelevant. If I was a scientist getting nominated, I would be pissed
as it reflects badly on all the awards.
Gunner Asch
Point...set and match!
GUNNER'S PRAYER:
"God grant me the serenity to accept the people
that don't need to get shot, the courage to shoot
the people that need shooting and the wisdom to know the difference.
And if need be, the skill to get it done before I have to reload."
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� Reality Check� �
"CalifBill" <bmcke...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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Your opinion is worth exactly ZERO on this subject, scumbag.
Gunner Asch
and of course yours is worth -9000
Shrug
Gunner
Sid9
Better?
What a mild word to use.
bush,jr is bush league.
Buerste
"Sid9" <si...@belsouth.net> wrote in message
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But aren't you just a bit saddened that Ahmadinejad didn't win? Next year
for sure!
Buerste
...and Obama bows to them. Or was he just trying to suck their dicks in
public?
Wayne
"Too_Many_Tools" <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
> Prize?"
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> A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
> answer.
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Really.
Hawke
Regardless of where the Nobel committee stands politically, is there
really any area where you can say that Bush would even be in the running
for his contribution to world peace? He started two wars, after all.
That kind of hurts you in the eyes of people concerned with awarding
peace prizes. War makers don't have much in common with peacemakers, do
they? Aside from that, Bush was such a boob and so incompetent a person
that I can't imagine him actually earning any kind of award, let alone a
prestigious one. So instead of blaming "leftists" for not giving Bush an
award look at the facts and see the truth. Bush just doesn't deserve an
award for anything. Except maybe for incompetence.
Hawke
Too_Many_Tools
> Wayne wrote:
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And then he would stumble and drop it.
TMT
Too_Many_Tools
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:08:26 -0400, "Buerste" <buer...@wowway.com>
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> >>> On Oct 9, 9:04 pm, Too_Many_Tools <too_many_to...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>> With the announcement of our President Obama winning the Nobel Peace
> >>>> Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
> >>>> Prize?"
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> >>>> A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
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> >>> Ummmmmmmm...because Bush didn't want to suck terrorist dick???
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> >> bush,jr sucks Saudi oil sheikh's dicks.
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> >> Saudi oil sheikhs finance terrorists bush,jr kisses them and holds hands.
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> >...and Obama bows to them. Or was he just trying to suck their dicks in
> >public?
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Maybe this is why Tom wants Gunner to come "work" for him.
TMT
Buerste
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"Wayne" <mygarb...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Reality is left of center. Really, you lowlife Repugnikunt.
Wayne
"� Reality Check� �" <rea...@check.it> wrote in message
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You are probably even left of the committee.
Too_Many_Tools
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> "¦ Reality Check© ¦" <real...@check.it> wrote in news:7jbmtkF34lehjU1
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> >>>>>"mr d...@harvarduniversity.edu" <foster...@gmail.com> wrote ...
> >>>>>> >Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
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> >>>>>>> A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
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> >>>>What makes you think he did? Do your rough trade gay clients have
> >>>> you break something before you go down on them?
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> >>>Stay the Course, jackass.
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> >> You sound just as stupid as the Obamassiah does.
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> > You're gonna really hate the next 7.4 years, Repug.
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> Nope. Judgement Day is 11/09/10. Obama is a one term president.
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11/09/10?
Laugh...laugh...laugh...
As a whining winger you can't even be honest as to the date of Obama's
second term.
TMT
John Q Public
He only uses the left side of his brain, the right sides synapses are
all taken up
with the self manipulation as he gazes on BO's portrait so everything does look
left to him
RogerN
he didn't keep.
RogerN
"Too_Many_Tools" <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> With the announcement of our President Obama winning the Nobel Peace
> Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
> Prize?"
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> A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
> answer.
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Jeff R.
> Because, unlike Obama, George Bush never made a bunch of peace
> promises that he didn't keep.
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> RogerN
"Mission Accomplished"
Curly Surmudgeon
Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you hold the religionist zealot
Ahmadinejad in high respect. Which hand do you eat with?
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Buerste
"Deucalion" <som...@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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So, if I were gay and wanted to grease-up your butt, you as a tolerant
liberal would be obliged to assume the position. Would that fulfill your
wildest dreams?
Michael A. Terrell
Buerste wrote:
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> So, if I were gay and wanted to grease-up your butt, you as a tolerant
> liberal would be obliged to assume the position. Would that fulfill your
> wildest dreams?
Haven't you already lost enough large bottle brushes on weird
liberals?
--
The movie 'Deliverance' isn't a documentary!
HH&C
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:28:36 -0400, "Buerste" <buer...@wowway.com>
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> private. Perhaps you could fulfill your needs between you, gunner,
> and HHC by e-mail and leave the rest of us out of it.
Practice what you preach and leave me out of it, Bob.
Hawke
> private. Perhaps you could fulfill your needs between you, gunner,
> and HHC by e-mail and leave the rest of us out of it.
You can tell how important homosexuality is to that bunch when you see
how they can't keep from talking about it. Obviously it's always on
their minds because they are always writing about all the different gay
sex acts. I too wish they would keep their homosexual thoughts and
desires to themselves but that unfortunately is too much to ask from
latent or obvious homosexuals. I wouldn't mind it if they would keep
their sexual comments to normal heterosexual matters but with their type
that's never going to happen because they'd be right at home leading a
gay pride parade.
Hawke
Buerste
"Hawke" <davesm...@digitalpath.net> wrote in message
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Yet when a conservative would say the same it's considered intolerant hate
crimes against gays. Hmmm, ANOTHER libtard double standard!
Buerste
"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.t...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Look at them squirm when presented with the very same that they want to
teach in schools, have parades, and permeate every venue. But God help
conservatives if they balk, then it's intolerance and hate crimes. I'm
convinced that ALL libtards have sodomy on their brains...look at our favs
here, it only makes sense. The only guy busier than a one-armed paper
hanger is a libtard Proctologist.
HH&C
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To say "liberal" is to infer at least a double standard.
Buerste
> private. Perhaps you could fulfill your needs between you, gunner,
> and HHC by e-mail and leave the rest of us out of it.
But it was YOU I saw on the news leading the gay parade, and even the
reporter said you walked funny but with a great big smile.
HH&C
> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@earthlink.net> wrote in messagenews:CM6dnWu1ebPU8U7X...@earthlink.com...
I'm reminded of Bob Brock's homo-erotic fantasy about me. I believe
the same fantasy is alive in Dousch.
Beam Me Up Scotty
Lib Loo
"HH&C" <almostcutm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I was just going to mention the Douchebagliar. GMTA.
Lib Loo
"Buerste" <bue...@att.net> wrote in message
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I thought he looked familiar! Hey Douchebag, nice chaps! You need to lose
some weight though, fatass.
Michael A. Terrell
There is at least one of those on the newsgroup. :(
Lib Loo
"Deucalion" <som...@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> Lies from neo-cons, such as yourself, are expected and you never
> disappoint us.
Who's us? You have two mommies like TMT?
Too_Many_Tools
> "Too_Many_Tools" <too_many_to...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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LOL...and notice who mentioned homosex.
How's that job creation going?
TMT
Too_Many_Tools
> Because, unlike Obama, George Bush never made a bunch of peace promises that
> he didn't keep.
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> > With the announcement of our President Obama winning the Nobel Peace
> > Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
> > Prize?"
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> > A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
> > answer.
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> > Hint : Ask a liberal...he will tell you why....with a smile on his
> > face. ;<))))))))))))
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Correction...Bush never made peace.
One of those things required for getting a Nobel PEACE Prize.
TMT
Too_Many_Tools
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I've noticed that too.
And so have many Americans.
TMT
Buerste
> disappoint us.
Libtards ALWAYS disappoint me, I keep hoping they will do something right.
Michael A. Terrell
Buerste wrote:
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> Libtards ALWAYS disappoint me, I keep hoping they will do something right.
I keep hoping they will learn some manners, and how to clean up after
themselves. I've come to the conclusion that it's hopeless. :(
RBnDFW
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to liberals, by liberals.
Conservatives need not apply.
Bert Hyman
news:ee116a03-5d17-4c5d...@g23g2000yqh.googlegroups.com
Too_Many_Tools <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Correction...Bush never made peace.
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> One of those things required for getting a Nobel PEACE Prize.
So you're one of those who maintains Obama didn't deserve his?
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Larry Jaques
On 13 Oct 2009 14:09:24 GMT, the infamous Bert Hyman
<be...@iphouse.com> scrawled the following:
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>Too_Many_Tools <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Correction...Bush never made peace.
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>> One of those things required for getting a Nobel PEACE Prize.
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>So you're one of those who maintains Obama didn't deserve his?
Two points, Bert. <bseg>
I think he needs to read this new book: http://fwd4.me/cj
The title suits him.
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Beam Me Up Scotty
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> Too_Many_Tools <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Correction...Bush never made peace.
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>> One of those things required for getting a Nobel PEACE Prize.
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> So you're one of those who maintains Obama didn't deserve his?
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Freedom Fighter
> Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a Nobel
> Prize?"
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> A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
> answer.
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> Hint : Ask a liberal...he will tell you why....with a smile on his
> face. ;<))))))))))))
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> TMT
and GWBush nevah, evah will! nor his equally sinful father!
bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
Too_Many_Tools
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So Tom...how many conservatives have been committing hate crimes
against you?
You do know that liberal laws are in place to prevent that type of
thing.
And if it is a domestic issue, those same liberal lawmakers have laws
in place to protect you from a violent conservatve domestic partner.
TMT
Too_Many_Tools
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Maybe you but not the world...maybe you missed it but our President
Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
As a patriotic American, you should be very proud.
Have you sent your congratulations card to him yet?
TMT
Too_Many_Tools
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Liberals are busy making peace while conservatives are trying to start
wars.
Guess who would get a Nobel PEACE Prize?
TMT
Too_Many_Tools
> Innews:ee116a03-5d17-4c5d...@g23g2000yqh.googlegroups.com
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> Too_Many_Tools <too_many_to...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Correction...Bush never made peace.
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> So you're one of those who maintains Obama didn't deserve his?
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Wrong...I agree with those who awarded the Prize.
The man deserved it.
Our Country and its patriotic citizens should be proud that we chose
him for the role of President.
TMT
AP Newsbreak: Nobel jury defends Obama decision
By IAN MacDOUGALL and KARL RITTER, Associated Press Writers Ian
Macdougall And Karl Ritter, Associated Press Writers
OSLO – Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the
Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm
of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability
for the U.S. president.
Asked to comment on the uproar following Friday's announcement, four
members of the five-seat panel told The Associated Press that they had
expected the decision to generate both surprise and criticism.
Three of them rejected the notion that Obama hadn't accomplished
anything to deserve the award, while the fourth declined to answer
that question. A fifth member didn't answer calls seeking comment.
"We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman
Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the prize for what
he has done."
Jagland singled out Obama's efforts to heal the divide between the
West and the Muslim world and scale down a Bush-era proposal for an
anti-missile shield in Europe.
"All these things have contributed to — I wouldn't say a safer world —
but a world with less tension," Jagland said by phone from the French
city of Strasbourg, where he was attending meetings in his other role
as secretary-general of the Council of Europe.
He said most world leaders were positive about the award and that most
of the criticism was coming from the media and from Obama's political
rivals.
"I take note of it. My response is only the judgment of the committee,
which was unanimous," he said, adding that the award to Obama followed
the guidelines set forth by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist
and inventor of dynamite, who established the Nobel Prizes in his 1895
will.
"Alfred Nobel wrote that the prize should go to the person who has
contributed most to the development of peace in the previous year,"
Jagland said. "Who has done more for that than Barack Obama?"
Aagot Valle, a left-wing Norwegian politician who joined the Nobel
panel this year, also dismissed suggestions that the decision to award
Obama was without merit.
"Don't you think that comments like that patronize Obama? Where do
these people come from?" Valle said by phone from the western coastal
city of Bergen. "Well, of course, all arguments have to be considered
seriously. I'm not afraid of a debate on the peace prize decision.
That's fine."
In Friday's announcement, the committee said giving Obama the peace
prize could be seen as an early vote of confidence intended to build
global support for the policies of his young administration.
The left-leaning committee whose members are appointed by the
Norwegian Parliament lauded the change in global mood wrought by
Obama's calls for peace and cooperation, and praised his pledges to
reduce the world stock of nuclear arms, ease U.S. conflicts with
Muslim nations and strengthen the U.S. role in combating climate
change.
However, the decision stunned even the most seasoned Nobel watchers.
They hadn't expected Obama, who took office barely two weeks before
the Feb. 1 nomination deadline, to be seriously considered until at
least next year.
The award drew heated derision from Obama's political opponents in the
Republican party, and was even questioned by some members of Obama's
own Democratic party, who wondered what the president had done to
merit the $1.4 million honor.
Michael S. Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said
naming Obama showed "how meaningless a once honorable and respected
award has become."
In a fundraising letter, Steele wrote that "the Democrats and their
international leftist allies want America made subservient to the
agenda of global redistribution and control. And truly patriotic
Americans like you and our Republican Party are the only thing
standing in their way."
Columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times that Obama "has
not done anything yet on the scale that would normally merit such an
award."
Even in Europe, where Obama is hugely popular, many editorials and
pundits questioned what he had done to deserve the award.
"Scrap the Nobel Peace Prize," foreign affairs commentator Bronwen
Maddox wrote in The Times of London. "It's an embarrassment and even
an impediment to peace. President Obama, in letting the committee
award it to him, has made himself look vain, a fool and dangerously
lost in his own mystique."
Yet Obama was humble in acknowledging the prize.
"Let me be clear: I do not view it as a recognition of my own
accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership
on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations," Obama said
Friday in the White House Rose Garden. "To be honest, I do not feel
that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative
figures who've been honored by this prize."
Nobel Committee member Inger-Marie Ytterhorn noted that the president
didn't greet the news with joy.
"I looked at his face when he was on TV and confirmed that he would
receive the prize and would come to Norway, and he didn't look
particularly happy," she told AP.
Some of the most celebrated peace prize laureates include Martin
Luther King, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela. The award has
occasionally honored more controversial figures, like the late
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat or former U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger. Sometimes it raises the profile of peace workers or
activists, such as Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala in 1992 or Kenyan
environmentalist Wangari Maathai in 2004.
"Whenever we award the peace prize, there is normally a big debate
about it," said Ytterhorn, a nine-year veteran of the award
committee.
Asked whether there was a risk that the prize could backfire on Obama
by raising expectations even higher and give ammunition to his
critics, Ytterhorn said "it might hamper him," because it could
distract from domestic issues such as health care reform.
Jagland said he didn't think the Nobel Peace Prize would hurt Obama
domestically but added the committee did not take U.S. politics into
consideration when making their decision.
"I'm not so familiar with American politics, and I don't want to
interfere with it, because this is a totally independent committee,"
he said. "We should not look at internal politics."
Kaci Kullman Five, a former Conservative Party parliamentarian and
longtime Nobel committee member, said "we all expected that there
would be a discussion" about awarding Obama. She declined further
comment, deferring to the Nobel Peace Prize tradition of only having
the committee chairman discuss prize selections publicly.
Valle, who left her seat in Parliament last week because of her Nobel
panel appointment, said the criticism shouldn't overshadow important
issues raised by the prize.
"Of course I expected disagreement and debate on the prize, on giving
him the prize," she said. "But what I want now is that we seriously
raise a discussion regarding nuclear disarmament."
___
Ritter reported from Stockholm.
Hawke
If a Liberal ever did what you thought was right that would be a mistake
because he would be doing what a right winger wanted done. That's never
right. Last time we did what you right wingers wanted we wound up with
George Bush as president. Even you can see how bad that turned out. This
time the country did what the liberals thought was right. They elected
Obama, which you think was wrong. So you see, it would be really stupid
for a liberal ever do do what you consider right. That's because what
you consider right is always the wrong thing to do. Luckily, most of the
time what you think is right never happens. We couldn't handle having
what you want done again. Last time you got your way it almost killed
us. I hope we've learned our lesson but I doubt it because too many
Americans are stupid and have short memories.
Hawke
Hawke
No, because he's too busy trying to find a way to sabotage Obama rather
than congratulate him. Like all republicans they want to see Obama
destroyed and replaced with someone like Bush or McCain. They can't
stand to see a Democrat succeed even if the country prospers. They
wouldn't mind seeing the country destroyed as long as republicans are in
office. It's just the kind of people they are. I use the term "people"
loosely in their case.
Hawke
Lib Loo
"Hawke" <davesm...@digitalpath.net> wrote in message
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You could be talking to yourself as far as the rest of us are concerned.
Didn't they teach you how to quote other peoples posts in Political Science
school? Stupid Libtard.
� Reality Check� �
On Oct 10, 12:56 pm, grey_ghost471-newsgro...@yahoo.com (Gray Ghost)
wrote:
> "� Reality Check� �" <real...@check.it> wrote in news:7jbmtkF34lehjU1
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> > "Gunner Asch" <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote in message
> >> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:08:50 -0600, "� Reality Check� �"
> >> <real...@check.it> wrote:
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> >>>"Gunner Asch" <gun...@NOSPAMlightspeed.net> wrote in message
> >>>news:vp80d5h5ft5iet0i7...@4ax.com...
> >>>> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:49:50 -0600, "� Reality Check� �"
> >>>> <real...@check.it> wrote:
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> >>>>>"mr d...@harvarduniversity.edu" <foster...@gmail.com> wrote ...
> >>>>>> >Peace
> >>>>>> >Prize, it raises the question..."Why hasn't George Bush won a
> >>>>>> >Nobel
> >>>>>> >Prize?"
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> >>>>>>> A simple question...one that conservatives will be hard pressed to
> >>>>>>> answer.
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> >>>>>>Ummmmmmmm...because Bush didn't want to suck terrorist dick???
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> >>>>>9.11.01, didn't he asswipe?
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> >>>> No.
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> >>>Yes.
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> >>>>What makes you think he did? Do your rough trade gay clients have
> >>>> you break something before you go down on them?
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> >>>Stay the Course, jackass.
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> >> You sound just as stupid as the Obamassiah does.
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> > You're gonna really hate the next 7.4 years, Repug.
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> Nope. Judgement Day is 11/09/10. Obama is a one term president.
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11/09/10?
Laugh...laugh...laugh...
As a whining winger you can't even be honest as to the date of Obama's
second term.
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Gray Ghost = inbred ignorant repugnikkkan racist piece of shit
Gray Ghost
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Are you truly this stupid. i mean I know you mouth the usual leftist
inanities and you appear to habe the maturity of an underdeveloped 13 yo but
really.
11/09/10 is when this Congress stands for election. And is judged.
Gimme yer address and I'll send you a quarter so you can buy a clue.