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NJ5 on 09 October 2009

No link yet, but it's not a joke. It's on breaking news at several websites.

My reaction was, WTF? The president of a country which is fighting two highly questionable wars winning the Nobel Peace Prize?

 



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ClaudeLv250 on 09 October 2009

Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nobel_peace

ROFFLE! This is going to through the haters into a tizzy.



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NJ5 on 09 October 2009

Link:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.peace.prize/index.html

(CNN) -- President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

The first African-American to win the White House, Obama was praised by the Norweigan Nobel Committee for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

"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," the committee said. "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."

The committee also said Obama has "created a new climate in international politics."

In his short time in office, Obama has acted on a wide range of issues from the economy to terrorism and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This year's peace prize nominees included 172 people and 33 organizations. The committee does not release the names of the nominees.



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NJ5 on 09 October 2009

Agreed kowenicki... this makes the Nobel Peace Prize look like a joke, to be honest.

I'm thinking Obama may actually agree with us.



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CommunistHater on 09 October 2009

His wife should have got it for being half slave half slave owner.

"I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners"- Obama



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badgenome on 09 October 2009

LMAO. From Wikipedia:

"In 2009 Barrack Obama won the peace prize even though he has been less than 1 year in office and has not achieved any significant international results. Presumably, President Obama was awarded the prize as he was not George Bush."

That'll get edited real quick (and not only because they misspelled "Barack").



badgenome on 09 October 2009
kowenicki said:
The cult of celebrity has finally reached the very top of the world.... sad.

It's incredibly pathetic, but is it really any worse than the very non-peaceful Kissinger or Arafat winning it? Besides, Al Gore already won it on the basis of sheer celebrity worship.



NJ5 on 09 October 2009
badgenome said:
kowenicki said:
The cult of celebrity has finally reached the very top of the world.... sad.

It's incredibly pathetic, but is it really any worse than the very non-peaceful Kissinger or Arafat winning it? Besides, Al Gore already won it on the basis of sheer celebrity worship.

But... at least those people won their Nobel Peace Prize after either working for several years towards something, or accomplishing something tangible. What did Obama accomplish to promote peace?

 



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Rainbird on 09 October 2009

Perhaps they thought he could use the money the most?

I don't know



CommunistHater on 09 October 2009

Obama has gone from smoking crack to only smoking cigs in secret. That's an accomplishment



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