Obama Gets 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/...5hc3VycHJpc2Vv

LOL....Too funny. Cannon n' Del should be thrilled.

Maybe now he'll have the :$: to get his illegal aunt out of public housing and

move her on up to the east side

illegal aunt, blah, blah, blah.....birth certificate, blah, blah, blah.....cash for clunkers, blah, blah, blah....reading your stuff is much better than the funnies.

What a hoot. Now we are giving the Nobel Peace Prize to people based on aspirations instead of results?? Seriously?? Do they take the prize back if he decides to send more troops to Afghanistan?

when i heard the announcement i was half asleep, and thought perhaps i heard wrong. apparently it wasn't a joke-altho in a way, it is.

so, he suddenly has to re-think his and our policy in afganistan, and basically has made his general there look like a fool...because of winning this? he must have been told that it was going to happen. i can't help but wonder now about the last few weeks and his sudden indecisiveness about what to do there.
great, our foreign policy and decisions on troop strength are going to be decided because the president won a special award.

so, so glad you've not lost the ability to lose sight of the important stuff. :rolleyes:

Obama, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. We should make a Mt. Rushmore-like carving out of a corn field as a suitable tribute.

Yeah we should also tribute George W... I say we shave his Image into Zenyata's hind on Breeders Cup Day. His Mouth should be strategically placed of course.

http://blogs.wsj.com/iainmartin/2009...rize-for-what/



Of course, traditionally it has been standard procedure that winners of the prize do their peacemaking first and are only given the prize after they have achieved something. But this innovation sweeps aside such old-fashioned notions of reward following effort.



http://blogs.wsj.com/new-europe/2009...-what-so-fast/


Poland is stunned to see the Nobel Peace Prize given to U.S. President Barack Obama. You can always count on Poland’s outspoken ex-president and its best-know Nobel Prize laureate Lech Walesa to be undiplomatic:

“Who? What? So Fast?” he said when reporters told him about the latest Obama win.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been a joke for years now. It's just not funny.:zz:

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...929385,00.html


Fitzpatrick and his colleagues at the International Institute of Strategic Studies reacted in the same way: "Is this a joke? We all thought it was a joke."

exactly!

Rock Star :tro: :cool:

world give bush admin yet another big f u
 

new qualification for peace prize:

follow a disastrously inept and bullying admin into office.

he gets to start his admin with america's foreign policy in tatters after 8 years of bush's neocon fumbling and it can't even be his top priority because the economic situation is actually worse.

and now this.

my friends on the right are correct in characterizing this particular award as a joke. he's done nothing deserving of it and all the nobel committee did by giving it to him is prove their critic's correct, diminish the stature of the award, and pile more unreasonable expectation's on already heavily burdened shoulder's.

even i think this is going a bit far with the bush bashing.

.....yeah, the three fu*king stooges.....

Yaseer Arafat, an unrepentant terrorist has a Nobel peace prize

The IAEA and its head Mohamed Elbaradei got a Nobel in 2005. Since then both N.Korea and Iran have become on the cusp of having nuclear weapon ready enriched uranium.

Al Gore got one. Have no idea why.

Kofi Annan and the UN got one in 2001. I suppose they forgot the genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia on their watch.

Jimmy Carter got one despite his hateful and inflamatory stance against Israel.

The Nobel Peace prize has less creditability than the ESPY's.
Riddick Bowe would toss his into the garbage like he did his heavyweight title belt. He would keep the money though.

jokes already

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009...bel-jokes.html

You've made it Chuck.......the very first thing that came to mind when I heard this was how you would react to this....

No joke serious question below....

"How is this award decided?" For baseball you need 75% to make the HOF. Who votes and how many do you need to win this?

I'd like to know who he beat to get this award!

OK, someone has to say it....good choice!

Ghandi never got one and Arafat did if that tells you something about the award. Not to mention whoever nominated him did it 2 weeks into his administration. Hope it was GWB and a joke gone bad. Love the reaction though from the Polish leader.

IEAH has a noble peace prize... Is there no end to the amount of money these guys spend trying to upgrade their image. ;):D

Those guys just had one big year ... kind of like Rich Gannon that one year he played for the Raiders.

Probably were in contract years as well.

:zz:

So anyone who questions Israel ever in everness is being hateful and inflammatory?

Cannon wants to be made an honorarry Jew.

Carter sucked as President (possible with help from Ronnie) but he has dedicated his life to good deeds since...only the most strident political hack could deny him that!

Somer, i hate to say it, but the MOST strident political hacks are here!

Is Bed Bath & Beyond having a sale on mirrors?


You remind me of Gabby Johnson at the town hall meeting.

No but when Carter said they were the "WORSE" perpetrator of human rights violations "worse than even Rawanda" that closed his (Carter's) case and that was what Chuck was referring to. I believe?

not necessarily.

The baseball hall of fame has a much higher standards

No wonder Ivanhoe has a bodyguard

Read up on the subject and report back. Dont be so anti-semitic or Byk will punish you.

Yeah he is a gem. What exactly has he done other than be used like a stooge by dictators and terrorists for their own purposes?

I know my yiddish

As long as Tim Tebow didn't get it ... I'm cool with it.

Not only does Obama owe his primary and general election victory solely to Bush .. but he now owes his Nobel Peace Prize to Bush.

Bush basically made the Nobel Peace Prize the global equivlant of an 'At least I'm not PG 1985' award.

I promise not to fight with anyone in the near future and I hope nobody else will fight also .......Can I get a Nobel Peace prize for that.