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Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee:

http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/home/announce-2009/


Announcement

The Norwegian Nobel Committee

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

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. 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.

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."

Oslo, October 9, 2009
 
Can't you guys just accept the fact that we have a Nobel Peace Prize winner in the White House now? And that many around the world--not just those in the U.S. that voted for him, appreciate that?

Sheese.

GET OVER IT.

This is our President, and every American should be proud. Whether you agree or disagree with the selection of the Nobel Peace Prize committe, the fact is they have selected him.

Congratulations, Mr. President.

Yes, we can.
 
James48843 said:
Can't you guys just accept the fact that we have a Nobel Peace Prize winner in the White House now? And that many around the world--not just those in the U.S. that voted for him, appreciate that?

Sheese.

GET OVER IT.

This is our President, and every American should be proud. Whether you agree or disagree with the selection of the Nobel Peace Prize committe, the fact is they have selected him.

Congratulations, Mr. President.

Yes, we can.
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It's okay james, you don't have to champion the President. He's a grown man and can accept political BS better than you can. :rolleyes:
 
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Don't we still have, for the time being, the freedom to freely express our opinions and view. :confused: The last I looked this is still the USA and not the ussa. Sheesh, don't get in such a hurry. ;)
 
Wow,

I'm speechless, Congrats to you Mr. President. I am totally amazed that an unbiased, non-political organization would pick a guy that has basically just gotten started in his worldly career.

I hope you can use this recognition to instigate change and stop all the civil unrest at all those town meetings and tea parties that are plaguing the U.S. Oh, and sorry for not meeting your deadline on closing Gitmo, I know you are trying. Oh, and thanks for looking at the extra troops in Afghanistan....I know Pakistan loves you for it.

Oh wait, you probably want to get started closer to home and stop all that in-fighting with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, but it should be easy since you have been bring the whole world together.

Oh, and get President Carter over for a beer...you two are equals now.....

Congrats again!

P.S. Can you donate the prize to a bill writer that can actually use normal English rather than Legal Speak? Might help get that HealthCare passed.
 
Yeah Jimmy won one of these in 2002, figures.:suspicious:

The Nobel Peace Prize 2002

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 View attachment 6941

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Jimmy Carter, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. [more]
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/press.html
 
James48843 said:
Fact: More often, the prize is awarded to encourage those who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes at critical moments.
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nnuut said:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Jimmy Carter, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.
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hmm...what you do or what you're going to do????

Sorry James, I think the myth is a myth.:cool:
 
CountryBoy said:
Don't we still have, for the time being, the freedom to freely express our opinions and view. :confused:

To all Prise and Glory be Given to GOD - who alone gives us our freedom and the ability to comprehend whatever can possibly be grasped -- and through the Abilities we pocess because of God - we most certainly have the genuine 'Freedom to freely express our opinions and views'

BUT - LET THIS FREEDOM deliver us 'out of darkness' the darkness that keeps us from seeing the truth ....

the TRUTH is -- A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE -- is perhaps the Greatest Honor that can be achieved by any person on our planet ~ SO let us all be willing to be 'objective' to soften up a little and accept Obama with greater acceptance and appreciation.

The last I looked this is still the USA and not the ussa. Sheesh, don't get in such a hurry. ;)
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I am only in a hurry --- to see everyone more in harmony -- finding things all of us can unanimously celebrate in.

Our President - the First Black President of the United States ---- the One who took Charge at the Worst Possible Time ...

has WON - the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE !!:D:D


Good ta see ya back CB ---- been missin' ya
 
Let's please not forget it's not his fault. Poor guy's gonna get a bunch of crap over something he didn't do. :cheesy:
 
JTH said:
Let's please not forget it's not his fault. Poor guy's gonna get a bunch of crap over something he didn't do. :cheesy:
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Yeah, he's probably wishing folks would stop doing him "favors". :laugh:
 
At least the markets are reacting favorably.
It is unusual to have five days in a row in positive territory- but at least for the moment, that is the case....

S&P 500:
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2.27 (+0.21%)

Come on baby...Daddy needs a new pair of shoes....


 
Re: US President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

According to NPR (yes I know some of you are going to be ill at the source, but they do have a strong local DC presense) President Obama woken up at 6:00 or so this morning with the news. Had no comment ready, and wasn't awake, apparently just about as surprised as the audience at the announcement.

Of course he's "humbled", he's probably wondering what the heck the Nobel commitee is thinking as his nomination could not have happend any later than two weeks into his Presidency.

Yes, his ideas are a major change from the "take our toys and walk away" attitude of the former Administration - which only made it easier for everyone else to simply ignore the US or blame the US for anything that went wrong around the world. It was impossible to negotiate anything, cause everyone else just ignored the US cause they knew we would just walk out and pout, and they would get free points for making the US pout.

There has been a change. But even liking him, I'm a tad shocked.

Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt are the other two Presidents that got the Prize during their terms (and contrary to the crazy reporting that the Nobels only go to Democrats -that's a Democrat and a Republican - unless you call Theodore a Bull Moose). That's NOT the same size shoe.
 
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