Is President Obama Deserving?
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize
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1. He was in office less than 10 days before deadline to submit for prize.
2. He has accomplished nothing, zero, and zilch.
3. At the time he was being awarded a prize for peace there is fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan
4. He ends his day discussing troop deployment
"Bumptious" in Chief aka President Obama ... winning the Nobel Peace prize what a travesty. they wouldn't give it to Mahatma Ghandi, but did give it a flaming liberal whose only claim to fame is that he has apologized around the world for America's so called arrogance, which includes Americans fighting, and dying in their wars, shoring up their economy with foreign aid, rebuilding their infrastructure, sending food and aid to victims of fires and floods. Well what you can expect from a group that gave it to Theodore Roosevelt who won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson who won in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U.N. panel on climate change. All left leaning loons. Believe it or not I don't about Roosevelt and Wilson”grandma" wasn't around then. The other two Jimmy Carter dithered is way through a hostage crisis, sided with Arafat so you know he's drinking Jim Jones kool-aid and well Al Gore makes a movie about climate change and if I'm not mistaken the climate has been changing since the beginning of time. My perception has always been that a higher authority probably had more to do with climate change than people. My summation is the Nobel Prize Awards Committee is smoking funny cigarettes as they are drinking Jim Jones laced kool-aid. It is obvious that random drug testing of the Nominating Committee) is urgently required.Grandma "The Angry Mob"
COMMENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
1. The Taliban condemns the Nobel Committee’s decision.
2. Like the Olympics, the Nobel Peace Prize has lost much of the reputation it once had.
3. After Gore and Obama the Nobel Prize has no value anymore.
4. What! That's nuts!
5. Now that his fellow travelers have given him the "peace prize", he will be even more dangerous.
6. This is absurd! I'm telling you those birthers should continue this fight about him not being a US citizen!
7. If only more people could make $1.4 million dollars for their good intentions, the world would be a better place.
8. This just breaks my heart .. first hes kissing hands and bowing down to our emeny now he's winning the nobel prize and for what ??? god our country going down hill fast.
9. I'm Still reeling.
10. I wish I could think of something he has done to deserve it.
11. I still can't believe it. I'm too shocked to say much except that he should have been given an Academy Award for best performance as a pathological liar pretending to be President.By: BE for American Freedom
12. Hamas says Obama does not deserve Nobel Peace Prize -
13. Considering they only give it to villians and nut cases, I think he deserves it.
HISTORY OF NOBEL PEACE PRIZE....
Nobel died in 1896 and did not leave an explanation for choosing peace as a prize category. The categories for chemistry and physics were obvious choices as he was a trained chemical engineer. The reason behind the peace prize is less clear. Scholars who studied Nobel have said it was Nobel's way to compensate for developing destructive forces (Nobel's inventions included dynamite and ballistite). None of his explosives, except for ballistite, were used in any war during his lifetime,[3] although the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an Irish nationalist organization, did carry out dynamite attacks in the 1880s[4] and he was instrumental in turning Bofors from an iron company to an armaments company whilst he owned it.
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."[1] Alfred Nobel's will stated that the prize should be awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Norwegian
WINNERS SINCE 1990
2009 - Barack Obama
2008 - Martti Ahtisaari
2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
2000 - Kim Dae-jung
1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize?
By John Dickerson Posted Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, at 8:52 AM ET
President Barack Obama It came a week late, but President Obama did win the gold. Last Friday, the International Olympic Committee stiffed him. Today, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. He should probably leave his schedule open next Friday, because apparently anything can happen.
It was the second time in three years that the peace prize went to someone trying to create a new international climate. In 2007, Al Gore shared the prize for his efforts to combat global warming. Explaining this year's selection, the committee credited Obama not for concrete accomplishments but for atmospheric ones. "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."
Having worked at Time magazine when it occasionally named a Person of the Year who evoked a similar "Huh?" reaction, I recognize this language: It the sound of words groaning for a rationale. The committee can, of course, pick whomever it wants. But in his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."
"Shall have done," seems a tricky piece of language to write around. This makes the committee's statement sounds more like a wish list. It's not that Obama has done nothing. It's that so much about his presidency is preliminary. (I'm not counting the beer summit.) Other recipients—Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel, and Lech Walesa—seem more aptly to hit the "have done" mark. Others who might not be household names, like Muhammad Yunus, make sense on inspection.
On the other hand, Obama may fit the bill more than some other recipients. At least he hasn't actively been engaged in making warfare, as were previous recipients Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat. Then again, Obama is considering whether to send more troops into Afghanistan, one of America's two wars.
Obama took office less than 10 days before the Feb. 1 deadline for Nobel Prize nominations. It was not a weak field. This year there were 205 submissions, more than ever. Obama was not a part of the pregame speculation, which had centered on human rights activists in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa. Human rights activists in China must be particularly miffed, since the Obama administration has downplayed China's bad human rights record. http://msn.com
THE NOBEL PRIZE TO OBAMA: EUROPE'S BID TO RE-COLONIZE AMERICA
Whether it was rewarding Jimmy Carter for criticizing the Iraq War or supporting Al Gore in his crusade against global warming, the Norwegian Parliament - which chooses the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - has sought to use the award as a political tool to influence American politic s. Its prestige and moral power make the prize a potent weapon with which to help steer the direction of the colossus beyond the seas that controls a quarter of the world's economy and most of its military power.
Now, the Norwegians have weighed in to support Barack Obama in his bid to reshape America so it looks more like, well, Norway, or at least like Europe.more...http://www.dickmorriss.com
The Wizard of Oslo GOP chief scoffs at Obama winning peace prize Steele:
President's 'star power has outshined tireless advocates' WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Republican Party was quick to react Friday to President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize , issuing a statement that the decision seemed the result of his "star power" rather than any meaningful accomplishments. "The real question Americans are asking is, 'What has President Obama actually accomplished?'," Michael Steele stated. Steele, who took over the reins of the party earlier this year, said he thought it was "unfortunate that the president's star power has outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights." He said he doesn't think Obama will be "receiving any awards from Americans for job creation, fiscal responsibility, or backing up rhetoric with concrete action." Hatch 'pleased' Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, was more diplomatic, saying on Fox News that he was "pleased" that a U.S. president had won, and that he hoped the award would be "an incentive" for Obama to work hard on global issues, especially humanitarian ones. Hatch said he thought former President Bill Clinton would have won, given his efforts to raise $1 billion in recent years for humanitarian causes. On foxnews.com, conservative columnist Tommy De Seno chronicled the 12 days that Obama had been in office before the deadline for the Nobel Peace Prize nominations. "So there you have it," he wrote after listing a brief summary of Obama's workflow over those days. "The short path to the Nobel Peace Prize: Party, go to meetings, skip church , release federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries, party some more." TV host: 'Left-wing' decision Fox News host Chris Wallace noted on television that the Nobel committee represents a "left-wing" parliament in Norway. Hatch echoed that view, saying that "we never expect a conservative Republican" to receive the peace prize. The award appeared to be at least partly a slap at former President George W. Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama's predecessor for his largely unilateral military action in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. "People can read into it whatever they want," said former Bush spokesman Tony Fratto. "But when you're awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and the first question everyone asks is 'for what?' then you have to question what the motives of the Nobel committee are in making the award." http://msnbc.com GOP
