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There they sat royalty, commoner, academic, rich and the privileged being lectured to by someone that many in his own country consider to be a Usurper to the presidency. The sweet irony of it all is Barry Hussein Soetoro illegitimately holds the office of president and as a usurper he accepted a prize that by his own admission was generous given and quite undeserved. Yet the ultimate contradiction—the Orwellian redefinition of reality was Soetoro standing before the Oslo gathering. And standing there he told them that the prize which they awarded him, the Nobel Peace Prize, could in fact be...

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Here is video of a short part of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, which he delivered in Oslo, Norway today. In this clip, Obama defended the necessity of war at times, and even came right out and said "a non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies." President Obama should be commended for making the case for "just war" in front of a European audience that may have been shocked (as shocked as we are) to hear him make that case, and even defend the role of the United States in underpinning post- World War II stability with...

Passion Fades for Barack Obama, The Perfect Poster Boy Like many others, I fell for Barack Obama somewhere in the middle of Bush's second term, writes Gill Hornby. By Gill Hornby 11 Dec 2009 I've probably been in denial for a few months now. Turning a blind eye, trying not to overreact to the little things, even though all the signs were there. But now it might just be time to face up to it. Another political love affair is over. Another one has let me down. President Obama's acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize ceremony wasn't the last straw,...

What was the Nobel Peace Prize Commitee SMOKING when they decided to award President Obama with this year's Peace Prize? Continuing the hot 2009 Obama tour in Oslo, Norway, the president again reached out to the world to let them know that the United States would reserve the right to act unilaterally to defend our country, but mentions again that we have not followed the rules ourselves.

President Barack Obama, in Norway to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, said on Thursday that he did not doubt there were others who may be more deserving of the honor. "I have no doubt that there are others who may be more deserving," Obama said during a press conference with Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. "My task here is to continue on the path that I believe is not only important for America but important for lasting peace and security in the world." The president will formally become a Nobel laureate later on Thursday when he receives his medal...

The decision to award Mr. Obama the peace prize was made during the period of irrational exuberance - the Obamamania - that attended his ascent to power. Nominations closed Feb. 1, when he had been in office less than two weeks. The lingering sense developed that the noteworthy achievement the committee wanted to recognize was either that Mr. Obama was not George W. Bush, or that he was black. Unless you are Barack Hussein Obama, you generally don't get awards in life for just showing up.

Trip to Norway Reignites Debate Over Obama's Qualifications for Prestigious Award. There is a bit of irony in that just 10 days after announcing the deployment of 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan, President Obama will accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Thursday in Oslo, Norway. the White House said he will acknowledge that he accepts the peace prize as a war president. Aides said he will address Afghanistan and the decision to add troops there and present it in the overall context of the award he is accepting. The peace prize sparked considerable debate over Obama's qualifications: Was his...

Finally some Europeans are angry with Obama—the very ones who are awarding him his Nobel. Katarina Andersson on the president's decision to decline lunch with King Harald and skip his own Nobel exhibit. A day before President Obama receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the president’s treatment of his Norwegian hosts has become hot news across Scandinavia. News outlets across the region are calling Obama arrogant for slashing some of the prize winners’ traditional duties from his schedule. “Everybody wants to visit the Peace Center except Obama,” sniped the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, amid reports the president would snub his...

Large circulation Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun's reporter in Washington, D.C., Mr. Etsunari Kurose, reports in Japanese that Americans are not so hot on the idea of Obama receiving that award in Oslo, Norway.66% of registered voters in a very recent Quinnipiac Poll said Mr. Obama did not have the right to receive that award. Only 26% said that he did.

President Obama has delivered his share of challenging speeches, tackling race and his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. in the heat of the 2008 campaign, pitching his health care overhaul plan to a skeptical Congress in September, and, just last week, explaining to an anxious nation his decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. This week, Mr. Obama will face perhaps his most daunting oratorical challenge: accepting a Nobel Peace Prize even as he presides over two wars. The president heads to Oslo on Wednesday with the additionally awkward burden of receiving the honor even though few...

Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month to attend the climate change conference, ending weeks of uncertainty over whether he would go and after intense pressure from Europe for his presence. Obama will offer to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020, a 30 per cent reduction by 2025 and a 42 per cent drop by 2030... After he attends the summit on December 9, he will fly to Oslo to collect his recently awarded Nobel Peace Prize the following day, and then return to the US. Obama conceded during his trip to China...

Crowder pokes fun at rap music and the Nobel Peace prize.

Anyone with the mental capacity above a 5 year old knows this Nobel business was nonsense. Non of my Democrat friends have even tried to defend Obama’s non-award award. Quite the opposite actually … even they are searching for examples of why Obama would qualify for such an award. This may actually be even more ludicrous than Gore’s Nobel award … almost. So what did the Nobel jury responsible for giving Obama the award do to defend their decision? Very little.

OSLO — Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday. "VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give the peace prize to Barack Obama," the newspaper said. In a surprise move last Friday, the Nobel committee attributed the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama less than nine months after he had taken office. The committee, appointed by the Norwegian...

Writing in the NYR Blog, Jonathan Freedland notes that Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded by a committee of five liberal politicians from a country whose population is half the size of London, reflecting a “Norwegian consensus” that “favors multilateralism, yearns for nuclear disarmament, and believes in international institutions, revering the United Nations above all.” The speculation in Oslo is that what clinched the award for Obama was chairing a UN meeting and “using that body as the vehicle for his disarmament ambitions.” READ THE REST AT COMMENTARYMAGAZINE.COM

Looking at Obama's past few years it would seem that he had made a Faustian bargain that would make Faust himself look like an unimaginative fool.

This was Barack Obama’s chance. Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage that’s weighed his presidency down — the implausible expectations, the utopian dreams, the messianic hoo-ha. Here was a place to draw a clean line between himself and all the overzealous Obamaphiles, at home and abroad, who poured their post-Christian, post-Marxist yearnings into the vessel of his 2008 campaign. Here was a chance to establish himself, definitively, as an American president — too self-confident to accept an unearned accolade, and too instinctively democratic to go along with European humbug. He didn’t take...

Friday, October 9, 2009, was a momentous day. The world woke up to the news that President Obama had been awarded the Nobel prize for peace. The reaction was swift in some quarters, and took a little longer to penetrate the fog of sleep in others. Count me among the slow penetrating fog. I was half awake listening to the radio and debating whether to roll over or get out of bed, when I heard the news. I chuckled. thinking there goes a promo for another Saturday Night Live skit trumpeting that the president had accomplished "Jack" and "Squat" since...

“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.” - Alfred Nobel According to Nobelprize.org, Obama received the prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" Honestly, gentle reader, other than his amazing reading of a telemprompter can you name even one "extraordinary effort?" Can you name even one result that actually strengthened "international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?"

Ace of Spades is of the opinion that the Nobel Peace Prize will cause more people to start asking "the question." This is the problem that the Nobel committee has tossed into Captain Wonderful's lap. Real unemployment is at 17%, he tripled the deficit to $1.4 trillion, we're looking at possibly two generations (40 years!) of economic malaise and endless debt, Iran's about to get the bomb, he continues to dither on Afghanistan, a war he swore he'd win, he's a hyperpartisan archliberal (at best), he can't get his own party to vote for his leftwing healthcare plan, his primary...

I just don't have the words for this one, other than, yea, he won all right, Nobel PIECE Prize. He's a PIECE of work. This man has got to be one of the most arrogant men I have ever seen. To think that after not even a full year of playing Senator that he was capable of running a country and a military, he has got to be a real PIECE of work. To think that after only twelve days in office he deserved the recognition of what the Nobel Peace Prize is supposed to recognize, he has got to...

President Barack Obama should follow the example set by North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho in 1973 and refuse the Nobel Peace Prize. Many are criticizing the decision to award Obama the Peace Prize. This isn't the first controversial decision by the Nobel committee. It is inconceivable that the Commander in Chief of a nation whose troops are actively engaged in armed combat should be awarded a peace prize. I happen to support the U.S. role in both conflicts, but recognize that involvement in war is inconsistent with receiving the Nobel Prize. If Obama has made an "extraordinary effort" for...

Dr. Laura Schlessinger contends that President Obama should reject the Nobel Peace Prize — and what the prize has come to mean. The popular talk show host opened her program Friday by telling her 9 million listeners that she believes the Nobel committee has become an anti-American organization that has sought to use its awards to influence world opinion and American policy to its own ends. She noted that in 1994, one of the three recipients to whom it awarded the Peace Prize was Yasser Arafat, for his “efforts to promote peace in the Middle East"

But that was then, and this is now. As the historian Robert Dallek told Obama recently, "War kills off great reform movements." As the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne reminded the president, his supporters voted for him not to win a war but to win a victory on health care and other domestic issues. Obama's priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?

Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today before he had his breakfast. The only problem is that he's done nothing to win it, unless of course you buy the idea that flowery rhetoric and great intentions are deserving of such an honor. The only person who has contributed less content to deserve this award in the world is Al Gore. Between Al's contentless and largely fictional "An Inconvenient Truth" and Barack's "Audacity of Hope" media campaign, the two of them together might have enough contributions to win the wrapping paper and box it will be shipped in. The...

And the Winner Is…In a somewhat startling announcement, the Downtown Athletic Club awarded the prestigious Heisman Memorial Trophy to President Barack Obama. Usually the Heisman is given to college football’s best player and Obama is the first non-athlete to ever win the award. At a ceremony this morning Club president Reginald Smithton said President Obama received this award for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen and support college football” and specifically cited Obama’s suggestion that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) hold a college football “playoff” to determine a national champion for its top teams, commonly referred to as Division 1-A.

Stevie Wonder sings We are amazed but not amused By all the things you say that you'll do Though much concerned but not involved With decisions that are made by you But we are sick and tired of hearing your song Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong 'Cause if you really want to hear our views "You haven't done nothing"! It's not too cool to be ridiculed But you brought this upon yourself The world is tired of pacifiers We want the truth and nothing else And we are sick and tired of hearing your song Telling...

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October 9, 2009 Comment: Absurd Decision On Obama Makes A Mockery Of The Nobel Peace Prize Michael Binyon The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself. Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to...

The Nobel Committee stunned and puzzled the world community by awarding the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama, citing, "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited his outreach to the Islamic world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. The choice, which left many around the globe bewildered, made Mr. Obama the third sitting US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Obama’s choice caught Nobel observers off-guard because the nomination deadline for the 2009 award came less than two weeks after Mr. Obama took office. When queried...

President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

In it’s announcement the committee also said "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." In its effusive praise of the President the committee continued with these words "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people...

Twitter has been criticized as a time-waster -- a way for people to inform their friends about the minutiae of their lives, 140 characters at a time. But in the past month, 140 characters were enough to shine a light on Iranian oppression and elevate Twitter to the level of change agent. Even the government of Iran has been forced to utilize the very tool they attempted to squelch to try to hold on to power.

Washington - The video gave substance to what seemed so far away. We saw the look in her eyes as they went lifeless. We heard the sounds of her friends and family as they begged her to hold on. And she became the personification of the struggle for democracy in a country where voices for freedom are quelled. Her name was Neda Agha-Soltan, and without Twitter we might never have known that she lived in Iran, that she dreamed of a free Iran, and that she died in a divided Iran for her dreams. Neda became the voice of a...

The Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in Oslo on Friday, often generates a certain amount of controversy. This year's award to peacebroker Martti Ahtisaari seems to take the prize back to its roots. Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, whose will both funded and set up the terms of the Nobel prizes, decreed that the Peace Prize should go to whoever "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the holding and promotion of peace congresses." In recent years, though, the prize has gone to environmental champions, human rights...

Iranian "Mothers For Peace" Protest To Ahmadinejad Tehran, 8 Dec. (IPS) In a move to demonstrate their, and the nation’s preoccupation from the antagonistic attitude of the Iranian Government with the international community, more than 600 Iranian women told the clerical-led authorities that they would not support the regime’s nuclear ambitions if war is the price to pay for it. United in a new organization named “Mothers For Peace”, the signatories of a petition warned the fanatic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he should stop at once all nuclear activities if it is to cost Iran a war: “We all know...

THERE is a beautiful congruency about Al Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 24 hours after a High Court judge had declared it illegal to screen his 'man-made' climate change propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth in schools, unless accompanied by contradictory information to correct its scientific falsehoods. The judge identified nine scientific errors that would mislead pupils. It takes more than nine inconvenient untruths, however, to deflect the Nobel Peace Prize committee from its political purpose. For aficionados of irony, last week was a deeply satisfying experience. To see the humbugs of the Nobel committee embracing the charlatan Gore to...

Speaker Pelosi meets with Vice President Gore on global warming Reactions to Gore's Nobel win As progressives all over the United States and the world celebrate the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the IPCC, leaders and media outlets everywhere are reacting to the news. First, an excerpt from a terrific Reuters analysis (/sarc): The Nobel Peace Prize he won on Friday was a blow to U.S. President George W. Bush and his widely criticized environmental policy and will long be savored by the man who lost the bitter 2000 presidential election by a whisker. The...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, who opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, was named Monday as the winner of the 2007 Sydney Peace Prize. Blix led the hunt for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and argued against the 2003 invasion -- which was joined by Australia -- saying the United Nations should be allowed to continue inspections instead. The citation for the 50,000 Australian dollar (41,000 US) award noted his "principled and courageous opposition to proponents of war in Iraq," his life-long advocacy of non-violence and his leadership of disarmament programs. Blix, a Swede,...

The media can and will ignore one point of view in favor of another (while downplaying the less favorable), because they can. Because they disagree. I’m here to tell you, though, that Al Gore’s contributions to society and world peace or no less important than Limbaugh’s. That’s not to say Rush should win, more than Al Gore shouldn’t. But I’m not on the committee, and (God willing) never will be. So, like Henry Kissinger, Mikhail Gorbachev and Jimmy Carter, Al Gore may well win the Nobel Prize. And Limbaugh, like Gandhi and Pope John XXIII, will not.

Excerpt - The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below".

China blasts nomination of Rabiya Kadir as Nobel peace prize BEIJING, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Tuesday blasted the nomination of Rabiya Kadir as a Nobel peace prize candidate. Rabiya's statements and actions are aimed at destroying the peace and stability of Chinese society, which runs counter to the original intention of the Nobel peace prize, said Qin at a regular Ministry news briefing when responding to a journalist's question. He added that he wondered about the motive behind the nomination of such a person as a Nobel peace prize candidate. Qin said Rabiya...

Nobel winners call on US to ease up on North Korea Sat Jun 17, 8:54 AM ET The United States should end sanctions on North Korea and the North must be open for inspectors to help end a standoff over the North's atomic ambitions, Nobel Peace Prize winners said on Saturday. The recommendation from a group of 10 individuals and organizations who won the Nobel Prize comes as regional tensions are high over the North's refusal to return to six-country nuclear talks and worries it may soon test fire a missile. The group called on North Korea to return to...

(You must register to hear this, but it only takes a few minutes). http://kfi640.com/podcastlogin.html LISTEN TO THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT ON THIS MORNING'S SHOW Note: on a personal note, this guy banned me from calling his show several years ago after I called Bill Clinton a rapist on his show. Hey, that's okay. This stunt is pretty cool, so I'll give him credit for it. ====================================================================== In an effort to mock the Nobel Peace Prize nominations, William Wulf Handel, morning host on KFI 640 in Los Angeles, convince a S. California congressman to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Price. The...

MI5 unmasks covert arms programmes: Document names 300 organisations seeking nuclear and WMD technology Nuclear and other WMD jihad update from The Guardian, with thanks to Sr. Soph: The determination of countries across the Middle East and Asia to develop nuclear arsenals and other weapons of mass destruction is laid bare by a secret British intelligence document which has been seen by the Guardian. More than 360 private companies, university departments and government organisations in eight countries, including the Pakistan high commission in London, are identified as having procured goods or technology for use in weapons programmes. The length of...

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Her name is among 1,000 women from more than 150 countries collectively nominated for the annual award and one of 14 from the Bay Area. The nominees were chosen by an international team to represent the many women who have worked for peace throughout the world. Lee was selected for being the only member of Congress to vote against the post-Sept. 11 resolution that authorized Pres. Bush to use military force in the fight against terrorism. Project organizers also said that Lee promotes human rights policies and...

Although he is a man who heads an organization in meltdown -- and whose own performance in his most recent U.N. positions has verged on disastrous -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan remains something of a cult hero to hard-core U.N. devotees among the media and cultural elite. In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize for his peacemaking efforts. In 2002, he won the John. F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his work. In announcing the award, the Kennedy Library Foundation praised Mr. Annan's "courageous and skillful leadership," his work to "confront ... agressors" and "his tireless efforts to advance the...

Is it too early to think about it? A Nobel Peace Prize for President Bush? THIS WEBSITE HAS THE LIST OF PAST WINNERS Yes, things are tentative, but they are certainly moving in the right direction. Freedom and elections in Afghanistan and Iraq. Libya giving up WMD programs. Syria about to move out of Lebanon. Other candidates running in Egypt. Election reforms in Saudi Arabia. Across the Middle East, people are asking why they can't also have elections and choose their own leaders. We all know the reason for the good news. It is the Bush Doctrine. President Bush never...

"We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds, and in the process heal our own, indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder," she told the crowd of dignitaries, including the Norwegian royal family as well as talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Kerry Kennedy, a daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Mrs. Maathai's selection for the peace prize raised eyebrows because of earlier assertions that scientists had created the AIDS virus as a biological weapon.