Barack Obama wins the Peace Prize

http://www.cnn.com ^

[marthemaria]

President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

[Ulysse]

Confirmation that the Nobel prize is a farce and the jury a bunch of clowns

[manc]

adams should never get one at all.

He was responsible for over 3000 deaths including two of my friends.
To say that he should astounds me and that is the first time I have ever heard of that terrorist getting a nobel.

[ETL]

"Total nuclear disarmament", Obama, Russia and the commie left
various sources

Posted on Sunday, July 05, 2009 12:51:21 PM ET by ETL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285983/posts

[Iowamerican]

This has got to make Bush and Cheney’s morning!

They truly wanted to promote freedom and peace in the world and having the “prize” go to this imbecile just validates most of their foreign policies.

Bush-Cheney-mmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm! Sarah Palin-MMMM MMMM MMMM!

[ETL]

From the campaign trail, February 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert [they are NOT on "hair-trigger alert" now -etl], and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:
http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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"I will not weaponize space"

"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems"

2008 Pentagon Report (March 2008):
China's Growing Military Space Power
By Leonard David
Special Correspondent, SPACE.com
March 6, 2008

GOLDEN, Colorado — A just-released Pentagon report spotlights a growing U.S. military concern that China is developing a multi- dimensional program to limit or prevent the use of space-based assets by its potential adversaries during times of crisis or conflict.

Furthermore, last year's successful test by China of a direct-ascent, anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon to destroy its own defunct weather satellite, the report adds, underscores that country's expansion from the land, air, and sea dimensions of the traditional battlefield into the space and cyber-space domains.

Although China's commercial space program has utility for non- military research, that capability demonstrates space launch and control know-how that have direct military application. Even the Chang'e 1 — the Chinese lunar probe now circling the Moon — is flagged in the report as showcasing China's ability "to conduct complicated space maneuvers — a capability which has broad implications for military counterspace operations."

To read the entire publication [29.67MB/pdf], see U.S. Dept of Defense:
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf

[bustinchops]

When the fall comes, I pray there isn’t one of those government safety nets waiting for him. Let gravity work its magic ferociously and for a good, long time.

[theDentist]

Peace Prize? Maybe Apeasement Prize. The guy hasn’t done sh** for peace. Just proved the Nobel committee are just a liberal front for horsesh**, like the Kennedy Center Awards, just handed out to liberal schmucks.

[Hot Tabasco]

Mutual admiration society......why not. This puts him right up there on that pedestal next to Jimmy Carter making them the two best presidents ever to run this country..(into the mud)

[Moose4]

Are. You. Freaking. Kidding. Me.

Maybe the Scandis threw him this bone because Rio got the Olympics.

}:-)4

[Ulysse]

A bad try to influence US policy!

He did nothing yet!
That’s why he got the price maybe?

[Whenifhow]

Re: “what a joke.”

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Rush will have a field day with this — Mmm Mmm Mmm!!!!!!!

>>>>>
I turned to NBC to see their reaction.

Meredeth said there were gasps in the briefing room.

Matt said (regarding why)...it was an effort to award him based on what he is capable of doing....
(paraphrased)

[manc]

actually after reading what you wrote again I can only assume that you were being sarcastic and that there is no way on this earth could you or anyone outside the loony terrorist left circle ever would think that a terrorist or a leader of a terrorist group would ever be thought of as a peace nobel winner.

[jennyjenny]

Is this what the permanent Office of Olympics Committee money paid for?

Exactly! That's why he went. But remember, it's not about him. Maybe Michelle can get one next time.

[piasa]

I’m hoping he hits Pelosi and Reid on the way down.

[Merlinator]

It’s Obummer’s consolation prize for not being able to coerce the Olympic committee. They had to be feeling sorry for the F**k-up-in Chief, that is the only explanation that makes any sense.

[Right_in_Virginia]

A bad try to influence US policy!

Absolutely. But, with Zero at the helm the influence will be successful.

[ETL]

President Obama and Venezuela dictator Hugo
Chavez at the 2009 Summit of the Americas in Trinidad

Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97KK2T00&show_article=1
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Russia's Medvedev hails "comrade" Obama

Associated Foreign Press (AFP) ^ | April 2, 2009 | Anna Smolchenko

"Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks"

http://www.france24.com/en/20090402-russias-medvedev-hails-comrade-obama

April 1, 2009:
"Obama, Medvedev pledge new era of relations":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090401/wl_afp/usrussiadiplomacynuclear_20090401152002
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From National Public Radio (NPR):
August 29, 2006
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764

[earlJam]

He wins the Peace Prize for giving the green light to the nuclear programs in Iran, North Korea and now Venezuela?

[Little Pig]

So, given that the nominations had to be in by Feb 1, the sum total of his resume for being nominated is:

A few years as a small-time political rabble-rouser in Chicago; one incomplete term in the Illinois state senate, where some 90% of the time he lacked the conviction to vote anything other than the equivalent of “here”, and one of the few true votes he cast was to deny medical treatment to infants that had survived an abortion; One incomplete term in the US Senate, where again some 90% of the time he couldn’t muster more than a “present”; getting elected President, and going on vacation.

[kinsman redeemer]

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