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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize in Surprise Pick
Wall Street Journal ^ | 9 Oct 2009 | Paul Sonne

Posted on 10/09/2009 4:25:37 AM PDT by docbnj

President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a surprise pick from the Norwegian Nobel Committee that cited the president's creation of a "new climate in international politics."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nobel; norway; obama
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To: babble-on

Mrs. Hun just asked me “Don’t you have to do something to win a Nobel Peace Prize”.

I just shook my head.......


41 posted on 10/09/2009 4:50:40 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: wetgundog

don’t forget El Baradei!


42 posted on 10/09/2009 4:51:03 AM PDT by avital2
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To: Infidel Heather
I'm absolutely speechless! I know the Nobel Peace Prize has long since become a joke - Yassir Arafat? - but this goes beyond irony and into absurdity.
43 posted on 10/09/2009 4:51:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: docbnj

He hasn’t done a damn thing.


44 posted on 10/09/2009 4:51:39 AM PDT by Dallas59 (No To O)
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To: docbnj

this is the most hilarious thing yet to happen to obama ROFLMAO


45 posted on 10/09/2009 4:52:35 AM PDT by wafflehouse (RE-ELECT NO ONE !)
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To: docbnj

The new criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize:

Clean

Articulate

Black


46 posted on 10/09/2009 4:53:51 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: docbnj

They awarded him the Nobel Prize simply because the Emperor of the World Award hasn’t been created yet.


47 posted on 10/09/2009 4:55:40 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: Libloather

The Nobel prize committee acted stupidly.


48 posted on 10/09/2009 4:56:15 AM PDT by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: docbnj

The Nobel march to irrelevancy is relentless.


49 posted on 10/09/2009 5:01:17 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (ZerOcare: Bureaucratic best practices equals death panels.)
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To: tatsinfla

Trust me, by 2012 a country full of very angry voters are going to much more pre-occupied with runaway inflation, double-digit unemployment, high interest rates, turning tail and running in Afghanistan and multi-trillion dollar deficits to be concerned with some stupid award that Barry won back in 2009.


50 posted on 10/09/2009 5:01:26 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: A.Hun
The new criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize:

Clean

Articulate

Black

You must add to requirement #2: Teleprompters are allowed.

51 posted on 10/09/2009 5:02:28 AM PDT by Will88
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To: babble-on

By giving him the Nobel Prize, the International Community is telegraphing him that they expect more: disarmament, appeasement, foreign aid, and apologies.

BHO’s ego just increased 10X. At this rate, it will consume the universe by the end of his term.


52 posted on 10/09/2009 5:03:10 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Texas Jack

“Jimmuh Carter
Al Gore
Zero”

Don’t forget Arafat, a peace-loving man if ever there was one.


53 posted on 10/09/2009 5:03:40 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: docbnj
Oh goody!

He can put his Nobel Prize on the mantel, right next to his Bowling Trophy.

oh .. wait a sec...

54 posted on 10/09/2009 5:04:13 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: docbnj

SNL gonna be good this Saturday .


55 posted on 10/09/2009 5:04:22 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (-:{ 0bama's dream is an American NIGHTMARE }:-)
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To: Will88
It makes me want to puke....

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56 posted on 10/09/2009 5:05:27 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: docbnj

What next ???? AL Franken wins NOBEL award for voter fraud .


57 posted on 10/09/2009 5:07:39 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 (-:{ 0bama's dream is an American NIGHTMARE }:-)
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To: docbnj

This is hysterically funny. We all knew that the Nobel Peace Prize had become meaningless, but now it’s a joke!


58 posted on 10/09/2009 5:07:42 AM PDT by McGavin999 (How's that change old Hopey Dope promised you working out?)
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To: A.Hun

“Yep, when all Bush did was free 25 million people from a sadistic tyrant.”

Clarification: President Bush liberated about 50 MILLION people. He liberated both Iraq and Afghanistan from horrific governments. He also stood up for each individuals right to life and saved millions of lives in Africa. He truly is a man of peace and a good Christian man as well. God help us with the perverse nature of the world today. Evil is really coming on strong.


59 posted on 10/09/2009 5:08:45 AM PDT by Wpin (I do not regret my admiration for W)
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To: Kimmers; babble-on
He was in office for two weeks before the deadline closed for nominations and the man had done nothing
. . . except promise to close Gitmo, and bow to the king of Saudi Arabia.
won it for not being George Bush

2 posted on October 9, 2009 7:26:26 AM EDT by babble-on

and winning election to the presidency.
The Nobel prize committee did continue their fine tradition of choosing people who are anti Israel and anti American......so we can give them props for consistency......
Actually, what's the big deal? I mean, how much is the prize worth? George Soros would buy and sell the Nobel Committee. Not that he would have too . . .

60 posted on 10/09/2009 5:09:33 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (SPENDING without representation is tyranny. To represent us you have to READ THE BILLS.)
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