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AP Analysis: Obama's Nobel honors promise, not action
AP via Google News ^ | October 8, 2009 | By JENNIFER LOVEN

Posted on 10/09/2009 6:19:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON — The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what?

For one of America's youngest presidents, in office less than nine months — and only for 12 days before the Nobel nomination deadline last February — it was an enormous honor.

The prize seems to be more for Obama's promise than for his performance.

The Nobel committee, it seems, had the audacity to hope that he'll eventually produce a record worthy of its prize.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: socialism; sodomhusseinobama
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1 posted on 10/09/2009 6:19:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The audacity of hype!


2 posted on 10/09/2009 6:20:36 AM PDT by silverleaf (If we are astroturf, why are the democrats trying to mow us?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

An honor?? Being nominated on your 12th day in office should be an embarassment, its a joke.


3 posted on 10/09/2009 6:20:48 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

4 posted on 10/09/2009 6:21:28 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: GeronL

It should be awarded on Halloween.


5 posted on 10/09/2009 6:21:28 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Heisman candidate Obama is looking forward to his next game.


6 posted on 10/09/2009 6:21:30 AM PDT by alrea (Protect your gang from arrest and prosecution by working for the Democrat party.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Should have award it to Cloward and Piven.


7 posted on 10/09/2009 6:21:48 AM PDT by IrishPennant (Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.)
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8 posted on 10/09/2009 6:21:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Politics aside, that seems to be a VERY poor reason to give out any prize. Based on “promise”? That’s like giving the Vince Lombardi trophy to the Giants at the beginning of the season, based on the fact that “they show promise of winning it all.” It’s simply ludicrous.


9 posted on 10/09/2009 6:22:02 AM PDT by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow, even AP via Google is skeptical about this B.S. award.


10 posted on 10/09/2009 6:22:15 AM PDT by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All the Noble “Peace Prize” does now is reward sniveling weasels who make grandiose speeches disparaging America in foreign lands. Consider the past recipients.

They ought to just drop the pretense and rename it the “Nobel Enemy of America Prize”.


11 posted on 10/09/2009 6:22:36 AM PDT by Zeddicus
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To: silverleaf

The audacity of hype, the hilarity of nope.


12 posted on 10/09/2009 6:22:53 AM PDT by behzinlea
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This award and SNL spoof of obama has SHOWN has brought to the front all his accomplishments...NOTHING...this award i hope will backfire on him in the future when he WILL HAVE to increase troops in Afghanistan....When there still will be NO peace in the middle east...

Yup...let them have their party now...

13 posted on 10/09/2009 6:23:06 AM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Talk is precious, action is cheap.

-The motto of the Obama White House


14 posted on 10/09/2009 6:23:32 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is like awarding a Harvard PhD to a 5-year-old on his 10th day of Kindergarten.


15 posted on 10/09/2009 6:23:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Its a joke! What has Obama done to earn it apart from running his ignorant mouth?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

16 posted on 10/09/2009 6:23:34 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m working on curing cancer. I haven’t done it yet but, a Nobel Prize for my efforts sure would mean a lot?


17 posted on 10/09/2009 6:23:36 AM PDT by Mustangman (The GOP)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Affirmative Action really works.


18 posted on 10/09/2009 6:23:49 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Socialists are an Obamination)
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To: Canedawg

It was awarded based on his worldview, nothing more.

This is the same way leftists evaluate intellect -
Marxist - smart
non-Marxist - stupid


19 posted on 10/09/2009 6:24:19 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: GeronL

Question: was the boy bow to the saudi king within the first 10-days? I believe the Egypt trip was within that window, but not sure where the bow fits in. If the bow makes the window, then, well, hey... the nobel committee DID have something to base that award on!


20 posted on 10/09/2009 6:24:31 AM PDT by C210N (A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
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