Posted on 10/09/2009 5:52:07 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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In a clear swipe at his predecessor, George W. Bush, the committee praised the change in the international climate that the President had brought, along with his cherished goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
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But Lech Walesa, [SNIP], who won the Peace Prize in 1983, [SNIP], declaring: So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far.
Mr Obamas domestic critics leapt on the award as evidence of foreigners fawning over an untested celebrity leader.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is a notoriously difficult award to predict, but yesterday's decision was clearly a political choice, with three of the past six peace awards going to Bush adversaries.
In 2002 the prize went to Jimmy Carter as an explicit rejection of the Bush presidency in the build-up to the Iraq war. In 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei, the UN atomic agency chief who had clashed with Washington over the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, was honoured. In 2007 Al Gore received the prize for his warnings on climate change, denounced by President Bush as a liberal myth.
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Thorbjørn Jagland, the committee chairman, made clear that this years prize fell in that category. If you look at the history of the Peace Prize, we have on many occasions given it to try to enhance what many personalities were trying to do, he said. [SNIP]
But Bobby Muller, who won the Nobel Prize as co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, told The Times: "I don't have the highest regard for the thinking or process of the Nobel committee. Maybe Norway should give it to Sweden so they can more properly handle the Peace Prize along with all the other Nobel prizes."
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Thank you! Very well said.
Wow! I forgot about the cross country Nordic ski team. How are they at making snowballs? Maybe that could enter the snow cone contest? I do have to admit that I have a weakness for Scandinavian women. It’s a shame they have to be be wasted on Scandinavian men.
Exactly right - and you deserve a “well said” also!
I don't believe that last sentence was an accidental choice of words.
I’m glad you caught that, I was limited by the excerpt rules. Some of us out there ‘get it’. My brother is blinded by his good job and position. He pretends to be a republican. I just had a conversation with him last night, he just doesn’t get it. It was really a sad talk, and I believe many like him feel that way (the red dogs of the republican party), ‘It will never happen to me’, ‘Obama won’t do that’, ‘our elected people wouldn’t do that’, ad nausea. Just like Reardon’s wife and family and their attitude, the blinders are squarely on, UNTIL IT”S TOO LATE!
Paul Robeson (1952), a freaking communist is on the Peace prize list...he was one of the founders of the CPUSA in Chicago...
I mean, look at the list. It has Jimmy Carter, Yassar freaking Arrafat, and Al Bore on it.
This peace prize business hasn’t meant anything in decades.
More than any other reason, Obama got the NPP because they expect him to sell Israel down the river.
Have you EVER seen a more anti-Semitic president? At least Carter TRIED to hide it.
And People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive...
I think GWB and all those that are on the right side of history can hold their heads up high for what they did. To hell with all these flaming neo marxist bastards. God i miss him already!!
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize has now been degraded to winning the proverbial bozo button.
He was also the owner of Bofors. What a hypocrite.
thxs for the pic
James T wrote:
Three cheers for the Nobel Award Committee for having the courage to award this years Peace Prize to Obama!!! The scoffers of their decision (mainly right-wing Republican losers and their sympathisers) really do not like the Committee's recognition of the paradigm shift in US global policies that has already been brought about by Obama. This Award is very reminiscent of a previous Peace Prize winner, Mikhail Gorbachevs key role in ensuring the collapse of the tyrannical communist regimes in Europe. Whether Obama succeeds or not in future, and whether the scoffers like it or not, the imperialistic US/CIA ambition of world domination has already been irrevocably put in the past by Obamas leadership. Gone are the US cowboys who expect the world to cower at their superior fire power. This in itself has already produced a greater impact on world peace than many of previous Nobel Peace Prize winners. I for one salute the Nobel Committees decision!
October 10, 2009 3:24 PM BST
Interesting post and I dare say how most on the left (Democrats, Europeans, Chinese, etc.) think. It is obvious that Norway, a country that lives in its own Oil Wealth Cocoon, does not worry about Poland, Ukraine and Georgia being bullied by Russia and Obama's unilateral withdrawal of the Missile Defense System? Norway, once a Quisling always a Quisling.
LOL! Don't you just love the irony of that headline?
Exactly. This makes Obama a huge, huge joke and he did nothing. He was minding his own business and received the Nobel Prize. If he had an inkling, he could have told them not to award it to him.
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