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Dalai Lama: Obama's Nobel Is 'A Little Early'
SkyNews.com ^ | 12/09/09 | Ian Woods

Posted on 12/09/2009 7:44:42 PM PST by OldDeckHand

As Barack Obama prepares to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the Dalai Lama tells Sky News he believes the award is "a little early".

He also cautioned the US president against relying too much on his advisers.

The exiled Tibetan leader won the Nobel prize 20 years ago for his peaceful opposition to Chinese rule in his country.

President Obama is in Norway to collect his award, which he has controversially been awarded in his first year in office.

Some commentators have joked that the award was for "not being George Bush".

The Dalai Lama told Sky News: "I think if you are realistic, it may have been a little early but it doesn't matter, I know Obama is a very able person.

"Sometimes these individual persons rely on different advice from different people so like former President Bush junior, as a human being I really love him, really wonderful person, very honest, very truthful.

"But I think due to his advisers' views, some of his policies have been a disaster."

The spiritual leader described Mr Obama as "young and energetic".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: china; dalailama; prize; tibet
That's about as close to giving Obama the middle finder as the Lama can get, I'm sure in retaliation for not being invited to the White House in advance of Obama's trip to China.
1 posted on 12/09/2009 7:44:45 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

The Dali Llama doesn’t like this guy...so...we got that going for us...


2 posted on 12/09/2009 7:46:27 PM PST by jessduntno (Stop The Federal Usurpation.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Do ya think...?


3 posted on 12/09/2009 7:48:05 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: OldDeckHand

He doesn’t need the presidency either.


4 posted on 12/09/2009 7:48:28 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: OldDeckHand
I read that the Norwegians are in an uproar over Obama's snubbing of most of the Nobel ceremony, and his disrespect to the King of Norway. Obama does not bow down to white kings it seems.

Can't say the Norwegians did not deserve this!


5 posted on 12/09/2009 7:50:28 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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To: sionnsar

On the other hand, the so-called “Nobel Peace Prize” has long since been shown to be nothing but a worthless joke that isn’t even funny.


6 posted on 12/09/2009 7:50:35 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: FormerACLUmember
I read that the Norwegians are in an uproar over Obama's snubbing of most of the Nobel ceremony, and his disrespect to the King of Norway. Obama does not bow down to white kings it seems.

You reap what you sow. They trashed the "Prize" so long ago, it's not surprising it came to this. After all, the "Zero" deserved this merely by existing.

7 posted on 12/09/2009 7:52:57 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: jessduntno

“A big hitter the Lama......”


8 posted on 12/09/2009 7:53:37 PM PST by Apercu ("A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus)
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To: OldDeckHand
"As Barack Obama prepares to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the Dalai Lama tells Sky News he believes the award is "a little early"."

Naaah. The Nobel Piece Prize and 0bama are a perfect match . . . neither is worth "a bucket of warm spit."

9 posted on 12/09/2009 8:06:04 PM PST by YHAOS
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To: OldDeckHand

Saying Obama’s Nobel is a little early is like saying the sun is a little hot.


10 posted on 12/09/2009 8:06:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: jessduntno

>> The Dali Llama doesn’t like this guy...so...we got that going for us...

Dali Llama, Dick Cheney, and not to forget, Viking Kitty!


11 posted on 12/09/2009 8:08:43 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: OldDeckHand
re: Obama is a very able person.)))

So, how is this a slam at Obama?

12 posted on 12/09/2009 8:14:08 PM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: OldDeckHand
The Dalai Lama is upset because the 'anointed one' is trying to pretend he is not as much a radical one-worlder as a leftist should be.

Why do liberals generally think so highly of the Dalai Lama?

Its often because they want a way to excuse their immorality and they want to try to find a way to atone for their own wickedness by liberal feel-goodism.

13 posted on 12/09/2009 8:14:47 PM PST by Old Landmarks (No fear of man, none!)
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To: jessduntno
The Dali Llama doesn’t like this guy...so...we got that going for us...

The Lama considers himself "half Marxist and half b*ddhist" and is the world's most politically correct "anti-Communist refugee," so I'm not a huge fan.

14 posted on 12/09/2009 8:19:20 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (VeYisra'el 'ahav-'et Yosef mikkol-banayv ki-ven-zequnim hu' lo; ve`asah lo ketonet passim.)
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To: OldDeckHand

HH the Dalai Lama is quite a master of understatement! But, after Obama ignored the Lama, it was only his virtue that kept him from giving “The One” a well deserved lesson on “comeupance.”


15 posted on 12/09/2009 8:31:53 PM PST by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: OldDeckHand

The Dalai Lama has crossed over from the red hat Mahayana Buddhist sect to the retrograde bat shit crazy Hinayana sect.

Poor man. He’s about to set back Tibetan Buddhism 10,000 years. Look for a tree to swing in and try to catch a glimpse of the last mandala.

This guy is really blowing up the buddhist religion. Need a few new tulkas to refresh the movement.


16 posted on 12/09/2009 8:35:50 PM PST by sergeantdave
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I don’t think he’s really living the life of an austre monk. Does anyone know if he stays in a hotel or camps out in a tent?


17 posted on 12/09/2009 8:51:25 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

“The Lama considers himself “half Marxist and half b*ddhist” and is the world’s most politically correct “anti-Communist refugee,””

There’s funny irony in that statement.


18 posted on 12/09/2009 8:52:45 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Niuhuru

Dalai Lama is right on the money—I predict that Obama will do nothing to merit this award in his whole 4 years in the White House. He has shown all that he can do—bow and give speeches.


19 posted on 12/09/2009 10:22:51 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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