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Today in History: October 9, Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Associated Press  ^
 | October 8, 2025
Posted on 10/09/2025 6:14:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dei; deinobel; dontremindus; farce; hussein; newsforumabuse; nobelpeaceprize; notnews; obama; smokybackroomforum
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
    And we still don’t know why.
 
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:15:48 PM PDT
by 
Jonty30
(Socialism's promises, like a Djinn's wishes to the greedy, lead to punishment when due. )
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    Obama made the Nobel Prize worthless, such that announcements about fail to stir my bride and I any more. A next Nobel Prize winner? Meh.
 
To: Jonty30
    It was his “Apology Tour” where as he bowed down to all world leaders.
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:19:18 PM PDT
by 
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken  that's for sure.)
 
To: Jonty30
    It was for his “effort”. Reminded me much of a child getting a participation trophy.
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    The Associated Press making an attempt to assert dominance over its adversaries.
“Our guy got it but not yours”
 
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:20:16 PM PDT
by 
ProgressingAmerica
(We cannot vote our way out of these problems.  The only way out is to activist our way out.)
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:22:42 PM PDT
by 
lightman
(Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    That was a fun day here on Free Republic.
There were so many snarky and wisecrack threads and comments made about Obama. And about the Nobel Peace Prize in general. And how absurd their criteria were for selecting him, when he had accomplished nothing at that point.
 
To: Jonty30
    “And we still don’t know why.”
Because he fundamentally transformed the US.
 
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:29:50 PM PDT
by 
MarDav
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    And then he went on to bomb the snot out of Libya, tried to overthrow Egypt and failed, and perpetuated a civil war in Syria by arming and funding Jihadist rebels who were also part of ISIS. But he was a socialist and hated Israel so he got a Peace Prize.
 
To: Dilbert San Diego
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:34:19 PM PDT
by 
gundog
(The ends justify the mean tweets. )
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    The Ignoble Peeps Prize for Bronco Bama.
 
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:35:20 PM PDT
by 
kiryandil
(No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    He actually won the prize for being the cleanest and best dressed Negro in America. 
 World Peace? Not so much. 
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:37:06 PM PDT
by 
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord,  for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever.  — Psalm 106)
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    I went to high school in Americus GA, about 8 miles from Plains. Was part of "President Jimmy Carter's Home Representative Band."
We went and played when Sadat and Begin came to town. Begin really liked our "Fight Song", I think we played it 26 times in a row.
Carter got the Peace Prize. Has there ever been "peace" in that area? No, and there never will be.
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:39:13 PM PDT
by 
real saxophonist
(Michael Bennet claps on 1 and 3.)
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:40:07 PM PDT
by 
4Liberty
(One person’s Socialism is another’s neighborliness. -Tim Walz)
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    So this means that if Trump is selected he is just as good as obama?
Some prizes I would never want to win.
 
To: Jonty30
    In the black vernacular, “he don’t know and he don’t care.”
Clue:
It had EVERYTHING to do with the COLOR OF HIS SKIN, not his CHARACTER!
Did we not find that fact, sooner than later?
Awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize cheapened it’s very meaning.
A big mistake that can’t be changed of reversed.
 
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:47:36 PM PDT
by 
BatGuano
(Donald J. Trump, thank you!.)
 
To: Oldeconomybuyer
    He won it for being Black. Amazing.
 
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posted on 
10/09/2025 6:54:18 PM PDT
by 
FlingWingFlyer
(The New DemonRAT Amerika! If you don't like your political opponent, kill them and their family.)
 
To: Jonty30
    A DEI Nobel prize.
That’s the only reason he got it other than threats to EU marxists if they didn’t go along.
 
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