Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The following is a statement from the Norwegian Nobel Committee on the decision to award Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. See full story.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
 
I have just witnessed the world turning into the Onion......what is the saying.....that which can be imagined, cannot be excluded.....
 
That makes him the 4th US President to win the Prize and the second sitting President. I'm surprised and mildly shocked that this would come this early in his first term.
 
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Really? I didn't know tools like him had pieces. Or maybe they meant a different 'piece', which would make a lot more sense.

In all honesty, his vision and idea of a world without nukes is nice, but isn't it disingenuous to give him an award when he hasn't even accomplished a shred of that idea?
 
third sitting pres

morons run wild this morning, stop read again and see what reasoned educated people think of Obama.
 
Topspin said:
third sitting pres

morons run wild this morning, stop read again and see what reasoned educated people think of Obama.
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I could care less what a bunch of ivory tower elitists like yourself think of him. I'm intelligent enough to form my own opinion.
 
CaptBillyTheKid said:
Really? I didn't know tools like him had pieces. Or maybe they meant a different 'piece', which would make a lot more sense.

In all honesty, his vision and idea of a world without nukes is nice, but isn't it disingenuous to give him an award when he hasn't even accomplished a shred of that idea?
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Sure it would be nice, a lot of things would be nice, but it ain't gonna happen.
 
This is just Affirmative Action writ large. *shrug*

The value of the prize itself is diluted with this farce.
 
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