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[The Bobster]

[Bondrock]

of course Obama is not a war criminal. lobbing those kinds of accusations does little to add to the discussion here.

5 Norwegians seem to be trying to influence the US President in his decision making process. that is the issue as I see it.

[bassexpander]

[Old Gil]

[alphalfa]

Awarding a Nobel peace prize to Obama is a crock of kimchi poo!!

The Nobel Prize Committee has done something extraordinary. It has awarded the world�s most prestigious prize for preventing and savings lives, for avoiding or ending conflict, for making the world a better and safer place, to a man who has...made some terrific speeches. It is the ultimate triumph of style over substance, of perception over reality.

But perhaps fitting nonetheless. The Nobel Peace prize is in itself the ultimate irony. Alfred Nobel was the man who invented dynamite � a destroyer of lives -- yet his name bears the honor bestowed on those who would save lives.

President Obama may well bring about nuclear disarmament, universal world peace and a permanent cessation of war. At this point, however, he has only made a handful of speeches about them. He has done nothing of substance -- he has not halted one nuclear enrichment plant, stopped one missile program, converted one terrorist , signed one treaty or even softened one bellicose speech by an adversary.

In a world where there are real nuclear weapons and real enemies, the notion that the perception of peace matters more than its reality is not just absurd, it's dangerous.

Ronald Reagan brought down the Iron Curtain, freed millions from tyranny, ended the Cold War, defeated the Soviet Union, ELIMINATED tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, and he didn't even get an honorable mention from the Nobel Committee. Obama makes (by my count) 7 great speeches and he gets a Nobel Peace Prize. Go figure.


And then this...

The ten elderly Norwegians who sit on the selection committee made no bones about what they hoped this award might bear.

Nobel spokesman Thorbjorn Jagland told reporters that he hoped the prize would support Obama's efforts to address nuclear proliferation and climate change and to work through established international bodies (pointedly, unlike his predecessor) to pursue his goals.

"We have not given the prize for what may happen in the future," Jagland said. "We are awarding Obama for what he has done in the past and we are hoping this may contribute a little bit to what he is trying to do."

In its statement, the committee singled out Obama's speech on Islam delivered in Cairo last spring, a reaching out that was well, if cautiously, received at the time.


Star power was what won this award, his critics say. Where's the achievement?

It's not hard to believe that the president, being awakened at dawn and told he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, immediately asked if it could be given back.

Shame on the Nobel committee!

[visitorq]

[catman]

He should have turned the prize down. This will be an albatross that will come back to haunt him.

[pkang0202]

How come Reagan never won the Peace Prize for helping end the Cold War?

You would think united Germany in itself is a worthy accomplishment to warrant the Peace Prize.

Oh wait, Reagan was a Republican. I guess that disqualified him.

[flakfizer]

[Triban]

Thank you.

I have lost all faith in humanity.

[Koveras]

[Old Gil]

[Kuros]

Couldn't the committee have given Obama another three years' opportunity to earn this?

[Gopher]

[BoholDiver]

Must have been a slow year.