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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Perhaps it has nothing to do with his current job but on other things he had accomplished. I don't know, I'm just asking. |
That's hilarious.
What are the other things he's accomplished? I know he's not getting the Nobel Peace Prize for being President of the Harvard Law Review and teaching Con Law at UofC.
The whole punchline of all this is its the story of Obama's life: an accolade awarded all too early. |
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Bondrock
Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Location: ^_^
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| but didn't he do that thing that was so wonderful that one time and everyone remembers it now and that is what the committee was thinking about when they gave him a 'prize"? |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| mua'dib wrote: |
Perhaps it has nothing to do with his current job but on other things he had accomplished. I don't know, I'm just asking. |
That's hilarious.
What are the other things he's accomplished? I know he's not getting the Nobel Peace Prize for being President of the Harvard Law Review and teaching Con Law at UofC.
The whole punchline of all this is its the story of Obama's life: an accolade awarded all too early. |
Or you could rephrase it and say the story of his life is winning accolade after accolade while those that don't win stand on the sidelines with fingers wagging, saying too early! Too early! |
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benji
Joined: 21 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| mua'dib wrote: |
Also; if you wish to appear informed quoting Time magazine goes a long way toward hurting your cause. |
Does Time magazine print complete lies or something? |
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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: |
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It seems The Onion has started a trend.
From Marketwatch:
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- In a decision as shocking as Friday's surprise peace prize win, President Obama failed to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Monday.
While few observers think Obama has done anything for world peace in the nearly nine months he's been in office, the same clearly can't be said for economics.
The president has worked tirelessly since even before his inauguration to wrest control of the U.S. economy from failed free markets, and the evil CEOs who profit from them, and to turn it over to wise, fair and benevolent bureaucrats. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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mua'dib
Joined: 29 Sep 2009
Location: sweating pure pocari
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| time magazine is people magazine for people who (think they) can read |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
| mua'dib wrote: |
Perhaps it has nothing to do with his current job but on other things he had accomplished. I don't know, I'm just asking. |
That's hilarious.
What are the other things he's accomplished? I know he's not getting the Nobel Peace Prize for being President of the Harvard Law Review and teaching Con Law at UofC.
The whole punchline of all this is its the story of Obama's life: an accolade awarded all too early. |
Or you could rephrase it and say the story of his life is winning accolade after accolade while those that don't win stand on the sidelines with fingers wagging, saying too early! Too early! |
Yeah, well I suppose it all boils down to whether you think Obama's done well handling things like:
The economic crisis
Long-term economic reform
Health Care reform
Budget crisis
Foreign Affairs*
Anyway, anyone who thinks Obama accomplished much of anything in the US Senate is fooling themselves.
* He's done well here for six months, so lets give him the Nobel! |
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phoenixstorm
Joined: 06 Mar 2007
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow I love how some folks have gone all Kanye West on Obama. Lay off the haterade. Some nobel peace prize winners have actually been awarded the prize for what they stand for and represent or for the potetial and promise that they show. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow I love how some folks have gone all Kanye West on Obama. Lay off the haterade. Some nobel peace prize winners have actually been awarded the prize for what they stand for and represent or for the potetial and promise that they show. |
And what does Obama stand for?
Oh pick me pick me...not really doing...anything?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnMYZDsrJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHEh1ML5OTU |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow I love how some folks have gone all Kanye West on Obama. Lay off the haterade. Some nobel peace prize winners have actually been awarded the prize for what they stand for and represent or for the potetial and promise that they show. |
You know you're on the losing side of the argument when you call the opposing team haters rather than offer reasons or support for your arguments. Mith, here, also displayed the same tactic as you, but with a bit more eloquence.
Anyway, the Nobel prize for peace hasn't gotten any respect it wouldn't deserve for a long time now. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| Anyway, the Nobel prize for peace hasn't gotten any respect it wouldn't deserve for a long time now. |
The committee seems to have decided to use it, in A. Gore and now B. Obama's cases, to wage politics by other means and influence the United States. Positive reinforcement, that sort of thing. While T. Roosevelt, W. Wilson, H. Kissinger/L. Duc Tho, and J. Carter's Nobels make perfect sense to me, I can only reconcile Gore and Obama's as the committee's dramatically repudiating W. Bush.
On the one hand, I resent it. Who do they think they are over there?
On the other hand, it seems to reaffirm their recognition of the importance of American presidents in world affairs. And, looking around at other world leaders today whom I am sure the committee also considered, given these leaders' many fawning admirers capable of nominating them, especially the more vocal ones in the Third World (I am thinking of Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, etc.), this award also shows the committee's respect for American voices in world affairs. America appears as the center of important things here, and not as the declining nation-state so many call it.
The best thing I can say about these two awards, and I now group Gore and Obama's together, is it could have been worse. |
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
Location: Got out! olleh!
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
On the one hand, I resent it. Who do they think they are over there?
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A group of people who know they can make news by giving out an award. |
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ropebreezy
Joined: 27 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:33 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a bit curious as to how and why the Nobel prize has gained so much prestige anyways (I'm too lazy to look it up on Wikipedia.) |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| mua'dib wrote: |
| time magazine is people magazine for people who (think they) can read |
Seconded.
Also, cool name mua'dib. I was a big Dune fan myself. |
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