Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize....

Started by mrvolvo, 10/09/2009 09:47AM
Posted 10/09/2009 09:47AM Opening Post
...then "bombs" the Moon. Go figure.
Posted 10/09/2009 11:24AM #1
Thomas Holst said:

...then "bombs" the Moon. Go figure.

I don't know the first thing about Nobel prizes, i.e. the criteria for getting one and the award process. If Obama is the most deserving individual, then I feel sorry for a world that has no more Mother Theresa's.
That being said, I would guess that the prize is a celebration of the demise of a foreign policy that was ill conceived, half baked, expensive, and poorly executed.
Posted 10/09/2009 12:08PM #2
I was stunned when I heard this. He has yet to do anything to merit the award. I think even the most diehard Obama supporters on this board know this. It seems to me to be politically correct BS.

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Posted 10/09/2009 04:16PM #3
Thomas Holst said:

...then "bombs" the Moon. Go figure.

And Russia:


"Moscow and Washington are now holding talks so Russia can "understand the configuration" of the new missile defence system, Lavrov said, but he added that reports of some US proposals were raising eyebrows in Moscow.
He said a recent US report that the United States might include Ukraine in its missile defence plans was "rather unexpected."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b7e17999d24b623dab177751add0db63.441&show_article=1

David E
Posted 10/09/2009 05:22PM #4
My thoughts:

January 20, 2009
Taliban bomb kills Afghan police

January 20, 2009
U.S. celebrates as President Obama vows new era
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.inauguration/index.html

February 18, 2009
Pakistani government does deal with Taliban on sharia law
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/16/pakistan.taliban.sharia.law/index.html

March 9, 2009
Obama floats talking with Taliban
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/09/obama-floats-talking-with-taliban/

Tue March 31, 2009
Clinton backs talks with moderate Taliban
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/31/clinton.afghanistan/index.html

April 22, 2009
Taliban claims victory near Islamabad
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/pakistan.taliban/index.html

July 7, 2009
Pakistan: Taliban buying children for suicide attacks
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/07/pakistan.child.bombers/index.html

July 30, 2009
New Taliban rule book calls for fewer suicide attacks
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/30/taliban.code.conduct/index.html

Really!!??

August 15, 2009
Blast in Kabul kills 7, injures dozens
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/afghanistan.explosion/index.html

August 22, 2009
Monitors: Taliban cut off fingers of Afghan voters
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/22/afghanistan.election/index.html
(These must be the 'moderate' Taliban as they left the victims alive...)

September 23, 2009
Taliban suspected of stockpiling 'missing' Afghan opium
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/afghanistan.opium.trade/index.html

October 5, 2009
Gates: Taliban has the momentum in Afghanistan
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/05/gates-taliban-has-the-momentum-in-afghanistan/

October 8th, 2009
Taliban claims suicide attack outside Indian embassy in Kabul; 17 killed
http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/08/taliban-claims-suicide-attack-outside-indian-embassy-in-kabul-17-killed/

October 9th, 2009
Suicide bomb blast kills at least 49 in northern Pakistan
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/09/pakistan.bomb.blast/index.html

October 9th, 2009
Obama 'humbled' by peace prize honor

Apparently Obama's plan for world peace is for the U.S. to lose in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I can see why that is popular on the world stage. Never mind the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons, once we have all converted to the Taliban’s religious views, and all the infidels are dead, the world will know peace. All praise to Allah! And Obama too!
Posted 10/09/2009 05:25PM #5
Just what in the Heck has he done to win that prize? I don't think that there has been a single action that he has done that deserves a medal and it is not because I do not support him either. He hasn't done a thing in 9 months really.

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Posted 10/11/2009 11:41PM #6
The numerous American troops who have died in Afghanistan of late certainly would not agree with the committee's selection.

By the way Cloudynights locked a thread on this very topic just the other day. A good reason for many of their members to migrate to this forum. Political events affect every avenue of our lives and we most certainly should be allowed to speak about them. Or are we tongueless cattle to be herded through a maze of barricades?

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Posted 11/08/2009 03:11AM #7
Anti-Empire Report

Nov 07, 2009 By William Blum

William Blum's ZSpace Page / ZSpace

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — Voltaire

Question: How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Five. Barack Obama has waged war against only Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. He's holding off on Iran until he actually gets the prize.

Somalian civil society and court system are so devastated from decades of war that one wouldn't expect its citizens to have the means to raise serious legal challenges to Washington's apparent belief that it can drop bombs on that sad land whenever it appears to serve the empire's needs. But a group of Pakistanis, calling themselves "Lawyers Front for Defense of the Constitution", and remembering just enough of their country's more civilized past, has filed suit before the nation's High Court to make the federal government stop American drone attacks on countless innocent civilians. The group declared that a Pakistan Army spokesman claimed to have the capability to shoot down the drones, but the government had made a policy decision not to. 1

The Obama administration, like the Bush administration, behaves like the world is one big lawless Somalia and the United States is the chief warlord. On October 20 the president again displayed his deep love of peace by honoring some 80 veterans of Vietnam at the White House, after earlier awarding their regiment a Presidential Unit Citation for its "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry". 2 War correspondent Michael Herr has honored Vietnam soldiers in his own way: "We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop." 3

What would it take for the Obamaniacs to lose any of the stars in their eyes for their dear Nobel Laureate? Perhaps if the president announced that he was donating his prize money to build a monument to the First — "Oh What a Lovely" — World War? The memorial could bear the inscription: "Let us remember that Rudyard Kipling coaxed his young son John into enlisting in this war. John died his first day in combat. Kipling later penned these words:

"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."

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