And the Peace Nobel Prize for 2009 goes to...

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October 09, 2009, 04:08:05 AM


Martinus

#1
October 09, 2009, 04:09:55 AM
QuoteObama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

US President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Committee said he was awarded it for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".

There were a record 205 nominations for this year's prize.

The laureate - chosen by a five-member committee - wins a gold medal, a diploma and 10m Swedish kronor ($1.4m).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8298580.stm

Pedrito

#2
October 09, 2009, 04:10:01 AM
 :huh:

L.
b / h = h / b+h


27 Zoupa Points, redeemable at the nearest liquor store! :woot:

MadBurgerMaker

#3
October 09, 2009, 04:11:55 AM
Wait what??

Viking

#4
October 09, 2009, 04:13:54 AM
WTF?
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Martinus

#6
October 09, 2009, 04:17:28 AM
Maybe it's a ploy to arrest him for war crimes or something. Sorta like Polanski reversed. :P

Martinus

#7
October 09, 2009, 04:19:11 AM
Quote from: Viking on October 09, 2009, 04:13:54 AM
WTF?

LOL yeah, the dude hasn't even been a President for a year, and he has not really accomplished anything significant in this time (hell, he even hasn't closed down Gitmo). In terms of actions, not gestures, in the international arena America is pretty much exactly in the same spot it was under Bush.

Agelastus

#8
October 09, 2009, 04:21:41 AM
 :lmfao:

This must be the most laughable choice yet; he's done nothing to deserve the Prize, he hasn't had time to!
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Alexandru H.

#9
October 09, 2009, 04:22:37 AM
WTF? :huh:

This is really going too far.

Viking

#10
October 09, 2009, 04:26:20 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 09, 2009, 04:19:11 AM
Quote from: Viking on October 09, 2009, 04:13:54 AM
WTF?

LOL yeah, the dude hasn't even been a President for a year, and he has not really accomplished anything significant in this time (hell, he even hasn't closed down Gitmo). In terms of actions, not gestures, in the international arena America is pretty much exactly in the same spot it was under Bush.

He hasn't actually changed ANYTHING! (yet). What Obama has done for the past year is A) Deal with the Credit Crunch and B) Try to pass Obamacare. B) has failed so far and the credit for A) more justifiably belongs to Brown and Darling than it does any other humans on this planet. Now these two things were vital and necessary but nothing that George W Bush wasn't already doing before leaving office.

Look, Obama is great and I'd be proud to carry his babies but he has not done anything worthy of this Prize. This will further devalue the peace prize and it shows the continuing irrationality of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. This is more a prize for what he is, being president as a black second generation america, and who he isn't, George W Bush.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Martinus

#11
October 09, 2009, 04:26:29 AM
Maybe they want to give it now before he is assassinated?

Viking

#12
October 09, 2009, 04:28:08 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 09, 2009, 04:26:29 AM
Maybe they want to give it now before he is assassinated?

They can do what they did for Gandhi, decline to hand out the prize after he had been assassinated, since the rules don't allow posthumous awards.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Alexandru H.

#13
October 09, 2009, 04:33:16 AM
The award has always been political but at least it had some style. They wanted to protest against the Birmanese dictatorship, they elected some peace activist and handed him the award. They wanted to celebrate the ending of a war, they gave the award to the heads of state that made it possible. But Obama receiving it after doing absolutely nothing... it's a new low for the Comitee.... "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples" is not a good reason. Not at all.

Admiral Yi

#14
October 09, 2009, 04:34:22 AM
he he

This foolishness wouldn't have happened if Slag was still in the country.
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