Friday October 9, 2009, 2:31 am
"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."

The committee said it 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."

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I'm impressed that the Nobel Prize committee has chosen such a young leader - but such an important one leading the free world. He may not have gotten a Health Care bill passed yet, but maybe he'll get another Nobel Prize when he does!

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:05 am
Good for him! Let's hope he carries through the plans that he announced earlier and America departs from emulating the UK's murky past in terms of colonial wars and ill treatment of indigenous populations wherever they may be!

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:31 am
Onya obama, you deserve that and much more!...

Can't understand why George Bush didn't win one though...After all he started two nasty wars to bring peace for America...Makes you wonder, doesn't it?...A 'real' man of the people but not a vey cool cat, was he Kat? :)

Friday October 9, 2009, 4:35 am
Congrats to Pres. Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!! He really deserves this he is really trying hard to get everyone to get along a very difficult feat for anyone and such a worthy cause to work for.
Thank you Kat

Friday October 9, 2009, 5:55 am
Congrats to President Obama, I am a major Obama Mama..I believe he IS leading us in a healing and positive direction. I am Grateful for his recognition in this honor.

Friday October 9, 2009, 5:57 am
Congrats to Pres. Obama. He is truly trying to make this a better world!

Friday October 9, 2009, 6:35 am
This is truly thrilling and I feel he truly deserves the honor! Way to go! and Yes we Can!

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:15 am
This is especially thrillimg to me in light of the cheers Obama got from the right-wing teabaggers when he didn't get the olympics in chicago. Take that all you right-wing nut job Obama haters.

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:19 am
From the world perspective Obama has in fact made major diplomatic overtures...Cuba, Korea, Iran....he has said he chooses diplomacy, this is a message from the global community that we do not forget what the right wing in the US has done to the world as a whole, and we have been watching in disparity your right wing fanatics propagate misinformation about any move the president makes, not to mention the offensive racist things that have started to crop up bit by bit....we the world, have a right to an opinion on American politics as it has ruined the world economy under 8 years of Bush, stymied scientific advancement (ie: stem cell research) under *8 years of Bush, slowed alternative energy initiatives under 8 years of Bush, the world has suffered for the lack of forsight of the US...so a message has been sent, your political autonomy is yours but our world wide price was too high not to be heard loud and clear...

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:43 am
Thanks Peace.Wonderful news!

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:59 am
Wow. I'm a fan of our president but I too don't quite understand this sort of premature bestowal of such an honor. It's been less than 9 months after all. Perhaps they see something we don't, know some of his behind the scenes political actions that we do no or hear little aboutt? Or maybe the comitttee is like the rest of us so happy he's not W that they just went nuts and said 'what the hey.'Who knows? What I do know however is what the ever-hate-spewing Right Wing response will be: 'This confirms he's a socialist,' 'it constitutes a 'wink-wink' endorsement of his socialist agenda,' 'the Swedes are playing politics and the award means nothing.' Am I close you think?

Friday October 9, 2009, 8:32 am
whoopsy, said the Swedes when it's actually the Norwegians. sorry about that. .

Friday October 9, 2009, 8:53 am
"In one sense, the award was a rebuke to the foreign policies of Mr. Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, some of which the president has sought to overturn. Mr. Obama made repairing the fractured relations between the United States and the rest of the world a major theme of his campaign for the presidency. Since taking office as president he has pursued a range of policies intended to fulfill that goal. He has vowed to pursue a world without nuclear weapons, as he did in a speech in Prague earlier this year; reached out to the Muslim world, delivering a major speech in Cairo in June; and sought to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians."

President Obama of the USA... Congrats!

President Obama WORK DILIGENTLY FOR YOUR PEOPLE OF THE USA:
Stop the TERRORISM upon the USA WOMEN in the USA by the heterosexual males!
The USA is not working to halt terrorists, terrorism when in the USA there REMAINS WOMEN AND THE FEMALE POPULATION CONTINUALLY BRUTALLY ATTACKED!
It is TERRORISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STOP the CRIMES AGAINST USA CITIZENS AS THE MAIN FOCI of PRESIDENCY!
HALT THE TERRORISM by heterosexual males against the FEMALE RACE across USA!
SUPPORT 100% HEALING TO RAPED VICTIMS!!!
there IS THE "WAR ON TERRORISM" believable to NATIONS of PEOPLE.
ONLY THAN.

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:01 am
Talathiel I think you got the country right first time around

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:16 am
The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one awarded in Norway the other Nobel Prizes are awarded in Sweden no wonder your confused! Alfred Nobel was of course Swedish and the inventer of Dynamite and Gelignite who left afortune to fund the Nobel prizes!

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:16 am
It feels good to have a president and a country whose actions I can be proud of again!

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:23 am
President Obama's work is just beginning,and so far is doing a great job. He has inspired the world. He has inspired the country to start thinking outside the box on Health Care. (It is not enough to just protest) but learn to talk to each other. War, he is in a rock and a hard place but he doing what must be done.(not putting the cart before the horse)

Beginning's of respect/honesty/for women

As President Obama is humbled is a great honor for him and the country :)

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:30 am


Thnx Peace hun!!!

Friday October 9, 2009, 11:25 am
Thanks, Kat...I am so proud of President Obama! He DESERVED this award!

Friday October 9, 2009, 11:31 am
I am very proud for the president and I believe he is now redeeming America's world image. Thanks, Kat

Friday October 9, 2009, 12:07 pm
Thanks Peace

Friday October 9, 2009, 12:21 pm
wOw! I do not know what to think. Barack Hussein Obama dose NOT deserve any award. What has he done? Nothing. Has he made any changes that are significant? NO. Everyone is to politically correct to say it but he got that award for being the first black president. I think that is ridiculous and it makes a mockery of what the award it really meant for. It would have been a good show of character if he had declined it. HE DID NOT DO ANYTHING!

Friday October 9, 2009, 12:35 pm
Congrats Presidant Obama!!! :0)

Friday October 9, 2009, 12:56 pm
Its a pity to have people like Tracie make such accusations.... Can you bring up a child in 3 months to walk talk and work????? Please spare the blame and try to be positive, theres too much of negativity in the world today.... I'm proud to be alive and know that Obama is making history and trying his best to fix the mess made by Bush for 8 years. Its going to take some time for sure.....

BRAVO OBAMA, YOU ARE LOVED BY THE UNIVERSE!

AND THE PEOPLE OF USA, YOU CHOSE WELL A GREAT PRESIDENT... GIVE HIM A CHANCE!

Friday October 9, 2009, 12:58 pm
Congratulations to Barak Hussien Obama.USA yougest president so far.The inspiration he has and gave to people around the world may be enough reason to grant him this prize. The prize constitutes also an obligation.It is an invitation to act.As he said today the Israeli Palestinian and the Arab Israeli long lasting dispute can't continue.All countries have the right to have a peaceful nuclear program and the world must get rid of all atomic bombs without any exception to Israel.March towards peace Mr.President.We are all behind and with you should this peace be fair.

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:04 pm
Well deserved! Thank you for posting, Peace!

If you haven't already, please sign this PETITION to stop right wing violence, which represents a thread to Obama's safety.

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:23 pm
Ooooh! Tracie, you must be a Bush fan.

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:30 pm
i dont think he deserve it, please!!!!! how many inocent people is dying right now because of his decision of continue with the wars in middle east??

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:30 pm
Okay I love Obama and think he is a good man....Some may hate him that is your opinion...I also in the beginning liked Bush so what...These men did what most cannot do and that is gain a Presidency. Pretty comendable to me. Obamas heart is in the right place and I think this is what got him nominated now if the people of the US would quit worring about theirselves and pull together maybe his changes would come faster than they are...That is all I have to say on the matter.

ps. I am glad he won it an I am not afraid to let you all know that...Backlash on me or not...He want peace people more than anything...

Big gorilly Hugs

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:32 pm
Tracie please read my opinion, then you will know exactly what the rest of the world thinks of the interference and fear mongering that has been impeding all of Obama's efforts, the mongers of course being the violent right wing fanatics...Marion Y,you are a very tolerant lady indeed I am going to sign the petition but I don't know if I count being a Canadian..

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:53 pm
Rhonda Madness, why are you on here..?. You need to be on Russ LimNuts page with this kind of anger, anything that this man does to better the world, is a hell-a-va plus..in this day and time..Don't hate honey, it makes you bitter and downright ugly inside...

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:55 pm
Sorry it was Tracy A that, that comment was for...HOLLA!!!

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:56 pm
Sorry Rhonda Madness....I apologize...

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:57 pm
Nobel for Obama...for what? Listen to Naomi Klein and Tariq Ali on today's (Oct. 9) Democracy Now! broadcast. They make many valid points as to why this award for his "efforts at diplomacy" aren't all they're cracked up to be. This is just ridiculous. Peace. :)

Friday October 9, 2009, 2:09 pm
I'm a bit surprised... I certainly did not expect Obama to get the Nobel Prize for Peace, perhaps somebody else on their, Nobel, "list"...

I liked Moore's comment above when he said "Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it!"

I enjoyed Naomi Klein's comments from the video in this LINK:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/9/as_us_continues_afghan_iraq_occupations

Be sure to read the comments from the transcript between Juan Gonzalez, The chair of the Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, a reporter, Naomi Kein and others. A good read.

TY, Peace.

Friday October 9, 2009, 2:21 pm
I am very proud and pleased that the President of my country has received this honor and he definitely deserves it. He has, in the short time he has been President, made contact with all world leaders without prejudice and they all respect him even when the do not agree. He has not forgotten domestic issues that involve the citizens such as health care must be attended to for the well being of all our citizens.

He is humble in his acceptance and has totally involved himself in all areas that effect the world and all its people. Good Job President Obama!

Friday October 9, 2009, 2:28 pm
Litha Moon ~ Thank you! Try to sign it anyway. It's worth a try.

Friday October 9, 2009, 2:35 pm
On the other hand, Nobel is to Obama is to Afghanistan, as Vietnam is to Kissinger [?!?]

Friday October 9, 2009, 2:51 pm
It is interesting that negativity appears to only exist when it is against the incumbent party. Most comments on Care2's political and world forums are negative, depending on your position.

Tracie is negative because she questions the validity of an award being given to someone who was in office less than two weeks when the vote to give him the award was taken. Although pointing out his race was, in the least, poor taste, but was her questioning of the award any more negative than those who accuse her of backing Bush?

Litha Moon, love your screen name by the way! Couldn't agree more that non-US citizens have a right to their opinion and should express it. Those that have a different opinion should have the same right.

I do think that it is ironic that he received the Nobel Peace Prize the same week that he chose not to meet with a previous Nobel Prize Winner, the Dalai Lama, presumably out of concern that it might offend the Chinese who he meets in a few weeks. Is that fact negative?

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:36 pm
Congratulations.I belive in Barak Obama .. belive peace will come alot of change will happen

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:38 pm
A call to action‏
From: President Barack Obama (info@barackobama.com)
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:22:47 AM
To: Uhoud Abdulmajeed (uhoud@hotmail.com)

Uhoud --

This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.

But I also know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.

That is why I've said that I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations and all peoples to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. These challenges won't all be met during my presidency, or even my lifetime. But I know these challenges can be met so long as it's recognized that they will not be met by one person or one nation alone.

This award -- and the call to action that comes with it -- does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace. And most of all, it belongs to you, the men and women of America, who have dared to hope and have worked so hard to make our world a little better.

So today we humbly recommit to the important work that we've begun together. I'm grateful that you've stood with me thus far, and I'm honored to continue our vital work in the years to come.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:40 pm
A call to action‏
From: President Barack Obama
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:22:47 AM
To: Uhoud Abdulmajeed

Uhoud --

This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.

But I also know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.

That is why I've said that I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations and all peoples to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. These challenges won't all be met during my presidency, or even my lifetime. But I know these challenges can be met so long as it's recognized that they will not be met by one person or one nation alone.

This award -- and the call to action that comes with it -- does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace. And most of all, it belongs to you, the men and women of America, who have dared to hope and have worked so hard to make our world a little better.

So today we humbly recommit to the important work that we've begun together. I'm grateful that you've stood with me thus far, and I'm honored to continue our vital work in the years to come.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:43 pm
Uhoud ~ Thank you for posting the letter. You beat me to it.

Friday October 9, 2009, 4:49 pm
Good on him, he did more in his his first few months than the last bloke ever did

Friday October 9, 2009, 5:06 pm
How anyone can sanction a war president receiving this prize is really sad, maybe you all should take a trip to Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan any will do...He even snubbed the Dalai Lama just now...very peaceful.

Friday October 9, 2009, 5:15 pm
congratulations but i will not get the flu shot because i am allergic to them

Friday October 9, 2009, 5:17 pm
You clearly don't have an inkling about what you're talking about. This President didn't start this war, he hasn't started any war..you get your facts straight ...what we're trying to do is stop the fighting. I have a brother over there, so my facts are clear....Yes, him getting this award is killing you, I can see that, yet you don't have a clue. Bush put a lot of people to sleep while they were doing back door politics, and now you want to wake up and blame The New President for all of the trouble that this country is in...YOU DON"T GET IT...Bush wanted to sell the ports to the Arabs, were you for that? Bush sold us out..I guess you love that...

Friday October 9, 2009, 5:29 pm
his speech was immaculate. Rallying...filled with perspective, inspiration and the humility the Prize being bestowed 9 mos into his Presidency warranted. Well done Mr.President! Well done. thanx for posting it Uhoud.

Friday October 9, 2009, 5:57 pm
found out this am late, i thought it was a bad joke, until I google it, i was shocked.here, the man shouldn'[t have even been considered. what i said earlier in the day to a friend, was that, it many americans would see this as a good thing. it's a lie. he was bombing Pakistan and killing hundreds of civilians 2nd day in office. he's a war monger with a different face, the same people are pulling the strings, and bush and cheney are gone,. and the usa has increased miltary cops and weapons,its and insult that he was even considered, iraq, afganistan, the USA, military state. lets not forget israel, palestine/gaza.watch democracy now, and get a mjuch better and truer perspective. it's not about negativity Yvonne, it's about truth.
i noted the DN one where truth resides. thanks

Friday October 9, 2009, 6:05 pm
One more way he is like the other useless pathetic [past] President, Jimmy [Peanut Brained] Carter. I guess you qualify for this by associating with known terrorists, giving up information gathering tactics to our enemies, apologizing to the world for the arrogance of this country bailing them out of World Wars, protecting freedoms, assisting in catastrophes, etc., bowing to heads of state of Muslim countries while barely acknowledging one of our strongest allies' head of state, appointing tax cheats to cabinet posts, burying future generations in massive debt, oh, man, the list goes on and on...I'm getting sick just thinking about it... The liberal world must be able to see light now that they have crawled so far up Obama's butt.

Friday October 9, 2009, 6:18 pm
Please allow me this moment of glee!

Oh, frabjus joy!
Caloo callay!
Obama got
NOBELed today!
But the greatest fun
(Awww, tut tut!)
Was watchin' Limbaugh
Bust a gut!

Yay Barack Who's Sane Obama!
How sweet it is! ;)

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:04 pm
Thank you Peace seeetie. :-)))

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:10 pm
I guess the US can't bomb Iran now. That would be awkward.

I'd like to see more action, such as the disarming of the US of nuclear weapons and the desisting of bombing other countries, including innocent civilians and animals. Walk the walk, not talk the talk.

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:38 pm
Elderberry and Traci...Have you two been hiding under a ROCK?! Elder...We've been involved in Iraq AND Afghanistan for years now. They are the Bush Administration's wars. President Obama was left with the HORRIBLE task of cleaning this mess up. It would be IMPOSSIBLE for ANY President to step into office, and immediately end these wars. MY President Obama is a man of peace, diplomacy, and is the FIRST President to has aimed for a world without Nuclear Weapons...AND he's just begun!

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:53 pm
GOOD FOR HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A normal human who is actually just you and I winning the Nobel Peace Award - I was saying I bet te teachers notes are real collector pieces. Dear Ms. Smith - My daughter was ill and not able to attend her classes. Signed the President ........................
I heard his daughters told him lol of his award and then that it was a long weekend.
thanks for the post.
Kathryn

Friday October 9, 2009, 8:29 pm
Makes me proud to be an American and to have a great president like Obama. What is strange is the right wing and religious nuts reaction to these things. When he tries to bring the Oliympics to the US which would give the US 350,000 new jobs and help our economy, they cheer cause we didn't get it. Then, when he wins a Nobel Peace Prize and brings honor to the US, they bitch about that. This shows their true colors which are not red, white, and blue, but more black.

Bush not only brought our country down in so many ways, morally, finacially, ethicly, he also brought the world down. Bush's actions made everyone unsafe. All through the primaries, Obama spoke of peace arouond the world, of diplomicy, of bring ethics back in, stablizing our finances. I believe they gave this to Obama for what he did in the past, but the things he is accomplishing now and in the future.

But, those DARK MINDED people will do everything within their power to destroy our prsident, and in so doing the United States. They can't see past their own hated, hypocriticalness, for the the good of all. Racist, bigotted, self rightous black minded people. These are the same people opposed to helping the poor and under insured millions in our country.

They show no care nor respect for our country, and I will do all in my power to stop them and over come them. And if you truly care about America, then you will do the same.

Friday October 9, 2009, 8:33 pm
I congratulate PRESIDENT OBAMA on his reward.He comes across as an HONEST president making the WORLD sit up & take NOTICE.I think he will sort out lots of problems in his TIME. He is a GOOD man.

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:09 pm
I guess the US can't bomb Iran now. That would be awkward.

heh, heh...I agree. Peace.., noted for you hun. I am still in shock, but I will recover soon...much love dear friend...namaste

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:40 pm
CONGRATS. TO MR. PRESIDENT, HE IS DESERVING, I AM PROUD FOR HIM & HIS FAMILY & MAY THE NEGATIVE PEOPLE FIND AN OTHER PATH......& WHICH IS NOT POLITICS...LOLLLL

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:43 pm
Don't believe the hype. Obama may be part black (and part white), but Obama is just another capitalist, imperialist, warmongering U.S. president.

It is absurd to give him a peace prize, when he continues U.S. imperialist military policies:

Obama continues the huge U.S. military spending (about as much as the rest of the world combined);

Obama continues to maintain the U.S. armament of 1,000s of nuclear missiles (2nd only to Russia's number of nuclear warheads, which are inferior missiles and are part of an inferior weapons system);

Obama continues the 100s of U.S. military bases in dozens of countries around the world (including the Guantanamo Bay military base, which on Cuban soil, on the mainland of Cuba, occupied against the wishes of the Cuban government and people);

Obama continues to give billions of dollars in military aid, and sell arms, to dozens of corrupt, oppressive and brutal regimes, supporting dirty wars rife with atrocities, in Africa, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Israel/Palestine, etc., against colonised and oppressed people fighting for self-determination, as well as poverty-stricken peasants who organise into peasant unions to defend their rights, exploited factory workers who campaign for workers' rights, etc..

And of course, everyone knows that Obama is continuing the brutal wars of occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq and parts of Pakistan, trying to terrorise the civilian populations into submission to brutal U.S. puppet regimes (for U.S. control of oil, oil pipelines and other economic bounties).

In recent years, many activists have done more for peace than Obama has done. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, for example - though you wouldn't know this if you get your information about the world from the capitalist media - because the capitalist media has a capitalist agenda (for corporations and imperialist exploitation of workers and resources around the world). Obama, with his imperialist militarism, and economic exploitation, is acting for this capitalist agenda, while other activists are campaigning for peace and human rights by egalitarian and democratic means instead, e.g. Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales (the first ever Indigenous president of Bolivia, who averted a fascist coup by peaceful means), Rafael Correa (president of Ecuador, who ordered the U.S. to remove its military base from Ecuador).

Friday October 9, 2009, 9:54 pm
Naomi Klein calls the nobel peace prize fondation "Insulting and delusional" Up until now I was a fan of Naomi Klein. Not any more. Saying that the prize would have been better given to someone more deserving is a genuine answer and I would have respected the opinion of anyone who wanted to put it that way. But to call these fondation members insulting and delusional I think is going to far. Why is it that people think they must put things in prospective by way of insults. Say how you feel by all means but have a little respect for others. Freedom of speech is not a license to insult and take jabs at people in hateful ways.
Example - Edward writes "One more way he is like the other useless pathetic [past] President, Jimmy [Peanut Brained] Carter"
"The liberal world must be able to see light now that they have crawled so far up Obama's butt."
Tell me how puting this in that manner serves a purpose and what purpose is it serving except to let us know that Edward hates Obama,Carter and Liberals. I am a Liberal so I take it that Edward who does not know me would still definitely hate me. I don't see how I could come to any other conclusion. This is what this kind of hatefulness is good for. Turning otherwise good people against each other. Im tired of it

Friday October 9, 2009, 10:39 pm
The Peace Price is for what is done, not what is hoped to be done.:

Warmonger Wins Peace Prize

By Paul Craig Roberts

The non-cynical can say that the Nobel committee is seizing on Obama's rhetoric to lock him into the pursuit of peace instead of war. We can all hope that it works. But the more likely result is that the award has made "War is Peace" the reality.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23681.htm

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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

By Thomas DiLorenzo

I'm still surprised, though, that he won the prize after killing so few people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23676.htm

Friday October 9, 2009, 10:51 pm
mmm. . . and there was me thinkin' April 1st had been an' gone already. . . age catchin' up with me or somethin'. . . anyway, that was a good 'en, real funny folks - thanks for the mornin' belly-acher of a laugh!

Friday October 9, 2009, 10:52 pm
I couldn't agree with this woman more.

Cheryl Sunshine Benson (524)
Friday October 9, 2009, 5:57 pm
found out this am late, i thought it was a bad joke, until I google it, i was shocked.here, the man shouldn'[t have even been considered. what i said earlier in the day to a friend, was that, it many americans would see this as a good thing. it's a lie. he was bombing Pakistan and killing hundreds of civilians 2nd day in office. he's a war monger with a different face, the same people are pulling the strings, and bush and cheney are gone,. and the usa has increased miltary cops and weapons,its and insult that he was even considered, iraq, afganistan, the USA, military state. lets not forget israel, palestine/gaza.watch democracy now, and get a mjuch better and truer perspective. it's not about negativity Yvonne, it's about truth.
i noted the DN one where truth resides. thanks

Friday October 9, 2009, 10:59 pm
Mike Gravel or Ron Paul should receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Friday October 9, 2009, 11:13 pm
I think that Obama has done a great job! He has extended a hand of friendship to Cuba and ask Russia to hit the reset button on our relationship. I'm tired of people saying that he did nothing to deserve this.

That in itself is doing a lot.

Friday October 9, 2009, 11:15 pm
I am not impressed, I think it was premature.

Friday October 9, 2009, 11:17 pm
"Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

By Thomas DiLorenzo

October 9, 2009 "LRC" -- So Obama joins Woodrow Wilson in the pantheon of American presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize (Wilson won it in 1919). I learned this morning that nominations for the prize had to be in by Feb. 20, about one month after Obama was inaugurated. That means that the prize went for his rhetoric during the campaign, not anything he could have actually accomplished. "

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23676.htm

Friday October 9, 2009, 11:22 pm
No no, I get it. It's really just a typographical error. It's not 'Obama Wins Peace Prize' but, 'Obama's this years October SURPrize!'

Saturday October 10, 2009, 12:41 am
From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize

"...awarding the prize to President Barack Obama early in his presidential term has generated debate about the timing of the award in relation to the recipient's actual achievements, particularly in light of President Obama being office for less than two weeks before the February 1 nomination deadline, although it is not known who nominated him, when, or why, and although nomination and award are entirely separate processes."

So what was he nominated on? Looks? Rhetoric? Promises? Use of a teleprompter? Please...it's a sham...

Saturday October 10, 2009, 1:13 am
Barack Obama Gets Nobel Prize for his First 9 Days

Oh heck, let’s just give him every award then.

by James Buchanan

Even moderates and some liberals are shocked that Obama has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize after accomplishing absolutely nothing and backpedaling on his promises to pull out of Iraq. The nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize must be submitted by February 1st of each year. Barack Obama was sworn in as president just past noon on January 20th. This means Obama had just nine and a half days to actually do something to earn that prize.

Did Obama declare an end to the Iraq war? Did he declare that the neocons committed crimes and lied us into that war? Did he admit that the war on Afghanistan was really a retaliation against the Taliban awarding a multi-billion dollar pipeline project to Bridas Oil of Argentina instead of giving it to Unocal? Did he expose all the secret information about the 911 incident and the extent of CIA and/or MOSSAD involvement? No.

The truth is there were several things he could have done to earn a Nobel Prize, but he did none of them. If Ron Paul had been elected president, he would have likely halted patrols in Iraq, declared the occupation ended and begun the withdrawal of US troops in his first few days. Ron Paul could have and would have earned a Nobel Prize based on his first nine days in office.

Barack Obama however chose to be an obedient puppet for the sinister forces that control the US government. Obama’s closest advisor, Israeli dual-citizen Rahm Emanual, no doubt told Obama to keep US troops in Iraq because that’s what the Israeli Lobby demands of him.

As long as the liberal world feels obliged to shower honors on Barack Obama, maybe they’ll also award him the Nobel Prize for literature for those two books that Bill Ayers wrote for him and an Oscar for pretending to be a natural born US citizen. Heck, let’s give him the title of Miss America too while we’re at it.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 1:14 am
Barack Obama is the first sitting President
since Theodore Roosevelt to become a Nobel
Peace Prize Laureat.
I'm an Obama fan, I voted for him and I'm still
glad that I did. But realistically, Obama is about
to send more troops to Afghanistan, the war is spreading
into Pakistan, and there are still 120,000 troops in Iraq.
If this President is going to expand these invasions and
occupations, it's going seem terribly odd to know that
a Nobel Peace Prize winner is prosecuting these wars.

Thanks, David.
noted.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 2:09 am
Congrats Obama!!. I just pray he does what he says. Thanks Kat.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 4:47 am
I wish I had been here to add my own personal comments between commenters like my friends David B., & Marion - who both do an excellent job of interjecting their intelligent, appropriate & sometimes witty comments.

To me, it was interesting to get to just now catch up on the comments given, and it's the reason I post articles that lead to discussions from both sides....or all sides - when more people from other countries also post their views.

As I found on many an article today, I understand that the Nobel committee DID award our President (and YES, he is OUR elected president), for his POTENTIAL TO LEAD. This includes changing the tone of American policy, and hopefully, foreign policy as well. Is it also charisma? All I know is that the WORLD has not taken their eyes off of him since he was elected, and the extreme scrutiny he continues to be under is one so strong that if he can seriously leave a mark of PEACE on this world, it'll be almost a miracle!! (And a super climb out of some pretty deep quicksand)!

There's TONS of issues he needs to be working on, but some of the foreign isses include biggies - nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament; the Mideast peace process, and his outreach to the Muslim world. Obama articulated a vision of peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons, and by Sept., he'd won international support for that vision in a U.N. resolution.

Obama hopes to win ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the Senate, but he faces fierce opposition from conservatives led by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), **Ugh...between him & McCain, I have to live through both of THESE Senators!!** ...who has vowed to do everything in his power to see that it is defeated.

Whether being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize or not, it's definitely a double edged sword that could actually make it more difficult for Obama's initiatives to succeed. But, so far, I'm putting my hope behind a man like Obama ...and his dreams of the future rather than someone withou any vision for this shared Earth.

Americans, I know well, are a skeptical and rigid group of people, though, we are worrying about what kind of Peace our new President can bring within the borders of our own country first. I do understand THAT might be why we are so passionate about how we feel here.

He's got the majority in the House & Senate, it's now time to step up that youthful fantasy & PROVE we can count on him for the man who just won a peace prize and is talking still about "CHANGE"....already that's a step in a 360-degree turn of his predecessor - that idiot, GW Bush!

As always, as long as your comments don't attack someone personally, or get vulgar (as I see one did), I definitely welcome comments from both sides of the prize....errrrr....article!

Saturday October 10, 2009, 4:56 am
This news just out: The Heisman Trophy committee met in special session and have decided to award Barack Obama this year's HEISMAN TROPHY. Sure he hasn't actually played college football, but since he hasn't acheived anything resembling peace in the world either, they decided it doesn't matter what your real accomplishments are anymore.
Stay tuned for the NFL to award him a Super Bowl ring...

Saturday October 10, 2009, 6:39 am
I`m from Brasil, from Rio de Janeiro and I feel I have to say that Obama really deserve it!
We always felt American people was very different because they think they were the best in the world and never knew anything about the others or mind or even care about it. Bush show it always! And Tracie is not right because Obama change the world mind, showing care with Cuba, Iran and he gave us hope of peace. He gave us security. It is not because he is black and young. In Brasil people love Obama! We are very proud! He change the way of many people think about USA all over the world.
(Sorry for my poor English, I hope you could understand what I said)

Saturday October 10, 2009, 6:56 am
I'm Canadian and he deserves it in my book. He is trying very hard to patch up the crap that Bush Jr. left behind. Of course he's still a demon to the anti-war activists but everyone has a right to their OPINION about Iraq and Afghanistan.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 7:05 am
The Nobel Committee said he won it for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples". The committee highlighted Mr Obama's efforts to support international bodies and promote nuclear disarmament.
WHAT ABOUT THIS STATEMENT DO SOME OF YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? TO SAY HE HAS DONE NOTHING ONLY MAKE YOU LOOK FOOLISH.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 7:17 am
Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it!

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Dear President Obama,

How outstanding that you've been recognized today as a man of peace. Your swift, early pronouncements -- you will close Guantanamo, you will bring the troops home from Iraq, you want a nuclear weapon-free world, you admitted to the Iranians that we overthrew their democratically-elected president in 1953, you made that great speech to the Islamic world in Cairo, you've eliminated that useless term "The War on Terror," you've put an end to torture -- these have all made us and the rest of the world feel a bit more safe considering the disaster of the past eight years. In eight months you have done an about face and taken this country in a much more sane direction.

But...

The irony that you have been awarded this prize on the 2nd day of the ninth year of our War in Afghanistan is not lost on anyone. You are truly at a crossroads now. You can listen to the generals and expand the war (only to result in a far-too-predictable defeat) or you can declare Bush's Wars over, and bring all the troops home. Now. That's what a true man of peace would do.

There is nothing wrong with you doing what the last guy failed to do -- capture the man or men responsible for the mass murder of 3,000 people on 9/11. BUT YOU CANNOT DO THAT WITH TANKS AND TROOPS. You are pursuing a criminal, not an army. You do not use a stick of dynamite to get rid of a mouse.

The Taliban is another matter. That is a problem for the people of Afghanistan to resolve -- just as we did in 1776, the French did in 1789, the Cubans did in 1959, the Nicaraguans did in 1979 and the people of East Berlin did in 1989. One thing is certain through all revolutions by people who wish to be free -- they ultimately have to bring about that freedom themselves. Others can be supportive, but freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else's Humvee.

You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don't, you'll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.

Yours,
Michael Moore

Saturday October 10, 2009, 9:16 am
Edward, wikipedia.org is not a viable source for information, even colleges won't except it as a true source of proof or inmormation because anyone can add to or take away from its contents.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 11:10 am
If you haven't seen this, maybe it will help those who are having trouble understanding :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJuEOaF84o

Saturday October 10, 2009, 11:40 am
Carol ~ I'm glad you posted this video. Rachel Maddow gives perspective and says Obama deserves the award. So does Richard Wolfe in this interview:

"The award is for a work in progress and not the first time the committee has done this sort of thing. Desmond Tutu received the award for his as yet unsuccessful efforts to topple apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid didn't fall for another 10 years until after that award. In 1935 the award was given to a journalist because he symbolized domestic opposition to the rise of Hitler in Germany. When the award was given to Arafat and Rabin it was for a peace process. Although they had gone further on that path, remember Arafat turned his back on peace. The list goes on.

"The prize does not always reward current achievements, but rather efforts of people trying in big ways to get the world on a more peaceful path.

"Never mind what Limbaugh says, there were alot of pundits in Washington already saying Obama "hasn't achieved anything," so what's this all about?

"It's a really short sighted view of what we've seen since Obama took office. Foreign policy has changed out of all proportion. The fact we are talking about negotiations with Iran, instead of saber rattling, the fact the world has transformed its opinion of the US of its president is an extraordinary shift in and of itself.

"That's what this prize is recognizing. It isn't just forward looking. Also, this is more a political award than most others. This type of award was given to Jimmy Carter. The trigger was his opposition to the war in Iraq. Al Gore, again, got it because he was not George Bush when it came to the environment. It also shows the world is YEARNING for American leadership, and that's very hard for the people on the right to accept.

"That for all the bluster, the world still wants a different kind of American leadership. It's not that they hate America. They just dislike the leadership under Bush. Someday we need to talk about how Kissinger got the award when the Viet Nam War was still waging.

"To be blunt, this is tremendous publicity for the US. One of the problems Bush had for so long was "public diplomacy" or what we used to call propaganda. How do you get the message across? You can give a good speech and Obama has done that, but what actually reaches people?

"In this sense you've got the word "Peace Prize" and the words "US President" together, instead of "war" and the "US President". That is a priceless piece of advertising."


For that, America should be proud. Our tarnished image around the world has been once again elevated.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 3:07 pm
President Obama accepted this well deserved Nobel Peace award with humility. He views it as a "call to action". I believe the Committee were so impressed by his efforts to abolish Nuclear weapons, and his belief and action toward global peace impressed the Committee. I also believe they intended to use this award as a way to encourage President Obama to continue his efforts.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 4:46 pm
Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Friends,

Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, 'Now earn it!'? Give the guy a break -- this is a great day for him and for all of us."

I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?

We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation -- financially and morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?

Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. What keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote last November? C'mon! We're the majority now -- the majority by a significant margin! We call the shots -- and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get busy and do what we say -- or else.

All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change. And for God's sake, don't head to bummerville if he says or does something we don't like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn't get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they've been driven crazy lately. They'll never have it as good again as they've had it since Reagan took office.

But -- do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No! They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we just pack up our toys and go home.

So, at least for this weekend, let us celebrate what people elsewhere are celebrating -- that America now has a sane and smart man in the White House, a man who truly wants a world at peace for his two daughters.

Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself included), have grumbled, "What has he done to earn this prize?" How 'bout this:

The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man -- a man who opposed the War in Iraq from the beginning -- offered to end the insanity. The world has stood by in utter horror for the past eight years as they watched the descendants of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson light the fuse of our own self-destruction. We flipped off the nations on this planet by abandoning Kyoto and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the polar ice caps. We invaded two nations that didn't attack us, failed to find the real terrorists and, in effect, ignited our own wave of terror. People all over the world wondered if we had gone mad.

And if all that wasn't enough, the outgoing Joker presided over the worst global financial collapse since the Great Depression.

So, yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown Chicago, billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the world -- and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel like they had won, too. When you've got billions of people ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in Oslo is the least that you deserve.

One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio). The fact that this one man could cause this seismic historical event to occur -- and to do so with such grace and humility, never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"!) -- is more than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. 'Cause I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us -- we, the American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected. After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New Orleans -- and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black man they had been raised to hate -- we had all seen enough. It was time for change.

Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you promised to do. We need it. The world needs it.

My prediction for the future? You become the first *two-time* winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! Yeah!

Fred (that's Norwegian for "Peace"),
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

Saturday October 10, 2009, 5:28 pm


WaPo Editorial: Neda of Iran should have gotten Nobel, not Obama

http://tinyurl.com/yfazz6c

Saturday October 10, 2009, 5:29 pm
The Peace Of The Grave

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/10/the-peace-of-the-grave/

(snip)

"Obama had been in office for less than two weeks before the Nobel nominations were finalized, so his nomination was not based on anything he had done as President. The Nobel Price long ago became a joke, and an insult to the people who suffer under terror and tyranny around the world, but I don’t think the committee just threw Obama the award because he’s so wonderfully special, and not even because he won the election to succeed the only man who has truly deserved the award since 2001. Maybe Obama won the Nobel because of his courageous youthful defiance of murderous evil, when he was brutally tortured for months but refused to submit to totalitarian brutes? Oh, no, wait, that was the guy he defeated in the election."

Saturday October 10, 2009, 5:30 pm
A Wicked and Ignorant Award
How Barack Obama could help redeem the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s grievous mistake.
by Peggy Noonan

It is absurd and it is embarrassing. It would even be infuriating if it were not such a declaration of emptiness.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has embarrassed itself and cheapened a great award that had real meaning.

(more @ link)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703746604574464083239280914.html

Saturday October 10, 2009, 5:32 pm
Meet some of the people passed over for Obama

Sima Samar, women’s rights activist in Afghanistan: “With dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of girls past the age of eight. When the Taliban fell, Samar returned to Kabul and accepted the post of Minister for Women’s Affairs.”

Ingrid Betancourt: French-Colombian ex-hostage held for six years.

Dr. Denis Mukwege: Doctor, founder and head of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. He has dedicated his life to helping Congolese women and girls who are victims of gang rape and brutal sexual violence.”

Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition: “These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civilians are regularly killed worldwide because the unseen bombs explode when stepped upon.”

“Hu Jia, a human rights activist and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, who was sentenced last year to a three-and-a-half-year prison term for ‘inciting subversion of state power.’”

“Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China’s communist system. He now lives in the United States.”

http://tinyurl.com/yg3cep9
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Seriously people...get a grip....

Saturday October 10, 2009, 5:36 pm

"The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were totally and thoroughly rebuked."

"I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio)"


I think Moore is feeling guilty or anxious because the right have also been skeptical about the win -- although for very different reasons from peace-loving folks.

Moore seems to be saying that Obama won the Nobel for being elected, for not being George W, and for reasons of racism shame in the US. But the Nobel is not all about the US, it's about individuals who act for and bring about peace in the world.

I guess we will have to wait and see from this point.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 5:40 pm
” Peter Beinart, Obama Supporter, Calls Nobel Prize a Farce”

“George W. Bush launched a “preemptive” war. Now the Nobel Committee is trying for “preemptive” peace. I had always thought the way these things worked was that you helped bring peace or democracy to some corner of the globe first, and then you won the Nobel Prize. But this year, the Nobel Committee has turned that logic around: It clearly likes what Obama is trying to do: on nuclear disarmament, climate change and Middle East peace—and so, in a “preemptive” strike, it’s giving him the award now, in hopes that doing so will boost his chances of success later. It’s an interesting idea….
I like Barack Obama as much as the next liberal, but this is a farce. He’s done nothing to deserve the prize. Sure, he’s given some lovely speeches and launched some initiatives—on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian peace, climate change and nuclear disarmament—that might, if he’s really lucky and really good, make the world a more safe, more just, more peaceful world. But there’s absolutely no way to know if he’ll succeed, and by giving him the Nobel Prize as a kind of “atta boy,” the Nobel Committee is actually just highlighting the gap that conservatives have long highlighted: between Obamamania as global hype and Obama’s actual accomplishments.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-09/obamas-nobel-farce

Saturday October 10, 2009, 5:42 pm
From Wiki,

“According to Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”[1] Alfred Nobel’s will stated that the prize should be awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Norway and Sweden were at that time still in union, and with Sweden responsible for all foreign policy, Nobel felt that the prize might be less subject to political corruption if awarded by Norway. The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the king, on December 10 (the anniversary of Nobel’s death), and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 5:45 pm
Can a sitting president receive a Nobel Peace Prize?

http://tinyurl.com/yz4epf3

There’s a problem for President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize victory and it’s not his inexperience. From Article I, Section 9 of “that neglected curio,” the U.S. Constitution:

“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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Not that it matters re: the Constitution because it would seem that whatever the bush admin didn't shred this admin. will or has already done ..including pelosi...signed two different forms after dnc convention for obama/biden..one with a reference to the Constitution and one without...

You all might want to wipe those smirks off before you go too much further....

Saturday October 10, 2009, 6:05 pm
Kerry, that is indeed the most laughable post I have read on C2. lol!!!!!!!! Thanks for the laughs!

Saturday October 10, 2009, 11:33 pm
THIS IS TO DAMM INSANE !! To much BS HERE FOR ME HE DOESN'T DESERVE THIS AT ALL!!!!!!!

Sunday October 11, 2009, 12:18 am
Interesting discussions on this topic, that's for sure.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 2:51 am
Again, I've not commented, just read what everyone is saying, and listening to some of the news programs &, of course, Obama's acceptance speech. I admire those people from OUTSIDE the U.S. who are commenting positively here. It's nice to see that an American president is having a POSITIVE on the world rather than such a completely negative one.

He's got our future in his hands, and that of so many other countries. If you don't believe he can achieve his goals, or lead us closer to a peaceful existence......well, I'd suggest you start getting more involved in this cause a little bit yourself. It's not going to take JUST Pres. Obama or just sitting back and thinking about it for us to achieve PEACE!

Sunday October 11, 2009, 5:49 am
Albert Einstein: Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. and to add to that the words of Chief Dan George what we don't understand we destroy! These words are almost the perfect discription of the rightwing responce to the President's Nobel Prize. When I am at some public function and the raffle is drawn there is often alot of good hearted banter and shouts of fiddle if someone gets more thsn one prize however this is all in jest and we applaud each winner whether we like them or not. Now would it not be great if people could just be happy for Mr President and stop poking around his underwear drawer so to speak! The comments and discussions I've seen vary from the comical to the hideous like he's not really black he's an Arab or a terrorist, Saddam's brother and other such garbage and I believe the current nonsense concerns his birth certificate. Literally what a pathetic bunch of losers these people are if that's all they have to do all day! They should concern themselves with cooperating for the good of America, the American people and the rest of the world which could do with some TLC! Once again I offer my congratulations as a Brit in the hope that he will achieve great things in office and not be remembered unkindly when he leaves the office!

Sunday October 11, 2009, 6:31 am
Standing and applauding Chris b.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 7:44 am
Is there a problem here??
I keep getting my tracking button unchecked!

Plant trees for life..................

Sunday October 11, 2009, 9:42 am

Information about the nominations, investigations, and opinions concerning the award is kept secret for 50 years.

LINK: http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/database.html

For those of you interested in History of past nominations, use this: Simple search.
This search is performed for names of nominators and nominees, words in the motivation and the year (only 1901-1956).

in the above link.

This is a good read for those of you interested from a historical viewpoint and for general knowledge.
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Sunday October 11, 2009, 10:47 am
A little premature decision of the Nobel Award Jury but Bark Obama might use it as a challenge for Peace in the future!

Sunday October 11, 2009, 10:57 am
Thank you for this link, Jim. Very interesting. I looked up Ghandi because I wondered why he never received the award.

Nominations facts

Nobel Prize database

Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:00 am
wait, I thought the Dali Lama was passed over for the prize? I have to say I am surprised that the prez was nominated only 2 weeks in office, on what merits? not saying he isn't a great guy, will be a wonderful president, but on what merits was he nominated for the prize? I did think this prize was for outstanding action. he hadn't made any worldwide strides at that point had he? maybe this could have gone to a much more deserving person, I have read some great comments here. what an education care2 is!
ty peace.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:08 am
Sheila ~ Please see my answer to your question in the posts above at:

Saturday October 10, 2009, 11:40 am

and

Saturday October 10, 2009, 4:46 pm

Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:30 am
you know, after comparing him to some others, I am just surprised that it did not go to the MOST worthy nominee, and after realizing the Ghandi was passed over, I just don't see it. I don't expect Obama supporters to view this any other way, I in fact saw him as our only hope, but c'mon, the peace prize? I do still hope he can turn this country around, we need it, and he needs all of our support, but I believe there were more worthy people, and I don't see him as being THAT.
and ty Marion. this is definitely one of the most interesting posts I have read today.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:30 am
I am sorry he went over and apologized for the USA, that is not right. Our fighting men are mad and so are our vets. He didn't deserve this, he should have turned it down. but no. You can't convince me that he is even an American yet.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:41 am
well I think he's an American as much as anyone, and I do believe he just wants to right the mess laid before him. but our Vets and service people have no shame, they are doing what they feel they have to do to protect, they trusted and still trust their gov't, this war is not their fault, I honor them all, past and present. they were misled, as many of us were. I think his apology went for the gov't officials who started this stinking mess, not our soldiers, at least I pray not! ty Betty :) I appreciate your heart!

Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:41 am
Thank You peace!!!
Peace love hope!!
may God blesss all for freedom!!!

Sunday October 11, 2009, 11:50 am
I'm a huge Obama fan, but I do wonder if this award is premature...still, what amazes me most is how angry some people are about it....really, it's not such a big deal and doesn't seem to warrant the hostility I'm seeing....or the disrespect...you may not like our President, but as President he deserves our respect...I didn't like our last President but I tried to be respectful of the office at least.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 12:34 pm
I don't feel anything except the suffering of the animals where nothing has changed. The arial hunt for the wolves, collapsing from exhaustion so the lazy hunters can aim straight, the whacked out supreme court justice Lizard Scalia, the environment in Alaska, and other things we probably don't know about. Yet. I'd have to see an entire term of positive change before I'd give out any awards to anyone. Please. This makes me sick. It's my opinion and I am entitled to it.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 12:44 pm
THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ARE APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT. I DON'T CARE TO READ THE HISTORY OF THE REPTILE SCALIA. BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF POSTS AGAINST HIM AND I COULDN'T AGREE MORE. IF YOU ARE HAPPY THAT THIS MAN HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR US IN THE UNITED STATES, THEN START A PETITION TO HAVE HIM REMOVE THIS IDIOT FROM THE BENCH. BUT REMEMBER WHICH DIRECTION THE IDIOT COMES FROM AND ASK YOURSELF WHAT IS HE DOING SITTING ON OUR SUPREME COURT BENCH, THE HIGHEST FEDERAL COURT? WHO APPOINTED HIM? FIND THIS OUT FIRST BEFORE YOU CLAP AT THIS AWARD. AND DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE ARIAL WOLF HUNTS. WHEN IT COMES TO ANIMAL RIGHTS, I DON'T TRUST OBAMA. YET.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 1:22 pm
Tracie has every right to express what she feels.

Does not a conversation hold to diverse comments?
If not then this would be a dictatorship in words.

Plant trees for life...........

Sunday October 11, 2009, 1:36 pm
I'm sorry but I do not agree with the president getting the nobel peace prize at all. He had done nothing to deserve such an honor. It is for people who have accomplishment great things and I do not find anything that he has done to receive such an honor.
He has placed us as americans in the debt that no other president has done and I just don't see nor get it at all.

Sunday October 11, 2009, 1:41 pm
Antonin Scalia was nominated by Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court in 1986.

http://www.care2.com/news/member/181075667/1270502

"Supreme Justice Scalia needs to step down and not promote illegal acts of animal cruelty"

Petition Link:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/supreme-justice-scalia-needs-to-step-down-and-not-promote-illegal-acts-of-animal-cruelty

"Once appointed, Justices effectively have life tenure, serving "during good Behaviour",[1] which terminates only upon death, resignation, retirement, or conviction on impeachment.[2]"

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#Confirmation
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Sunday October 11, 2009, 3:00 pm
Interesting to see people questioning whether the President is American! Can some one wiser than me explain what an American is? I was under the impression the First Nations have a more legitimate claim to that title and they may not have always been in America if you go back 20000 years or so when the continent was joined up to other bits of the world landwise! As for the recent arrivals to the continent you have every nationanality represented under the sun and even thosefrom where the sun does not shine year round so please tell me what an American is, do they have some racial characteristic like two heads or green skin? I have laboured under the delusion that all were equal under the constitution which I believe is in part borrowed from our Magna Carta which lives a few miles down the road from me! What an absurd comment to make about the President questioning his American- ness. In the UK our government is made up of many Scottish people and even the oposition leader is Scottish and the Scots have their own Parliament but the English don't! All that is a matter of fact not irrational opinion or nit picking!

Sunday October 11, 2009, 4:50 pm
You cannot currently send a star to chris because you have done so within the last week.

Well said, Chris!

Sunday October 11, 2009, 5:53 pm
Priestless, I agree with you - Obama made nothing so far, besides expressing good wishes in public. Noble Peace prize will mean even less from now on...

Monday October 12, 2009, 1:13 pm
President Obama has the potential to do great things. He prefers diplomacy over bombing Iran. He is the FIRST U.S. President to start talks about a nuclear bomb-free world. I am proud of him. He was handed one illegal war and another war in Afghaniistan. He is brilliant and fills people with hope. And for me, it is really funny to watch the right-wingers get their collective panties in a wad over this prize, and concentrate on being a part of change...It's so refreshing to see President Obama bring a new respect for the United States. The past eight years? My gawd! It was a horrifying part of of our history.

Monday October 12, 2009, 2:34 pm
You know, I'm beginning to get verrrry suspicious.

Could these seemingly dignified NOBEL people be wiley jesters in reality?

I mean the funny furor they've engendered among the Obama=Fuehrer people since Barack Who's Sane Obama was granted the PEACE AWARD is just too hilarious.

Limbaugh goes into a furious, red-faced bust-a-gut jag;
Beck sputters and squeeks;
Liz Cheney (who obviously was pulling for her dad to win), sez Obama should give the award to somebuddy else;
and all the Obama naysayers predict the president will be keenly 'umbled by getting this award.

I predict he will accept it with his usual poise and grace, give a nice, self-effacing, perhaps even humorous speech, and so throroughly insanely rile these Obamamaniacs that they'll be calling for his impeachment for "accepting an award under false pretenses".

Geez! Can't wait to watch the ceremony (and the subsequent reactions of Hannity/Limbaugh/Beck et al. Poor babies. Should give SNL some prrrretttty funny fodder for weeks.)

Monday October 12, 2009, 2:38 pm
You know, I'm beginning to get verrrry suspicious.

Could these seemingly dignified NOBEL people be wiley jesters in reality? I mean the funny furor they've engendered among the Obama=Fuerer people since Barack Who's Sane Obama was granted the PEACE AWARD is just too hilarious.

Limbaugh goes into a furious, red-faced bust-a-gut jag;
Beck sputters and squeeks;
Liz Cheney (who obviously was pulling for her dad to win), sez Obama should give the award to somebuddy else;
and all the Obama naysayers predict the president will be keenly 'umbled by getting this award.

I predict he will accept it with his usual poise and grace, give a nice, self-effacing, perhaps even humorous speech, and so throroughly insanely rile these Obamamaniacs that they'll be calling for his impeachment for "accepting an award under false pretenses".

Geez! Can't wait to watch the ceremony (and the subsequent reactions of Hannity/Limbaugh/Beck et al. Poor babies. Should give SNL some prrrretttty funny fodder for weeks.)

Monday October 12, 2009, 2:42 pm
(OOPSY!

Sorry for the double post ... I didn't think it had gone through the first time. !)

Monday October 12, 2009, 2:55 pm
Julie and Mary Grace...Good comments. I think you're both on to something. I've always thought our international friends are alot wiser than Americans in getting their message across.

Nobel Prize to Obama Is Really a Slap in Bush's Face

"Indeed, it has to be said that by awarding the Peace Prize to Obama, the Nobel Committee has, for the fourth time since 2002, heaped a pile of cow manure on Bush. Its decision was only the latest expression of the world's deep-seated contempt for the former president.

BUSH DESERVES TO GET THE SMACKDOWN FOR DISGRACING AMERICA TO THE WORLD

And who can blame them? Bush turned up his nose at the world by deciding to go to war against Saddam Hussein based on flimsy claims that Iraq was building up a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that he will probably never live down the day he presented to the UN Security Council what turned out to be phony evidence of Iraqi WMDs.

Result: the Nobel Committee awarded the 2002 peace prize to former President Jimmy Carter, a sharp critic of Bush's propaganda campaign leading to the Iraq War, and the 2005 Peace Prize to the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, headed by Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei, that rejected Bush's claims that Iraq possessed a WMD stockpile.

Two years later, the Nobel Committee stuck it to Bush again when it awarded the 2007 Peace Prize to former Vice President Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for spreading the word about global warming. Bush defied the world on the growing threat of climate change when he refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- making the U.S. the lone holdout against the agreement.

Now comes the 2009 Peace Prize to Obama. I'm a strong supporter of this president, but I'm not so naive to believe that the Nobel Committee wasn't motivated by a desire to snap the cat-o'-nine-tails across Bush's backside one last time; it's hardly a secret that Obama's number-one foreign policy priority in the nine months he's been in office has been to repair much of the damage to America's relations with the rest of the world that Bush wreaked during his eight years in the White House.

Nevertheless, Afghanistan has a very real potential to destroy Obama's presidency just as Vietnam destroyed Lyndon Johnson's. So far, the president has acted very deliberately, determined not to repeat the mistakes of past presidents.

Congratulations, Mr. President, and Good Luck -- You're going to really need it."

Monday October 12, 2009, 6:21 pm
Mary Grace, It was dubly funny. Loved it.

Monday October 12, 2009, 8:37 pm
Thank you my new friend, Cynthia, and my good friend, Marion.

Laughter is good for your health, and a lot of the current anti-Obama comments in the papers, on TV, and here at Care2 regarding the "outrage" of the Nobel Award being given to OUR Nobel Laureate President Barack Obama are a great source of (unintended) comedy.

Mary ;)

Tuesday October 13, 2009, 10:21 pm
Nomination after twelve days of asuming office and Award without work?It is wonderful.Congratulations! Not to Obama but to the award committee.