Obama a Hero.

[dejet]

I really am not one to speak about spelling, I am willing to bet any post you pick out of mine has a spelling error.

[Elvis]

OED?

http://bfgb.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/oed.jpg

[Blabj]

Open it, read it, learn it, love it!

[Rhinox]

The Norwegian Nobel Committee lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation but recognized initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," said Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee.

Still, the U.S. remains at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Congress has yet to pass a law reducing carbon emissions and there has been little significant reduction in global nuclear stockpiles since Obama took office.

"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," said former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate.
"This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act," Walesa said.


The award appeared to be a slap at President George W. Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama's predecessor for his largely unilateral military action in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of "a new climate in international politics" and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the center of the world stage.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who won the prize in 1984, said
Obama's award shows great things are expected from him in coming years.
"It's an award coming near the beginning of the first term of office of a relatively young president that anticipates an even greater contribution towards making our world a safer place for all," Tutu said. "It is an award that speaks to the promise of President Obama's message of hope."

Until seconds before the award, speculation had focused on a wide variety of candidates besides Obama: Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a
Colombian senator, a Chinese dissident and an Afghan woman's rights activist, among others. The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year's prize, though it was not immediately apparent who nominated Obama.

"The exciting and important thing about this prize is that it's given to someone ... who has the power to contribute to peace," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.

Obama is the third sitting U.S. president to win the award: President Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906 and President Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize in 1919.

The Nobel committee chairman said after awarding the 2002 prize to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, for his mediation in international conflicts, that it should be seen as a "kick in the leg" to the Bush administration's hard line in the buildup to the Iraq war.

Five years later, the committee honored Bush's adversary in the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore, for his campaign to raise awareness about global warming.

Obama was to meet with his top advisers on the Afghan war on Friday to consider a request by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to send as many as 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan as the U.S war there enters its ninth year.

Obama ordered 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan earlier this year and has continued the use of unmanned drones for attacks on militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a strategy devised by the Bush administration. The attacks often kill or injure civilians living in the area.

In July talks in Moscow, Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed that their negotiators would work out a new limit on delivery vehicles for nuclear warheads of between 500 and 1,100. They also agreed that warhead limits would be reduced from the current range of 1,700-2,200 to as low as 1,500. The United States now as about 2,200 such warheads, compared to about 2,800 for the Russians.
But there has been no word on whether either side has started to act on the reductions.

Former Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, said Obama has already provided outstanding leadership in the effort to prevent nuclear proliferation.

"In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself," ElBaradei said. "He has shown an unshakeable commitment to diplomacy, mutual respect and dialogue as the best means of resolving conflicts."

Obama also has attempted to restart stalled talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, but just a day after Obama hosted the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in New York, Israeli officials boasted that they had fended off U.S. pressure to halt settlement construction. Moderate Palestinians said they felt undermined by Obama's failure to back up his demand for a freeze.

Nominators for the prize include former laureates; current and former members of the committee and their staff; members of national governments and legislatures; university professors of law, theology, social sciences, history and philosophy; leaders of peace research and foreign affairs institutes; and members of international courts of law.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation welcomed the award on behalf of its founder Nelson Mandela, who shared the 1993 Peace Prize with then-South African President F.W. DeKlerk for their efforts at ending years of apartheid and laying the groundwork for a democratic country.

"We trust that this award will strengthen his commitment, as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, to continue promoting peace and the eradication of poverty," the foundation said.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel's death.

The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change

Rush's Head is gonna explode. Last friday he was laughing at the fact that he thought the International community had shunned Obama with the Olympics. Someones gonna eat crow today.

[dejet]

Going out right now to get one.

edit: crap its 8 AM time to get ready for work, I must get one after work!

[Elvis]

Well, I'll be turning the TV on to see what Glenn Beck has to say. I represent the Committee of People Who Love Unintentional Comedy, so we will be carrying out a thorough study.

[Ezek]

Rush's Head is gonna explode. Last friday he was laughing at the fact that he thought the International community had shunned Obama with the Olympics. Someones gonna eat crow today.

2007:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2218/lolho.gif

Someone be sure to supply a youtube video of his reaction for extra lol

[noblemountain]

Teddy Roosevelt won the award. Just sayin'. lol

[Maxxthepenguin]

Rush's Head is gonna explode. Last friday he was laughing at the fact that he thought the International community had shunned Obama with the Olympics. Someones gonna eat crow today.

Rush never eats crow

Ever

[Meph]

Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel's death.

The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change

I didnt actually know it wasnt us but retaded norwegians that awarded the peace-price. now I feel a little better about this and al gore.

online-polls in swedish newspapers all point to that 70% of the swedish population didnt think obama deserved it lulz

[ZarakiKujata]

Rush never eats crow

Ever

No but there will be laughs a plenty next week on the daily show as they fucking nail hannity, rush etc.

[eunhye]

Taliban suggest Nobel violence prize for Obama | South Asia | Reuters

You can't make this shit up!

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said it was absurd to give a peace award to a man who had sent 21,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to escalate a war.

Ahhhahaha.

[Maxxthepenguin]

Well, if the bad guys hate it, then we're supposed to love it. That's how Conservative logic works, right?

[Bingbong]

1> Say "hope and change" a whole lot
2> Blame Republicans for everything
3> ????
4> Win Noble peace prize
5> PROFIT!

It all makes sense now.

[Maxxthepenguin]

1> Say "hope and change" a whole lot
2> Blame Republicans for everything
3> ????
4> Win Noble peace prize
5> PROFIT!

It all makes sense now.

You're not even going to read the justifications for the prize, are you? It has little to do with anything you care about.


Oh and: Taliban suggest Nobel violence prize for Obama | South Asia | Reuters

fuckin lol

[eunhye]

Well, if the bad guys hate it, then we're supposed to love it. That's how Conservative logic works, right?

No no no. Just saying here's something

HALPERIN’S TAKE: Five Ways Winning the Nobel Helps/Hurts Obama - The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com

Helps:
1. Validation of his world view.
2. Momentum in current peace talks around the world.
3. Adds to his aura as a historic figure.
4. Allows him to recover from his Olympic failure.
5. Gives him cover to expand the war in Afghanistan.

I thought the nobel prize is for...... peace?

[Olo401]

While I personally think it's far too soon, the angle the committee took to this year's award was an interesting one. They basically said that the overall change in tone itself, not the deeds they have and will produce, is the reason for Obama receiving the award. I read this immediately as a gigantic slap in the face to Dubya, whose years of failed go-it-alone diplomacy, preemptive war with faulted reasoning, and rejection of foreign partnerships or aid poisoned diplomacy worldwide. The immediate changes to such policies - working with nations that are our friends, actually trying to talk with those that are unfriendly and even openly hostile, providing a voice to the world community that was essentially absent for most of the decade, and even using far sounder advice and judgment in the use of force - is why Obama received this award.

lol @ thinking troops in Afghanistan/Iraq is saving people.

I agree, but like I mentioned above he's following advice and a sound decision making process instead of bumbling around letting politics guide war like Bush did. I'd MUCH rather have the wars end immediately and the troops come home, but the change of attitude is a welcome starting point.

Rush's Head is gonna explode. Last friday he was laughing at the fact that he thought the International community had shunned Obama with the Olympics. Someones gonna eat crow today.

Rush never eats crow

Ever

You're right.. he's gonna down some oxys and let the euphoria guide his rant.

[Hellfury]

I didnt actually know it wasnt us but retaded norwegians that awarded the peace-price. now I feel a little better about this and al gore.

online-polls in swedish newspapers all point to that 70% of the swedish population didnt think obama deserved it lulz

on behalf of "retarded norwegians" everywhere, most of us are sitting here going "wtf...?" as well.

The (ex)politician in charge of the committee is from the "workers party", from a superpolitical background and what is one of the more corrupted behind the scenes working parties in Norway.

The dude is most known for having messed up elections in 1997 and handed power over to our version of the conservatives.

I will have no part nor accept any responsibility for this fubar'ed thing!

[Maxxthepenguin]

No no no. Just saying here's something

HALPERIN’S TAKE: Five Ways Winning the Nobel Helps/Hurts Obama - The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com

Helps:
1. Validation of his world view.
2. Momentum in current peace talks around the world.
3. Adds to his aura as a historic figure.
4. Allows him to recover from his Olympic failure.
5. Gives him cover to expand the war in Afghanistan.

I thought the nobel prize is for...... peace?

Well, if he is actually successful in Afghanistan and takes out Al Qaeda for good it will be a huge success for peaceful countries around the world.

On the other hand, rofl that's not going to happen.

[Howard Roark]

I may be mistaken but doesn't the Nobel Prize Winner get a cool Mil?


pretty sure it does, just wanted to fuel some more tears