Obama Wins the Noble Prize

[idrobinhood]

30,000 more troop in Afghanistan, there's still tortures to terrorists in other countries, we continue to bomb in multiple countries, Yemen, Somali, Pakistan.

He's so much like bush but has even a more hidden agenda than bush. Zero transparency is Obama's and Bush's major disappointments.

[palmtreedoc]

lol; I didn't know there was a Nobel Peace Prize for reading a teleprompter.

[curwinci]

Obama is still in Afgahnistan...should we be their? do we deserve to be their? what does it matter if we are there alone or with allies?

we have taken a complete 180 turn? no, we have a new president and other countries like him because he is different but not enough time has passed to be able to say that he has actually changed anything! We have moral authority? Wow i dont know about you but i look at the US and I see a lot of corrupt morals.i see people that only stand for themselves

[thetalesend]

I have to respond to this one. First Obama inherited a few wars. Second 8 years of non diplomacy during the Bush years has made us vulnerable and unpopular everywhere and that is what creates terrorists. Third we have a moral obligation to help Afghanistan the last time we abandoned it the Taliban and Al Queda grew up to bomb us in the same place 10 years after each other.

[wizkid2000]

so Obama deserves the NPP because he put a happy face on the war machine. Nice.

I think your right... doesn't matter if people are dying in wars... as long as people like our new rhetoric that's the important thing.

[jadebrew]

If Sarah Palin had won the NPP, the haters would have loved it, but because it's Obama it sucks... I say "fuck you haters"...

[Stoudman]

I seriously have to disagree with you here, Ryan. The integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize has been losing ground for quite a while, but giving it to Barack Obama not even a YEAR into his presidency when the works he has accomplished are nowhere near significant enough to suggest winning anything as lofty as this...well...it just doesn't make any sense. I mean, if anything it says more about our world today than it does about him to think that a man that has accomplished so little would win this.

[thetalesend]

I kind of have to agree with you there but I have to say that this was awarded to him he didn't choose to be awarded this he didn't nominate himself. It was done by an international body that is independent of anything in the US. I even had my doubts when I heard it but there have been other nominees that haven't have substantiation before and there more deserving and more willing but again this wasn't his call. I know it has some merit to reverse the bush years but I agree with you in some ways

[thetalesend]

Also I knew this criticism was going to come like it did when I said the same thing to Al Gore and the IGPCC. But in this I have to agree he wasn't as deserving as others but again it's not his choice.

[Stoudman]

Yeah, it's not like I don't like the guy, I just think it's crazy that there are so few important public figures in our day and age that Obama can win the Nobel Prize for doing so little, compared to how much others have done in the past to receive it. I know he didn't ask for it, nobody asks for the Nobel Peace Prize, but that's where I'm coming from and I'm glad you understand that. I was afraid I'd get a lot of negative responses, but I'm glad to see one that gets what I'm saying.

[thetalesend]

No it's not that I don't disagree with you he hasn't done much. But a complete reversal on US Diplomacy has done a great deal to repair our reputation abroad does it deserve to get a nobel prize? Well I guess it's up to the nobel committee.

[jtred31]

Well.... I can see you have been brain washed by our Media!! I wonder how many more of you there are in our brain washed Nation....??? maybe 95%? Please turn off that thing we call THE TV!!! Take the Red pill... and thats not a Republican comment, I hate the Republicans...well, I hate the Dems too, they are the same Party with a different name... WAKE UP!

[oporim]

I am shocked and appaled!

:-D

[peterprlt]

no no no he does not....not at all ok? u got that? its called PR...its quite funny actually i must admit i laughed

[waldentree]

you need to think about it ???!!!