Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Obama! - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

JohnR · 10-09-2009, 08:20 AM

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I think the committee thought he was such a huge step up from the worse Pres. we ever had and maybe that had something to do with it.

Even if true, two wrongs don't make a right

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I agree that the award is puzzling since he was only in office 2 weeks when the nomination closed although the award could obviously take into account actions b/f he was pres. (but i still don't know of anything he could have done b/f he was elected Pres.).

As I was reminded, the Nobel folks did award the Peace Prize to Arafat in the past, so I suppose Hope is an upgrade

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It be interesting to hear who the other nominees were.

Speculation was... :"Speculation had focused on Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai

, a Colombian senator and a Chinese dissident, along with an Afghan woman's rights activist."

Maybe these folks never accomplished anything either.

BigFish · 10-09-2009, 08:37 AM

Must have been a shortage of worthy candidates!

WHAT HAS HE DONE?

mekcotuit · 10-09-2009, 08:38 AM

Most of you know me as pretty liberal - well, really liberal, but I am shocked at this - and do not understand it. He should decline....as Mickey Klaus wrote:

What Obama Should Do With His Nobel Peace Prize
Turn it down! Politely decline. Say he's honored but he hasn't had the time yet to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. Result: He gets at least the same amount of glory--and helps solve his narcissism problem and his Fred Armisen ('What's he done?') problem, demonstrating that he's uncomfortable with his reputation as a man overcelebrated for his potential long before he's started to realize it. ... Plus he doesn't have to waste time, during a fairly crucial period, working on yet another grand speech. ... And the downside is ... what? That the Nobel Committee feels dissed? ... P.S.: It's not as if Congress is going to think, well, he's won the Nobel Peace Prize so let's pass health care reform. But the possibility for a Nobel backlash seems non-farfetched. .

eastendlu · 10-09-2009, 08:42 AM

Why the big surprise?We are talking about Norwegian's here Europeans don't think like we do.

fishbones · 10-09-2009, 09:03 AM

When I first read saw the headline, I said to myself "Must be a typo. It's supposed to say 'Academy Award', not Nobel Peace Prize". Then, I looked at several other sites and saw that it really was the Nobel. The only explanation is that the Norwegians are either playing a joke or they're trying to manipulate the President by playing to his ego. WTF.

scottw · 10-09-2009, 09:07 AM

well actually, when you consider some of the other dopes that have won this thing, it might make perfect sense...

winners include:

2009 - Barack Obama

2008 - Martti Ahtisaari

2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore

2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank

2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei

2004 - Wangari Maathai

2003 - Shirin Ebadi

2002 - Jimmy Carter

2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan

2000 - Kim Dae-jung

1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières

1994

YASSER ARAFAT , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority
(and prolific terrorist)

1990
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV , President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end. (huh?)

JohnR · 10-09-2009, 09:28 AM

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MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV , President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end. (huh?)

There was that Glasnost and Perestroika thing that helped bring down the Cold War (a/k/a collapse of Soviet Union). You didn't think they could find it in themselves to give it to Ronnie RayGun, Didcha?

scottw · 10-09-2009, 10:33 AM

step right up!!

collapse your country....WIN A PRIZE!

I guess the collapse of America is near....

can anybody say..."second stimulus"

"I want to see Obama do well because if he is doing well, odds are our Country is doing well."

have to disagree with this John, I'm sure that Obama would define "doing well" as successfully implementing his radical agenda, if he's "doing well" by his standards we will be deeply indebted and we will labor under the thumb of a big oppressive government...that would not be "doing well"...

RIROCKHOUND · 10-09-2009, 11:42 AM

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I guess the collapse of America is near....

Better get out before it happens then Scott....

JohnR · 10-09-2009, 01:26 PM

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have to disagree with this John, I'm sure that Obama would define "doing well" as successfully implementing his radical agenda, if he's "doing well" by his standards we will be deeply indebted and we will labor under the thumb of a big oppressive government...that would not be "doing well"...

I guess I should have said by "MY" standards. Mea Culpa

Jimmy - still trying but I just

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I got nothing

The Dad Fisherman · 10-09-2009, 01:37 PM

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Here...Put this on.....He'll Find You.

fishbones · 10-09-2009, 02:02 PM

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I guess I should have said by "MY" standards. Mea Culpa

Jimmy - still trying but I just

Can't

Channel

Spence

Right

Now

I got nothing

You need the Spence Political Forum Talking Point of the Day Calendar. Each and every day there's a new word or phrase like "Bi-partisan Support", "Imposing Theocracy", Exit Strategy", Neocon", "Conservative Vapidity", Tea Baggers", and "GOP Rhetoric". Just type anything, then add in something from that days calendar page and you've got yourself a Spencism.