Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace prize

[Rum]

Well he has done it again. Obama just gone and won the Nobel Peace prize didnt he!?

[Elessarina]

Amazing.. I bet there's a rush in the White House now to wake him up...

[Rum]

Mod merge alert...

[Chinaski]

I was just going to post this. Holy shit, was NOT expecting this. Good turn.

[Rum]

I wonder how George Bush feels about it..

[Elessarina]

I wonder how George Bush feels about it..

Peaced off?

[devogue]

Fucking ridiculous.

[Rum]

Fucking ridiculous.

Bush feels ridiculous or Obama getting the prize is..or both?

Both actually.

[leo-rcc]

Can someone give me a valid argument why Obama deserves a peace prize?

Don't get me wrong, if Yasser Arafat can get one then I don't see why Obama couldn't, but to me it seems that you would have to do something at least to earn an award.

[Psi Wavefunction]

LOL you guys are just shitting me, arentcha? I'm gonna go check, and feel like an idiot doing so...

(...and only because this isn't in The Pub... )

[Chinaski]

Obama's done a lot for international diplomacy and relations. His efforts to nuclear disarmament are also praiseworthy. I just hope this'll get the Republicans to shut up.

[Elessarina]

The Nobel Committee said he was awarded it "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".
The committee highlighted Mr Obama's efforts to strengthen international bodies and promote nuclear disarmament.

"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," the Norwegian committee said in a statement.

"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."

Asked why the prize had been awarded to Mr Obama less than a year after he took office, Nobel committee head Thorbjoern Jagland said: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve".

"It is a clear signal that we want to advocate the same as he has done," he said.

He specifically mentioned Mr Obama's work to strengthen international institutions and work towards a world free of nuclear arms.

The statement from the committee also said the US president had "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," it said.

The committee added that the US was now playing a more constructive role in meeting "the great climatic challenges" facing the world, and that democracy and human rights would be strengthened.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8298580.stm

[Psi Wavefunction]

Ok, WHAT THE FUCK!? http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/home/announce-2009/

It's true... wow, even fucking Norwegians idolize this guy

Our lord the savior hath come to deliver us from ourselves, etc.... seriously, do people NEVER LEARN?

[Rum]

Can someone give me a valid argument why Obama deserves a peace prize?

Don't get me wrong, if Yasser Arafat can get one then I don't see why Obama couldn't, but to me it seems that you would have to do something at least to earn an award.

Well if this man could win it...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Well, Vern, az I tole ya, this here's just 'nother step in the march to one world gubernment."

"Obama is once more pandering to the foreign interests who wish to destroy our Merkin lifestyle. If he was a real man, or even a citizen of Merka, he would snub the whole dog-and-pony show in Oslo!"