Some people seem to think it may be Obama, and it SURE SOUNDS like it:
"Job just begun, Obama wins Nobel; Fresh approach to diplomacy cited; critics flabbergasted" by Susan Milligan and Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | October 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama was surprised and wasn’t sure he deserved it. His Republican critics were stunned and appalled. Even some of Obama’s allies declared themselves amazed at the turn of events.
Only the Norwegian Nobel Committee seemed clear on why a US president only nine months into his first term should receive the coveted Peace Prize it awarded to Obama yesterday, the third sitting American president to receive the honor.
The prize panel, which deliberates in secret, apparently gave the award to Obama more on the strength of what the president represents than what he has accomplished....
“.... Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future.’’
“In a sense, this is the anti-Bush peace prize, but it’s more than that,’’ said Tom Carothers, vice president for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. “There was a psychological rift between the US and the world, and they feel that has been healed.’’
“The peace prize is always given to the idea of the person rather than the person,’’ said Adil Najam, a Boston University professor who received the award with Gore as the lead author of an intergovernmental panel’s report on climate change. “The prize was won by the idea of Barack Obama as a global president.’’
The Nobel Committee embraces the idea of multilateralism and globalism, Najam said, “and they look around and say, ‘Who embodies that idea?’ Whether they have done [Obama] a favor or not, time will tell . . . it is really putting the pressure on him.’’
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With yesterday’s announcement, Obama becomes the third sitting president to receive the international honor. President Theodore Roosevelt, who held office from 1901 to 1909, received the Nobel in 1906 for mediating a peace deal between Russia and Japan. President Wilson, in office from 1913 to 1921, was honored in 1919 as a founder of the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations. Jimmy Carter, who served from 1977 to 1981, received it in 2002 for his efforts to promote peace and human rights.
Yeah, WHERE, Zionist AmeriKan newspaper?
The Nobel Committee has a long history of controversial choices for the peace prize, its most prestigious honor. In 1973, two committee members resigned in protest when Henry Kissinger - President Nixon’s secretary of state who played a role in the secret US bombing of Cambodia and helped escalate the war in Vietnam - received the peace prize for his work on ending the war. That pretty much invalidates the whole award anyway.
When WAR CRIMINALS receive the PEACE PRIZE, well...
The co-winner that year, North Vietnamese negotiator and revolutionary Le Duc Tho, refused to accept the award. Another Nobel Committee member resigned in protest after Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat was named the 1994 co-winner of the prize, saying he was a terrorist.
No fuss about the Israeli war criminal Rabin winning it, huh?
The awarding of the prize to three prominent Democrats this decade - Carter, Gore, and Obama - has led some analysts to say that the committee has consistently sought to rebuke Bush’s presidency....
So this is just a s*** political fooley of an award. Barack Obama is George Bush's third term, so if the complaints were real he would not have won the award.
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"Honor for president comes with praise and pressure" by Gregory Katz, Associated Press | October 10, 2009
LONDON - The choice of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize was cheered yesterday by a global chorus from European leaders to minibus passengers in Kenya - but it also elicited criticism over the decision to break with tradition and recognize hopeful promise over concrete achievement.
Obama is seen as having changed the direction of US foreign policy, reversing many of his predecessor’s unilateral policies, and emphasizing the need for diplomacy, cooperation, and mutual respect....
Even though he has done absolutely nothing of the sort. He's IGNORED ISRAEL'S WAR CRIMES and PROTECTED THEM, he has ESCALATED the WARS, and his rhetoric around Iran sounds the same!!
Many admirers lauded the president for his willingness to reach out to the Islamic world, his commitment to curtailing the spread of nuclear weapons, and his goal of bringing the Israelis and Palestinians into serious, fruitful negotiations.
Well, until Sunday: India Wants to Blow Your Mind
And I discount any talk of peace regarding Israel. Show me the money.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who won the prize in 1984, described it as a “wonderful recognition’’ of Obama’s effort to reach out to the Arab world after years of hostility....
Which is a back-handed way of saying pro-Israel Bush was hostile to Arabs.
And even Tutu is a TOOL. Do you mean to say a Peace Prize winner said that?
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the Nobel Committee’s decision to reward Obama’s multilateral approach to the world was “great news.’’
“President Obama embodies the new spirit of dialogue and engagement on the world’s biggest problems: climate change, nuclear disarmament, and a wide range of peace and security challenges,’’ he said.
In the Kenyan city of Kisumu, the home province of Obama’s father, radio shows interrupted broadcasting to have live phone-ins so callers could congratulate Obama....
In Vienna, former Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Obama has already provided outstanding leadership in efforts 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.
Did he REALLY SAY THAT, or was it more MSM garbage?
In Afghanistan, where US forces are engaged in a war against insurgents, President Hamid Karzai praised the Nobel decision....
A PEACEFUL WARRIOR is Obama?
But still, others seemed unimpressed. There was far less enthusiasm in areas where America’s foreign policy is resented.
The semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki of Iran as saying:
“[The awarding of the prize is] “hasty and too early. We have no objection if this prize is an incentive to reverse the warmongering and unilateral policies of the previous US administration. The appropriate time for awarding such a prize is when foreign military forces leave Iraq and Afghanistan and when one stands by the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people.’’
Yup!
In the Gaza Strip, leaders of the radical Hamas movement said they had heard Obama’s speeches seeking better relations with the Islamic world, but had not been moved. “We are in need of actions, not sayings,’’ Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said. “If there is no fundamental and true change in American policies toward the acknowledgment of the rights of the Palestinian people, I think this prize won’t move us forward or backward.’’
Well, AT LEAST SOMEBODY in this world sees the TRUTH!
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And right after he wins the thing, what does he do?
"Obama assembles war council to discuss US troop levels in Afghanistan" by Associated Press | October 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - Hours after being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama assembled his war council in the White House basement to discuss the eight-year-old Afghanistan conflict that military commanders are pressing him to escalate.
Anti-Christ!
The president and his top national security advisers huddled in the Situation Room to hear top military officials make their case for tens of thousands of additional troops to target Al Qaeda. The session marked the first time Obama has questioned his inner circle specifically about troop levels needed to right a war that has languished in progress and popularity. A decision, though, was not in the offing.....
I think he just made his choice: Obama approved 13,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Related: He Sounds More Like George Bush Every Day
I thought you got rid of that guy, 'murka?
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The focus of yesterday’s meeting was about what it would take - from the military, from US diplomats, and from the government’s wallet - for the United States to combat terrorism, the official said.
Excuse me, the GOVERNMENT'S WALLET?
Well, WHERE does the GOVERNMENT get its money?
Oh, TAXPAYERS!!!!
Just ANOTHER SUBTLE, AGENDA-PUSHING BIAS from the PRO-TAX, PRO-GOVERNMENT MSM!!!
It's GOVERNMENT'S MONEY, not YOURS!!!!!
McChrystal is believed to have presented Obama with a range of options, from adding as few as 10,000 troops to as many as 40,000.
Or 500,000!
But hey, what is ONE MORE DISTORTION, OMISSION, or LIE when the paper is FULL OF 'EM EVERY DAY!? I mean, whose counting? Who can keep up?
The troop buildup is unpopular among some of Obama’s fellow Democrats and even among some of the officials he summoned to the secure conference room.
SO WHAT? NONE of that seems to matter.
Obama has told top advisers he wants to identify objectives before committing troops or military assets to achieve them.
Eight years and they don't know what the objective is? I was told it was to rout terrorist Taliban and spread the fruits of democracy! Truth is, the MISSION is PROTECTING OIL PIPELINES and the OPIUM TRADE and ALWAYS WAS!
Even his closest advisers say they have no idea where Obama is leaning on a war he inherited but now must execute....
Why?
Under the evolving strategy, the official said, the United States would fight only to keep the Taliban from retaking control of Afghanistan’s central government - something it is now far from being capable of - and from turning the country back into the sanctuary for Al Qaeda that it was before the 2001 invasion ousted the regime.
I'm telling you, I really am tired of the bullshit. Taliban have control of most of the country, and IF THAT IS WHY WE ARE THERE, then WE HAVE LOST!
These guys learned NOTHING from Vietnam except PRESS CENSORSHIP!
The "Taliban" are FIGHTING for their HOMES and that ALWAYS WINS OUT over an OCCUPIER!
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BANGKOK - The United States was heavily criticized yesterday at the UN climate talks in Bangkok for not offering emission cuts or financing for developing countries - both considered crucial to reaching a global warming pact this year.
As BUSH would have done, right? PFFFFFTTT!
The Bangkok talks ended just as it was announced that President Obama had been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, in part for strengthening the US role in combating climate change. Yvo de Boer, UN climate chief, said he hoped the award would spur progress when the US delegation arrives in Copenhagen in December for climate negotiations. Obama is set to received his award in Oslo on Dec. 10 - just days after the climate talks start....
Earlier, the Americans took a beating from environmentalists and poor nations for not committing to deep emissions cuts and not providing financial aid to poorer nations.
“The developing nations are justifiably angry at the lack of progress, about the lack of credible offers by the United States, by the European Union, and by Japan,’’ said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Jonathan Pershing, the head of the American delegation, said the United States wanted a deal in Copenhagen, but he acknowledged “it would be extremely difficult for the US to commit to specific numbers in the absence of legislation from Congress.’’
Oh, they are trying to use this politically to push through their carbon tax bill.
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Btw, about the "climate change" issue:
"Three Decades Of Global Cooling
This was all a scam. The US Government creates one crisis after the other to trick you out of money and obedience.Human Caused Global Warming was to pave the way for a global environmental authority; the next step towards a global government, and along the way, the cap and credit tax system would impoverish the people and make the carbon credit brokerage system (designed by Enron's Ken Lay) filthy rich, again at your expense.
And now that we are three decades into a cooling trend, I want to rub a few noses in this snowball. Look back at everyone who was shouting "Human Caused Global Warming" at you. Al Gore, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, ABCNNBBCBS, History Channel, a whole bunch of scientists willing to sell their souls for an easy endowment, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
They all lied to you.
They lied.
They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied.
Many of them are STILL lying to you, trying to raise on a busted flush, because hundreds of millions of dollars was invested in Al Gore's "Global Warming Futures" and the investors are not ready to give up on selling the scam just yet, not after that much cash has been plowed into the project.
Our leadership are all lawyers and bookkeepers. They do not actually know how to make anything useful, so inevitably their exploitation of the people devolves into one scam after the other; rule by snake oil. Global Warming fear mongering. When-Pigs-Fly flu fear mongering. Osama bin Laden fear mongering. And all the government agencies and corporate media sign on because they smell the gravy train pulling into the station. And with precious few exceptions, they all stood there and sang the hymns to Saint Al of the Gore, and presented you with a bill to save you from ... whatever it was they has tricked you into believing was a direct danger to you.
It's like the old joke of the man standing in the middle of main street USA with his arms outstretched and wearing a strange contraption on his head. Someone asks him, "What are you doing?" and the man replies "I am keeping the dragons away." "But there are no dragons" says the first man. See" says our con artist, "It works! That will be five dollars, please!"
And who was warning you all along that this was a scam?
The blogs.
Once again, the blog-o-sphere had it correct and the corporate media and government were full of USDA choice bovine excrement.
The media doesn't like that. Their job was to sell you the "danger" so that the government could sell you the solution, and it didn't work out.
Which is probably why Salon is whining that people who refuse to believe as they are told and try to find out the truth for themselves simply MUST be mentally ill!
Sore losers.
See I AM BLOGGER, HEAR ME ROAR!" -- Wake the Flock Up
We hear you LOUD and CLEAR!
And this, I believe, confirms the Anti-Christ's ascension:
"Bishops speak of Obama in religious terms" by Associated Press | October 8, 2009
VATICAN CITY - There was “a divine plan behind’’ Obama’s election.
“It’s like the biblical story repeating itself.... We believe God has his own plans. God directs history. We pray that it [Obama’s presidency] brings blessings for Africa and the whole world.’’
How can you argue with that, huh?
