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Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Before i let you read the article,i just have to say that i believed so much in this award,heck that is the only award that i dream of winning one day,and i will,i'm just disappointed at their choice this year,it's the Nobel Peace Prize,awarded to people bringing Peace in the world,fighting for it,making a difference in the world,when would Bill Gate win this award that he so deserved?his contribution in the world is known,he's been helping people in Third World countries for years,Bono too,but no award.I know that President Obama made history by being the 1st African American President in the U.S,but that doesn't deserve this kind of prestigious award in my opinion.oh well congratulation,hopefully he'll understand what it really means to win this award,like his predecessors.
By Stephen M. Silverman
Barack Obama has won this year's Nobel Peace Price "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the annual award's committee announced Friday morning in Oslo.
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
By WALTER GIBBS and ALAN COWELL Published: October 9, 2009 OSLO — In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” “He has created a new international climate,” the committee said in its announcement. President Obama’s name had not figured in speculation about the likely winner until minutes before the prize was announced here. Likely candidates had been seen here as including human rights activists in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa.Gore, U.N. climate panel win Nobel Peace Prize
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OSLO – Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president. Asked to comment on the uproar following Friday's announcement, four members of the five-seat panel told The Associated Press that they had expected the decision to generate both surprise and criticism.Obama's "mild" presidency
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Long, but worth the effort (I think) By Scott Ritter There is a curious phenomenon taking place in the American media at the moment: the lionization of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the American military commander in Afghanistan. Although he has taken a few lumps for playing politics with the White House, McChrystal has generally been sold to the American public as a “Zen warrior,” a counterinsurgency genius who, if simply left to his own devices, will be able to radically transform the ongoing debacle that is Afghanistan into a noble victory that will rank as one of the greatest political and military triumphs of modern history.is this a joke?
Way to make a mockery of the Nobel peace prize. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5981JK20091009?sp=true Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize to mixed reviews By Wojciech Moskwa and Matt Spetalnick OSLO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for offering the world hope and striving for nuclear disarmament in a surprise award that drew both warm praise and sharp criticism.President Obama’s Nobel Reaction
Following is a transcript of President Obama’s remarks in response to receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning. Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning.Castro Praises Nobel Prize for Obama
October 10, 2009
Castro Praises Nobel Prize for Obama
George JoyceWhen Confucius was once asked about being praised he made sure to qualify his answer by noting that he’d prefer to be admired by the good people and hated by the bad.News is emerging from Cuba that the communist dictator Fidel Castro has praised the Nobel Committee for its recent decision to award the Peace Prize to Barack Obama:
"I don't always share the positions of [the Nobel Committee] but I'm obligated to recognize that in this instance it was, in my judgment, a positive measure.”
Castro went on to note that the Obama Peace Prize decision was more than anything else a repudiation of “the genocidal policies that not a few presidents of that country have followed.”In other words, by helping to liberate millions of Iraqis and Afganis from brutal tyrannies George Bush was committing “genocide” according to Castro.
Why does Fidel Castro accuse “not a few” American presidents of “genocide” but praise Barack Obama? The answer can be found in a short but profound section of Machiavelli’s classic leadership manual, The Prince:
“And anyone who becomes lord of a city used to living in liberty and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, because such a city always has as a refuge, in any rebellion, the spirit of liberty and its ancient institutions, neither of which is never forgotten either because of the passing of time or because of the bestowal of benefits.”
Simply put, Castro’s tyranny is much safer with Obama leading the “free” world than George Bush. Once the “spirit of liberty” germinates in a society a tyrant’s days are numbered.Machiavelli’s message offers in addition some advice for Barack Obama: unless a leader destroys it completely “the spirit of liberty and its ancient institutions” will never be forgotten, despite “the passing of time and the bestowal of benefits.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/castro_praises_nobel_prize_for.html
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