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View Poll Results: Obama himself shocked by the decision?
Yes, Obama himself was bewildered and wondered what drugs the committee is on 165 70.21%
No, Obama felt fully deserving of the award. Whether the award would come was never in question. 70 29.79%
Voters: 235. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-09-2009, 10:33 AM
 
Location: NJ
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2weeks after being elected PO gets nominated????????

If the guy actually demonstrated some achievement to earn the award I'd be proud of him. It is not his fault he was selected so you can't blame him.

However, PO's selection is an absolute joke! An embarassment for the NPP committee.

Watch for the knock-off NPP being sold on the streets of NYC along with knock-off handbags.

Guess they lowered the bar for has beens, also rans and ne'r do wells as a consolation prize for US presidential failures. Barry, the great inheritor, has done nothing but mediate a neighborhood scuffle with a couple of beers.

Barry is in good company with Jimmy Carter and Al Gore.
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:33 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Do I hear the rattling of tin foil anyone?
Ah, so the civi death rate is down even though the media and pictures report otherwise. Up is down, slavery is freedom, and so forth.
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:34 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Obama is a man with a lot of class, intellect, and patience. He's not apparently motivated by greed or hampered by short-sightedness.

For this, the hard right hates this man.

I hope Americans are paying attention to who among us are acting reasonably and who is blinded by idealogical hatred.
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:34 AM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Post 571 : You made a comment about the more deaths than in the past 7 years.


Here is post 571.




I don't see the word Afghanistan in the above verbatim quote.

You've been caught doing it again, amigo.
If you have the ability to follow the posts, which obviously you don't, it is clear, WE (the poster and I) were discussing Afghanistan.

So the word "Afghanistan" has to be in every post for you to understand?
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:35 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC
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Funny... last time I checked, peace didn't involve killing innocent Afghan and Pakistani civilians in drone attacks.
So what's your suggestion? Leave Afghanistan completely and allow the Taliban complete control of both nations. Then when they attack us again, in a far more ruthless fashion, you can bash Obama some more for failing to stop and preempt the attack. Absolute brilliance!
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:35 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Is the Nobel Prize committee adopting a Dubya-like strategy of preemptive prize awarding?
Touche!
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Near Manito
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Touche!
Seems like it.....

Michael Russnow: Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Washington, DC
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The man is extraordinary. He inherited an incredible mess. A Republican/Conservative/Regressive/Klan/Neocon/Red States/Clueless-created mess. By the time Obama took office, Bush and the Regressives had this country on a direct path to a serious Depression with their clueless ideology. Record deficits greeted Obama. Housing crisis, bank crisis, mortgage crisis, health care in shambles. Street gang domestic terrorism OUT OF CONTROL. The ridiculous "war on terrorism" LOST after LYING to enter the war, then wasting a trillion dollars in the cause. Why weren't the Regressives complaining about all that wasteful SPENDING? Goodwill with allies around the world OBLITERATED under the Regressives. Infrastructure in shambles. Damn near 50 states in an economic free fall with Bush. Illegal immigrants entering this country through holes nearly as big as the one in the ideology of the Regressives. The unemployment rate skyrockets as qualified Americans lose their jobs to outsourcing and H-1B visa cheap labor from India and Asia because the Regressives care only about profit. Barack Obama has the task of reviving this country after the worst presidential administration in the history of this country. The people who voted for Bush's reelection will go down as having the worst political judgment and instincts in history. Obama continues despite the whining and moaning from this bunch.

As Obama said, to dig ourselves out of 8 horrific years of Republican/Conservative control, is going to take patience, but he provides hope as the numbers are starting to look favorable... as expected! Took him 9 months to get this country out of a sure-Depression that it took that Republican village idiot 8 years to build. He's far from done too. Two terms we have this man leading this nation.

Yes, Obama deserves that prize, and don't you Regressives forget it.
Exactomundo!
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:36 AM
 
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Obama was selected not for substantive accomplishments, but for his "vision" and inspiring "hope" at the beginning of his presidency.

He got the Nobel Peace Prize for a following a campaign playbook written by others?
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Old 10-09-2009, 10:37 AM
 
Location: Saturn
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If you have the ability to follow the posts, which obviously you don't, it is clear, WE (the poster and I) were discussing AFghanistan.
You made a general statement in message 571.

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And while he is waffling and thinking about the political ramifications, troops are dying and the situation is getting worse and morale is in the toilet.
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Since he's been in charge, more American deaths have ocurred than in the previous 7 years.


You did not mention Afghanistan.

You've been caught doing it again.
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