[Vision2020] President Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

[Joe Campbell]

The win by Obama is a total slam against Bush. Essentially Obama  
improved world peace by not being Bush. That is how the rest of the  
world sees it.

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On Oct 9, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Wayne Price <bear at moscow.com> wrote:

> And to add to that, he has been the President of the United States and
> during HIS tenure, we haven't been attacked - more than Bush Jr. Can
> say about his first ten months in office!
> Inherited two useless wars and a bad economy.
> Doesn't sound like he is asleep at the switch or will be known as the
> "Vacation President".
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> On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Glenn Schwaller wrote:
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>> Hmmmm . . .   I find it sad when an award meant to honor the
>> achievements of a lifetime of hard work is reduced to partisan world
>> politics, and given on the basis of hopes and dreams of what may
>> happen.
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>> World peace?  Shutting the prison at Guantanamo Bay was a key Obama
>> campaign promise.  How's that going?  The threat of Iran's nuclear
>> weapons production is now shown to be twice what was previously
>> believed and Obamas "push for peace" is to put "Iran  . . . on notice
>> that  . . .  they are going to have to come clean."  Now if that  
>> won't
>> stimutlate peace I suppose nothing will.  And I guess having your
>> Secretary of State comment that "she would "totally obliterate" Iran
>> if Iran attacked Israel" can't be construed as a deterrent for peace.
>> Of course not.
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>> Chinese nuclear proliferation?  North Korea's nuclear proliferation?
>> Troops out of Iraq?  Troops out of Afghanistan?  Frightening surge in
>> suicide bombers?  Yes I must say our President has done much for
>> pushing for world peace.   Well I guess the feds did manage to bring
>> down a still wet-behind-the-ears bus driver and street coffee vendor
>> for turning hair bleach into bombs.  That in itself must be worth the
>> cool $1,000,000.
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>> If Nobel prizes are to be given on the basis of one's dreams, visions
>> and hopes of accomplishment, I say rescind the 1989 Physics prize
>> given to Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul (born in
>> 1915, 1922 and 1913 - I would say that illustrates a lifetime of hard
>> work) and award it to B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann.  What
>> could be more fitting?
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>> GS
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>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nobel_peace/print
>>>
>>> President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
>>>
>>> By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writers Karl Ritter
>>> And Matt
>>> Moore, Associated Press Writers 2 mins ago
>>>
>>> OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on
>>> Friday for
>>> "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and
>>> cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said,
>>> citing his
>>> outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear
>>> proliferation.
>>>
>>> The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to
>>> win the
>>> Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took
>>> office less
>>> than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name
>>> had been
>>> mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers
>>> believed
>>> it was too early to award the president.
>>>
>>> "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
>>> committee said. "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."
>>>
>>> The committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision
>>> of, and
>>> work for, a world without nuclear weapons.
>>>
>>> "Obama has as president 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,"
>>> the committee said.
>>>
>>> Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in
>>> 1919.
>>> Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former
>>> Vice
>>> President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U.N. panel on
>>> climate
>>> change.
>>>
>>> The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this
>>> year's prize.
>>>
>>> In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize
>>> should go "to
>>> the person who shall have done the most or the best work for
>>> fraternity
>>> between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing
>>> armies and
>>> the formation and spreading of peace congresses."
>>>
>>> Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish
>>> institutions, he
>>> said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee
>>> elected
>>> by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under
>>> the same
>>> crown at the time of Nobel's death.
>>>
>>> The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines,
>>> expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to
>>> combat
>>> poverty, disease and climate change.
>>>
>>> ___
>>>
>>> Associated Press Writer Ian MacDougall contributed to this report.
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