[Vision2020] President Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

Fri Oct 9 14:31:05 PDT 2009

Donovan,

Sounds good to me!

On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:

> Obama got the Nobel Peace award simply because he stopped killing so  
> many innocent people as his predecessor. He unseated the Republican  
> Party which was on a warpath of destruction, and stripping people of  
> Individual Liberties, not just abroad, but also in this country with  
> the destruction of its economy.
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On Fri, 10/9/09, Wayne Price <bear at moscow.com> wrote:
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> From: Wayne Price <bear at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] President Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel  
> Peace Prize
> To: "Glenn Schwaller" <vpschwaller at gmail.com>
> Cc: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 7:29 PM
>
> 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".
>
> Wayne
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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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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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