<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold<BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 10/9/09, Wayne Price <I><bear@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Wayne Price <bear@moscow.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] President <SPAN>Barack</SPAN> Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize<BR>To: "Glenn Schwaller" <vpschwaller@gmail.com><BR>Cc: "vision2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 7:29 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>And to add to that, he has been the President of the United States and <BR>during HIS tenure, we haven't been attacked - more than Bush Jr. Can <BR>say about his first ten months in office!<BR>Inherited two useless wars and a bad economy.<BR>Doesn't sound like he is asleep at the switch or will be known as the <BR>"Vacation President".<BR><BR>Wayne<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Glenn Schwaller wrote:<BR><BR>> Hmmmm . . . I find it sad when an award meant to honor the<BR>> achievements of a lifetime of hard work is reduced to partisan world<BR>> politics, and given on the basis of hopes and dreams of what may<BR>> happen.<BR>><BR>> World peace? Shutting the prison at Guantanamo Bay was a key Obama<BR>> campaign promise. How's that going? The threat of Iran's nuclear<BR>> weapons production is now shown to be twice what
was previously<BR>> believed and Obamas "push for peace" is to put "Iran . . . on notice<BR>> that . . . they are going to have to come clean." Now if that won't<BR>> stimutlate peace I suppose nothing will. And I guess having your<BR>> Secretary of State comment that "she would "totally obliterate" Iran<BR>> if Iran attacked Israel" can't be construed as a deterrent for peace.<BR>> Of course not.<BR>><BR>> Chinese nuclear proliferation? North Korea's nuclear proliferation?<BR>> Troops out of Iraq? Troops out of Afghanistan? Frightening surge in<BR>> suicide bombers? Yes I must say our President has done much for<BR>> pushing for world peace. Well I guess the feds did manage to bring<BR>> down a still wet-behind-the-ears bus driver and street coffee vendor<BR>> for turning hair bleach into bombs. That in itself must be worth the<BR>>
cool $1,000,000.<BR>><BR>> If Nobel prizes are to be given on the basis of one's dreams, visions<BR>> and hopes of accomplishment, I say rescind the 1989 Physics prize<BR>> given to Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul (born in<BR>> 1915, 1922 and 1913 - I would say that illustrates a lifetime of hard<BR>> work) and award it to B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann. What<BR>> could be more fitting?<BR>><BR>> GS<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Ted Moffett <<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=starbliss@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</A>> <BR>> wrote:<BR>>> <A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nobel_peace/print" target=_blank>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_re_eu/eu_nobel_peace/print</A><BR>>><BR>>> President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace
Prize<BR>>><BR>>> By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writers Karl Ritter <BR>>> And Matt<BR>>> Moore, Associated Press Writers 2 mins ago<BR>>><BR>>> OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on <BR>>> Friday for<BR>>> "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and<BR>>> cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, <BR>>> citing his<BR>>> outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear <BR>>> proliferation.<BR>>><BR>>> The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U..S. president to <BR>>> win the<BR>>> Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took <BR>>> office less<BR>>> than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name <BR>>> had been<BR>>> mentioned in speculation
before the award but many Nobel watchers <BR>>> believed<BR>>> it was too early to award the president.<BR>>><BR>>> "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured <BR>>> the<BR>>> world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the<BR>>> committee said. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those <BR>>> who are<BR>>> to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes <BR>>> that are<BR>>> shared by the majority of the world's population."<BR>>><BR>>> The committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision <BR>>> of, and<BR>>> work for, a world without nuclear weapons.<BR>>><BR>>> "Obama has as president created a new climate in international <BR>>> politics.<BR>>> Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with
<BR>>> emphasis on the<BR>>> role that the United Nations and other international institutions <BR>>> can play,"<BR>>> the committee said.<BR>>><BR>>> Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in <BR>>> 1919.<BR>>> Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former <BR>>> Vice<BR>>> President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U..N. panel on <BR>>> climate<BR>>> change.<BR>>><BR>>> The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this <BR>>> year's prize.<BR>>><BR>>> In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize <BR>>> should go "to<BR>>> the person who shall have done the most or the best work for <BR>>> fraternity<BR>>> between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing <BR>>> armies
and<BR>>> the formation and spreading of peace congresses."<BR>>><BR>>> Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish <BR>>> institutions, he<BR>>> said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee <BR>>> elected<BR>>> by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under <BR>>> the same<BR>>> crown at the time of Nobel's death.<BR>>><BR>>> The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines,<BR>>> expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to <BR>>> combat<BR>>> poverty, disease and climate change.<BR>>><BR>>> ___<BR>>><BR>>> Associated Press Writer Ian MacDougall contributed to this report.<BR>>> ------------------------------------------<BR>>> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<BR>>>
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