<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Donovan,<div><br></div><div>Sounds good to me!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Donovan Arnold wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><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> <div> </div> <div>Donovan Arnold<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 10/9/09, Wayne Price <i><<a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a>></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 <<a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] President <span>Barack</span> Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize<br>To: "Glenn Schwaller" <<a href="mailto:vpschwaller@gmail.com">vpschwaller@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: "vision2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><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>>> =======================================================<br>>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>>> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br>>> mailto:<a href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>>> =======================================================<br>>><br>><br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br>> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br>> mailto:<a href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>> =======================================================<br><br>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a> <br> mailto:<a href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>