It’s Not the Achievements. It’s the Journey Itself.

[...] Spencer Ackerman: But turning it down would be a slap in the face to an international community that is showing, in the most generous way possible, that it wants the U.S. back as a leading component of the global order. The issue is not Barack Obama. It’s what the president represents internationally: a symbol of an America that is willing, once again, to drive the international system forward, together, toward the humane positive-sum goals of peace and disarmament. The fact that Obama hasn’t gotten the planet there misses the point entirely. It’s that he’s beginning, slowly, to take the world again down the path. [...]

[...] VIII: Spencer Ackerman elaborates on the “Don’t turn it down” argument: But turning it down would be a slap in the [...]

[...] Spencer Ackerman: [T]urning it down would be a slap in the face to an international community that is showing, in the most generous way possible, that it wants the U.S. back as a leading component of the global order. The issue is not Barack Obama. It’s what the president represents internationally: a symbol of an America that is willing, once again, to drive the international system forward, together, toward the humane positive-sum goals of peace and disarmament. The fact that Obama hasn’t gotten the planet there misses the point entirely. It’s that he’s beginning, slowly, to take the world again down the path. [...]

From the comments from the announcement of the Nobel PEACE PRIZE, President Obama was nominated the first week of February–
The statements Obama made such as in his inaugural address about Muslims were repeated as Obama was announced as the winner–The comments from the Noble Peace Prize–due to:
– President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. THESE ARE THE REASONS GIVEN FOR SELECTING OBAMA!

After 8 long dark years of denial, duplicity and death-dealing, it is surely a breath of fresh air that President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Finally, leadership with vision and hope has been restored to a lost world. Perhaps now we can be encouraged by this great man so that others will exemplify his kind of new leadership; so that, as the Nobel Prize Committee stated to and for all in the world, more leaders will stand up, speak out loudly and clearly for “diplomacy…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.” If ever there was reason to hope for a good enough future for the children, it is now. The vision of what is best for the majority of humanity and not for a malignantly narcissistic, pathologically arrogant and extremely greedy minority, is something easy to apprehend and even easier to actualize in democracies in which the majority does really rule. The majoirity of people in too many democracies in our time have been surreptitiously manipulated by a remarkably tiny group of super-rich and powerful people who appear to have maniacally exploited democratic principles and practices for their own selfish interests…..come what may for the majority of humanity, the future of children, life as we know it and the integrity of Earth.

[...] Spencer Ackerman om at Barack Obama burde avslå å ta imot prisen: But turning it down would be a slap in the face to an international community that is showing, in the most generous way possible, that it wants the U.S. back as a leading component of the global order. The issue is not Barack Obama. It’s what the president represents internationally: a symbol of an America that is willing, once again, to drive the international system forward, together, toward the humane positive-sum goals of peace and disarmament. The fact that Obama hasn’t gotten the planet there misses the point entirely. It’s that he’s beginning, slowly, to take the world again down the path. [...]

The Nobel committee has continued down the path of irrelevancy. The committee has made some fairly bad choices for the last decade or so, its anti-America agenda fits in perfectly with Mr. Obama’s. The following is a list of recent Nobel winners.
1994 Yasser Arafat (A terrorist)
2001 Kofi Annan (Anti-American Politician)
2002 Jimmy Carter (Anti American Politician)
2005 Mohamed El Baradei (A fool and a Liar)
2007 Al Gore (A large fool and liar)
2009 Barrack Obama (Anti-American Politician)

This is a collection of Leftist doofuses, unknown bureaucrats, petty dictators, terrorists, conmen, and crooks. What distinguished company, Mister President “No Clue”. The continuing journey to mental retardation is firmly imbedded in our society; this is not all that different from giving an Oscar to a pedophile.

He should accept it on behalf of the American people who voted him into office — to the relief apparently of the entire world.

It's something we can all be proud of.

Too bad they didn't give one to the previous president; then you could add “war criminal” to your tired talking points.

And you call someone else a fool and a liar? That takes chutzpah since you clearly are a right-wing talking point spewing fool yourself.

Oh yeah! that's right! I had forgotten that the Nobel Prize was awarded as a sign of good-will, meant to encourage those who have some potential! That's why they gave William Shatner the Nobel Prize for Physics – for his work on faster than light propulsion (aka warp speed), well, he talked about it… on TV…

You mean the Mohamed El Baradei who was correct that Iraq did not have a nuclear program? (Let's see, the actual liars about Iraq were…it'll come to me…oh yeah! Bush/Cheney/Condi/etc. Ah, those were the days!)

And you mean the Al Gore whose two-decade crusade to sound the alarm about global warming was, if anything, flawed only in underestimating the magnitude of the crisis we face?

Distinguished company indeed.

As for the continuing journey to mental retardation, try spelling the president's name correctly.

What about john53 (A known pedophile and retarded person)? Did he ever win one?

This line of argument about “…the journey” is absurd. Whether you like the President or not, agree with his policies and views or not, this award is like electing a rookie to the Basketball Hall of Fame before the end of their first year in the league. International awards should not be for “good intentions” or “…journey”- award like the Nobel Peace Prize should be for achievement! Otherwise, even well meaning people are bound to feel it is all politics, as usual!!

I say to all those intellectuals trying to justify this, the Nobel committee blew it! Admit it and we can all move on….

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