Obama Nobel?????

[EternalStorm]

Just watch Daily Show, or Colbert Report for the most balanced news coverage (sad because their comedy programs, but they don't mind making fun of both Republicans and Dems.)

Delivering news and making fun of everything all at once. The two greatest programs ever made!

[Dawnseeker]

Am I the only one whos like WTF!!!!

Nope. Apparently the UK Telegraph echoes your sentiment: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ja...bel-peace-wtf/

[Rodri]

When I look around for better candidates in the world for a peace prize, there are very few, unfortunately. Perhaps it isn't appropriate at this point in time but who else would you have given it to?

[friendly]

Either way you look at it, America couldn't continue on the path it was on. I mean look at what happened at our economy when we let companies more or less do what they wanted, and the government was put in such a hole, I dont think we'll ever climb out. I mean, yes Obama is spending money, unfortunately, he has to to try to encourage our economy to recover. He inherited the country in such a pitiful state (2 wars occuring, failing economy, declining education and healthcare) I mean its amazing we're still 1 country. I mean people around the world are extremely grateful Obama is president, and America is now the second most hated country (behind England now) as opposed to the most hated. America must realize that we can't solve all of the worlds problems ourself, we need cooperation of an internation community.

And, as a quick side-note, both the Republican and Democrat parties are nuts. The Dems need to flex their muscle more (get some legislation passed)and should care less about getting apologies, the Republicans should look at what they were calling the Dems the past 8 years and notice that they are doing what the Dems were.

Just watch Daily Show, or Colbert Report for the most balanced news coverage (sad because their comedy programs, but they don't mind making fun of both Republicans and Dems.)

I woke up this morning, and when I saw the news I had goosebumps all over my body, and I was in tears, and I was proud, proud that my country was on the right track. Proud that my country was the one leading the world to a more peaceful world.

US President Barack Obama is the most recent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, winning in 2009. He was singled out for his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
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[Milonius]

When I look around for better candidates in the world for a peace prize, there are very few, unfortunately. Perhaps it isn't appropriate at this point in time but who else would you have given it to?

I would have given it to someone who's feeding starving children or has stopped a war or has done something else that's good-hearted. What has Obama done? Zip. Nada.

[friendly]

I would have given it to someone who's feeding starving children or has stopped a war or has done something else that's good-hearted. What has Obama done? Zip. Nada.

He has done more than you have, that's all I can say... Mwaa.ha.ha.ha,ha

[Milonius]

He has done more than you have, that's all I can say... Mwaa.ha.ha.ha,ha

Well duh. I'm just a fifteen year old boy.

[Rodri]

I would have given it to someone who's feeding starving children or has stopped a war or has done something else that's good-hearted. What has Obama done? Zip. Nada.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of anyone who has stopped a war in 2008/2009. It makes me sad. At least Obama talked about withdrawing from Iraq. It's not much I know, but it's something.

[friendly]

Well duh. I'm just a fifteen year old boy.

"He was singled out for his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

A lesson in history; a year before Obama won the presidency, he went to Germany and started the process of using diplomacy to bring the world together again, his message was about hope, and he changed America forever before and after the November election. That is why he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

I am a big fan of history, I just wish more people would study it and not be so clueless when things like this happen.

Thank you,

[Dawnseeker]

When I look around for better candidates in the world for a peace prize, there are very few, unfortunately. Perhaps it isn't appropriate at this point in time but who else would you have given it to?

Really? Where to start?

Ingrid Betancourt is a fearless Columbian activist. She was taken captive by an insurgent group when she took her democratic advocacy into dangerous regions of the country and was held for 6 years (just released last year).

Jalal Talabani has been fighting for the rights of Kurds, a historically oppressed ethnic group in northern Iraq, for over 40 years. Has been serving as president of Iraq and has helped bring a measure of peace to the country and brought opposing factions into the government.

Hu Jia is a Chinese dissident who has been campaigning for humanitarian causes (most notably to draw attention and funding to combating HIV/AIDS in China) and for democracy. He was thrown in prison for "subversion" last year and will probably die there.

Morgan Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He has been a key force for human rights and democratic change and challenged the brutal tyrant Robert Mugabe for the presidency recently, but withdrew from the runoff (despite being ahead in the first election) because of acts of violence and threats of civil war by Mugabe and his supporters.

Thich Quang Do is the patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, which has been banned from the country. He has been an advocate of democracy in Vietnam since the fall of Saigon in 1975. He has been jailed several times and has been under house arrest for several years, although he courageously violated that arrest to be at the bedside of the former patriarch of the church who died while also under house arrest.

Barack Obama has been the President of the United States for 9 months and has given various speeches about various things.