wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe...ize/index.html

I guess they figured if Kofi Annan and Al Gore didn't convince folks this thing
is a cheap joke, this ought to do it...

Sheesh,
Spoken like someone with the emotional maturity of a bratty
13-year-old. Obama is the president, get over it already.

http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/process.html

Unless he was nominated in for 2008 too late (even more ridiculous), and as
others have correctly pointed out, he had to have been nominated no later than a
coupla weeks into office as POTUS. My guess is that there will be some, er,
"discussion" from at least some perfectly reasonable eligible nominators to
release more details of this nomination long before the 50-year mark.

And for the record, unless he or his people had something untoward to do with
this (and that would include, um, "encouraging" one or more nominators to
nominate him), this doesn't reflect on Obama one bit, it reflects upon the
Committee (which has shown itself to be goofy in the past, ala Annan, Gore,
etc.).

Would you like some cheese with that whine ?

Obama was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary
efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation
between peoples".

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me and even though it was surprising
to even hint at some sort of skulduggery is just petulant whining.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has never claimed to be an agenda
free selection committee and I think they're flippin' the bird to
Shrub as much as they're honoring Obama. To which I can only say,
BRAVO, well done.

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Ken Fortenberry