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On 2009-10-09 10:40:52 -0400, Ken Fortenberry
said:

David LaCourse wrote:
Ken Fortenberry said:
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.

Ken, he wasn't eligible for the NPP. ...

When did the Nobel people put you on their rules committee ?

Congrats, what did you do to earn that ?

Real simple; I told them you were an asshole.

d;op

David LaCourse wrote:
Ken Fortenberry said:
David LaCourse wrote:
Ken, he wasn't eligible for the NPP. ...

When did the Nobel people put you on their rules committee ?

Congrats, what did you do to earn that ?

Real simple; I told them you were an asshole.

You should read the actual words of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/p...009/press.html

The statement is worth reproducing he

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for
2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary
efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between
peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision
of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics.
Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on
the role that the United Nations and other international institutions
can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for
resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of
a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and
arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now
playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic
challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to
be strengthened.

Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the
world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His
diplomacy is 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.

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate
precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama
is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's
appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of
responsibility for a global response to global challenges."

Oslo, October 9, 2009

On Oct 9, 8:41*am, David LaCourse wrote:
On 2009-10-09 07:58:58 -0400, Ken Fortenberry
said:

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.

Ken, he wasn't eligible for the NPP.

Someone should inform the committee. Boy are THEY gonna be red it the
face or what, huh?

Idiot.

He was in office less than two weeks before he was nominated. *He did nothing to earn it.

Well, that much at least, appears to be true.

Nevertheless, pig.....liar.

g.

As one article mentioned, nominations for the prize close on Feb 1,
just 12 days after the President took office. Perhaps someday he will
have a record deserving of the prize, but right now anyone with at
least half a brain, supporter or not, must be thinking "Huh?"...

Jon.

Jon wrote:
As one article mentioned, nominations for the prize close on Feb 1,
just 12 days after the President took office. Perhaps someday he will
have a record deserving of the prize, but right now anyone with at
least half a brain, supporter or not, must be thinking "Huh?"...

He's the American president and he's not George W. Bush. That
should be enough right there. And just because nominations
close on February 1st doesn't mean the selection committee
has to sequester themselves in isolation chambers between
February 1st and the selection voting.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Oct 9, 9:38*am, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
Jon wrote:
As one article mentioned, nominations for the prize close on Feb 1,
just 12 days after the President took office. Perhaps someday he will
have a record deserving of the prize, but right now anyone with at
least half a brain, supporter or not, must be thinking "Huh?"...

He's the American president and he's not George W. Bush.

Low potential breeds low expectations.

That should be enough right there.

Enough for what?

I can put words on paper.....and I'm not Ernest Hemingway.....where's
my million dollars?

And just because nominations
close on February 1st doesn't mean the selection committee
has to sequester themselves in isolation chambers between
February 1st and the selection voting.

Can't speak with any authority about whether the selection committee
is or is not sequestered bewteen February 1st and the selection
voting, but the closure of nominations of February 1st suggests rather
strongly that Obama was nominated on or before that date. Sorta makes
the question of sequestration slobberingly meaningless in the present
context, ainna?

Moron.

g.

On 2009-10-09 09:42:58 -0400, Jon said:

As one article mentioned, nominations for the prize close on Feb 1,
just 12 days after the President took office. Perhaps someday he will
have a record deserving of the prize, but right now anyone with at
least half a brain, supporter or not, must be thinking "Huh?"...

Jon.

Ta Da!

On Oct 9, 1:52*pm, David LaCourse wrote:
On 2009-10-09 09:42:58 -0400, Jon said:

As one article mentioned, nominations for the prize close on Feb 1,
just 12 days after the President took office. Perhaps someday he will
have a record deserving of the prize, but right now anyone with at
least half a brain, supporter or not, must be thinking "Huh?"...

Jon.

Ta Da!

There is a disconnect in the thinking of those who state that Obama
lacks respect in he world community and then make clear they are
disappointed he won this prize. There may be question as to whether
he has accomplished enough to deserve the prize but to ridicule him
and the committee for accepting and awarding the prize respectively is
disingenuous. If you simply despise the man and wish him failure and
lack of respect, without a reason you'd care to bring to light,
simply state this and cut with the twisted logic. I believe for some
there is nothing for which he will be granted credit.

Paul

On Oct 9, 3:26*pm, Family-Outdoors wrote:


There is a disconnect in the thinking of those who state that Obama
lacks respect in he world community and then make clear they are
disappointed he won this prize.

Where's the disconnect? Seems perfectly consistent to me.

There may be question as to whether
he has accomplished enough to deserve the prize but to ridicule him
and the committee for accepting and awarding the prize respectively is
disingenuous.

Once again, I fail to see any inconsistency. How is ridiculing the
committee and the candidate for awarding and accepting, respectively,
what is perceived as an undeserved prize disingenuous?

If you simply despise the man and wish him failure and
lack of respect, without a reason you'd care to bring to light,
simply state this and cut with the twisted logic.

"Twisted logic" will do as well as any other description in what
passes for "discussion" (here as well as in so many other places and
venues in the world), I suppose. But it cuts both ways.

I believe for some there is nothing for which he will be granted credit.

You're absolutely right. On the other hand, there are some for whom
nothing that he does well ever be wrong. And between them, these two
groups comprise the vast majority. Almost makes a boy wish that the
the stupid buzz word (or, "term" to be more precise, I suppose) of a
couple of decades ago had some validity.....that they were, in fact,
silent.

giles.

On Oct 9, 1:52*pm, David LaCourse wrote:
On 2009-10-09 09:42:58 -0400, Jon said:

As one article mentioned, nominations for the prize close on Feb 1,
just 12 days after the President took office. Perhaps someday he will
have a record deserving of the prize, but right now anyone with at
least half a brain, supporter or not, must be thinking "Huh?"...

Jon.

Ta Da!

Ah.....yes.....nice gloss.

Imbecile.

g.