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On Oct 9, 10:39*am, Ken Fortenberry
wrote: 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 ? Ooh! Piquant! Obama was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". Which, if you read it closely (or just glance at it), seems eerily close to meaning something or other, doesn't it? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me surprise. and even though it was surprising to even hint at some sort of skulduggery is just petulant whining. Skullduggery? Intrigue? Questionable motives? Obscure intentions? Impenetrable logic? The Nobel committee? No.....say it ain't so. The Nobel Peace Prize committee has never claimed to be an agenda free selection committee Which, perforce, makes all of their decisions unassailable.....right? and I think they're flippin' the bird to Shrub as much as they're honoring Obama. Wouldn't it have been much easier (not to say much more decorous and much less wasteful) to simply tell the world that Bush was a pig and an idiot, and then give the prize to someone who had actually accomplished something or other to bring about, or at least promote, peace in this world? To which I can only say, BRAVO, well done. Well, yeah, we believe that. Dumbass. g. |
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