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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, R ....maybe they just figured Lindsay Lohan would get all drunk and stupid at the presentation and, like, embarrass them or something... |
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This will end up doing a ton of harm to this country...and his
administration. With not even a year in office and things being worse than ever...not only amongst Americans...but the U.S. relations with tyrants like Ahmaddinejab,who is more than ever now going to taunt obama and have him for a chew toy,this will not sit well with the majority. Before considering him...they should have at least waited until he got out of office...and examined the record in totality.His getting this now...with things much worse than a year ago...will only fuel anomosity. Bad decision. This would have been like officially giving the Titanic an award for smoothest Atlantic crossing an hour after it left England....... |
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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. He was in office less than two weeks before he was nominated. He did nothing to earn it. OTT, it is a wet day here in the Georgia mountains. Doing some real estate looking this a.m., and hope to wet a line later this afternoon. Dave |
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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. |
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" Ken, he wasn't eligible for the NPP "
it's true....love is blind........ |
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On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:58:58 -0500, 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.). HTH, R |
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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 |
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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 ? -- Ken Fortenberry |
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On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:15:50 -0500, wrote:
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:58:58 -0500, 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.). HTH, R Jeez richard. Sour grapes make lousy whine. Alfred Nobel created the prize to be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Hopey has been going around the world for the last 9 months trying to do those very things. And, as should be obvious, while the nominations were in February the voting by the committee was just a short while ago. All it takes to be nominated is to have one qualified person, like a history professor, forward said nomination to Oslo. Limbugh has been nominated, as was W. hth Geo. C. |
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