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Other => Politics => Topic started by: Talentless on October 09, 2009, 01:26:54 PM
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Well whaddaya know? A bit pre-mature imho:
OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a surprise award that drew criticism as well as praise.
The decision to bestow one of the world's top accolades on a president less than nine months into his first term, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, provoked gasps of surprise from journalists at the announcement in Oslo.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
The first African-American to hold his country's highest office, Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January
Read the entire thing here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5981JK20091009
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
Um, ok? How is this comment relevent to this?
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
Um, ok? How is this comment relevent to this?
Wasn't mocking you or anything like that homie.
My point is that its nothing to take serious, its political more than anything. Just like it was when they gave De Klerk the peace prize.
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No, I get you weren't mocking me. The Nobel prize is a serious thing. I just don't get how giving the Nobel to de Klerk is anything like giving it to Obama. Please explain more.
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Talking about Nuclear Disarmarment, is SA still the only country to have gotten rid of its nuclear weapons or are there others now?
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a nobel peace prize for what? smh, i personally think this dude is overrated, i dont have anything against him
so i a**ume this is all because of being the first black president in the states because he hasnt done that much work.
it would be better if they had waited a bit longer with this. after such little time a**essing him they deicide to give him this presatigious award?
i personally think morgan tsangarai/watever went through a lot pain and struggle than dude, he physically fought for his
country and has even suffered severe injuries whilst fighting for his people and trying to bring a change to zimbabwe, and what do they have to say about that, "you a great man morgan" and thats it? WTF!!!
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
When I first read this comment I thought it was Shrama or New Jack.
De Klerk won it along with Madiba, because he was instrumental in bringing an end to the armed struggle, by negotiating with the ANC. He was also already in office for more than 4 years.
Comparing it to Obama getting it for "giving hope" is ridiculous, and I am quite dissapointed in you.
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The noble peace prize should have been given to beyonce,i'm sure kanye will agree
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The noble peace prize should have been given to beyonce,i'm sure kanye will agree
sooner or later, nobel peace prize are going to lose the dignity they got. you cant be giving that award to a person who has only spent a year in office as pres. wtf you giving it to him for?
what happens when this mofo ruins things in the way, does the wrong things and says the wrong things? i mean his time is far from ending.
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The noble peace prize should have been given to beyonce,i'm sure kanye will agree
Ha, Ha, Ha, Where's Deacon with the Kanye "best Nobel Peace Prize of all time" ?
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I wonder how Hugo Chavez the Venezuelan state President feels about this one. Two weeks back he was questioning the real Obama between the one who pushed for the nuclear reforms in the world, and the one who is establishing another military base near/in Colombia.
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The noble peace prize should have been given to beyonce,i'm sure kanye will agree
sooner or later, nobel peace prize are going to lose the dignity they got. you cant be giving that award to a person who has only spent a year in office as pres. wtf you giving it to him for?
Kinda what I was thinking. Pretty soon it will degenerate into a popularity contest and we'll have musicians winning it, "for giving us hope"
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
When I first read this comment I thought it was Shrama or New Jack.
De Klerk won it along with Madiba, because he was instrumental in bringing an end to the armed struggle, by negotiating with the ANC. He was also already in office for more than 4 years.
Comparing it to Obama getting it for "giving hope" is ridiculous, and I am quite dissapointed in you.
all this for de klerk?
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
When I first read this comment I thought it was Shrama or New Jack.
You might have just misunderstood my point. anyway, its 5:38am, i'm hungry tired, tipsy and still a bit shook from almost ending up at my place with some shady cats i mistook for some dudes i know. will respond later today.
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From Cracked: :D
Yesterday morning, beloved Nike shill Tiger Woods was awarded the Nobel Prize for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation in golf,” which was an incredible surprise for him to receive so early on in his career, except it’s pretty late in his career, so maybe it was just a surprise because no one knew the award existed. Woods said he was “surprised and deeply humbled,” putting to rest speculation that he might turn down the honor no one knew existed. The announcement was made early Friday morning and Woods said he would accept the prize as a “call to golf more.”
“To be honest,” Woods said, “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize I just found out about now; men and women who’ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of golfing more.”
The announcement shocked many in the US as well as abroad, specifically in Afghanistan. Although many Afghans in the countryside have never even heard of the Nobel prizes, those among the educated elite are baffled by Woods’ award.
“I’m not sure I understand — this isn’t for golf here, is it?” said bank worker Irfan Hazin. “Because we haven’t got any.”
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whose relations with golf have been distinctly chilly, congratulated the U.S. golfer, expressing the hope that with Woods’ “leadership of the backswing and vision of the perfect putt… peace and normalcy will return to Afghanistan and our region.” He added, “Then we can golf.”
Even the Russians are weighing in, claiming Woods has “not been active in world golf long enough” to deserve the prize.
“The awarding of the prize to Woods testifies to the deep disappointment caused by the golfing of Jack Nicklaus,” Mikhail Margelov, foreign affairs committee chair in the upper house of the Russian parliament, told a journalist. “He is golfer, yes?”
Woods will be celebrating this amazing honor by taking Michelle Obama and her two children putt-putt golfing. Her husband will not be prese
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whatever...........this nobel price shitis useless!!JUJU should get one for being truly honest and being himself in politics.
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
When I first read this comment I thought it was Shrama or New Jack.
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Listen here you Jacka**!!! Check my threads on politics,When it comes to SA & International politics i know facts,the ins and out of it probably more than your journalist a**.i dont just say Ignorant staff about the topic.
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
When I first read this comment I thought it was Shrama or New Jack.
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Listen here you Jacka**!!! Check my threads on politics,When it comes to SA & International politics i know facts,the ins and out of it probably more than your journalist a**.i dont just say Ignorant staff about the topic.
New Jack is ;) mad ;D ;D
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after thinking about this for something like 45 minutes i eventually concluded that it doesn't matter and that it has no bearing on concrete reality, least of all my life.
the winner here i think is the media and the amount of traffic/copies sold/viewers they'll get from running and re-running this story. did you know that Kanye West made it onto the front page of one of the biggest newspapers in Cape Town?
this feels like the sequel.
i'm not outraged or vindicated by Obama winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, which i understand to be a symbol given to someone for a symbolic achievement. instead my reaction to this can be summarized by:
"oh"
and then forgetting about it six minutes later.
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after thinking about this for something like 45 minutes i eventually concluded that it doesn't matter and that it has no bearing on concrete reality, least of all my life.
the winner here i think is the media and the amount of traffic/copies sold/viewers they'll get from running and re-running this story. did you know that Kanye West made it onto the front page of one of the biggest newspapers in Cape Town?
this feels like the sequel.
i'm not outraged or vindicated by Obama winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, which i understand to be a symbol given to someone for a symbolic achievement. instead my reaction to this can be summarized by:
"oh"
and then forgetting about it six minutes later.
^^^ What he said
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shouldve given this to mousia lekota instead, at least dude managed to shake the ANC better than any other party has done in the last 18 years
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De klerk won the peace prize too so, meh.
true dat --- this nobel prize thing is a joke --- the same way it was with de klerk
iraq war hasnt had any progress to ti --- the afghan war has worsened to even including pakistan ---- obama is disregarding all nuclear experts that are saying iran cant and wont produce nuclear weapons --- including UN nuclear inspectors --- hes rhetoric is that of war ---- not suprised if they can attack it in the next coming months ----- worse still its ally israel is in contravention with UN nuclear resolutions and yet no word from obama on those ---- guantanamo is still there and yet he had promised to close it down within 6 months of hes term ---
obama is being praised on what he says and yet he always does the exact opposite
obamas popularity and ratings in the US is declining cause his tramping down on the constitution like a mother --- hes pa**ing bills that are trampling on every right ---- from illegal arrests and redentions to freedom of speech ---- hes said the swine flu shot wont be mandatory and yet his health dept is firing healthcare workers, firefighters, teachers who are refusing to take the toxic vaccine