(Obama) has taken important stands on ethical and peace issues with the potential to save millions of lives and has improved America’s standing amongst the fraternity of nations in ways that can easily have an effect on world peace on a huge scale. Remember that first interview that he gave as President? To an Arab news agency? That alone was a move that affected a lot of people in a positive way. His speech in Cairo? There very well may be a lot of people who are alive today because of the lack of hatred for America that characterizes this new chapter. But the important bottom line is that this decision met Alfred Nobel’s goals and criteria and was meant as an endorsement of Obama’s approach…and that’s an awesome thing.
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Ironically, the Nobel committee tossed a hand grenade into the US foreign policy arena with this award. At this point, how can Obama the Great follow his military leaders’ advice and surge in Afghanistan to their recommendation?
This move further erodes the credibility of the Nobel Committee, to a level where all their awards should be viewed skeptically. Yassar Arafat, the Palestinian terrorist butcher has won the award. Jimmy Carter has won the award for something. Al Gore has won the award (should have been economics if anything, since his whole eco farce is about setting himself and his friends up for profit by scaring people about “gobal warming”). The game of soccer, a game we only hear anything about when there is some violent riot where a bunch of people are killed, has been nominated. Ronald Reagan, the man who ended the Cold War without firing a shot, who brought comunism to its knees through a real message of hope, has never won.
The Nobel Committee is a joke.
You’re always good for a laugh, juggles,
The game of soccer (PLAYED IN EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH), a game we only hear anything about when there is some violent riot where a bunch of people are killed, has been nominated. YEAH, THEY SHOULD HAVE NOMINATED BASEBALL ! SNICKER! Ronald Reagan, the man who ended the Cold War without firing a shot, OMG, THAT OLD MYTH AGAIN! IT WAS ACTUALLY THE EASTER BUNNY WHO ENDED THE COLD WAR! who brought comunism to its knees through a real message of hope, has never won HMMMMMM, NOW, i WONDER WHY? HMMMMM: OH, YEAH, BECAUSE THE WHOLE WORLD WAS ROLLING IN THE AISLES EVERY TIME HE OPENED HIS MOUTH. AS FOR HIS “MESSAGE OF HOPE”… WELL, RECENT EVENTS HAVE SHOWN JUST WHERE HIS MESSAGE OF GREED (OH, ER, I MEAN,HOPE) WAS ALWAYS BOUND TO LEAD.
Message of hope… that’s really funny.. did someone help you out with that?
Again Shortall demonstrates what passes for a “civilized debate” among the leftwing loonies.
Open the box Shortall.
I think Reagan should retrospectively be tried by an international war crimes court for the disgraceful things he orchestrated in central and south America during his regime. He did everything he could to stamp out democracy there (and, it seems, here!)
“I think Reagan should retrospectively be tried by an international war crimes court for the disgraceful things he orchestrated in central and south America during his regime. He did everything he could to stamp out democracy there (and, it seems, here!)”
I’m sorry Reagan was able to stop all your communist buddies, but you should feel better now, the Obama administration is full of them. As far as stamping out democracy. Just because he ran up the score on Carter and Mondale, you shouldn’t be bitter.
It’s the Jiggletron!
“I’m sorry Reagan was able to stop all your communist buddies,YES, HE AND HIS ILLEGAL DEATH SQUADS DID QUITE WELL MURDERING NUNS, PRIESTS AND CHILDREN, YOU SEEM PROUD OF THEM UNSURPRISINGLY but you should feel better now,I DO, I DO the Obama administration is full of them COMMUNITST? NEVER!. As far as stamping out democracy.HE DID A GOOD JOB AT THAT IN THE US TOO, LOOK AT THE STATE OF THE PLACE NOW: LOL Just because he ran up the score on Carter and Mondale, you shouldn’t be bitter YOU FORGET JIGG’SIE, I’M A EUROPEAN NOT AN AMERICAN, CARTER AND MONDALE ARE IRRELEVENT TO ME”
Shorty says:
“YOU FORGET JIGG’SIE, I’M A EUROPEAN NOT AN AMERICAN, CARTER AND MONDALE ARE IRRELEVENT TO ME”
Then Reagan should be too.
Ah yes Kenniwick man, the predictable “mind your own business” line from the roaring reichsubfuhrers of the right!!!
Reagan’s interference in the affairs of a couple dozen other sovereign nations (and the gratuitous murder he sponsored and ordered there) makes him everyone’s business. Had he minded HIS own business instead of destabilizing democracies all over Central and South America he would have just been a local US joke (which of course, he ALSO was! lol).
Nice try, tough titties though.
And Halloween is coming soon…. remember, I’ve got first dibs on your show! I can’t wait… you’re the funniest thing since…. oh, I don’t know…. oh yes, Bush’s 2000 “debates” against Gore. And yet, Gore lost…. hmmmmm. Says a lot for the electorate that they would turn down a future Nobel Prize Winner for a half-wit pretending to be a good ol’ boy who subsequently sank the economy by his abject stupidity…. LOL