U.S. President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Friday 09th October, 06:03 PM JST

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helloklitty at 07:02 PM JST - 13th October

He deserves it. It's a BS award so they couldn't have found a better guy.
Sarge at 08:05 PM JST - 13th October

"It's a BS award so they couldn't have found a better guy"

Dayuuuuuuum!
Sarge at 08:09 PM JST - 13th October

Obama got ripped off on the Nobel economics prize - they declined to give it to him, even though he has done so much to our economy in so little time.
seijichuudo9sha at 10:41 PM JST - 13th October

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided not to inform Obama before the announcement because it didn’t want to wake him up, committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said."

Props to Jagland. I have followed his career for years. For the last decade he has labored mightily on behalf of the Socialist International.Wiki has the info.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorbjørn_Jagland

With the election of Barack Obama he can probably hardly contain his self.
zurcronium at 06:12 AM JST - 14th October

What we are seeing here is the Obama Derangement Syndrome by the far right wingers of the republican party. Whereas liberals protested in millions in the streets when the phony iraq invasion was rigged while conservatives cheered bush on, radical rightwingers now get upset and protest when Obama wins a prize for his country. Amazing.

There are the sane 70% and then we have in the USA the rest who want their county to fail again.
seijichuudo9sha at 06:32 AM JST - 14th October

from zurcronium

"Whereas liberals protested in millions in the streets when the phony iraq invasion was rigged while conservatives cheered bush on,"

Actually, millions did protest, but not in America. So be careful , you help make the wingers' argument for them. Peace.
zurcronium at 10:22 AM JST - 14th October

seijichuudo9sha,

there were millions in the US alone. And yes millions elsewhere as well. Even here in Japan there was a large turnout. They marched right in front of our apartment.
Damien15 at 02:04 PM JST - 14th October

I think Dolphingirl said the best. It's not a result of what he has done, but the potential of what he can do. More world leaders agrees today that world without nuclear arms is achievable, than amount of them believed year ago. This fact itself is enough to award him the nobel prize. I believe that he can, and I thank him very much for trying. He is the closest thing to a hope. Whenever you think he is not doing good, just remember the man he replaced.
Gaijinocchio at 02:30 PM JST - 14th October

Whenever you think he is not doing good, just remember the man he replaced.

Interesting statement. Comparing Obama to "the man he replaced" Obama does indeed seem like Mother Teresa or Ghandi, and therefore deserving of the Peace Prize!
seijichuudo9sha at 05:40 PM JST - 14th October

from zurcronium

"Even here in Japan there was a large turnout. They marched right in front of our apartment."

I have been in Japan a short while, but I have studied the country for years. The turnouts in Japan werent that significant. I feel your immense frustration, but there is no need to lie. Obama's Nobel Prize completely ends the bush loser period for ever; it will help him turn down the generals in Afghanistan, which is one way reason why he was given teh award. The Nobel Committee shares the belief Obama and all true progressives hold,namely,that there is no such thing as American exceptionalism.
Newsman at 07:42 PM JST - 14th October

It's important to remember (as some do not) that Obama did not award himself the prize. Neither did he nominate himself or campaign for it -- nobody, in fact, in the White House had any clue that the prize was a real possibility. His demeanor at his press conference struck a balance between faint embarrassment and real respect for the Nobel committee.

The prize does not say anything about Obama. It says volumes, however, about what many in the world -- not just the five-member committee -- think of Obama.
LostinNagoya at 12:34 PM JST - 15th October

Obama deserved it only by being the opposite of Bush and his friends.

And it´s meaningful that in the same week he got the Prize, UNO is officially launching an investigation on Rumsfeld, the loved liar.

The world woke up, Republicans.
BobbieWickham at 07:54 PM JST - 15th October

Mr. Obama’s record shows that he was the number one supporter of the barbaric practice of ‘Partial-Birth Abortion’ in The US senate. He has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Peace is the topic and no matter what he achieves in the future his record will be always tainted by this. I know this isn’t PC but the truth doesn’t have to be. As I said Obama reminds me of the great American quote of the last century every time he opens his mouth: ““Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you've got it made” It possibly originated with Groucho Marx but I’ve always thought of it as a classic Bogart line. The incessant bickering between the Democrats and the Republicans above whiffs somewhat of Tweeledum and Tweedledee. The only American president I would have enjoyed a pint with over the last 40 years was Ronald Reagan. At least he could be genuinely funny.
Makkun70 at 01:56 PM JST - 16th October

Mr. Obama’s record shows that he was the number one supporter of the barbaric practice of ‘Partial-Birth Abortion’ in The US senate. He has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

And why not, like many advanced protestant societies today, he's only following suit. Time to wake yourself up out of your slumber USA step up and be the nation the world wants you to be. Not what you've been for the last 40 odd years..
ashika1009 at 05:54 PM JST - 16th October

I found the following very relevant link on www.hotair.com. It is posted on youtube, but actually originates with www.pajamasmedia.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnLqoRtUAVg

Makkun, American should be the nation IT wants to be. And it is time to wake up to the emasculation of America today.

Time to reverse course.

Get down to true Classical Liberal values.

Obama got his Nobel Peace prize for being weak and the world likes a weak America.

Don`t Tread on Me!