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| Obama: Nobel Peace Prize Winner | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 9 2009, 10:02 AM (1,325 Views) | |
| East Anarx | Oct 9 2009, 10:02 AM Post #1 |
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wtf? :| |
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| Ulgania | Oct 9 2009, 10:25 AM Post #2 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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It's the "Congratulations for not being George Bush" prize. |
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| Ulgania | Oct 9 2009, 10:32 AM Post #3 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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Also considering NASA bombed the moon this morning, the US should be winning more and more prizes. I mean, c'mon, we just bombed the moon. Shower us with ironic gifts of peace! |
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| New Harumf | Oct 9 2009, 10:45 AM Post #4 |
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Bloodthirsty Unicorn
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This is all so surreal. I feel like I am in an episode of "The Twilight Zone"! |
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| Union | Oct 9 2009, 11:08 AM Post #5 |
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Pyrenees Republic
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Not Obama's fault, but he should fucking reject that prize like an AID ridden whore. |
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| Abnar | Oct 9 2009, 11:09 AM Post #6 |
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the lurkiest of them all?
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It's utter bullshit. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Oct 9 2009, 11:31 AM Post #7 |
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Science and Industry
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wat |
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| Rhadamanthus | Oct 9 2009, 11:33 AM Post #8 |
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The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke. They give it to Al Gore either last year or the year before for his Global Warming awareness efforts. It is worthless, meaningless, and utterly political, so let's not be surprised when it is awarded politically. If I were awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, I would pee on it. Oh by the way, here is President Obama's response. Of course he is right to be humble in the sense of not attributing this to his own accomplishments, as he has not actually achieved any sort of peace anywhere so far. But the rest of this statement is pretty much the worst possible outcome. "Call[s ] to action" and "American leadership" rarely seem to mean peace these days. Edited by Rhadamanthus, Oct 9 2009, 11:34 AM.
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| Porcu | Oct 9 2009, 11:59 AM Post #9 |
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
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lolwut? |
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| lebowski2123 | Oct 9 2009, 12:02 PM Post #10 |
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Resident?
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The craziest part is that the nomination process ends February 1st, just after he first entered office |
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| Ulgania | Oct 9 2009, 12:02 PM Post #11 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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I'm sad my nomination of Al-Bashir didn't get more credence :unsure: |
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| Rhadamanthus | Oct 9 2009, 12:02 PM Post #12 |
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So people were nominating him within weeks of his inauguration? *facepalm* |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Oct 9 2009, 12:13 PM Post #13 |
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Science and Industry
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Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, and now Barack Obama... the NPP should be renamed the US Democratic Party 1.5 Million Dollar Prize. |
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| Ulgania | Oct 9 2009, 12:19 PM Post #14 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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Damn! Can you nominate yourself? |
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| Porcu | Oct 9 2009, 12:28 PM Post #15 |
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
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Not a bad idea, though I'm not sure of the answer myself. If all you have to do to win this meaningless prize is to talk big then I'm going to write a marvelous essay/speech about world peace and demand that I win. Like Abnar said, utter bullshit. |
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| Al Araam | Oct 9 2009, 12:42 PM Post #16 |
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Demigod of Death & Inactivity
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The stupidity of this turn of events truly pains me. |
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| flumes | Oct 9 2009, 01:26 PM Post #17 |
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CLEVELAND ROCKS!
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I stopped caring when Al Gore won. |
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| Ulgania | Oct 9 2009, 01:28 PM Post #18 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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Hey, think of it like this, if we invade Norway we'd feel kinda guilty. |
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| lebowski2123 | Oct 9 2009, 01:40 PM Post #19 |
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Resident?
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Hey give JC his due, spawning a gas crisis and failing to get American hostages to be released would be a pretty tall order for anyone, right? |
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| Ulgania | Oct 9 2009, 01:44 PM Post #20 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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Well, he did make the Middle East a 'vital' need to secure. You make something 'vital', you're going to have to get something for it. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Oct 9 2009, 02:14 PM Post #21 |
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Legitimist
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Making something 'vital' should be a cause for punishment. Perhaps we can publically flog the guy? |
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| New Harumf | Oct 9 2009, 02:22 PM Post #22 |
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JC won for his work after he was president, you know, "Habitat for Humanity" and all that jazz. W. Wilson also won, for the very successful "League of Nations", another progressive democrat. TR won for reasons I have no idea about. A progressive republican that should be considered a democrart! Adolf Hitler was nominated - twice! |
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| Sedulius | Oct 9 2009, 02:33 PM Post #23 |
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Field Marshal
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There are many people that deserve the prize. Obama certainly doesn't. Al Gore even less so. I'd vote for Obama immediately over Gore. Gore is hypocritical scum. He doesn't practice what he preaches. Of course, I'd vote for McCain any day over most people. I would vote for Obama over Mitt Romney. Mormons get into the highest office of this land over my dead body. Remember, I hate that Church, not its members. |
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| Ulgania | Oct 9 2009, 02:36 PM Post #24 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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Note my above mention of irony. We just 'bombed' the moon! :lol: |
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| Telosan | Oct 9 2009, 02:43 PM Post #25 |
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The Foremost Intellectual Badass
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I just heard about this in school. They announced it on the PA system. Half my class cheered/applauded. I started arguing with people around me that it was pure and unproccessed shit. Obama has done NOTHING to deserve it. Absolutely NOTHING. My entire class denied that fact and kept pointing out stupid crap. "He broke the race barrier and was the first African-American to be in office." Yeah, but that doesn't mean he deserves a PEACE prize for it. Besides the fact that he's even an African-American is still to be debated. "He ended the war in Iraq." WTF?!!? What year are you living in? "He said he'll withdraw from Iraq and end the war in the Middle East." Yeah, so he can take all those troops and drop them farther east in Afghanistan. "He's an all-around better president, better leader, and better person that Bush could ever hope to be." ... I hate stupidity. Yet I'm drowning in it on a daily basis. The only thing I've heard since he took office that I thought was a good idea was him considering lengthening the school year/day. |
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