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Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize

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Bleh · 09/10/2009 10:16

Good on him, but, surely they should wait a bit to see if anything actually comes of this? He's only been in office 9 months.

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Bleh · 09/10/2009 15:51

MmeLindt - I'll take him. Send him over with pockets stuffed with cash, Werthers Originals and chuck in some chocolate as well. TIA.

he he at Ezra Klein.

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Kerrymumbles · 09/10/2009 15:53

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ilovemydogandmrobama · 09/10/2009 15:55

Funny that, Kerry, a White House Aide, when told responded, 'is this April the 1st?'

MmeGoblindt · 09/10/2009 15:55

The net is full of people going at the moment, KM.

Also found this gem:

Barack Obama?s Teleprompter: Big Guy says Bill Clinton called and was gracious in defeat; offered to fly Kanye West over 4 the Nobel awards ceremony.

SkaterGrrrrl · 09/10/2009 15:59

Fair play to him. I personally feel a little bit safer in the world knowing he is at the helm.

They give it to FW de Klerk who was coerced into grudgingly ending apartheid by sanctions and political unrest at home, so why not give it to a president who is closing Guantanamo and undoing many of the evils of the Bush adminstration?

Obama far more deserving than F W De Klerk IMHO.

KayHarkerIsKayHarker · 09/10/2009 16:01

Obama, I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce's video was the best...

SomeGuy · 09/10/2009 16:05

Barak, I'm gonna let you finish, but Henry Kissinger was one of the best Nobel winners of all time.

MmeGoblindt · 09/10/2009 16:09

lol at the XP

I have to say, my view of Barak has been altered a bit after reading his book, about his father.

His mother called him "Barry"

Not quite so cool.

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Bleh · 09/10/2009 16:09

Disagree Skatergrrl. It takes a strong man to admit that everything he's raised to believe is right and true is wrong, and to then make the effort to turn things around. The fact that Apartheid ended (I lived through all of this) without descending into Civil War, was a miracle indeed. And, TBH, I don't remember (this may be because I was young) it being due especially to boycotts and sanctions. For example, the economy did a nose dive after apartheid started being dismantled, with the rand falling from R5 to £1 to R10/R12 to £1 in a couple of months (around 1993). It was pretty prosperous over there for decades (60s, 70s, 80s). I think it was more due to pressure at home, and the NP's increasingly losing the plot, and finding that fewer and fewer people were willing to support their policies.

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squeaver · 09/10/2009 17:01

India Knight on Twitter:

I wonder if Obama feels pleased but completely mortified. It's like someone you've been for a drink with twice giving you a diamond ring.

SussexVille · 09/10/2009 17:13

DP and I had good laugh at 'He's the greatest American winner since Kissinger.'

said · 09/10/2009 17:16

I wondered about this. Do they have to give to Peace Prize every year or something?

bronze · 09/10/2009 17:48

They give to groups and charities as well as individuals so Im sure there is probably a decent charity out there who if they had been desperate for contenders

dittany · 09/10/2009 18:42

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questioneverything · 09/10/2009 19:15

LOL last time I looked obama was not 'at the helm of the world', as we have our own national governments.

Sorry but all this obama worship is kind of creepy. What has the guy done seriously...oh print more money.

Obama is a marxist socialist. Just do some research you will soon find this out.

If you dont think the US is a socialist government why are they demanding that all health workers in the state of New York get the swine flu jab or loose thier jobs. They are protesting in the streets about it.

Things are going to get a whole heap worse, stay tuned to your TV.

MmeGoblindt · 09/10/2009 19:18

Hmm, I don't know about him being a marxist socialist, but I do agree that it is pretty embarrassing for the Nobel Prize committee.

Still, even though he was nominated, presumably in a fit of admiration just after the election, they did not have to choose him to receive the prize.

Tortington · 09/10/2009 19:21

didn't he refuse a mtg with the dali lama to keep china happy?

MmeGoblindt · 09/10/2009 19:36

Obama's response: Good morning. Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning. After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up."

spokette · 09/10/2009 22:03

Well, I say well done Barack Obama and just ignore the naysayers.

Barack Obama came from humble beginings and everything he has achieved has been down to his hard work, drive, self-belief, charisma and prescience.

He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth and therefore did not buy his way to where he is now.

I applaud him and I personally believe that he is deserving of his prize because despite what the whingers and naysayers say, he has brought hope to the world, especially to black people (and as a black person,the gripes against Obama do not surprise me at all because there are a lot of people out there who still believe that he should not be President because of the colour of his skin).

Big up to Barack!

TheFallenMadonna · 09/10/2009 22:10

The gripes aainst Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize are not necessarily about the colour of his skin

He isn't the first US president to come from a poor background either.

spokette · 09/10/2009 22:19

"The gripes aainst Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize are not necessarily about the colour of his skin"

I said that the gripes against Obama do not surprise me at all because there are a lot of people out there who still believe that he should not be President because of the colour of his skin.

I did not say that he was the first US president to come from a poor background.

to you.

SussexVille · 09/10/2009 22:35

Have a lot of admiration for Obama, but do agree he hasn't actually achieved anything yet that makes him an obvious Peace Prize winner.

btw, not sure he comes from 'poor' background? Thought he had a pretty middle-class upbringing? I once saw a pic of him and classmates and the story was 'what are his classmates doing now?' From memory, among those who were traced not one was a blue-collar worker.

Of course, as a former community worker he has direct experience of life on the other side of the tracks.

It's Michelle Obama who came from a 'poor' background.

spokette · 09/10/2009 22:53

Read his autobiography.

Since when did one's background condemned one to a blue collar existence?