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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 9 2009, 05:20 PM (363 Views) | |
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Oct 9 2009, 05:20 PM Post #1 |
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Can you handle me? i dare you.
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He won! But what for? 9 October 2009, 14:54 Washington - The awarding of the Nobel Peace Price to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what? For one of America's youngest presidents, in office less than nine months - and only for 12 days before the Nobel nomination deadline last February - it was an enormous honour. The prize seems to be more for Obama's promise than for his performance. Work on the president's ambitious agenda, both at home and abroad, is barely underway, much less finished. He has no standout moment of victory that would seem to warrant a verdict as sweeping as that issued by the Nobel committee. And what about peace? Obama is running two wars in the Muslim world - in Iraq and Afghanistan - and can't get a climate change bill through his own Congress. His scorecard for the year is largely an "incomplete," if he's being graded. He banned torture and other extreme interrogation techniques for terrorists. But he also promised to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a source of much distaste for the US around the world, a difficult task that now seems headed to miss his own January 2010 deadline. He said he would end the Iraq war. But he has been slow to bring the troops home and the real end of the US military presence there won't come until at least 2012, and that's only if both the US and Iraq stick to their current agreement about American troop withdrawals. He has pushed for new efforts to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. But he's received little cooperation from the two sides. He said he wants a nuclear-free world. But it's one thing to telegraph the desire, in a speech in Prague in April, and quite another to unite other nations and US lawmakers behind the web of treaties and agreements needed to make that reality. He has said that battling climate change is a priority. But the US seems likely to head into crucial international negotiations set for Copenhagen in December with legislation still stalled in Congress. And what about Obama's global prestige? It seemed to take a big hit last week when he jetted across the Atlantic to lobby for Chicago to get the 2016 Olympics - and was rejected with a last-place finish. Perhaps for the Nobel committee, merely altering the tone out of Washington toward the rest of the world is enough. Obama got much attention for his speech from Cairo reaching out a U.S. hand to the world's Muslims. His remarks at the UN General Assembly last month set down new markers for the way the US works with the world. But still ... ? Obama aides seemed as surprised at the news as everyone else, not even aware he had been nominated along with a record 204 others. Awoken by press secretary Robert Gibbs about an hour after the vote was announced, the White House says the president responded that he was humbled to be only the third sitting U.S. president to win. The award could be as much about issuing a slap at Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, as about lauding Obama. Bush was reviled by the world for his cowboy diplomacy, Iraq war and snubbing of European priorities like global warming. Remember that the Nobel prize has a long history of being awarded more for the committee's aspirations than for others' accomplishments - for Mideast peace or a better South Africa, for instance. In those cases, the prize is awarded to encourage those who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes at critical moments. Obama likely understands that his challenges are too steep to resolve -much less honour - after just a few months. "It's not going to be easy," the president often says of the tasks ahead for the United States and the world. The Nobel committee, it seems, had the audacity to hope that he'll eventually produce a record worthy of its prize. - Sapa-AP |
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| Mary Hill | Oct 9 2009, 06:16 PM Post #2 |
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I Make Good Poffins
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if he didn't win, it'd be racist |
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| Vince5002001 | Oct 9 2009, 08:50 PM Post #3 |
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Wtf? He hasn't done much of anything, he definitely hasn't (yet) earned a Noble Peace Prize. Hopefully he can carryout his promises though. |
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Templer104
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Oct 9 2009, 10:12 PM Post #4 |
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^Yeah thats me
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They gave it to him because Bush is gone. |
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Icie Juicy
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Oct 9 2009, 11:42 PM Post #5 |
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95% jucier than your average Clan Leader
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What a shame... and a sham... |
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| Jamez | Oct 9 2009, 11:51 PM Post #6 |
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Eviction notice posted!
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Promises? Those still have yet to be carried out and will continue to be put on the waiting list for his term than probably another term because of all the black people in America who though Sarah Palin ran with him will re-vote for him. biggest failure of a president ever, he cannot even keep his ears out of celebrity crap because he wants to end up on OK or US weekly. He makes the big W look better with every screw up. |
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Began playing: 2001 "Once a CoS, always a CoS" Icie Juicy Beaverboy has been here.(12:24:12) <+`Jamez> strange im mostly in the cow fields (12:24:20) <+`Jamez> satisfying my hunger (12:24:26) <+`Jamez> for the big buns (12:24:37) <+Noj> poopeating jamez? (12:24:38) <+Noj> lol (12:24:57) <+`Jamez> more like animal rape (12:25:06) <+Noj> lol (12:25:11) <+`Jamez> what can i say i like it when the cow goes moooo! (12:25:40) <+Noj> save | |
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| dustdevils | Oct 9 2009, 11:57 PM Post #7 |
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Mentor, Clan Promoter, Council ranked ~Sep2009-Feb2010
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this is indeed surprising... we can only wait to see if he truly deserves it.. |
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<a href="http://www.tip.it"><img src="http://sign.tip.it/1/1/86/303/Dustdevilss.png" border="0"></a> NEVER EVER underestimate your opponents, lest they best you in battle. An EYE for an EYE and the world would be BLIND!
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| akwardsaw5 | Oct 10 2009, 12:05 AM Post #8 |
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exactly |
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| Jonni Jewel | Oct 10 2009, 01:55 PM Post #9 |
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YA BETTA WATCH OUT
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cements the nobel comittee's postition as rediculous, first arafat, gore, etc.. |
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Icie Juicy
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Oct 14 2009, 12:29 AM Post #10 |
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95% jucier than your average Clan Leader
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I think the next one is going to me, for future success. |
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