Obama gets peace prize for not being Bush!

[jpinpb]

I have to say that I don’t see any drastic changes in policies. I don’t see the changes I can believe in. I’m still having a hard time getting over the bank bailouts and the appointment of Geithner to be happy about Obama. I voted for hope and I’m still hoping, but getting very disillusioned. I don’t know who else was nominated for the Prize. Maybe there wasn’t anyone more meritorious. Of course it is an honor when an American wins and a black President is quite honorable. I just wish there was something more that justified it, other than hope; an act you can point to that could cause people to say he was deserving of it.

[briansd1]

I didn’t call the sore loses racists. I don’t know that they are racists. They could well be.

But I know that that are jealous and resentful of all the accolades that Obama has gotten so far.

Although he’s Black, Obama is a “golden boy”. So what? As a member of military, you would know that such guys rise much faster than others. Just a fact of life.

I don’t have any problem with people rising through the force of their own personalities rather than the influence of their parents or connections.

[briansd1]

I didn’t call the sore loses racists. I don’t know that they are racists. They could well be.

But I know that that are jealous and resentful of all the accolades that Obama has gotten so far.

Although he’s Black, Obama is a “golden boy”. So what? As a member of military, you would know that such guys rise much faster than others. Just a fact of life.

I don’t have any problem with people rising through the force of their own personalities rather than the influence of their parents or connections.

[briansd1]

I didn’t call the sore loses racists. I don’t know that they are racists. They could well be.

But I know that that are jealous and resentful of all the accolades that Obama has gotten so far.

Although he’s Black, Obama is a “golden boy”. So what? As a member of military, you would know that such guys rise much faster than others. Just a fact of life.

I don’t have any problem with people rising through the force of their own personalities rather than the influence of their parents or connections.

[briansd1]

I didn’t call the sore loses racists. I don’t know that they are racists. They could well be.

But I know that that are jealous and resentful of all the accolades that Obama has gotten so far.

Although he’s Black, Obama is a “golden boy”. So what? As a member of military, you would know that such guys rise much faster than others. Just a fact of life.

I don’t have any problem with people rising through the force of their own personalities rather than the influence of their parents or connections.

[briansd1]

I didn’t call the sore loses racists. I don’t know that they are racists. They could well be.

But I know that that are jealous and resentful of all the accolades that Obama has gotten so far.

Although he’s Black, Obama is a “golden boy”. So what? As a member of military, you would know that such guys rise much faster than others. Just a fact of life.

I don’t have any problem with people rising through the force of their own personalities rather than the influence of their parents or connections.

[briansd1]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
So, if my math is correct, President Obama had all of roughly 12 days in office between the inauguration and the Nobel committee close.
[/quote]

Your math is not correct.

Feb 1 was the deadline for the nominations. But the committee’s decision was not reached until Monday, October 5.

Geir Lundestad, who as executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has handled the committee’s administrative affairs since 1990, said the panel met six or seven times this year, starting several weeks after the nomination deadline, Feb. 1.

Any member of a national legislature, any professor of the social sciences and several other categories of people are free to submit nominations, and someone usually puts forward the name of the American president. That was true this year, even though Mr. Obama had been in office less than two weeks when the deadline hit.

This year the panel did not settle on a winner until Monday, Mr. Lundestad said He added that Oslo now faced a major challenge: to get ready for the award ceremony for Mr. Obama, just two months away. It will probably be among the largest civic events in Norwegian history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/world/10oslo.html?_r=1

[briansd1]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
So, if my math is correct, President Obama had all of roughly 12 days in office between the inauguration and the Nobel committee close.
[/quote]

Your math is not correct.

Feb 1 was the deadline for the nominations. But the committee’s decision was not reached until Monday, October 5.

Geir Lundestad, who as executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has handled the committee’s administrative affairs since 1990, said the panel met six or seven times this year, starting several weeks after the nomination deadline, Feb. 1.

Any member of a national legislature, any professor of the social sciences and several other categories of people are free to submit nominations, and someone usually puts forward the name of the American president. That was true this year, even though Mr. Obama had been in office less than two weeks when the deadline hit.

This year the panel did not settle on a winner until Monday, Mr. Lundestad said He added that Oslo now faced a major challenge: to get ready for the award ceremony for Mr. Obama, just two months away. It will probably be among the largest civic events in Norwegian history.

[briansd1]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
So, if my math is correct, President Obama had all of roughly 12 days in office between the inauguration and the Nobel committee close.
[/quote]

Your math is not correct.

Feb 1 was the deadline for the nominations. But the committee’s decision was not reached until Monday, October 5.

Geir Lundestad, who as executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has handled the committee’s administrative affairs since 1990, said the panel met six or seven times this year, starting several weeks after the nomination deadline, Feb. 1.

Any member of a national legislature, any professor of the social sciences and several other categories of people are free to submit nominations, and someone usually puts forward the name of the American president. That was true this year, even though Mr. Obama had been in office less than two weeks when the deadline hit.

This year the panel did not settle on a winner until Monday, Mr. Lundestad said He added that Oslo now faced a major challenge: to get ready for the award ceremony for Mr. Obama, just two months away. It will probably be among the largest civic events in Norwegian history.

[briansd1]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
So, if my math is correct, President Obama had all of roughly 12 days in office between the inauguration and the Nobel committee close.
[/quote]

Your math is not correct.

Feb 1 was the deadline for the nominations. But the committee’s decision was not reached until Monday, October 5.

Geir Lundestad, who as executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has handled the committee’s administrative affairs since 1990, said the panel met six or seven times this year, starting several weeks after the nomination deadline, Feb. 1.

Any member of a national legislature, any professor of the social sciences and several other categories of people are free to submit nominations, and someone usually puts forward the name of the American president. That was true this year, even though Mr. Obama had been in office less than two weeks when the deadline hit.

This year the panel did not settle on a winner until Monday, Mr. Lundestad said He added that Oslo now faced a major challenge: to get ready for the award ceremony for Mr. Obama, just two months away. It will probably be among the largest civic events in Norwegian history.

[briansd1]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
So, if my math is correct, President Obama had all of roughly 12 days in office between the inauguration and the Nobel committee close.
[/quote]

Your math is not correct.

Feb 1 was the deadline for the nominations. But the committee’s decision was not reached until Monday, October 5.

Geir Lundestad, who as executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has handled the committee’s administrative affairs since 1990, said the panel met six or seven times this year, starting several weeks after the nomination deadline, Feb. 1.

Any member of a national legislature, any professor of the social sciences and several other categories of people are free to submit nominations, and someone usually puts forward the name of the American president. That was true this year, even though Mr. Obama had been in office less than two weeks when the deadline hit.

This year the panel did not settle on a winner until Monday, Mr. Lundestad said He added that Oslo now faced a major challenge: to get ready for the award ceremony for Mr. Obama, just two months away. It will probably be among the largest civic events in Norwegian history.

[Arraya]

Hey, everybody. I just got employee of the month for October with my company in hopes that I will do a good job.

Ah, the irony: A peace prize causing angst.

[Arraya]

Hey, everybody. I just got employee of the month for October with my company in hopes that I will do a good job.

Ah, the irony: A peace prize causing angst.

[Arraya]

Hey, everybody. I just got employee of the month for October with my company in hopes that I will do a good job.

Ah, the irony: A peace prize causing angst.

[Arraya]

Hey, everybody. I just got employee of the month for October with my company in hopes that I will do a good job.

Ah, the irony: A peace prize causing angst.

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