southsider2k5 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 12:01 PM) Has anyone ever won a pair of them? Polishing off the Israeli-Palestinian mess or something like that in the next few years would certainly give him a shot at another. If he can do that, he pretty much would be the Messiah. They have been trying for oh, 5000 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Anyone remember who won it last year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostfan Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 01:01 PM) Has anyone ever won a pair of them? Polishing off the Israeli-Palestinian mess or something like that in the next few years would certainly give him a shot at another. Get rid of Netanyahu and that's a realistic possibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Who selects the Nobel Laureates? In his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel specifically designated the institutions responsible for the prizes he wished to be established: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, Karolinska Institute for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a Committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was given the task to select the Economics Prize Laureates starting in 1969. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Nomination for the Nobel Prizes Each year the respective Nobel Committees send individual invitations to thousands of members of academies, university professors, scientists from numerous countries, previous Nobel Laureates, members of parliamentary assemblies and others, asking them to submit candidates for the Nobel Prizes for the coming year. These nominators are chosen in such a way that as many countries and universities as possible are represented over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 10:06 AM) Anyone remember who won it last year? Appears it was a career diplomat from Finland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_.../eu_nobel_peace Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, the peace prize is given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Like the Parliament, the committee has a leftist slant, with three members elected by left-of-center parties. Jagland said the decision to honor Obama was unanimous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 10:07 AM) Get rid of Netanyahu and that's a realistic possibility. There is an old Vulcan proverb. Only Nixon could go to China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 12:09 PM) Appears it was a career diplomat from Finland. So over the last six months, who do you think did more for the possibility of world peace? A diplomat, or whomever the US President is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 has anyone posted the official Nobel committee press release? The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened. Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population. For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." Oslo, October 9, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 If Henry Kissinger can win this award, anyone can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 12:10 PM) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_.../eu_nobel_peace I'm wondering how left of center in Norway compares to left of center in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I'm sure I'll get criticism for posting words by an unqualified, non-village, hippy-dippy blogger, but I found this to be an interesting take. For all the recognition of George W. Bush's unpopularity, it's easy to overlook the ways in which the international community was truly mortified by the U.S. leadership during the Bush era. The irreplaceable leading nation could no longer be trusted to do the right thing -- on use of force, torture, rule of law, international cooperation, democratic norms, even climate change. We'd reached a point at which much of the world was poised to simply give up on America's role as a global leader. And, love him or hate him, President Obama changed this. I doubt anyone on the Nobel committee would admit it, but the Peace Prize is, to a certain extent, an implicit "thank you" to the United States for reclaiming its rightful place on the global stage. It's indicative of a degree of relief. Much of the world has wanted America to take the lead again, and they're rightly encouraged to see the U.S. president stepping up in the ways they hoped he would. It's hard to overstate the significance, for example, of seeing a U.S. president chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council and making strides on a nuclear deal. This is not to say Obama was honored simply because he's not Bush. The president really has committed himself to promoting counter-proliferation, reversing policies on torture, embracing a new approach to international engagement, and recommitting the U.S. to the Middle East peace process. But charting a new course for American leadership, breaking with the recent past, no doubt played a role. As outraged as American conservatives are this morning, notice the international reactions. Praise was not universal, but Mohamed Elbaradei, for example, said, "I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honor. In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself." Mandela, Tutu, and Gorbachev, among others, also praised the announcement. The most angry international responses came from Hamas and the Taliban. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 10:14 AM) I'm wondering how left of center in Norway compares to left of center in the US. The Green Party in the U.S. = the Conservatives in most of Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Good stuff Balta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoSox05 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 12:14 PM) I'm wondering how left of center in Norway compares to left of center in the US. The left in most of that area think the democratic party is a right wing party. For the most part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 12:17 PM) The left in most of that area think the democratic party is a right wing party. For the most part. That is my understanding as well. For a good majority of that area, our left is almost their right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I'm sure the radical right will still find some fault in this: Obama To Donate Peace Prize Money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 (edited) Obama To Donate Peace Prize Money A White House spokesman says Obama will donate the entire $1.4 million Damn, Sqwert beat me to it. Edited October 9, 2009 by Athomeboy_2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 12:58 PM) I'm sure the radical right will still find some fault in this: Obama To Donate Peace Prize Money They'll find a way to link it to abortions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 (edited) QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 01:00 PM) They'll find a way to link it to abortions. He's probably donate it to ACORN or the Bill Ayers Foundation. Edited October 9, 2009 by BigSqwert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 He Barack... buddy... friend... pal... my church is short on cash and going into debt. $500,000 would be nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 12:58 PM) I'm sure the radical right will still find some fault in this: Obama To Donate Peace Prize Money Publicity stunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 More FB stupidness: Our foreign policy has now been officially put in a straitjacket by the Nobel committee. BHO will now spend the rest of his presidency trying to live up to his international image as a pacifist and an appeaser. He's going to make Neville Chamberlain look like a hawk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskyCaucasian Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 9, 2009 -> 01:05 PM) More FB stupidness: Our foreign policy has now been officially put in a straitjacket by the Nobel committee. BHO will now spend the rest of his presidency trying to live up to his international image as a pacifist and an appeaser. He's going to make Neville Chamberlain look like a hawk. Today is the first time I've ever actually deleted comments from my facebook posts. The stupidity coming from people... and specifically one person was staggering! The fact that one guy tried to link Obama's abortion and gay marriage policy to him getting the peace award made my mind hurt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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