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Obama wins the Nobel Peace prize!

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  • Treadmill
    Treadmill Posts: 1,102 Forumite
    Is he going to keep the prize money ? I think its over a million dollars.
  • Mr_Mumble
    Mr_Mumble Posts: 1,758 Forumite
    Question: Why Didn’t Obama Win The Nobel Prize For Literature?
    Answer: He wrote 2 books

    Miss America was robbed. She was for world peace way before Obama was for it.

    Despite bombing the moon, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today.

    Obama was also awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry. “He’s just got great chemistry,” says Nobel Committee.

    Obama is becoming Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter became Jimmy Carter.

    Oh and Ladbrokes betting for the Economics prize...

    Gordon Brown 50/1

    :eek:
    "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    You're just jealous.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Mr_Mumble wrote: »
    t.

    Despite bombing the moon, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today.


    Brilliant :rotfl:
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • mizzbiz
    mizzbiz Posts: 1,434 Forumite
    To be honest I'm getting a little tired of the Obama Fellate Train. It's passed the Stomach Turning Station and is rapidly approaching the tired old town of Over-exsposureville. It's all a bit embarrassing at this point. The collective Establishment Butt-Munching is cringeworthy in the extreme.

    Roll on somebody pulling the bleedin emergency cord so we can all get off....


    It's like TB again but x times bigger
    I'll have some cheese please, bob.
  • wageslave
    wageslave Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    edited 9 October 2009 at 6:08PM
    I am delighted he won it. Obama is an extra-ordinary man who may well change the face off international politics for generations to come. His is the politics of inclusion rather than exclusion and it is a welcome and much needed sea change.

    He is that rarest of things amongst politicians, a decent human being.
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  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    wageslave wrote: »
    I am delighted he won it. Obama is an extra-ordinary man who may well change the face off international politics for generations to come. His is the politics of inclusion rather than exclusion and it is a welcome and much needed sea change.

    He is that rarest of things amongst politicians, a decent human being.


    Dear me wageslave.
    I am quite disappointed in you. I thought you knew better.


    I hope you are joking.
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    Albert Einstein
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    I agree with Wageslave, I think Obama is ace. I agree with his policies and he does actually seem like a decent human being.

    I think giving him the Nobel Prize is really odd, but it couldn't really care less who gets a nobel prize. I think Mewbie won one in 2008 for his service to inter-board relations through the medium of humour.
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Treadmill wrote: »
    Too soon, will they take it back if he invades Iran ?


    Clever pre-emptive strike. Iran is suddenly safer.

    Now what can they give Netanyahu?:eek:
  • wageslave
    wageslave Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    nearlynew wrote: »
    Dear me wageslave.
    I am quite disappointed in you. I thought you knew better.


    I hope you are joking.
    The Nobel Peace Prize was given to Desmond Tutu in 1984 to encourage an end of apartheid in South Africa. It has been given to Obama to promote his vision of peaceful co-existance with Islam.

    Obama is a black man elected to power a predominantly white country. He is a product of a mixed race marriage when they were still illegal in many states in US at the time of his birth. He is an anti- war proponent elected by a country at war. He is one of the very few American presidents who hasn't come from a background of privilege or political power.

    It is easy to be cynical about Obama and the few men like him but he is our best hope for peace in the Middle East. His speech in Cairo did more to make the west safe against terrorist attack than any other measure taken since 9/11.

    Best of all he isn't George Bush





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