President Obama - Nobel Peace Prize Winner!

[Spexvet]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/...eu_nobel_peace

On the heels of Bush winning The Rinselberg Prize for War.

[varmint]

No matter who gets the award, I think actual results should be present before one is awarded, otherwise it demeans the prize.

[For-Life]

this is a huge joke. What has he done? And I am not even a conservative

[k12311997]

Originally Posted by For-Life

this is a huge joke. What has he done? And I am not even a conservative

It's not about what you do it's about what you say and what you intend.


I wouldn't say joke, but an embarrasment.

[gemstone]

Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXSIKtrBRnA

[For-Life]

Originally Posted by k12311997

It's not about what you do it's about what you say and what you intend.


I wouldn't say joke, but an embarrasment.

he has said peaceful things but in his position, he has to act. Now, if for 8 years, if he pushed for peace but still had troubles solving the world's problems, then I can understand it being given based on what he has said.

But he has not been doing this for too long

[Steve Machol]

Honestly, this is way too premature. Hope and intentions should not be sufficient for a prize of this magnitude. It should require real accomplishments. I think the Nobel committee did Obama (and all previous recipients) a disservice by putting him in this position.

[Uilleann]

When was the last time the "leader of the free world" said OR did anything of the sort President Obama is proposing and seemingly attempting now? I can't remember myself. Carter perhaps? Clinton did a lot of work up in N. Ireland of course, but nothing on such a global scale as I recall.

I wonder indeed where our little planet would be if everyone spent half the energy they do poo-pooing the "lack of progress" of the President, and actually DOing something to help achieve that end.

2 cents.

[Jacqui]

Why wasn't I nominated?? Or maybe for the one in medicine.

http://www.slate.com/id/2231909/?GT1=38001

[Spexvet]

Prestigious awards like this should go to people who have accomplished something important, like the Medal Of Freedom in 2004, awarded to former CIA director George Tenet, who told Bush it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction; and L. Paul Bremer, who presided over the first 14 months of Iraq reconstruction.

[DragonLensmanWV]

At last we now know how vast the right-wing conspiracy is!

[cocoisland58]

As a friend of mine said yesterday..."Obama also won the top prize on Dancing with the Stars, you know cause he looks like he can dance".

[KStraker]

Originally Posted by cocoisland58

As a friend of mine said yesterday..."Obama also won the top prize on Dancing with the Stars, you know cause he looks like he can dance".

How does one look like a dancer? Is he statuesque with well built calf muscles? I've never seen him in shorts, so I can't comment on that.


Still waiting for the response. Looks like some good ole, down home, underhanded racism to me. Weak Sauce!

[AngryFish]

I would have bet the farm you would have been in support of this. Good call.

[cocoisland58]

Originally Posted by KStraker

How does one look like a dancer? Is he statuesque with well built calf muscles? I've never seen him in shorts, so I can't comment on that.


Still waiting for the response. Looks like some good ole, down home, underhanded racism to me. Weak Sauce!

I wasn't avoiding a response. I hadn't looked in lately actually. You could call it racist I suppose but the friend that told me this thought it was funny and is African American herself.

[Johns]

Originally Posted by KStraker

How does one look like a dancer? Is he statuesque with well built calf muscles? I've never seen him in shorts, so I can't comment on that.


Still waiting for the response. Looks like some good ole, down home, underhanded racism to me. Weak Sauce!

Well I'd say that Pres. Clinton looked like a dancer, as well as Pres. Bush. Or, aren't white folks allowed to look like dancers?

I'd say the racism is certainly there, but not from where you think.


(Oh, and I can't believe you haven't seen Obama in shorts. They showed him many times, on the campaign trail playing....are you readyu for this? It wasn't polo, and it wasn't soccer...it was BASKETBALL!!!!0

OMG!! Is it a stereotype if I mention that a black president played basketball, if he really did? Or do you have to be black to commnent on a black guy playing? I'm not black, but I was the only white guy on a iinter-service Air Force traveling basketball team, so I'll comment only on the basketball part of it, and not the guy that was playing.

This race baiting is so pathetic.

[Mr. Finney]

Originally Posted by Johns

Well I'd say that Pres. Clinton looked like a dancer, as well as Pres. Bush. Or, aren't white folks allowed to look like dancers?

I'd say the racism is certainly there, but not from where you think.


(Oh, and I can't believe you haven't seen Obama in shorts. They showed him many times, on the campaign trail playing....are you readyu for this? It wasn't polo, and it wasn't soccer...it was BASKETBALL!!!!0

OMG!! Is it a stereotype if I mention that a black president played basketball, if he really did? Or do you have to be black to commnent on a black guy playing? I'm not black, but I was the only white guy on a iinter-service Air Force traveling basketball team, so I'll comment only on the basketball part of it, and not the guy that was playing.

This race baiting is so pathetic.

[cocoisland58]

Originally Posted by KStraker

How does one look like a dancer? Is he statuesque with well built calf muscles? I've never seen him in shorts, so I can't comment on that.


Still waiting for the response. Looks like some good ole, down home, underhanded racism to me. Weak Sauce!

My friend's point was that awarding the Noble Peace Prize to someone who looked like he might be able to pull something off but hadn't yet proven himself was the same as awarding a prize for dancing when it simply appeared that a man might dance well (yes because he is a black man). Silly stereotype? Of course, but not any sillier than the awarding of the prize based on hope or assuming that all African Americans are pro-Obama and lack a sense of humor.

[Johns]

So just how black are/were John Travolta and Fred Astaire?

[cocoisland58]

Originally Posted by Johns

So just how black are/were John Travolta and Fred Astaire?

Actually skin color has less to do with it than culture. Where I come from (which is south of 8 Mile in Detroit) you learned your dance moves from your black friends in school and if you were blessed with any rythym whatsoever you danced just as well as they did. But you are right, an African American growing up outside the influence of the Motown scene would probably dance just as badly as John Travolta and Obama is from Hawaii after all.

[Johns]

Originally Posted by cocoisland58

Actually skin color has less to do with it than culture. Where I come from (which is south of 8 Mile in Detroit) you learned your

That's my point. In this CURRENT culture, anything that is said can be taken as a racist comment.

It's really pathetic, and getting worse everyday.

Three weeks ago, in our urban clinic, a "lady" wanted to report me to my supervisor (I don't have on there, as I'm a vendor in the hospital). She wanted to report me because when I couldn't read her name on the sign in sheet, I went out to the waiting room and said, "I can't read the writing here, but I'm ready for whoever's next." She said I was being racist, because I called the person before her by name, and refered to her as "next".


True story, and by no means an isolated incident.

[cocoisland58]

Originally Posted by Johns

That's my point. In this CURRENT culture, anything that is said can be taken as a racist comment.

It's really pathetic, and getting worse everyday.

I totally agree and look at what happened at Ft. Hood. It is now coming out that there were clear signs that something was amiss with the gunman yet no one spoke up for fear of being labeled as racist aor discriminatory against Muslims.

[opticianbart]

Originally Posted by Johns

That's my point. In this CURRENT culture, anything that is said can be taken as a racist comment.

It's really pathetic, and getting worse everyday.

Three weeks ago, in our urban clinic, a "lady" wanted to report me to my supervisor (I don't have on there, as I'm a vendor in the hospital). She wanted to report me because when I couldn't read her name on the sign in sheet, I went out to the waiting room and said, "I can't read the writing here, but I'm ready for whoever's next." She said I was being racist, because I called the person before her by name, and refered to her as "next".


True story, and by no means an isolated incident.

bah, this has happened to me as well. I said "next" a couple times and then someone got mad and told me i should be saying their names not just next. and when I looked at the sheet and said "well I can't read the names on here most of the time" She went off on how the hospital shouldn't hire illiterate people....

[Johns]

Originally Posted by opticianbart

bah, this has happened to me as well. I said "next" a couple times and then someone got mad and told me i should be saying their names not just next. and when I looked at the sheet and said "well I can't read the names on here most of the time" She went off on how the hospital shouldn't hire illiterate people....

Well, I'm glad it's not me.

The only thing worse, is being able to read the name, but not being able to pronounce it the way the "think" it should be pronounced. Example: "Sade" Again, people become irate and want to complain because they didn't follow simple rules of phonics when naming their offspring.

But I don't get upset, I just deal with it and go on, because after all, I'm the racist!

[Striderswife]

I don't know if this will bump to page 2, but I couldn't hold back. Don't know if this is true or not, but very possible. Got an email (I'm sure it had been forwarded 100 times before I got it, but just read this for what it is) and here's the jist (gist?) of it:

A lady got super upset because her daughter's name was being mispronounced at the dr.'s office. Here's how it was written, "Le-a." Now, how would you say that? "Lee ah?" "Lay ah?" Well, Mom got mad and said, "The dash ain't silent!!"

Again, don't know if it actually happened, but it's funny anyway.