Outsider
Refugee
seriously i disagree with the decision and i voted for him
hey everyone! i just received word that i've awarded been awarded the nobel prize for photography based on the picture i plan on taking
hey everyone! i just received word that i've awarded been awarded the nobel prize for photography based on the picture i plan on taking
Another pro-Obama leftie here making this face at the announcement:
Another pro-Obama leftie here making this face at the announcement:
Another pro-Obama leftie here making this face at the announcement:
Another pro-Obama leftie here making this face at the announcement:
I don't get some of you people.
Those reportedly on the list include:
Chinese dissident Hu Jia
Colombian peace-broker Piedad Cordoba.
French-Colombian activist and former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, rescued last year after five years in captivity.
US President Barack Obama
Afghan rights activist Sima Samar
Jordanian interfaith dialogue advocate Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad.
He may have been nominated early on. I guess they thought his complete paradigm shift during the campaign and election was worthy.
And honestly the impact of the philosophy of the American President has on the world, for peace and standard of living and such things. I can see why they consider him deserving.
"By awarding you its most prestigious prize, the Committee is rewarding your determined commitment to human rights, justice and spreading peace across the world, in accordance with the will of its founder Alfred Nobel. It also does justice to your vision of tolerance and dialogue between States, cultures and civilizations. Finally, it sets the seal on America's return to the heart of all the world's peoples.
I am particularly happy that this Prize is awarded to you today because I know it will bolster your determination to act for justice, for peace and to safeguard the planet's global balance. I am convinced that everyone, all over the world, will draw from this an even stronger determination to cooperate with you and with America to achieve these common objectives." - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a letter congratulating Obama's prize win
Yes it is a paradigma shift.
He may have been nominated early on. I guess they thought his complete paradigm shift during the campaign and election was worthy.
And honestly the impact of the philosophy of the American President has on the world, for peace and standard of living and such things. I can see why they consider him deserving.
Iran Policy - Again, following Bush policy on this front as well working with European partners to secure stronger sanctions against Iran in order to get it to cooperate with the international community.
Is this why he hasn't sent troops to Afghanistan yet?
One of the best deliberate laughs Bush obtained in his last days in office came when he expressed himself pleased at the street reception during his attendance at a NATO summit in Romania.
"A lot of the crowd were waving... some of them with all five fingers," he said.
Bush was acknowledging that many in Old Europe at least could not wait to say goodbye to a man whom they saw as a Cold Warrior at heart, the president who had led the world into a disastrous intervention in Iraq and a man heading a gas-guzzling nation who was not prepared to help the world cope with climate change.
Europeans were alarmed that Bush seemed to be encouraging the climate change deniers. And although he became readier to listen to his European allies during his second term, they never really took to the man whose instinctive response was to use America's military might in the world's trouble spots rather than to stay at the negotiating table and who had little time for the United Nations.
Gandhi didn't get it, six times
In other breaking news, Major League Baseball has awarded the Cy Young Award to President Obama for throwing out the first pitch in the All Star Game
I don't remember Bush sending a letter to Iran's supreme leader.
Who is to say when anyone is the best candidate for any award. Every Grammy or Oscar ceremony people say, what? So and so, was more deserving.