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US President Barack Obama wins "Nobel" "Peace" Prize!

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Saan replied on Fri, Oct 9 2009 9:56 AM

Hey at least the real geniuses are good guys.  Remember Grigory Perleman.

The NYT has not paid me a cent to link to a two year old story.

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eliotn replied on Fri, Oct 9 2009 10:00 AM

liberty student:

What is very sad, is that Obama is a mass murderer and torturer.

Maybe the prize should be renamed as the Nobel Conflict Prize.

Schools are labour camps.

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Praetyre:

He has a loud voice, is an ethnic minority, gives good speeches and the previous administration was incompetent. Also, he presents simple solutions to problems already fed to people through MSM outlets, and uses words that naturally comfort, like "Hope" "Change" and "Rescue".

Yes! He also has an excellent taste in clothes/suits/style, and as Andre Agassi used to say: "Image is everything!" 

Frankly I'm surprised he only got one, this has to be a mistake  on somebody's part - shouldn't there be  some sort of campaign under way to insist that at least half a dozen  go to him? Smile

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Solarist replied on Fri, Oct 9 2009 10:17 AM

The Obama kool-aid is sweet, and I can see why so many people have parched their thirst for the image of an intelligent leader.  This move is absoultely brain dead though, It will be ridiculous if this is followed shortly by expanding the conflict in afghanistan and sending over 40k more troops.

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Poptech replied on Fri, Oct 9 2009 10:46 AM

It is clear the Nobel was for pursuing his Marxist ideology..

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Lilburne replied on Fri, Oct 9 2009 11:02 AM

The deadline for Nobel nominations was February 1, when Obama was 12 days in office. So basically he won for a bunch of campaign speeches and then using robots to murder three little Pakistani kids a few days after he took office.

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scineram replied on Fri, Oct 9 2009 11:02 AM

College life is not bourgeois society?

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eliotn:
Maybe the prize should be renamed as the Nobel Conflict Prize.

The irony is, in the effort to aggrandize Obama, all they have done is pull all of his critics out to call him on his failings.

Even the hard right fascists have nothing good to say about the Peace Prize.

If you find something evil that wobbles, push it. - Gary North

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Can't say that I'm surprised, first Gore and Krugman, now Obama? Sometimes I almost wish I could go back to my apathetic and apolitical past before I discovered libertarianism, because the news almost makes me sick every day.

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I differ from most here with regards to my political views, but I can understand your annoyance. What  I don't understand is why people here are suprised, you've already noted that Gore and Kissinger.

I mean, say what  you will about Krugman winning the Economics prize, but the Econ prize has had quite a few economics sympathetic to the market (Coase, Buchanan, Stigler, Becker, Hayek and Friedman) and accurately reflects major contributions to economics. Krugman wasn't even that bad of a choice to be honest. But economics is a well defined science and contributions to economics are relatively easy to identify.

On the other hand, what the hell else would a "Peace" prize be but a gift to whoever is in fashion with self described intellectuals.

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"

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Not that I disagree, but could you cite evidence for both of these so I can show my peeps?

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