Obama excepts his Nobel prize

[dellinger63]

Says others are more deserving. DUH

and now onto important things like turning on the Global AC. I thank the lord for global warming, as instead of being 5 below w/gusts of 50mph we would be 50 below and may have cracked the 100 below wind chill mark last night. I've also observed lower temps exponentially increase my natural gas consumption as evidenced by my spinning meter. I will be forced to start my fuel-efficient Sportage and let idle for 10 minutes before I make the drive to Lowes for more windows sealing film.

I get it! We will be forced into less and cleaner gas and electrical consumption by taxing providers (eventually us) sans Auntie Obama and alike who we will also pay for, to achieve the result of cooling off forcing us to consume more?

Houston we have a problem!

[randallscott35]

Accepts Dell.

He doesn't deserve it but neither did Taylor Swift deserve album of the year.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Accepts Dell.

He doesn't deserve it but neither did Taylor Swift deserve album of the year.

it's all politics

[GBBob]

Even I have to admit that was a strange one

[Nascar1966]

This is almost as good as Florida State playing in a New Year's day Bowl game. I wonder if he included in his speech how his rating dropping. Im also sure he didnt include how he is ruining this great country of ours. I wonder which Chicago area charity is going to get the 1.4 million that he undeservingly won?

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Nascar1966

This is almost as good as Florida State playing in a New Year's day Bowl game. I wonder if he included in his speech how his rating dropping. Im also sure he didnt include how he is ruining this great country of ours. I wonder which Chicago area charity is going to get the 1.4 million that he undeservingly won?

Quick question. How do you rate the performance of George W Bush and Dick Cheney? Did they have anything to do with ruining this great country of ours during their 8 year rule?

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

Originally Posted by Nascar1966

This is almost as good as Florida State playing in a New Year's day Bowl game. I wonder if he included in his speech how his rating dropping. Im also sure he didnt include how he is ruining this great country of ours. I wonder which Chicago area charity is going to get the 1.4 million that he undeservingly won?

fsu!!! in 1 case its a well deserved feel good for all he has done an icon.
in the other its a total joke..it really cheapens those who have made great accomplishements in that area..ie

2009
The prize goes to:

BARACK OBAMA for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen his own legacy wile ruining the country in his one and final term.


2008
The prize goes to:

MARTTI AHTISAARI for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.



2007
The prize goes to:

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) and ALBERT ARNOLD ( AL) GORE JR. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.



2006
The prize goes to:

MUHAMMAD YUNUS and GRAMEEN BANK for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.



2005
The prize was awarded jointly to:

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY and MOHAMED ELBARADEI for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.



2004
The prize was awarded to:

WANGARI MAATHAI

for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace



2003
The prize was awarded to:

SHIRIN EBADI

for her efforts for democracy and human rights



2002
The prize was awarded to:

JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America,

for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development



2001
The prize was awarded to:

UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA

KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General



2000
The prize was awarded to:

KIM DAE JUNG for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular.



1999
The prize was awarded to:

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES), Brussels, Belgium.



1998
The prize was awarded jointly to:

JOHN HUME and DAVID TRIMBLE for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.



1997
The prize was awarded jointly to:

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BAN LANDMINES (ICBL) and JODY WILLIAMS for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.



1996
The prize was awarded jointly to:

CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.



1995
The prize was awarded jointly to:

JOSEPH ROTBLAT and to the PUGWASH CONFERENCES ON SCIENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.



1994
The prize was awarded joinly to:

YASSER ARAFAT , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority.

SHIMON PERES , Foreign Minister of Israel.

YITZHAK RABIN , Prime Minister of Israel.

for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.



1993
The prize was awarded jointly to:

NELSON MANDELA Leader of the ANC.

FREDRIK WILLEM DE KLERK President of the Republic of South Africa.



1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. Campaigner for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.



1991
AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Burma. Oppositional leader, human rights advocate.



1990
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV , President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end.



1989
THE 14TH DALAI LAMA (TENZIN GYATSO) , Tibet. Religious and political leader of the Tibetan people.



1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A.




1987
OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ , Costa Rica, President of Costa Rica, initiator of peace negotiations in Central America.




1986
ELIE WIESEL , U.S.A., Chairman of 'The President's Commission on the Holocaust'. Author, humanitarian.




1985
INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR Boston, MA, U.S.A.




1984
DESMOND MPILO TUTU , South Africa, Bishop of Johannesburg, former Secretary General South African Council of Churches (S.A.C.C.). for his work against apartheid.




1983
LECH WALESA , Poland. Founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights.




1982
The prize was awarded jointly to:

ALVA MYRDAL , former Cabinet Minister, diplomat, delegate to United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, writer.

ALFONSO GARCÍA ROBLES , diplomat, delegate to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs .




1981
OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES Geneva, Switzerland.




1980
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL , Argentina, architect, sculptor and human rights leader.




1979
MOTHER TERESA , India, Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.




1978
The prize was divided equally between:

MOHAMED ANWAR AL-SADAT , President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

MENACHEM BEGIN , Prime Minister of Israel.

for jointly negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.



1977
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL London, Great Britain. A worldwide organization for the protection of the rights of prisoners of conscience.




1976
BETTY WILLIAMS and MAIREAD CORRIGAN Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).




1975
ANDREI DMITRIEVICH SAKHAROV , Soviet nuclear physicist. Campaigner for human rights.




1974
The prize was divided equally between:

SEÁN MAC BRIDE , President of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, and the Commission of Namibia, United Nations, New York.

EISAKU SATO , Prime Minister of Japan.



1973
The prize was awarded jointly to:

HENRY A. KISSINGER , Secretary of State, State Department, Washington.

LE DUC THO , Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. (Declined the prize.)

for jointly negotiating the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.



1972
The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.




1971
WILLY BRANDT , Federal Republic of Germany, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, initiator of West Germany's Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany.




1970
NORMAN BORLAUG , Led research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City.




1969
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (I.L.O.) Geneva.




1968
RENÉ CASSIN , President of the European Court for Human Rights .




1967-1966
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.



1965
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND (UNICEF) New York, founded by U.N. in 1946. An international aid organization.




1964
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. , leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights.




1963
The prize was divided equally between

COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE REDCROSS) Geneva, founded 1863.

LIGUE DES SOCIÉTÉS DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCIETIES) Geneva.




1962
LINUS CARL PAULING , California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Campaigner especially for an end to nuclear weapons tests.




1961
DAG HJALMAR AGNE CARL HAMMARSKJÖLD , Secretary General of the United Nations (awarded the Prize posthumously).




1960
ALBERT JOHN LUTULI , President of the South Africal liberation movement, the African National Congress.




1959
PHILIP J. NOEL-BAKER , Great Britain, Member of Parliament, life long ardent worker for international peace and co-operation .




1958
GEORGES HENRI PIRE , Belgium, Father of the Dominican Order, Leader

[dalakhani]

Obama is the acception to the rule.

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Obama is the acception to the rule.

touche

[alysheba4]

Originally Posted by jms62

Quick question. How do you rate the performance of George W Bush and Dick Cheney? Did they have anything to do with ruining this great country of ours during their 8 year rule?

.....wow, never heard that comeback......i would say obama has him beat so far.

[Nascar1966]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

.....wow, never heard that comeback......i would say obama has him beat so far.

I agree with you on your statement. About the only thing O'Dumbass is good at is misleading and lieing to the American public. Im going to laugh when he misses the timetables he set for Iraq and Aghganistan. Probably misspelled the second country. Im already counting the days until election 2012 gets here.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

.....wow, never heard that comeback......i would say obama has him beat so far.

How so, specifically? Torture? Putting the country to the brink of depression? Deregulating banks so they can run wild? Starting a war and invading a country on a lie? Lying to the citizens? Creating the largest financial deficit in the history of this country? Ruining the USA credibility on the world stage?

Whoops. That wasn't Obama.

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

How so, specifically? Torture? Putting the country to the brink of depression? Deregulating banks so they can run wild? Starting a war and invading a country on a lie? Lying to the citizens? Creating the largest financial deficit in the history of this country? Ruining the USA credibility on the world stage?

Whoops. That wasn't Obama.

Either you're taking TOO many drugs...or you need more!

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

How so, specifically? Torture? Putting the country to the brink of depression? Deregulating banks so they can run wild? Starting a war and invading a country on a lie? Lying to the citizens? Creating the largest financial deficit in the history of this country? Ruining the USA credibility on the world stage?

Whoops. That wasn't Obama.

Whoops yes it is! and now $1.8 trillion more?
This guy pisses more money than a drunk Kenyan whore awaiting deportation while staying in public housing.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Whoops yes it is! and now $1.8 trillion more?
This guy pisses more money than a drunk Kenyan whore awaiting deportation while staying in public housing.

Whoops no it isn't.

Sources of increased spending in 2009

41% Financial rescues begun by President Bush
7% Defense
8% Other domestic spending
8% Unemployment benefits
18% Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
18% President Obama's initiatives

A forthcoming study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes that the $1.4 trillion annual deficit run by the government has little to do with current White House policies and much to do with George W. Bush's actions.

"What we have looked at were several major contributors to the deficit: the tax cuts between 2001 and 2003 (on the assumption they get extended in 2010), the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the effects of the recession as well as the legislative response to the recession," James Horney, director of federal fiscal policy at the Center, told the Huffington Post. "When you take those things into account -- in other words, if we hadn't enacted the tax cuts, had the wars, if we hadn't had the recession and needed the legislation to deal with those problems -- the deficits are much, much lower. And basically none of those represent Obama's policies. He didn't run saying he wanted to pass a stimulus to deal with the recession or that he wanted to continue the war in Iraq or escalate [to this extent] in Afghanistan. He inherited these issues once he took office."

"Now we still have a big budget problem in the long run," Horney added. "It is not inappropriate for people to say we have to deal with that. And it is not inappropriate for them to say Obama is president and has the responsibility to deal with this. But it is not appropriate to say that Obama's policies have contributed to the deficit problem."

Horney said that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' analysis will be released in the next few weeks. But already, there is data available to supplement its findings. In mid-November, the Democratic-leaning Center for American Progress put together an analysis of its own, in which it concluded that the so-called "Obama spending spree" paled in comparison to the checks written by Bush (see a graph from CAP's report below).

"It's true that spending in 2009 was much higher than it was the previous fiscal year, by about $602 billion, excluding payments on the national debt (which actually declined in 2009 because of low interest rates)," wrote Michael Linden, an associate director for tax and budget policy at the Center. "But it turns out that a huge chunk of that increase actually happened before President Obama took office. In fact, fully 41 percent, or $245 billion, came in the form of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the rescues of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, actions taken in the fall of 2008 under President George W. Bush.

PS, you can certainly diss Sam Stein, but what you really have to diss, to make your point and support your contention, is the numbers he is quoting (that he is quoting them doesn't matter) So bring them on - what do you have to prove Obama is spending more than Bush?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_387121.html

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Whoops no it isn't.






PS, you can certainly diss Sam Stein, but what you really have to diss, to make your point and support your contention, is the numbers he is quoting (that he is quoting them doesn't matter) So bring them on - what do you have to prove Obama is spending more than Bush?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_387121.html

ignorance especially your ignorance is bliss! and here's the proof in pictures! See that long red line (4 times longer than the previous year?)


http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/...t-in-pictures/

[miraja2]

I see that Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich actually had a lot of good things to say about Obama's acceptance speech (or "exceptance" speech if you're dellinger).
Nice job Obama. You somehow managed to use a peace-award speech as a platform to justify your newly discovered jingoism. Sure you basically made a mockery of the award you were receiving by defending your hawkish Afghanistan policy....but hey....at least you pleased Sarah Palin.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by miraja2

(or "exceptance" speech if you're dellinger).

My Bad! I certainly deserve the ball busting!

Carry on

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

My Bad! I certainly deserve the ball busting!

Carry on

miraja2 never got to be "hall monitor"

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

miraja2 never got to be "hall monitor"

We didn't have hall monitors at my school. I went to Catholic school K-12 and the nuns did all the monitoring themselves. They never would have trusted us with such responsibilities.

However, the fact that I was busting dell over his spelling error DOES constitute the height of hypocrisy on my part. I'm lost without spell check.