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Nobel Peace Prize and Obama
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Topic Started: Jun 10 2018, 09:29 PM (35 Views)
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Jun 10 2018, 09:29 PM
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Can someone remind me what Obama did early on in his presidency to win the Nobel?
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Jun 10 2018, 09:45 PM
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According to the Nobel Prize people: - Quote:
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Oslo, October 9, 2009
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Jun 10 2018, 09:50 PM
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As I recall, he lied about getting us out of the Bush wars. Combined the art of war and video games with drones, imagine playing GTA on your xBox to find that you were controlling some android somewhere in a far off place stealing real cars and running real people over. He had some interesting visits from some popular people,
Obama #48 with Jimmie Johnson-
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYc42i1yWLA
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee-
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-Q_zpuJGU
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Jun 10 2018, 09:56 PM
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According to the Nobel Prize people: - Quote:
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Oslo, October 9, 2009
So, Obama had the right rhetoric? Rhetoric and deep bows along with blaming the world's woes on America gets a Nobel? Apparently so.
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Jun 10 2018, 10:14 PM
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Barack Hussein (I am not a Muslim) Obama lowered the bar to ground level for any further potential recipient.
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Jun 10 2018, 10:41 PM
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According to the Nobel Prize people: - Quote:
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Oslo, October 9, 2009
So, Obama had the right rhetoric? Rhetoric and deep bows along with blaming the world's woes on America gets a Nobel? Apparently so.
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Diplomacy ... the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad. ... the art of dealing with people in a sensitive and effective way.
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Jun 10 2018, 10:47 PM
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Sensitive the operative word for the unaware and naive liberals. Maybe we should have been more sensitive to Hitler and avoided WW2. Or better still, given everyone participation trophies.
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Jun 10 2018, 10:49 PM
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Sensitive the operative word for the unaware and naive liberals. Maybe we should have been more sensitive to Hitler and avoided WW2. Or better still, given everyone participation trophies.
Trump is Hitler, do the math, 1945-46, the occult, reincarnation. and I mean just look at him, it's so obvious.
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