Barry as been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They did that just to pizz off the militant right wing nuts and they accomplished that. Awesome.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Another sign of the lowering of standards across the globe.

You could always jump off, you know.

surely you have more insight to offer than that!

Not really. It's Friday morning and the end of the work week. Seems silly to get wound up enough about this to call it "lowering of standards across the globe". If you're that gloomy, get your meds refilled.

Sheesh.

pass the coffee, maw. i just finished a 12 hour night shift and gotta stay awake today to get my clock back in sync with daylight.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Wait. Obama is currently doing the same thing at Martti. What warrant him for not getting the Nobel Peace Prize?

Who was the 2008 winner, and what did he do to win?

Profile: Martti Ahtisaari

Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari is a veteran negotiator who has played a leading role in peace deals in several regions of the world.

Over a long career, Mr Ahtisaari has earned a reputation as a diplomat able to handle the thorniest of problems.

He played a particularly important role in the 2005 peace accord between Indonesia and rebels in Aceh province.

The deal ended a three-decade conflict in which 15,000 people died, helping win him the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

The citation said his efforts had contributed to a more peaceful world and to "fraternity between nations".

In early October, Mr Ahtisaari also received Unesco's Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for his lifetime contribution to world peace.

Proudest achievement

Born in 1937, Mr Ahtisaari trained as a primary school teacher before joining Finland's Foreign Ministry in 1965.

He spent 20 years abroad, first as ambassador to Tanzania and then to the United Nations in New York.

Mr Ahtisaari played a significant part in negotiations that led to the independence of Namibia from South African rule in 1990.

It remains his proudest achievement. He says it was "absolutely the most important because it took such a long time".

In 1993, he was appointed special adviser to the UN secretary-general on former Yugoslavia, but a year later was elected president of Finland on a social democrat ticket.

Acting for the EU, in 1999 Mr Ahtisaari helped persuade then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept Nato's terms for ending the war in Kosovo.

He decided to bow out of Finnish politics in 2000, setting up the Crisis Management Initiative which works to promote peace and crisis resolution. He remains its chairman.

His appointments include that of UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, and Personal Envoy of the OSCE for Central Asia.

In 2000, he drafted a report on the human rights and political situation in Austria after the far-right Freedom Party's entry into a coalition government.

The next year, he served as an independent arms inspector in Northern Ireland.

He has maintained strong links with the UN, heading an investigation into its security after a devastating car bomb attack on its Baghdad headquarters in August 2003.

In 2005, he again returned to the international spotlight when he organised talks between Indonesia's government and the Free Aceh Movement, who eventually signed a peace deal to end a 30-year uprising.

In the same year, he led intense mediation efforts to clinch a joint agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, although the push failed after Pristina unilaterally declared independence.

He is married with one son.

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7663000.stm

Published: 2008/10/10 12:53:48 GMT

© BBC MMIX

In contrast, Barry has been an ineffective historical first Black president of the US who loves the sound of his own voice.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

They did that just to pizz off the militant right wing nuts and they accomplished that. Awesome.

Their outreach to the dull-minded was also successful.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They did that just to pizz off the militant right wing nuts and they accomplished that. Awesome.

Their outreach to the dull-minded was also successful.

They reached out to you? The thread suggests otherwise. Oh well, carry on being an outraged America hating wing nut.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

You can equate them? I can't. What has Barry accomplished? Tangible results. Really? What?

Wait. Obama is currently doing the same thing at Martti. What warrant him for not getting the Nobel Peace Prize?

Who was the 2008 winner, and what did he do to win?

Profile: Martti Ahtisaari

Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari is a veteran negotiator who has played a leading role in peace deals in several regions of the world.

Over a long career, Mr Ahtisaari has earned a reputation as a diplomat able to handle the thorniest of problems.

He played a particularly important role in the 2005 peace accord between Indonesia and rebels in Aceh province.

The deal ended a three-decade conflict in which 15,000 people died, helping win him the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

The citation said his efforts had contributed to a more peaceful world and to "fraternity between nations".

In early October, Mr Ahtisaari also received Unesco's Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for his lifetime contribution to world peace.

Proudest achievement

Born in 1937, Mr Ahtisaari trained as a primary school teacher before joining Finland's Foreign Ministry in 1965.

He spent 20 years abroad, first as ambassador to Tanzania and then to the United Nations in New York.

Mr Ahtisaari played a significant part in negotiations that led to the independence of Namibia from South African rule in 1990.

It remains his proudest achievement. He says it was "absolutely the most important because it took such a long time".

In 1993, he was appointed special adviser to the UN secretary-general on former Yugoslavia, but a year later was elected president of Finland on a social democrat ticket.

Acting for the EU, in 1999 Mr Ahtisaari helped persuade then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept Nato's terms for ending the war in Kosovo.

He decided to bow out of Finnish politics in 2000, setting up the Crisis Management Initiative which works to promote peace and crisis resolution. He remains its chairman.

His appointments include that of UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, and Personal Envoy of the OSCE for Central Asia.

In 2000, he drafted a report on the human rights and political situation in Austria after the far-right Freedom Party's entry into a coalition government.

The next year, he served as an independent arms inspector in Northern Ireland.

He has maintained strong links with the UN, heading an investigation into its security after a devastating car bomb attack on its Baghdad headquarters in August 2003.

In 2005, he again returned to the international spotlight when he organised talks between Indonesia's government and the Free Aceh Movement, who eventually signed a peace deal to end a 30-year uprising.

In the same year, he led intense mediation efforts to clinch a joint agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, although the push failed after Pristina unilaterally declared independence.

He is married with one son.

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7663000.stm

Published: 2008/10/10 12:53:48 GMT

© BBC MMIX

In contrast, Barry has been an ineffective historical first Black president of the US who loves the sound of his own voice.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

They did that just to pizz off the militant right wing nuts and they accomplished that. Awesome.

Their outreach to the dull-minded was also successful.

They reached out to you? The thread suggests otherwise. Oh well, carry on being an outraged America hating wing nut.

Carry on being too dull-minded to recognize yourself and too brain dead to know what love of America is.

[alienlovechild 75]

Remember when it was too early to criticize Obama. . . but not too early too praise him for doing nothing? The man was nominated for his "extraordinary" accomplishments in his FIRST MONTH in office.

Remember when only rightwing nuts mocked Obama as the messiah or the One? Well, this proves the adulation abroad is largely unfounded. Reminds of a poll in Germany in that gave Obama a 90% approval rating and Bush had gotten something like 10%.

On the bright side, this means no one on the planet was more deserving for the Peace Prize than yet another miserable American.

BTW, Americans won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Not bad for the worst healthcare system in the developing world. Perhaps Obama will win the prize for medicine next year after his healthcare plan passes.

Edited October 9, 2009 by alienlovechild

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Kool aid drinking knows no boundaries.

[SMR 368]

Am I the only one here who has no idea who "Barry" is??

And I really dont care...............

Barry is short for Barack (Obama).

This award does far more to marginalize the Nobel Prize than to advance Obama. Obama has by any measure been on the world stage for barely a year, if you count his campaign trips to Europe. Whatever he has done can't really be evaluated at a far enough distance to judge it's effectiveness. Maybe you believe that he will do great things to contribute to nuclear non-proliferation and international peace. If that will be the case, there will be plenty of opportunity to give him the Nobel Prize in 2020.

By jumping the gun and giving the prize to an untried ideologue, the Nobel committee has done little more than transform itself from a internationally recognized and respected judge of human progress into a political action committee which will quickly find it has already spent its political capital. The people who respected Obama will laud him, those who criticized him will continue, and the dictators that grew more confident from his appeasement will become more brazen, knowing that he truly is spineless.

On the other hand, $1.4 million isn't bad. That will pay for a lot of Cuban cigars which he can smoke when he goes to have lunch with Fidel.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

Kool aid drinking knows no boundaries.

on the bright side, he's speeding along that jimmy carter path quite nicely.

[alienlovechild 75]

They reached out to you? The thread suggests otherwise. Oh well, carry on being an outraged America hating wing nut.

Dog, we're are nominating you for the Nobel Peace Prize year. You're just as deserving as Pres. Obama and you've spread just as many feelings of peace and reconcilation throughout tihs forum and the world.

[alienlovechild 75]

on the bright side, he's speeding along that jimmy carter path quite nicely.

A one term president who oversaw the birth of the Iranian Revolution and war in Afghanistan; as well as, a crippling the U.S. economy? Why didn't we just re-elect Carter because at least the man has experience beyond primarily community organizing.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They did that just to pizz off the militant right wing nuts and they accomplished that. Awesome.

Their outreach to the dull-minded was also successful.

They reached out to you? The thread suggests otherwise. Oh well, carry on being an outraged America hating wing nut.

Carry on being too dull-minded to recognize yourself and too brain dead to know what love of America is.

Yes, you're right. Wishing ill upon the President of the US is what being a true American is all about. That must be it - at least in that bubble of yours.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Someone is jealous of the kool-aid people. I can smell jealousy.

Edited October 9, 2009 by Niels Bohr