In essence what it means to me is that giving the prize to President Obama validates his world view of how things should be of which I agree with 100% along with Hundreds of Millions of Peace loving people around the world !
Congratulations to our President !
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willy3411
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Oct 9 @ 7:24AM
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This is the world flipping the bird at Bush. That's all. Nobel did it in 2002 when Jimmy Carter won the prize. They were pissed off for the Iran war. Obama goes on a world apologizing tour. Sucks up to the Islamics. Totally worthless organization. Totally worthless president. You will probably call me racist, but I'm a realist.
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legacy1
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Oct 9 @ 8:19AM
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Nobel did it in 2002 when Jimmy Carter won the prize
Wasn't it for his work with Habitat for Humanity that he received this award?
Congrats for being the 3rd sitting President to win this very prestigious award!
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willy3411
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Oct 9 @ 8:34AM
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Wasn't it for his work with Habitat for Humanity that he received this award?
No.
Per wiki:
In 2002, President Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work "to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development" through The Carter Center.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
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legacy1
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Oct 9 @ 8:38AM
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In 2002, President Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work "to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development" through The Carter Center.
And that would be wrong why again? 
I will admit like some have said Carter is a better Ex-President than he was a sitting President...thanks for clarifying for me Willy!
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1880Texan
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Oct 9 @ 9:10AM
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Now that he is a Nobel you can do like they did back in the dark ages with the nobility. The peasants would kneel before the Noble and kiss his ring.
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legacy1
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Oct 9 @ 9:19AM
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The peasants would kneel before the Noble and kiss his ring.
And you can just kneel and kiss my ass... 
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trubolt
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Oct 9 @ 9:30AM
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what peace?
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Wing_Zero_75
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Oct 9 @ 9:40AM
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The price of a nobel. selling out your country to the few in power and feeding Israel to the wolves. The worl apology tour must have worked wonders. Maybe Hamas or Fatah should be next? Why not, jimmy carter is trying to get rid of the Jews as well. Maybe Syria's Abbas should get one, or even better, Ahmadinejad, for his support of democracy in his country and his "peaceful" use of nuclear energy................... Why not charles manson? He hasnt hurt anyone lately.
The nobel prize to me is nothing more important than what you find in a cracker jack box.
Larry
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jcarolina
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Oct 9 @ 9:40AM
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Ridiculous political propaganda. The Nobel deadline is Feb. 1, about two weeks after Obama took office. Hardly enough time for a Nobel consideration for anyone.... president or whomever.
I don't like politicians regardless, but even I find this outrageous.
If we're giving out the prize for what someone claims they're going to do, shouldn't each and every president get one?
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hellosue2009
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Oct 9 @ 9:46AM
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nice blog and I like anyone who can inspire peace 
just ignore the negative comments - which there seem to be plenty of in this world
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Slohand_47
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Oct 9 @ 9:50AM
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I would equate this to taking any sort of exam. Before you start, the teacher says.... I'm going to give you an A in the hope that it inspires you to actually get an A.
Hope it works.
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funisnumber1
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Oct 9 @ 10:05AM
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Is Norway trying to get into the pants of the USA? I swear the Nobel committee is horny and trying to get laid by the "cool country". Al Gore for a slideshow, and now this?
Geez.
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observed50
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Oct 9 @ 10:08AM
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I don't sense the award is about snubbing Bush...but about snubbing that team's perception of the world and how to work in it - i.e., the committee is taking a more proactive stance in the award's capacity to create, change, and acknowledge the ongoing work of peace.
The previous team in the White House squandered the global resource of good will after 9/11 when the team decided it was the US against the world, and 'yer eider wid us or agin us.' In the arrogance that comes with power and not having enemies sitting on borders in all directions, which is the case for so much of the world, the team in a mistaken notion of 'leadership', told the world what was gonna happen and how. The US squandered global attention, global good will, global political will when it lied about Iraq, when it chose to drag nations ('coalition of the willing?') into a war of choice, when it turned its attention from Afghanistan...all of which contributed to intelligence assessments here and abroad, that the world was being made less safe, not more safe, by the team's efforts.
Bush is not, and has never been, 'the issue'. The 'Bushes' of the world emerge from think tanks and ideological swamps like talk radio and Faux News, and access to money and media that allow for the lies to be propagated and spread so that a nation like the US will support wars of choice. Bush didn't create those ideas. He didn't have the singular force to lead them. He had the ability to raise money, lots of it, and to speak to his piece of the herd. But he isolated himself and the nation with his inability to speak to the rest of the herd here, and the world, but more importantly, he isolated with his inability, through his teams overarching inability, to listen.
Ideology shouts....it doesn't listen. The team was exceedingly good at not hearing, listening, or wanting to hear anyone not like them.
Who wants war? People who think their sons and lovers aren't going to die in war. People who believe people 'like them' while discrediting all sources of skepticism and doubt that would help prevent national leaps into war's hellfire. People who so badly want to believe the others die in vain while theirs die in glory. People who love the feeling of loud voices and puffy chests as they shout nationalist fervor and drown out rationality. People who believe the 'ultimate sacrifice' is never paid by people like them.
Every step of the way, during the previous team's tenure, international politics was dominated by 'the threat'. Neo-cons couldn't be on the media often enough to swagger and bluster..."all options are on the table to deal with Iraq, Iran, North Korea..." Problem with state violence is the arrogance in which 'mission accomplished' comes to reflect how little the 'leadership' understands of anything but the power of control they can exercise. Power is never so weakened as when it is used poorly as it has been in Afghanistan and Iraq. While squandering power there, the team made even more evident its decayed core with its lack of leadership for 8 years to bring Israel to work for real resolution to its Palestinian occupation.
This is certainly not a prize about accomplishments, other than this team comes with a more global community perspective. It comes attuned to the need to exercise 'smart power' rather than Darth Vader's brute power. It is an interesting award to me. Puts a bit of pressure on Obama to live up to the vision and motions that he has so eloquently championed. Certainly the world lifted a sigh of relief when the previous team exited the White House. We still don't know if this team can deliver on its goals, but certainly, from the global perspective, the team's goals are far more in line with being a member of a global community who respects the differences with others and values dialogue with both enemies and friends far more than bluster and blinding righteousness.
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burnslikethesun
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Oct 9 @ 10:25AM
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BOOOOOO OLYMPICS!!!!! YAY!!! AMERICA FAILS!!....
Opps. Wrong thread?
ASS JACKS!!!
HAR HAR HAR
Bushy Jr. makes Mussolini look like a peace loving hippie.
Congrats Mr. President Obama. Kudo for the blog.
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1880Texan
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Oct 9 @ 10:29AM
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Awwww....Legacy....sounds more like the thing you'd like to do. Bow down befo' you leader,,Obamaladingdong  he's giving you the Bohica pose
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yashaenka
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Oct 9 @ 10:40AM
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If we're giving out the prize for what someone claims they're going to do, shouldn't each and every president get one? First of all the President does not write his own speeches. 2nd there is no plan in effect that exist to reduce the number of nukes for any countries other than America and Russia and even that is iffy. 3rd Obama was citing a wish list without any meat as to how in it.
What is the chance the following Countries will give up or reduce their nukes. China, North Korea, Israel, India, Pakistan, England? Zip, nada, nein, no chance at all and he gets a Nobel peace prize for a speech? He has not as yet accomplished anything he set out to do in this country that he said he would do in his speeches.
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jcarolina
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Oct 9 @ 11:00AM
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No....the president doesn't write his own speeches.
So now I should say he doesn't deserve the prize for claiming to do what someone else says he's going to do.
Or should the speechwriters get the Nobel for writing what Obama is going to to do?
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Nightowl001
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Oct 9 @ 11:10AM
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Might I add my congratulations to the rest of the well-wishers sending theirs to Washington this morning?
Congratulations, Mr. President. 
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Josuha
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Oct 9 @ 11:14AM
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Even the papers are asking what he did including a former Nobel Prize winner..
""I don't think Obama deserves this. I don't know who's making all these decisions. The prize should go to someone who has done something for peace and humanity," said Ahmad Shabir, 18-year-old student in Kabul. "Since he is the president, I don't see any change in U.S. strategy in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
"Former Polish President Lech Walesa, who won the prize in 1983, questioned whether Obama deserved it now.
"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," Walesa said. "
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dizzydoll
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Oct 9 @ 11:21AM
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Well i congratulate your Pres Obama. Everyone here loves him 
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dizzydoll
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Oct 9 @ 11:23AM
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a kudo for Obama 
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bardnsage
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Oct 9 @ 11:36AM
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Here is the list of the last 20 years.
1989 The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Tibet M
1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev USSR M
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi Burma F
1992 Rigoberta Menchu Tum Guatemala F
1993 Nelson Mandela Fredrik Willem De Klerk South Africa South Africa M M
1994 Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres Yasser Arafat Israel Palestine M M
1995 Joseph Rotblat The Pugwash Conferences On Science And World Affairs UK UK M
1996 Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo Jose Ramos-Horta East Timor M
1997 International Campaign To Ban Landmines (Icbl) Jody Williams USA USA F
1998 John Hume & David Trimble UK
1999 Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) Belg
2000 Kim Dae Jung South Korea M
2001 United Nations, New York, Ny, Usa Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General USA
2002 Jimmy Carter Jr. USA
2003 Shirin Ebadi Iran
2004 Wangari Maathai Kenya
2005 International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed Elbaradei Aus Egypt
2006 Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank Bangladesh
2007 Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (Ipcc) Albert Arnold Gore Jr. USA
2008 Martti Ahtisaari Finland
2009 Barack Obama USA
A UK report -------
AP report
CNN audio interview with Nobel Prize Judge
Now,,, the new Peace Prize Winner, has to figure out how to wage war in Afganistan. A tough task.
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kjac
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Oct 9 @ 12:15PM
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The best part about him winning this award is the childish tizzy it puts some people in. 
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CentsofHumor
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Oct 9 @ 1:18PM
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Exhibits just how desperate whomever is in charge of making the Award...
First it was Jimmy Carter, the Al Gore..and now..OBam'us...
round out the team of: Curley, Moe and Larry.
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DRACULA_VwV
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Oct 9 @ 1:20PM
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Roverboy
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Oct 9 @ 1:22PM
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I wonder if he's going to give us the money that he won, or keep it for himself...seeing how we're filthy rich, 'ya know...
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mojorisin
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Oct 9 @ 2:08PM
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he just sent more troops to afghanistan. of course he will get the nobel peace prize for that.
in other news, i heard he's getting the golden globe for his work on his home movies with natasha and malia
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Missy_21484
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Oct 9 @ 2:13PM
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Nobel Peace Prize, ehhh? Why not just give the guy an Emmy. He likes the attention.
I'm not amused.
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Mustage
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Oct 9 @ 3:07PM
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Heard it was a toss up....Osama bin Laden was second!!! 
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duwant1
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Oct 9 @ 7:48PM
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Another feat GWB will never achieve in his lifetime. Well done BO!!! 
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MrPaul
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Oct 10 @ 12:48AM
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Yojimbo44
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Oct 10 @ 1:41AM
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And I thought it would go to Mr Cheney for not shooting anyone in the face for nearly three years now. Bonus points for (his words) waiting for the statute of limitations in order to write his memoirs. Some people have skeletons in their closets; bet this guy has a cemetary.
But seriously, congratulations to Barack Obama. He's trying to make the world a better place. The day he was inaugurated, there were serious conjectures at the plant that some right-wing nutjob would attempt to murder him before too long. God forbid. Though he hasn't been to Texas yet, has he? Not too -equate- him with that famous long-haired peacenik but the line from the Hitchhikers Guide came to mind "And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change..."
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edthepoet
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Oct 10 @ 3:06PM
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Now, I like Obama and voted for him, but noway did he deserve the Nobel peace prize.
He had to be nominated within 12 day of being in office, that's hardly enough time for him to deserve the award.
It was a slap in the face of GWB actions over his 8 year term.
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singaporegal
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Oct 10 @ 9:32PM
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Sorry Willy to digress.
But what's that sitting on your head?
Always wondered but never had the nerve to ask. 
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PeacefulGuy
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Oct 12 @ 9:41AM
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I never knew one could receive a Nobel Peace Prize for reading someone elses words over a teleprompter....
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