Chauncy Hussein Gardner wins the Nobel Peace prize

Is this the same guy from the law firm Webster, Webster, and Cohen? Hope he's not upset Junior didn't show up to work...

 

Give your Twitter account a rest...

 

Based on 1 out of every 3 posts in this thread being from basso, it appears EMT's should be standing by for his head to explode.

 

I notice you left out that Walesa also said ""This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act,"

I find myself surprised a bit that he got it, but it doesn't anger me into insulting the man. A great many even seem to agree that Bush helped him get this award. You should be HAPPY, basso! A wonderfully indirect bipartisan gift of encouragement and expectations!

Perhaps they wanted to get "IBTL", the lock being that most republicans seem to hope the world blows up before they witness any success by this administration.

I'm no obamaton, but hoping he fails and ridiculing him for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize is just the latest hateplay by his detractors. How much this must hurt all those that wish to put America's failure under his control as their top priority to gain eventual and evasive political clout.

 

What the hell does successfully attacking the moon have to do with peace?

 

He killed tons of Moon rocks with his attack. That's genocide against Moon rocks.

 

Wow, that number actually seems low to me. He's done a lot of work towards increasing relations with various countries (China, Russia), which is great, and the world seems to view us in a better light than before (except Afghanistan and Iraq, of course), but these are just seeds. You can't pick the fruit while the seeds are still sprouting.

He may deserve it in a few years, but not now.

 

Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Forget what the Nobel Prize Committee said about ending nuclear weapons. Forget too that conservatives have now supplied the punchline to the joke about how much they hate our President: "Obama could win the Nobel Peace Prize and conservatives would...."

The Nobel Committee states it best when they write: "Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics." Exactly. Through words and actions, Obama has given new possibilities to a world that only a year ago was defined by conflict. He's rejected the zero-sum game of the Bush years in favor for respect driven diplomacy.

If you need a single moment or single accomplishment to point to, the moment has to be when President Barack Hussein Obama delivered his historic Cairo speech. Not just for the words, to paraphrase the familiar sneer during the campaign, but for placing the weight of the Presidency and the power of America behind those words.

Obama's Cairo speech was a new dawn in the seemingly intractable conflict between Islam and the United States.

Here, finally, was an American President--a Christian, but with a Muslim name, from a Muslim family--willing to speak in a Muslim country in order to both acknowledge injustices done them and demand a higher moral standard in their behavior towards Israel and the West.

Yes, the United States is still waging war in two Muslim countries and with the return of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and the willingness of Iran to use Palestinian terror groups as proxies for their agenda, peace in Israel seems as distant as ever.

But Obama's speech--Obama's election itself--marked an end to days in which average Muslims could embrace a Manichean vision of Muslims inexorably opposed to the United States.

No wonder that extremists--American conservatives and the Taliban--are immediately reacting violently to the announcement that President Obama is the newest Nobel Laureate. They need each other. They need the conflict. No wonder they hate Obama--a guy whose life is dedicated to lowering the temperature.

Conservatives are already sneering that Obama shares the prize with President Woodrow Wilson, a notorious idealist. They forget that Obama also shares the prize with Henry Kissinger, a notorious realist. Obama represents the best of both of those traditions: idealist in his dreams and aspirations for the world, pragmatic and realistic in his actions and his goals.

Obama is a President who seeks to end our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but has been more aggressive in the use of Predator drones to hunt down and kill terrorists than the previous administration. There's no contradiction there.

The Nobel Committee's decision is a statement: the future belongs to the dreamers of pragmatic dreams. The future belongs to us.

 

poor basso

 

poor basso...

"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Hey, basso, if it helps in your Quixotic quest for quotes, the guy in the cube next to me said he, "It's a little early to give him the prize, but maybe next year."

 

Awesome. The leader of the party that launches suicide bombers into India and Afghanistan doesn't like it. And it is relevant to you. Any quotes from Osama? Maybe you can check and find some sort of condemnation from Hitler, Stalin, Tojo, and Vlad the Impaler as well?

And now you're making judgements on the basis of the concerns of day labors in Baghdad? That is irony on a cosmic scale. Where was your great concern for their opinions at any time in the past decade?

 

I don't care what your political views are, this is funny.

 

First of all, an "everyday muslim" isn't the "leader of the party that launches suicide bombers into India and Afghanistan."

Second of all, you're an idiot.

 

I'm loving how I got basso all crazy.

Sincerely,

Barack

 

As pointed out, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami is not an "everyday Muslim".

Regarding your single day laborer, I bet it wouldn't be that hard to find a single day laborer in the USA who thought that Bush was behind 9/11. If you want to take a poll, that's fine. It would be at least nominally relevant. But if you want to take a single individual and elevate him to the voice of Iraq, that is idiotic. If you weren't so blinded by Spasmodic Partisan Rage Syndrome, you would be able to figure that out for yourself. But apparently the intermittent paroxysms overwhelm higher functions.

But even if you managed to get that poll, this would be yet another example of the straw man caricature that you've created for Obama simply to make it easy to attack. Nobody but Republicans drawing cartoons of Democrats ever said every single person it the world would hold hands and sing Kumbaya.

Pretending that they did just so you can tear them down is pretty weak. Sincerely. If you are going to be blinded by hate and rage, at least throw a tantrum over something that really happened.