Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize

[strung out]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8298580.stm

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

i just saw this


hmmm

 

[butchersapron]

Obama bodycount

 

[bi0boy]

What a total

 

[PacificOcean]

And he has just said he is going to boost the troop numbers in Afghanistan.

Erm....Peace?

 

[Upchuck]

Unbelievable!

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Free Republic is going to be a right laugh today.

 

[London_Calling]

The triumph of optimism over achievement, I suspect

 

[Mation]

Crikey! That's got to constrain what he does next, surely? Good idea!

 

[not-bono-ever]

what a parcel of shit

 

[Divisive Cotton]

what a fucking joke...

 

[teuchter]

hmm

 

[Divisive Cotton]

isn't he just about to announce another so many thousand troops to go to Afghanistan?

That would be funny if he did it at the same time as publicly acknowledging his noble peace prize

 

[Upchuck]

This really makes me sick. He has done nothing and just turned up on the scene. It cheapens the prize as a whole. Maybe it's just a joke? It must be.

 

[butchersapron]

Still not as funny as Kissinger's award in 1973.

 

[not-bono-ever]

maybe there was a dearth of decent candidates ?

 

[DotCommunist]

Still not as funny as Kissinger's award in 1973.

zackly. If Kissinger got one then Ming the Merciless is still in with a chance. Or a posthumous one for Uncle Joe

 

[SpookyFrank]

What the fuck for exactly?

And no, 'being black' just isn't going to cut it this time

 

[fen_boy]

He's like Jesus.

 

[Upchuck]

I think it was for being black tbf. Sounds terrible but it is the only thing that makes sense

 

[Biglittlefish]

This really makes me sick. He has done nothing and just turned up on the scene. It cheapens the prize as a whole. Maybe it's just a joke? It must be.

No apart from bring hope to millions of people, helping to change the nature of race in the US, fighting the medical lobby and republican party to try and bring health care to the poor, rising from a poor background to become president of the US. No nothing much. What have you achieved today?

 

[butchersapron]

No apart from bring hope to millions of people, helping to change the nature of race in the US, fighting the medical lobby and republican party to try and bring health care to the poor, rising from a poor background to become president of the US. No nothing much. What have you achieved today?

That was Eddy Grant. What a sucker.

 

[DotCommunist]

No apart from bring hope to millions of people, helping to change the nature of race in the US, fighting the medical lobby and republican party to try and bring health care to the poor, rising from a poor background to become president of the US. No nothing much. What have you achieved today?

 

[Upchuck]

No apart from bring hope to millions of people, helping to change the nature of race in the US, fighting the medical lobby and republican party to try and bring health care to the poor, rising from a poor background to become president of the US. No nothing much. What have you achieved today?

Oh fuck off! The Nobel Peace Prize! Obama! Spare me.

 

[Biglittlefish]

What the fuck for exactly?

And no, 'being black' just isn't going to cut it this time

Words fail me.

 

[newme]

No apart from bring hope to millions of people, helping to change the nature of race in the US, fighting the medical lobby and republican party to try and bring health care to the poor, rising from a poor background to become president of the US. No nothing much. What have you achieved today?

Other than becoming president, which oddly enough every president so far has managed. What of those things have actually been accomplished tho? Other than just being talked about. Not meaning to be deliberately obtuse but unless Ive missed something, which is highly possible, none of them really.

 

[butchersapron]

Other than becoming president, which oddly enough every president so far has managed. What of those things have actually been accomplished tho? Other than just being talked about. Not meaning to be deliberately obtuse but unless Ive missed something, which is highly possible, none of them really.

Did you not even send 40 000 extra troops into Afghanistan? Make an effort ffs.

 

[Biglittlefish]

I don't have the energy for this tread. But go ahead and be cynical about the man. And who is about to be running this country?

 

[butchersapron]

I don't have the energy for this tread. But go ahead and be cynical about the man. And who is about to be running this country?

I reckon everyone in the world bar a few million people have done more for world peace than Lord Obama. I certainly have. Most/all people here have as well.

 

[IMR]

Not quite in the same league as putting Kurt Waldheim's voice on the Voyager spacecraft gold-plated record, carrying a message of peace from mankind.

But still absurd.