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Mon, 02/07/2011 - 19:55 | Link to Comment oppium
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Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:46 | Link to Comment i-m a dinner jacket
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Has anyone else requested a 3rd option?

 

"I don't care if Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize"?

Mon, 10/12/2009 - 17:01 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 11:29 | Link to Comment duckweed
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what's so bad about 'peace, love and understanding?' from some of the comments, peace sounds like an evil plot. lol. what a crazy upside down world we are living in.

Sat, 10/24/2009 - 16:27 | Link to Comment Zippyin Annapolis
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Actually it was "what is so funny about peace love and understanding". What?

Mon, 10/12/2009 - 09:04 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 22:12 | Link to Comment Gimp
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The world is desperate for a hero. Nobel peace prize is a joke. Guy invents dynamite and is giving away peace prizes???

Mon, 10/12/2009 - 08:52 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Sun, 10/11/2009 - 16:25 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 15:24 | Link to Comment BorisTheBlade
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Approve, Nobel Committee did it for the lulz. Epic win.

Sat, 10/17/2009 - 16:51 | Link to Comment Emmanuel Goldstein
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That's the best analysis I've seen so far on it!

Otherwise I can't for the life of me figure out why they gave it to him. Maybe because he makes pretty speeches?

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 13:05 | Link to Comment geopol
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Some insight,,

                             Obama’s first appointments have confirmed the grimmest
suspicions about the new regime. The naming of the vicious thug Rahm Emanuel as the
new Martin Bormann of the regime has caused much consternation, even among the
netroots or nutroots crowd over at the Daily Kos. Rahm is a former member of the Israeli
Defense Force whose ruling passion is that he is a warmonger. In 2006, when Rahm ran
the Democratic congressional money machine, he made sure that only warmongers
committed to the open-ended prosecution of the Afghan and Iraq wars could get any
Democratic Party financing for their races. Many contests were lost as a result. A tragic
case was that of grass-roots antiwar activist Christine Cegelis of Ohio, who was defeated
in the Democratic primary by Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran who advocated
endless hostilities there. Duckworth lost to the Republican by several points. If the
$300,000 Rahm gave Duckworth had been shared with anti-war candidate Bob Bowen in
Florida, a Democratic seat could easily have been added. Rahm is also a product of the
filthy and corrupt Illinois bipartisan Combine, which I have described in my books.
A co-chair of the transition team is Valerie Jarrett, who served as Barky’s travelling
schoolmarm during the campaign. Jarrett also comes from the Daley wing of the Illinois
combine. She has provided graft and related support for Michelle Obama’s foundation-
funded operations. Jarrett is also an integral part of the Chicago housing graft
community, a region also inhabited by Barky’s original godfather, the convicted felon
and thief Tony Rezko. Jarrett is discussed in detail in my Obama biography. She is joined
on the transition team by John Podesta, a Clinton-era retread who worked for Sen. Tom
Daschle, the senator from Citibank, the biggest employer in South Dakota. Podesta also
worked for Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a close personal friend of Weatherman
terrorist bombers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Another Daschle-Citibank retread is transition co-chair Tom Rouse, who was the chief of
staff for Daschle when he was the weakest Democratic majority leader in recent memory,
surrendering to Bush on point after point. Chief strategist remains David Axelrod of the
corrupt Illinois Combine, who was taught his mindbending skills in the infamous “1313”
Rockefeller-funded think tank at the University of Chicago.
BANKERS ONLY: NO VOICE FOR LABOR, RETIREES, SMALL BUSINESS,
WOMEN
Obama’s transitional council of economic advisers is also notable. The dominant figures
here are all Wall Street derivatives merchants and their quackademic apologists and
politician clients. The key people here are plutocrat Warren Buffet, Obama moneybags
and Hyatt heiress Penny Pritzker, Goldman Sachs-Citibank alum Robert Rubin, woman-
hating thug and failed Harvard president Larry Summers, Google spook Eric Schmidt,
and Roger Ferguson, the former vice president of the Federal Reserve board. The most
obscene is Trilateral Commission bigwig Paul Adolf Volcker, the bringer of the 22%
prime rate of 1981 and the destroyer of the US industrial base. What is truly notable
about this list is that there is not one single labor leader. No Sweeney of the AFL-CIO, no
Hoffa of the Teamsters, no UAW, not even the unsavory Andy Stern of the SIEU. Note
the difference to the New Deal, when labor reps were indispensable. With Barky, only
derivatives monsters need apply. Also notable by their absence are leaders of women’s
groups, small business associations, the congressional black caucus, retirees groups like
the AARP – there is not even a token face representing any of these groups, all of which
have a vital interest in economic policy. Read the ill omens if you have eyes to see. The
Obama regime is shaping up as of the bankers, by the bankers, for the bankers. This is not
the FDR New Deal – this is the Mussolini fascist corporate state.
WASHINGTON ECONOMIC CONFERENCE: THE DERIVATIVES BLOC VS. THE
ANTI-DERIVATIVES BLOC
We are also told that Barky has been on the phone to foreign leaders about matters of
economic. Let us read the tea leaves: whom did Barky call? Here is the list: Australia, the
British, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, and South Korea.
Notice now who is NOT on the list. Start with the great world powers who have been
snubbed: Russia and China, both of whom are bigger holders of US Treasury bonds than
most of those who are on the list. Saudi Arabia, who might have needed reassurance that
Barky is not a commie, are also snubbed. Forget ideology, and behold the ineptitude.
Most glaring of all is the lack of any phone call to a leading third world or developing
sector country, other than Mexico, which is a branch of NAFTA. No calls were made to
Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, India or a long list of other leading
states. Nobody in Africa, nobody in south Asia, and nobody in South America got a call.
Not even those who will be coming to the pseudo-Bretton Woods conference set for
Washington later this month. The best we can hope for regarding that conference is that it
end in a stalemate, dividing the world between a US-UK dominated derivatives bloc and
a Brazil-India-Russia-China-South Africa anti-derivatives bloc interested in real physical
commodity production, not fictitious capital.
Obama, in summation, is acting just like the abject puppet of the Wall Street derivatives
merchants and warmongers which we have argued him to be.

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 13:13 | Link to Comment geopol
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OOPS,

 

The above by Webster G. Tarpley

I don't agree with all of it, but he exposes the false LEFT COVER that "O" Boy enjoys

Make no mistake, this is a Fascist State

Sat, 10/24/2009 - 07:57 | Link to Comment Bob
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Make no mistake regarding the support of the "progressive", i.e., "far" left for Barry O . . . previously dominant liberal political organizations such as moveon.org certainly are dead-in-bed with the O Man, but there is a simmering world of unrecognized disapproval among "the left" that stands to be mobilized against him in all policy areas. 

Corporatist fascism is more than a tad offensive to folks whose innate leanings are more in the "socialist sympathizer" realm. 

The most hopeful outcome I see on the political front is for the smashing of the two-party monopoly which has masqueraded as "democracy" for so long.  Palin's crowd just needs a formal alternative to the Republicans (who can't win with her) and Nader an economic disaster that will galvanize his former supporters on the so-called Left. 

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 15:05 | Link to Comment Pondmaster
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Late to the party as usual.

When they say "peace and safety" , then sudden destruction shall come uopn them , as a woman that travaileth ( thats labor pains ) . Out of context , but fits the way the sheeple are thinking . O is not a man of peace , thats obvious . Neither was Gore . O wants more of my children killed in Afgahnistan . Peace is war , and war is peace . Tle lie will get bigger .  

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 12:44 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Sun, 10/11/2009 - 11:34 | Link to Comment Bam_Man
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Yes, clearly the "Budweiser Summit" between Prez, the MA State Trooper and Henry Louis Gates made a very favorable impression on the commitee.

Much more impressive than anything Ghandi ever did. Stupid "salt march" and "satyagraha" campaigns. And wearing that ridiculous homespun diaper. What a f**king loser. No wonder he never won a Nobel.

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 09:27 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Sat, 10/24/2009 - 08:07 | Link to Comment Bob
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Uhmm, folks, we should all be aware that most so-called Black Americans have Caucasian ancestors due to the sexual exploitation that was just one feature of the American institution of slavery.  Ask yourself about the last names of most African-Americans you meet and you'll get the picture. 

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 06:03 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 05:52 | Link to Comment ConfederateH
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Obama Refuses to Meet with Dalai Lama, Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Apparently trying to piss off China with a boycott then appeasing China by refusing to meet with arguably one of the world’s most peaceful people, all while winning the Nobel prize is all just part of the job. I think we owe our diplomatic leaders a big round of applause.

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 05:19 | Link to Comment Vanitas
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I think it's a set-up.

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 18:12 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 02:52 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 02:43 | Link to Comment Cocktosen
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Hmmm, lemme see...we're still in Iraq...the innocents are still dying...we're still in Afganistan...the innocents are still dying while we are about to send 10K troops(minimum) to look for a rag tag group that sucks worse than the VietCong....we still support governments that are trampling human rights(I'm looking at you Saudi Arabia, China, et al)....we're letting the biggest criminals in the world walk away(banks, institutions)...the innocents are still dying....

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 02:06 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 01:57 | Link to Comment chumbawamba
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I don't even want to dignify the issue by voting.

I cannot accept reality any longer.  It's a sham.

I am Chumbawamba.

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 01:51 | Link to Comment matthylland
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2008

OBAMA President of the United States. Pushing for sanctions on Iran and possibly further military action and also considering placing more troops in Afganistan.

2007
AL GORE The award to Al Gore and the IPCC "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" fits in with a subset of cosmopolitan frauds, fakers, murderers, thieves, and no-accounts going back about twenty years.

2005
MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He's done such a nice job with Iran.

2004
WANGARI MAATHAI The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man.

2002
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world. Commenting on the award, Nobel Committee Chairman Gunnar Berge emphasized that the award was meant as a denunciation of American policy toward Iraq. "It should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the [Bush] administration has taken," Berge said. "It's a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States."

2001
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA.
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they respectively served as the vehicle for, and presided over, one of the biggest scams in history.

1994
YASSER ARAFAT (joint winner), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority. He was a cold-blooded murderer both before and after receiving the award.

1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. She is the notorious Guatemalan faker and author, sort of, of I, Rigoberta Menchu. Like President Obama, she is a memoirist of distinction.

1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world.

1976
BETTY WILLIAMS, United Kingdom, founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People), who in later years repeatedly called for the assassination of President George Bush. How peaceful can you get?

1973
LE DUC THO (with Henry Kissinger) for the 1973 peace with honor bequeathed to the fortunate people of Vietnam.

In 1931 the prize was shared by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, whose later enthusiasm for keeping good relations with Nazi universities has been a source of embarrassment to Columbia.

In 1933, 1934 and 1936, the peace prize went to executives of the League of Nations, already a colossal failure.

From 1939 through 1943 there was no peace prize. You know, World War II was such an inconvenience, and Oslo, where the peace prize is given, was under occupation. Ah, the success of those past prize winners!

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 00:24 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Sat, 10/10/2009 - 23:34 | Link to Comment Cap
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http://hopeychange.blogspot.com for my comment (which is more or less the same as most others - ridiculous !)

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 23:29 | Link to Comment pmppmp
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Can we please end the political raving.  I'm a little surprised this is even a post here.  

I approve: well he is the first black president in a country founded on black slavery...shouldn't all the people that voted for him get it?

I disapprove: What has he achieved? "Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace".

I mostly don't care...

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 00:06 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sat, 10/10/2009 - 23:24 | Link to Comment Cursive
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You need a vote for "I don't give a rats ass."

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 23:30 | Link to Comment pmppmp
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you beat me to the punch...

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 23:26 | Link to Comment quant-this
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From a purely behaviroral finance standpoint, I wonder how skewed the results of this poll are being that you can cancel your vote. So if you see your vote was in the minority (and given that we exhibit herd like tendencies that would mentally presuade us against doing that). You would most likely just cancel your vote and either not vote again or vote again but in favor of the winner. Thus a random push one way or an other could completely sway the poll. I'm just sayin...

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 23:35 | Link to Comment Marla Singer
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Very interesting point.

Perhaps we will remove the ability to cancel your vote.

Mon, 10/12/2009 - 01:49 | Link to Comment bergsten
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Might be more interesting to count and display vote changes and cancelations...

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 01:51 | Link to Comment ToNYC
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It's only right... to keep it real.

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 23:28 | Link to Comment Cheeky Bastard
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based solely on that argument you have just made democracy obsolete and basically worthless ( although i think that was already done ). You make a great point; but  my opinion is that people who read ZH don't give a shit what others think ( hence they read ZH )

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 22:32 | Link to Comment basehitz
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+1

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 17:49 | Link to Comment ToNYC
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Democracy is not obsolete, just getting way too expensive to buy the result. Where a decade or so ago there was an affordable game of chess getting the deeds done and the deeds blocked rather than the checker games played with the real dictators that could be easily purchased. Ask Manuel Noriega about GHW Bush 41. He's got lots of time on his hands to talk.

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 22:31 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sat, 10/10/2009 - 22:05 | Link to Comment Uncle Remus
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Blah blah blah. What does it take to get people to wake the **** up? How surreal must it get?

Ring when you folks are ready to care of business.

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 21:58 | Link to Comment JR
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The weekly C.W. Barron sketch that regularly graces the cover of Barron’s Market Week section shows a snowy bearded C.W. in suit and vest and soft brim Teddy Roosevelt safari hat looking straight out of the page through big round black-lens binoculars.  The quote:  “I’m just searching for the reason Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize.”

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