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Spitvenom,Quote:
Originally Posted by spitvenom
Are you arguing that the Nobel Peace Committee's choice to award Obama the Prize is a good one? Do you believe that Obama has earned the Prize? If so, what is your justification or reasoning for that opinion? What actions has he taken that have earned him that award? More importantly, what actions had he taken at the time that he was nominated that had earned him the award?
Elliot
I don't give a Sh&t to be completely honest with you. I just think it's great how much it has gotten your panties in a bunch.
It hasn't gotten in my panties, I'm not the least bit surprised. I just wondered what did he accomplish to deserve it? And by the way, you're using the DNC's talking point for today. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by spitvenom
Now, will Braylon Edwards be the man, did he bring more hope to Jets fans?
So... what you seem to be saying is that we're right, but you just want to get our goats.Quote:
Originally Posted by spitvenom
OK.
You win.
Elliot
http://www.gearbits.com/images/thumbs-up.gif LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by spitvenom
Then they say their panties are not in a bunch while posting 8 or 9 times in the thread.
It is just an easy point to make speech.Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
I don't know about Edwards I am still a little suspect of him. But in fairness to him he hasn't had a decent QB since Chad Henie (sp) at Michigan.
Actually NK, you have posted 11 times in this thread... the most of anyone in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedKarma
Spit and Speech have posted 8 times each.
J_9 and Tom have posted 6 times each.
I have posted 5 times.
Excon and Zippit have posted 1 time each.
Oops! Looks like the joke's on you.
Elliot
ET Whoever wins the NPP has absolutely no effect on my life. Say they would have given it to Richard Steele I wouldn't even post anything about how he doesn't deserve it or anything. It is petty and for the right to come out and blast it just shows how petty the right is.
Et to be fair to me and speech a few of our post are about imaginary football teams we "own"
Even the MSM seems skeptical... the Washington Post:
The NY Times (via AARP as they've already scrubbed this portion from their original article) :Quote:
Obama is the third sitting U.S. president -- and the first in 90 years -- to win the coveted peace prize. His predecessors won during their second White House terms, however, and after significant diplomatic achievements. Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize in 1919, after helping to found the League of Nations and shaping the Treaty of Versailles; and Theodore Roosevelt was the recipient in 1906 for his work to negotiate an end to the Russo-Japanese war.
In contrast, Obama is struggling with two wars -- weighing whether to increase the number of U.S. troops fighting to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan and overseeing the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq. He is mired in domestic struggles over health-care reform and economic recovery efforts, and searching for ways to build momentum to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and to assemble an international effort to stop Iran's nuclear program.
In choosing Obama from among 205 nominees, the committee appeared to be continuing its rebuke of the Bush administration's go-it-alone approach to world bodies and alliances, including its decision to go to war in Iraq without U.N. approval.
Even Matt Lauer said, “We’re less than a year into the first term of this president and there are no -- I'm not trying to be, you know, rude here -- no major foreign policy achievements, to date. So why did he win?”Quote:
Reporters at a news conference to announce the prize pressed the committee’s chairman, Thorbjorn Jagland, to explain the reasons Mr. Obama had prevailed over other candidates who included human rights activists in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa.
Specifically, reporters asked whether Mr. Obama might not become mired in a war in Afghanistan as Lyndon B. Johnson was in Vietnam.
But the committee said it wanted to enhance Mr. Obama’s diplomatic efforts so far rather than anticipate events in the future.
He won because he's not Bush was their assessment.
I'm just relaying the news. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by NeedKarma
Want to bet?Quote:
Originally Posted by spitvenom
If Steele won the prize, I would wonder quite loudly WHY he was winning it. Because "world peace" ain't his job, it ain't part of his list of accomplishments and it isn't something that he's done.
What makes you so sure that I wouldn't question it?
But this is such an OBVIOUS farce that even those who support Obama are wondering how he won it. Even Obama didn't expect to win it, because HE KNOWS HE HASN'T EARNED IT.
Elliot
I never said you wouldn't. But for people to come out and blast it is pointless. Who cares it doesn't change anyone life in this country. We have 6 pages of posts on such a non issue. The funny thing is you can't even stop yourself from posting. You are taking it seriously while I am sitting here laughing my @$$ off at you.
True... but NK's have not.Quote:
Originally Posted by spitvenom
Which just makes my point all the more.
On one hand NK claims that he's "just reporting the story" and "doesn't really care", and yet on the other hand, he points to the number of posts that others have as "proof" that we have our "panties in a knot"... all the while having more posts on the topic than anyone else.
Elliot
LOL! This is fun!
And yet you continue to post too. You must care to SOME degree, otherwise you wouldn't still be posting.Quote:
Originally Posted by spitvenom
Elliot
Hello:
Panties in the knot crowd --- 6
The good guys --- 7
excon
Do you guys think Massa will recover well enough to be competitive?
I hate to be painfully obvious again but this is a "discussion" board and this is the "current event" of the day. You're surprised people are posting?
I hear he packs quite a punchQuote:
Now, will Braylon Edwards be the man
What I want to know is ;what compelled Reuters to go to the Taliban for a comment ? One would suspect that they were trying to steer the discussion .
Nahhh not a reputable news organization!
I am having too much fun. There is this Tea Bag guy who stands out in front of the post office everyday near my work with an Obama sign with a Pinokio nose on him. I bet his head is ready to explode.
I like how LeBron's friend didn't call the cops but called ESPN about Edwards punching him in the face.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Turns out that we have more in common with Lech Walesa than the Taliban . The Taliban says he doesn't deserve it because he is waging war against them . I actually think that is an endorsement in favor of his consideration. But ,our argument is that he has done nothing to deserve it. That is a position that Lech Walesa took when asked.
http://www.krakowpost.com/imgsize.ph...009-walesa.jpg
Former Peace Prize winner puzzled by announcement
"Too Fast" for Obama Nobel, Says Wa??sa | Krakow PostQuote:
The former president, himself a Peace Prize winner in 1983, told the press in Warsaw "Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast - he hasn't had the time to do anything yet." This sentiment was reflected by current Prime Minister Donald Tusk: "Shock - absolutely. It's interesting, but shocking."
The Poles of course are good at recognizing appeasers masquerading as peace makers.
What nonsense, this is just political correctness and pandering to the extreme. If Obama were white, his candidacy for president would have been laughable much like senator Larry Pressler, who ran for president in 1980 after being senator for about 8 months.
Better go tell those crazy Norwegians that. They have the control, not any of us.Quote:
Originally Posted by earl237
I volunteer .The Norwegians are crazy leftys. Obama's plans there are considered right wing
I love Newsweek's take, Obama Not First Surprising Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Seven Controversial Recipients
He's not the first shocker, just the latest "controversial recipient."
LOL! I can't wait for the spin to really accelerate.Quote:
President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, only eight months into his term. It's a bold—and some might say strange—move to fête a president who's still in the beginning of his diplomatic career. After all, Arizona State didn't even think he was ready for an honorary degree. Who knows what else he has in store for the United States? One thing we do know: Obama is likely to order thousands more troops into a war zone within weeks.
So the U.S. president may seem like a surprising choice for the award. This is the Nobel Peace Prize we're talking about, an honor designed to seek out and reward those who's contribution to the cause of harmony and peace on the face of this earth is both outstanding and unquestionable.
Well, most of the time.
And there you've almost got it. We're not criticizing Obama, we're criticizing the Nobel committee.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedKarma
At work we had already decided that Obama should be in the running for Super Bowl MVP, the next American Idol, and since Tom DeLay dropped out... he should win the mirror ball on Dancing With The Stars. You can nominate him as a write-in candidate for the Heisman trophy here (h/t David Freddoso at the Washington Examiner).
Don't forget to tell your local Bishop to make sure his name is in for the next canonization ballot.Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
LOL, Pope John Paul II didn't manage a win, surely Obama can. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Catsmine
I truly don't think Alfred Nobel would approve of this choice but on second thought maybe he would considering Aflred Nobel made his money in weapons and expolsives. So possibly the Nobel nominating committee just wants to ensure that Obama is going to use plenty of Nobel's products in the near future in the world on the unsuspecting peoples in his new and bigger wars he has yet to concoct.
And yes, April Fools Day did come early this year.
What where they thinking? How to have this man more hated than he already is?
Flash - update. Time magazine is nominating Obama Man of the Year. For what? Who cares?
Flash - update. The Academy Awards will nominate him for his "truly stirring speeches given under duress" and he should be a shoe in for an Oscar with the award winning utterances of "Umma umma umma, anna, anna, anna."
Flash - update. Globe newsmagazine has uncovered just WHY he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. It was his wife's designer attire of the Bloody cammoflage outfit she wore at a funeral!
Update at 11 on your local channel 3 news.
I hear he's going to give the $1M of the prize money to charity. If he spent nearly $1M for a ride on AF 1 to get the Olympics in Chicago who's paying the bill? Are the taxpayers footing a $1M plane ride and then are the taxpayers then effectively donating $1M to charity?
Inquireing minds would like to know?
Yes Nobel invented dynamite ;but this award is right in line with his utopinan vision. His intent for the peace prize was to award the person who best moved towards world disarmament and the abolition of standing armies.Quote:
I truly don't think Alfred Nobel would approve of this choice but on second thought maybe he would considering Aflred Nobel made his money in weapons and expolsives. So possibly the Nobel nominating committee just wants to ensure that Obama is going to use plenty of Nobel's products in the near future in the world on the unsuspecting peoples in his new and bigger wars he has yet to concoct.
Found out the real reason why Obama won the prize...
He was the 10th caller.
Good as any, but surely it wasn't that easy. He must have known the name of the mystery song.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Now I'm getting it? LOL! Look at yours and tom posts, they all making fun of Obama not the Norwegians. Falls in line with the Republican "do as I say not as I do" credo.Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
Hello NK:Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedKarma
**greenie**
It IS true. Real words and what they mean don't much interest our loyal foes... They see words like "death panel", where there are none. They tell you they're not insulting Obama when their words say they are... It's getting harder and harder to have a REAL discussion with them when you can't trust that the words they write convey the thoughts they have.
Then the posts devolve into posts like this where all we talk about is words and what they mean, and who said them... Then they deny they said them, or they deny what they mean...
It's kind of silly - unless it's intentional. Like I said earlier, I think this is a real right wing strategy. Then they can get us talking about words instead of issues... I don't know if it works or not, but I'm catching on...
excon
You guys expected us to have a sense of humor during the Bush years, were we supposed to lose it when Obama won? The material is too rich to pass up, and surely Obama - and YOU - aren't naïve enough to think that he wouldn't be the butt of many a joke for accepting the award. Regardless, the jokes illustrates the absurdity of giving such a prestigious award based on potential and not actual accomplishment and that reflcets on the Nobel committee.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedKarma
"Extreme Makeover" the show - all those folks should have won the NPP - they do great work. :)
How about the folks over at Red Cross - they do great work to. I wonder what the POTUS is doing about Darfur?
G&P
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