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- TBobes, on 10/16/2009, -1/+23I didn't support McCain for president, but I will say that was one hell of a response.
- etaubeneck, on 10/16/2009, -0/+16I miss the duckies
- StealthSnake832, on 10/16/2009, -0/+16Ze Frank does an awesome optical illusion in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88uk5wpaniQ - moredown, on 10/16/2009, -1/+14Dugg for confusion, can't tell if he's bashing Norway or the Nobel Peace judges. Also, didn't know Ze Frank was kinda funny
- Robustica, on 10/16/2009, -1/+12He makes my eyes hurt.
- jodokast, on 10/16/2009, -0/+9Except when he's running for president...
- ElSantos, on 10/16/2009, -1/+9Except when he's defending gang rape...
- Solkre, on 10/16/2009, -1/+8I want to see who won over Hitler.
- evilesttoast, on 10/16/2009, -0/+7Seriously, wtf McCain. Why weren't you 2000-McCain or post-election you during the actual election.
- GamerXR72, on 10/16/2009, -2/+8Always? We're talking about the guy who said "Im proud to announce Governor Palin as my running mate."
- orlyfactor, on 10/16/2009, -2/+7Love the red play button in the middle of the video the ENTIRE time.
- Zomgondo, on 10/16/2009, -0/+4NO HARD CHARGERS!
- DOCNM, on 10/16/2009, -2/+6I though about the Nobel decision, and after all it makes sense: The background is the idea that radical islamicic terrorism is a great menace to world peace (both Afghanistan and Iraq wars were started on the premises of fighting it). The Bush administration however started what had several elements and was perceived by Islamic people as a cultural and religious attack against their faith and culture in general, and, the response of which has arguably been an increasing radicalization of some Islamic components and calls to jihad. In practice, the Bush administration doctrine was supporting a 'war of civilizations' which had clear and tangible ramifications on world conflicts.
With this as a background, Obama's Cairo speech can be fundamentally see as a great act of pacification, concluding the 'war of civilization'. And in that sense a very important contribution towards world peace. - Larsonal777, on 10/16/2009, -3/+7Seriously why is it McCain that always has the right things to say.
- GrantRobertson, on 10/16/2009, -0/+3The article starts by assuming a forgone conclusion: that the prize WAS actually bad for Obama. It may have created a lot of hubub amongst the idiot ranks of republican pundits but that doesn't mean it was bad for Obama. Statements that start from unproven forgone conclusions are nothing more than an attempt to reinforce the unsupported conclusion in the minds of the readers.
- evilesttoast, on 10/17/2009, -0/+3No he wasn't, and I supported McCain over Obama.
- borez, on 10/16/2009, -4/+6The Nobel peace prize is now officially a joke.
- AngelBunny, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2hahahahahahahaaa!!!
i soo did not see that coming. - Yondelldude, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2Bag of Dicks? Eatabagadicks, it's Prussian.
- Shiftgood, on 10/16/2009, -2/+4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbinE6bx8xM
- AngelBunny, on 10/16/2009, -1/+3youtube is calling. it wants you back.
- anagoge, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2Who loves the little duckies in the pond? I do, I do, I do.
- cugar, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2why do i feel like his face is trying to touch me
- DOCNM, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure that the reasons for nomination and for prize award don't need to be the same (for instance several people might nominate a candidate for different reasons, and if you check the database, you'll see that many past nominations did not even include a motivation). The February deadline point is really moot as the decision is actually made in October, and that's what matters.
I would say that in the spirit of the Peace prize, the Cairo speech can be considered up there with the work to further fraternity among nations.
Interestingly, even if Obame did nothing, he would probably still be eligible for the peace prize simply for discontinuing the previous administration policies in terms of diplomacy (remember that Bush tried to send Bolton as an ambassador to th UN) and cooperation between peoples (my argument above). - thcobbs, on 10/16/2009, -1/+3"With this as a background, Obama's Cairo speech can be fundamentally see as a great act of pacification, concluding the 'war of civilization'. And in that sense a very important contribution towards world peace."
Ahem... the speech was June 4th, he was nominated in February. And you're saying once speech was the greatest act of pacification in the world for that year? - sock2828, on 10/16/2009, -0/+2Who likes the little duckies in the pond? I do I do a-chicka quack quack.
- palehorse864, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1Whenever I read his name, my inner monologue begins doing a bad Freud impersonation.
Ze first sing eez to tell me abou ya motha. - adderley, on 10/16/2009, -1/+2Dugg for Ze. His Time vids are great, check out the tea party video.
Good morning sportsracers, what's YOUR powermove? - MacLiberal, on 10/16/2009, -1/+2Can anyone here name someone who deserves the prize more than Pres O? He has changed the US and by extension the world. The world is a more peaceful place now that he sits in the White House.
- thcobbs, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1George?
- MattEmbrey, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1"The first thing that I would do is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel, and several others and say, ‘We’ve got to get foreign policy, national security issues back on track.'"
--When asked the first thing he would do if elected President, 3/00 - DirtyDiggberal, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1He makes my penis erect.
- AngelBunny, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1i refreshed the page and it went away.
- tmonsta1, on 10/16/2009, -1/+2hey, it's the Republicans who keep electing guys who try to ***** their congressional pages, and soliciting anonymous sex in bathroom stalls...
I'm sure if you go into an airport bathroom, Senator Craig and you can work out your homophobia - obsessedglobe, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1Okay.. This is news to me. When did Ze Frank start working for Time. I was a big fan of his 365 day Ze Frank video experiment way back when.
- DOCNM, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1@thcobbs, that does not make any sense. For one thing how can they tell you who to pick, after you did it already? And anyways you seem not to care, as Al Gore was not high up on the list of presidential candidates last year.
Plus, if that's the argument, at lest the Norwegians are not sending an army to implement their view of who should be leader of another country. Like the Americans did in Iraq. Oh, boy. They should be pissed off to no end.
And they did not give him a prize for not being Bush. What I'm saying is that he would have been deserving of the prize (according to Nobel's instructions) for ending Bush's insane and dangerous policies of unilateralism, warmongering, preemptive war and cowboy diplomacy. Which they, like the rest of the world, felt were a gigantic threat to world peace and stability. - bubbadigg, on 10/16/2009, -0/+1did he actually say "norwegia" as the country ??
- borez, on 10/16/2009, -2/+3I was including that.
- thcobbs, on 10/18/2009, -0/+1/me slaps jerrdalto
George CARLIN - Tzen, on 10/16/2009, -1/+2Michael Vick.
- thcobbs, on 10/16/2009, -1/+1Well, what I'm saying, and you are agreeing to apparently. Is that he was given the peace prize simply for not being Bush.
In other words, the Norwegians are basically telling us that this is the leader we SHOULD pick to run our country...
Which pisses me off to no end. - Tzen, on 10/16/2009, -1/+1Me.
- jerrdalton, on 10/16/2009, -0/+0Boy George?
- Kakemonstere, on 10/16/2009, -1/+1Guess Obama did it right.
- bubbadigg, on 10/16/2009, -0/+0so the Nobel committee decided to give the award to a muslim in order to create world peace ?
That's some theory.... - rrwest, on 10/16/2009, -0/+0Appeasing an ancient and determined enemy is not so good for world peace.
The British PM Neville Chamberlain tried the same thing in Europe during the 1930s. He came back from a meeting with Hitler declaring "peace in our time". He even waved an "agreement" for the benefit of photographers to underscore that he had achieved what others in Europe knew to be impossible.
How is Obama's Cairo speech going to achieve anything when Islam has fought the west since the 7th century and shows no sign of letting up?
For centuries, European leaders saw the threat and took it to the enemy in the form of the Crusades. It wasn't until Sept 11, 1683, that the Ottoman Turks were repelled at the gates of Vienna and were prevented from conquering western Europe. Does the date and month sound familiar?
It should.
Islam's leaders have never let up in their determination to conquer the world by any means necessary and any amount of appeasement spells disaster. You can see their determination every time an IED explodes in Iraq or other parts of the world in the name of Islam.
Think about it next time you hear the words "peace" and "Islam in the same sentence. - DOCNM, on 10/16/2009, -1/+1you are officially wrong
- rrwest, on 10/16/2009, -0/+0He has only been doing what any other responsible leader would do: fix the mistakes that the previous President and his cronies made.
He deserves respect and support, but not this "Peace Prize", since it is practically worthless anyways.
Afghanistan is a new front line in an ancient and bitter war that Islam and its leaders have waged against the world since the control system was founded in the 7th century.
It is like the front lines of Europe and the Pacific between the years 1935 and 1945, only smaller in scope and against people who think they have divine right to conquer the world. And by some measures, they are succeeding.
Remember Sept. 11, anyone? -
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