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Bush was a bully to other nations obama will treat other nations with respecj that is worth the nobel prize preston and kathy

Obama"won" the nobel prize not just because he isn't Bush.He won it for the same reason that he "won" the presidency–he isn't white!

it is truly amazing to listen to all the haters of this president and their twisted logic. i tried following one of the right wing talkers yesterday, who kept contridicting himself. first he alleged that the president did not deserve the award because had not done anything to deserve it. next he alleged that bush and regan should have received the award but not obama and then said the award had long lost signifiance and that it was only given to obama because of the so called apology tour that the nobel committe knew that obama would eventualy take, so they took it upon themselves to give him this award after he'd been in office only twelve days.

Nothing against the man as a person, but i thought you had to actually accomplish something before you could win such a prize. Some people work all of their lives toward peace, yet they were looked over for no other reason than politics.. Seems sad to me.....

The Nobel Peace Prize was given to President Obama for his vision and progress towards achieving world peace. He was nominated two weeks into his Presidency, but unlike the domestic terrorists, formerly known as republicans, he has spent the intervening time working on healing the rifts that were in the world's alliance with this country. He has actually talked with Iran without insisting they do what he says before the meeting, he has ordered the illegal detention center closed, he has been one of the main players in preventing a global economic collapse, due largely to a recession that had been in place for 10 months and unnoticed or ignored until total collapse was imminent, by the former "administration" whose leader obviously had the intellectual and financial I.Q. of a number 2 pencil. Not, to mention potentially preventing another Cold War with Russia by actually placing the lives of millions on this planet as his first priority, above his own personal arrogance and ideology of depending upon his "gut" to make a decision.

President Obama has had to deal with more issues than any previous President in my lifetime. Fortunately, the international and world community appreciates this fact, unlike our own "christian" Taliban.

That is why after watching him for 10 months, as he handled these multiple issues with grace and aplomb, last Monday the Nobel committee voted unanimously to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama.

These actions alone more than qualify him for the Nobel Peace Prize .

The fact that he has not called 3 countries with which we share this big blue marble, the "axis of evil", or tried to force democracy on a country for oil reserves, thereby killing thousands of both our citizens and citizens of other countries, indeed, he is trying his best to get us out of one of the many inherited disasters, President Obama actually engages other countries as equals instead of proclaiming "my way or the highway". President Obama has not made us the laughing stock and proving his mission a complete failure, by stating he wants bin Laden "dead or alive" and 8 years later Laden is very much alive. The international community could make an argument that those non-actions alone, merit the peace prize.

Even if the international community is only rewarding the United States majority of voters for replacing of HRH the shrub and his legacy, with President Obama who believes world peace is possible and should be the number one priority for his Presidency and this country, then that is their opinion and they are certainly entitled to that opinion.

Yet, republiklans complain President Obama has not "earned" the Peace award.

These pathetic neo-cons and pundits will never understand because for you to understand you must first BELIEVE in the concept of peace and then strive to achieve peace.

The party of NO is filled with fascists traitors, that only want the agenda of imperialism advanced through war mongering, as such, they will never understand the concept of peace. Their racists attitudes toward our first black President is proof enough the party is not interested in any form of peace, only fomenting anger and hoping President Obama and therefore, this great nation "fail", even to the point of cheering when America fails to garner the 2016 Olympics.

Without that basic foundation and understanding of peace, they will NEVER understand why the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to our great visionary, President Obama!

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Doesn't this detract from the credibility of the award?

THE REASON PRESIDENT OBAMA WON THE AWARD IS . . . .

In Obama's presidential acceptance speech he said to the enemies who hate America ". . . that if you just unclinch your fist . . ." than we can sit down and talk. My guess is the Nobel Peace Awards committee took notice and is impressed with President Obama's tolerance of hateful, nasty, gun-toting, violence-threatening regimes, including the Republican Party hate-mongering supporters.

It's really quite easy to understand.... If there were a 'Nobel War Prize', Bush would have won it going away! But since Obama prefers peace among nations, rather than war, that is why he won the peace award

People are so uneducated. The reason he won was not because of what has done, it's because of his views on world peace. He wants to bring everyone together to work as one. Bush seems to think that killing people was the way to solve problems. He didn't care what it would mean to the country or to the people he order to die. When spent trillions of dollars in Iraq when should have been fighting to find Bin Laden. In the end the Americans suffered.... everyone in the world hated us, a recession and many people lost jobs. Americans dying because they did not have health care. The question shouldn't be what has Obama done, it should be what did Bush do for his country?

Past Nobel awards were for "A Big" effort. Ask Carter with his middle east peace accord. Ask the Desmond Tutu, Apartheid didn't take place until 10 years later. Ask the man fighting Hitlers take over of Germany.....wow see what happened after that.

I am a very proud American. There are millions of us in America that are proud. There are also BILLIONS around the world that are proud.

Yes he deserves it. We should all be proud that our President has won such a grand award.

To me that's exactly what it says. To me there should be some body of work to back up the award, and in this case there simply isn't any. How is the world a better place since Obama was elected? This was based on an anticipated outcome. If it doesn't happen, does he have to give the award back?

it seems like whomever would have taken the office after Bush would have won the Noble Peace Prize....could of been you, Hillary or McCain

Do you not watch TV outside of FOX and have you not seen clips of what Obama expressed for peace during his campaign. If you feel you can do any better in this time span then please do so, if you have solutions offer them, if not quit whining. I feel that people that make negative comments were a part of the problems during the last 8 years.

This is why the committee felt safe in awarding Obama the "Prize". Because Obama hit the ground doing what it took for a candidate to be considered for the Award. If Obama won after 12 days in office, what does that say about Bush who was in Office eight years. Oh, I forgot, he got us in this senseless War in Iraq.

YOU PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC!

(1.) President Obama gives a 'tough-love' speech to the nation's students, hoping to inspire students (for national interest) to aim higher and strive harder. And CNN's response is to echo the stupidity of GOP idiots by questioning Obama's speech as a Marxist indoctrination speech.

(2.) Now President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, (obviously for his peace efforts 'prior' to his Presidency). And right on cue, CNN echoes the stupidity of GOP idiots by questioning whether Obama has earned the award. Dear CNN, did you ever think just to applaud Obama for being the first sitting American President to win such an award.

Obama was given this prize for???.... I don't know why. I don't really care because it has once again opened any criticism of the man or his accomplishments to nothing but name calling and more derision of anyone who doesn't see Obama as some sort of saintlike figure that can do no wrong.

What I want to know is who nominated him and whether it was part of his own campaign team.

Having traveled to other parts of the world recently, many are openly supportive of the new President. They really do like our country and want it to succeed. They have hope for us and President Obama illustrates that hope. We will have other countries trying to work with us under this new administration. So that alone makes it worthwhile that he is given the Nobel Peace Price honor.

Nobel Laureate President Barack Hussein Obama. Amazing! President Obama joins a host of Nobel Laureates that won before their goals were realized, i.e. Desmond Tutu, Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King just to name a few. I am very proud that the intern...ational community sees in President Obama the things that I have seen. He is a man of great depth, intelligence, compassion, and integrity. While there are those that will say that he does not deserve this award, as he himself stated on yesterday, I will only say that often times in life we are all blessed with or attain things we feel that we are not worthy of , but it is what we do with those things that make us worthy. President Obama has pledged himself to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama has pledged himself to making a lasting peace in the Middle East, President Obama has pledged himself to speaking to our enemies rather than ignoring them and leaving them to their own devices.God Bless him for it.

Alfred Nobel must be rolling in his grave.

I am a democrat and I like Busch he is not a bad man he was just misled by Dick and Carl.

Do you remember when your mother used to say "shame on you"???? Well, I must say, it's time to say: SHAME ON YOU, MEDIA, PUNDITS, RUSH LIMBAUGH, MICHAEL STEELE, THE GOP, AND THE REPUBLICANS!!!! Having lived almost 7 decades on this earth, I cannot imagine EVER being disrespectful of my President of the United States, nor was I taught to be a "bully", a "liar", and a "two-faced' person!! We have an AWESOME PRESIDENT, and NONE OF YOU, KNOW HOW TO SPELL THE WORD, SO I'LL SPELL IT FOR YOU: R E S P E C T!!!!!!!!! We respect others, when we have self-worth, and can respect ourself. To DISRESPECT others, irregardless of the reason why you don't like what someone got, or said, is to lose sight of the bigest commandment in history: DO UNTO OTHERS, AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU!!!

I truly wish ALL of the above people I have mentioned, would GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!!! We live in the greatest Country in the World, and I can only imagine what other Countries think of us, and see how really POLARIZED, AND BIASED some Americans are!!! The behavior of all of the above people is totally unacceptable in a society that is supposed to be the most Intelligent, Ethical, Integral, Honest, and free spirited society in the whole world! As the song says: And crown THY GOOD, WITH BROTHERHOOD, from Sea to shinning Sea!!!! There no longer is BROTHERHHOOD in America!! Our forefathers would be deeply disappointed to see the mean spirted actions of some of America's citizens in the 21st Century!!!

Only the simple minded would relate the Nobel Peace Prize reciepients to just one accomplishment. The arrogance of right-wingers claiming that he got it because he is President of the US, and that's unworthy because he was only Pres for a few weeks before the nominations closed.
What about all he accomplished before he became Pres? Could it be that was part of it!??
Obama did to rise above all the challenges he faced throughout his life to become the President of the US.
It's not that Obama is not Bush, it's that he is the total opposite of Bush. He actually worked very hard to get where he is and keeps working very hard. Thank God!

I hope America's enemies are as easily swayed by Obama!!

Ya think?? What a farce this Nobel peace prize is. Nothing but more Liberal politics and prizes awarded for it too. Obama did NOT earn the Peace prize for doing anything other than speeches, he hasn't accomplished what he spoke of.

Look: Put this to bed. Of course it was premature for Obama to be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, and certainly it really boiled down to an expression of a European perspective (though, frankly, one that I share) that is celebrating the end of the disasterous Bush presidency more than anything.

But stop trying to slam Obama in the head with his Nobel medal.... He didn't ask for it, and his own reaction echoes the befuddlement that everyone had over its being awarded as it was. To make this some sort of story of political liability only shows the eagerness of the allegedly "liberal" media gutlessly to swallow whole the talking points of the far right.

I have every confidence that Obama will do us all very proud over time.

The world is relieved that Bush is gone, and no one is going to declare war on them for simply disagreeing with the U.S.
Sure, Obama just started his Presidency in January. But can anyone name someone else this year (Democratic, GOP, or abroad) who has pushed for the peace process as much as Obama has? Certainly no one in Europe, no one in Africa, no one in Asia, and certainly no one in the GOP. Call it what you will, for this year, for this moment in time, Obama was the big peacemaker. This is peace that is not at the point of a gun like those who have shoes thrown at them.
If the GOP or anyone else disagrees about the award...hey, there is another one next year! Get Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, or Sarah Palin right on it! They have a whole year to work on it!

I just hope he will be able to live up to the award. He has big plans, maybe some of them will come to pass. Very premature award.

Im cool with that conclution. But I feel him getting into the white house alone is a Nobel accomplishment

He hasn't done anything. The voting was 12 days after he took office. What did he do in those 12 days? This is Liberal Europe giving Bush the finger. Nothing more.

If this is the case, then how bad was Bush? If Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize because of the out going of Bush, then Bush must have been terrible Globally. So let the REPs explain that. I'm waiting for the Media to say ONE kind word about Obama winning the Prize. They are leading ungraceful charge.

I think the other nations see what the majority (silent) in this country voted for.

The loud juvenile, fear-mongering right-wing seems to have exploded with jealousy. NO MORE GOP. NO MORE WARS - NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL. NO MORE HALIBURTON --–

Bush is unique. Nobody will be like him. Thank God!

If that is the reason, all the better!

No. It had nothing to do with Bush. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize because of how he has already changed the world. He has inspired millions around the world with hope. Some say it's a false hope, that it's all lies, but he has inspired people to do good nonetheless.