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Unless one get an award for darn near destroying a countries economy.  

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Didn't Jimmy Carter win one too?

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Who hates America?  

You pointing at me?  

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he is not only President, but now head of the UN.

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The morning-after reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize continues to be a massive and collective “Huh?”

Editorial writers and commentators — like millions of people around the world — are still scratching their heads, trying to figure out the awarding committee’s rationale, naming those they think might have been more deserving recipients, seeing politics as the motive.

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IT'S AN ODD Nobel Peace Prize that almost makes you embarrassed for the honoree. In blessing President Obama, the Nobel Committee intended to boost what it called his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." A more suitable time for the prize would have been after those efforts had borne some fruit."

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The Nobel Committee's claim that Mr. Obama has "created a new climate in international politics" is about as realistic as last week's "Saturday Night Live" parody skewering the president for failing to deliver, already, on a series of campaign promises.

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Excessive praise can be unwelcome and embarrassing. Just ask President Obama, who awoke Friday to discover that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before he had completed even a year in office. Obama managed to be both abashed and appreciative in his response, but no amount of self-effacing spin can obscure the oddity of this award.

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The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Obama yesterday was greeted with astonishment as much as any other emotion, even among many of his admirers. Our own reaction is bemusement at the Norwegian decision to offer what amounts to the world's first futures prize in diplomacy, with the Nobel Committee anticipating the heroic concessions that it believes Mr. Obama will make to secure treaties that will produce a new era of global serenity.

Maybe he really is The One.

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It's not his fault that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize – the president was no doubt as surprised as anybody by the news and was commendably humble in his public acknowledgement of the prize – but the truth is, he doesn't deserve the honor.

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After a surprise decision to award US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the designation was 'overly premature'.

“This decision was clearly made in haste.”

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El Universal: "The Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama, the president of the United States, is a mockery of human rights," said on Friday Gabriela Ramirez, the Venezuelan Ombudswoman.

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With all respect, I would like to propose the German Reich canceler and Fuhrer Adolf Hitler for Nobel Peace prize for the year 1939, who have enlightened millions of people, and who among all men are worthy of this high honor.

From authentic documents, we can acknowledge that the World peace was in great danger in 1938, and that it was a matter of hour´s that an European war might have started. The man who solved this situation saved our continent, from this enormous catastrophe, was certainly the great leader of the German people. In the critical moment, he freely restrained from exploding mines, even though he had the powers to start a World War.

Out of his love for peace, earlier explained in his famous book Mein Kampf, after the Bible, the literature of the Worlds most outstanding teachings, and his past record of solving conflicts by peaceful means, without spilling blood, with Austria freely coming a part of Germany, we assure he will in critical situations, abstain from using violence, when he moves on to liberate the home longing Germans in Sudetenland , as a part of making his fatherland big and mighty.

It is than very likely, that Hitler, if he is not disturbed by war loving enemies, will in a peaceful manner, fulfill his highest wishes, to see a pacifistic Europe and may be the whole World.

Unfortunately, there are many people, who are not able to see the greatness in Adolf Hitlers effort to bring peace. And I herewith suggest that you as soon as possible give him the Nobel Peace prize, since another group of Parliamentarians in Sweden have suggest another candidate, the Prime Minister of England, Neville Chamberlain.

Such a suggestion does not seems to be well taught through. It is of course correct, that Chamberlain from the goodness of his heart, and his understanding of Hitlers work for peace, have contributed to save Europe from war. But the final hard work and approval, was not with Chamberlain, but with Hitler. It is Hitler, and no one else, who have safeguarded World peace, and whom we have to trust for as the keeper of peace in Europe.

It has to be admitted, that Chamberlain have contributed to peace in Europe, and that you should consider giving him a minor part oft he prize. But see through that the name of the British Prime Minsters do not be permitted to cast shadows on the greatness of Hitler. Adolf Hitler is the greatest leader of our times, a man of God`s mercy, the prince of peace, in whom millions of people have put their trust.

Stockholm, 27th of January 1939
E. G. C. Brandt. Member of the Parliament of Sweden

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Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.

Asked to comment on the uproar following Friday's announcement, four members of the five-seat panel told The Associated Press that they had expected the decision to generate both surprise and criticism.

Three of them rejected the notion that Obama hadn't accomplished anything to deserve the award, while the fourth declined to answer that question. A fifth member didn't answer calls seeking comment.

"We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the prize for what he has done."

Jagland singled out Obama's efforts to heal the divide between the West and the Muslim world and scale down a Bush-era proposal for an anti-missile shield in Europe.

"All these things have contributed to — I wouldn't say a safer world — but a world with less tension," Jagland said by phone from Strasbourg, where he was attending meetings in his other role as secretary-general of the Council of Europe.

Aagot Valle, a left-wing Norwegian politician who joined the Nobel panel this year, also dismissed suggestions that the decision to award Obama was without merit.

"Don't you think that comments like that patronize Obama? Where do these people come from?" Valle said by phone from the western coastal city of Bergen. "Well, of course, all arguments have to be considered seriously. I'm not afraid of a debate on the peace prize decision. That's fine."

In Friday's announcement, the committee said giving Obama the peace prize could be seen as an early vote of confidence intended to build global support of the policies of his young administration.

The left-leaning committee whose members are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament lauded the change in global mood wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation, and praised his pledges to reduce the world stock of nuclear arms, ease U.S. conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthen the country's role in combating climate change.

However, the decision stunned even the most seasoned Nobel watchers. They hadn't expected Obama, who took office barely two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline, to be seriously considered until at least next year.

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Former foreign minister Alexander Downer has taken aim at the Nobel Peace Prize committee over its decision to award the latest prize to US President Barack Obama.

Mr Downer described the decision 'a farce' and said Mr Obama should have refused to accept the prize.

"He has been in office for less than nine months when it is announced that he has won the prize, so they would have made the decision a few weeks ago I suppose. It does make the whole system a bit of a farce," he said.

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Barack Obama Campaign Promise No. 134:    Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan

Promise Kept

"As Obama removes our combat brigades from Iraq, he will send at least two additional brigades to Afghanistan, where the Taliban is resurgent. He will also provide our armed forces with the reset capability that they need. He will replace essential equipment, and he will ensure that our men and women in uniform get the care and support they have earned."

Sources: "A 21st Century Military for America"

Subjects: Afghanistan, Foreign Policy, Military, PolitiFact's Top Promises

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< Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize >

A Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that awarding the former NSA employee would correct Nobel Committee’s mistake in giving the award to President Barack Obama in 2009.

According to a translation of the letter published by the Daily Mail and RT.com, Umeå University professor Stefan Svallfors wrote the committee that Snowden has made the world safer in releasing information about United States surveillance.

“Edward Snowden has - in a heroic effort at great personal cost - revealed the existence and extent of the surveillance, the U.S. government devotes electronic communications worldwide. By putting light on this monitoring program - conducted in contravention of national laws and international agreements - Edward Snowden has helped to make the world a little bit better and safer,” Svallfors wrote.

Referencing the Nuremberg trials of Nazis, Svallfors says following orders is not an excuse for acting against human rights and freedom, and he praised Snowden’s courage in leaking the information."