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Dominant Glee Club
10/10/09

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Right, because there's no correlation between global warming, scarcity of resources, and war. This investigation brought to you by the words "glancing" and "what's the opposite of probing?"
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Novaload
10/10/09

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Europe is, as usual, approximatley a year behind the cutting-edge USA. Yeah, yeah, everybody was excited about hope and Obama last year, Norway. But that fad's over. Hope and words and then more words don't cut it in the real world.
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raincoaster
10/10/09

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It's not the fucking Golden Globes, people.
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Adah
10/10/09

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I left Afghanistan 12 hours before it was announced Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. My mother thinks this is no coincidence.
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Trai_Dep
10/10/09

@Adah: Damn. Had you only been a twin, we'd have world peace.
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Trai_Dep
10/10/09

@Trai_Dep: (by the way: Welcome BACK!)
(And, thanks!)
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PandoraSpocks
10/09/09

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Holy Shit. Really? This is what happens when you are in a writing fog...
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MissNormaDesmond
10/09/09

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There are reasonable arguments to be made for Obama's turning down the award. However, "global warming isn't violent" sounds like something you'd hear from a know-nothing Glenn Beck fan. What conduces to peace? Prosperity. What conduces to conflict? Scarce resources. Come on, you're brighter than this. Violence doesn't only come out of the barrel of a gun. Responding rationally to those who are doing violence to the global environment is the essence of peacekeeping.
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atlasfugged
10/09/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Plus, if humankind is successful in reversing global warming, or at least stanching its current trend, it will have probably saved millions from hunger, from water scarcity, from the displacement that deforestation and desertification causes, from a potential rise in mosquito-borne diseases, and so on, not to mention from the potential of more cataclysmic events like rising tides and changes in severe weather patterns. Controlling pollution, which is more than an attempt to stop global warming, also saves millions of people in industrialized and developing nations from being poisoned in their pursuit of economic growth. So, in that sense, controlling pollution and attempting to slow, stop, or reverse global warming is necessarily a humanitarian endeavor.
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The Curse of Millhaven
10/09/09

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Okay, I love Obama and I like to see him recognized. But this IS a little weird, right? Like being appointed valedictorian at the beginning of your senior year or something.
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Lincolnsbeard33
10/10/09

@The Curse of Millhaven: yeah it's a bit odd and puts him in a tough spot politically since it kind of makes the Afghan war a bit harder now.

I mean can you send more troops which are desperately needed over there if you just won the peace prize?

Not to mention it doesn't help the image he has been getting of all talk no action.
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Swordfish
10/09/09

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When a sitting president wins such an award, whether you voted for him or not, it is a honor for the whole nation. This is a nod to all of us. And we should say: Thank you. And not a word more.
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spottedtowhee
10/09/09

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Global climate change certainly involves violence. Humans are unjustly and cruelly extirpating other species as they go about their often pointless and egoistic energy-guzzling and habitat-destroying activities.
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mostlymartian
10/09/09

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Obama overtures to the muslim people of the world have been really good, have had impact on their attitudes, and have been brave in the face of the anti-muslim prejudice in America and the way that prejudice has been used against him with the "Obama's a muslim" nonsense.

He is in a very important position and he has been intelligently promoting peace and understanding even when it means giving opponents at home greater opportunity to attack and villainize him.
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homovegetarian
10/09/09

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i love the complaints that nominations had to be in on Feb 1, like he was born on january 20, 2009, and hadn't existed before then.
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allyzay
10/09/09

@homovegetarian: Well, it's not like he's shown us his birth certificate (the REAL ONE) so who are you to say he didn't hatch out of an egg fully formed on January 20, 2009?!
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homovegetarian
10/09/09

@allyzay: i hadn't thought of that! i thought that people were implying that only sitting u.s. presidents can do peacable things, this is why they have all won peace prizes and no one else has ever.

but maybe they were saying that no one can win a peace prize until peace is completed, by the one person who can do ALL THE PEACE, and that is why no one, not even barack obama, has ever won a peace prize, becase peace prizes only exist in heaven! amen.

but i know the egg thing, so i get it!
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Voyou_Charmant
10/09/09

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Jesus H Christ, people.

Henry Kissinger once won a Nobel Peace Prize too. Based on that fact alone, they will give this thing pretty much anyone.

Agree with it or not, who cares? It truly does not matter.

Also, Gawker; how dishonestly can you frame something?

It was not only given to Yasir Arafat, it was also given to Shimon Peres ,Yitzhak Rabin as a group in 1994 for their work on with/on the Oslo Accords. Don't worry. I see what you did there; omitting that little detail allows you to imply, without actually saying any such thing, that he is to blame for the destabilization of Palestinian/Israeli relations.

And though, he was effectively in office until 2004 he was confined to his home since 2002. During that time Hamas gained more and more support which, I would argue was a much greater factor.

Get your shit together, Gawker.
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Voyou_Charmant
10/09/09

@Voyou_Charmant: By "that time" I meant the mid '90s - 2000s
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FrankenPC
10/09/09

@Voyou_Charmant: I agree with you. I take offence with some if the inane Oscar awards given out. But, ultimately, it's the Oscar committee's choice.

This isn't a freakin religion. He's not being canonized. It's just an award.
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momof3wildkids
10/09/09

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It would have been much funnier if Obama called his Nobel award "A call to arms."
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AndPreciousLittleofThat
10/09/09

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Please help me, I need some perspective. I've been arguing with a friend who claims (and this is NOT a joke, which is why my head hurts) that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize because the Norwegians were trying to curry favor with his administration and advance their foreign policy goals. "Posturing by unimportant people who think they're important," as he puts it.

Novel analysis, no?
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Amrita Rajan
10/10/09

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: Lutefisk for all? Recognition that Norway is in fact Not Sweden?

What are these nefarious Norwegian foreign policy goals?
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The Curse of Millhaven
10/09/09

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Kanye West would just like to point out that Beyonce is the most peaceful person of all time.
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