"I'm not George Bush either. Where is my prize?"

Yes benk, I bet there are a few people who have been slaving away for years in an absolutely devoted manner, in the interests of world peace or engendering a peaceful outcome to particular conflicts.

Where are their prizes?

Where's my prize? I want one. I deserve one. I've been fighting against continuous population growth, the continuous expansion paradigm and the grossly antisustainable path that humanity is heading down for the last 21 years, including stints as the president of three NGOs.

Bringing humanity into a sustainable existence is intimately related to world peace.

So where's moi proize?? (:>(

If anyone's really interested they can Google
Obama's achievments for themselves - and get
the record straight.

As one of the websites will tell you:

"In his first years in the US Senate
Barack Obama was a member of a minority party.
Republicans tightly controlled the US Senate
and it was very difficult for any Democratic
Senator to get a Bill passed. For the record
Barack Obama sponsored 152 Bills and Resolutions
and co-sponsored 427 more."

One of the Bills passed which became law - and has his name
on it was - "The Lugar-Obama Bill - which expands efforts to
destroy WMD's (weapons of mass destruction - e.g.
in the former Soviet States)."

Also, for the record:

"Obama sponsored the Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007 -
caping troops at Jan 10 2007 and begin withdrawing May 1 2007
and complete withdrawal of combat brigades by March 31 2008."

We're also told that Obama was on the Senate Committee for
Foreign Relations, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs...

He made several major overseas trips as part of the official
Senate Delegation, meeting with US Generals and Foreign Leaders
in various countries, including the Middle East.
The fact that he addressed such
complex issues gave him a head start in understanding
global issues. Plus the fact
that he studied political studies with an emphasis on
Foreign Relations at Columbia - helped.

Once he became President he secured $5 billion in aid commitments
to bolster the country's economy and help fight terror and
Islamic radicalism within the country. As Senate Foreign Relations
Chairman John Kerry noted:

"This will prove instrumental in bringing the nation away from
the brink of failure and increased Taliban control."

The list goes on...

I find it rather incomprehensible
that there are some people who simply
can't understand why - a Leader of a Superpower,
like the US, who seeks reductions in nuclear arsenals, wants
to restart talks between Israel and Palestine, who engages with
the Muslim World - and makes "extraordinary efforts to
strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between
peoples," why - he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

cont'd...

oops - I forgot to add that the $5 billion
in aid commitments that President Obama
secured during his first 100 days in office
as US President was for Pakistan.

A major achievement.

Surely Karzai's precise English must prove he is a neo-colonialist American plant as crooked as was the fake Shah in Iran.

Certainly just another tough case for Obama, wondering whether to sponsor another case of US crooked history, or prove the real truth about Karzai with a re-election?

Cheers, BB, WA.

What a complete joke.

The Nobel Prize Committee is appointed by the Socialist Norwegian Government and is as silly as Obama's attempts at achieving ... well anything.
This article is also written by another of those misguided well-meaning but arogrant dictatorial social democrats.

Time will show Obama's all said and no done. Check out his popularity in the US ... the lowest of any president in history at comparable stage of his administration. The Yanks have already woken up to find they've a fool at the helm.

You lefties think that's great. Fine I don't. And that's fine too. But
I'm just enjoying the joke and I won't be suffering the consequences of the stupidity. You will.

This man will be the cause of more instability and discontent across the world than we've known for many many years. The Russians and Chinese are already rejecting his positions on Iran and North Korea. The Taliban have taken great heart from his waveing, violence in Iraq has increased markedly, the Israelis have expanded their settlements in defiance of his demands, the Saudi's awarded him and he accepted their highest decoration leaving much of the Arab World aghast. The US economy is still imploding with rising unemployment, falling dollar, rising housing foreclosures, nationalisation of uneconomic industries continuing bank failures, unchecked printing of money, rising interest rates, rising inflation and a still largely unregulated banking system.

Oh and Gitmo is still open.

yeah yeah yeah I know he can't do everything at once ... the only problem is that he is doing nothing but run for re-election.

I think that John Pilger says it all. http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/did-obama-work-for-the-cia/ Foxy looks at Obama with rose coloured glasses and like many,don't want to face the reality that it is corporate totalitariarnism that rules the USA and not the the will of the people via Congress.

On Sept 11 a coup did take place in the USA.It is called the Patriot Act and the new presidential orders that Obama has failed to repeal.
That is the stark reality that most of us fail to recognise.Yes we all have been betrayed.