And the Winner Is! President Barack Obama 2009 Nobel Peace Prize!

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Spencer thanks for trying to listen in! You can click on the link http://www.earlymorningpundits.com to hear archive of show. It automatically starts when you are on the home page.

I need to rewrite that ... thus the delete.

Young lady I am so pleased to be able to use two browsers! One for listening to to your show and one for letting you know! And oh My ... what an extraordinary event to wake up to!

For any who come here to listen and think that you are not getting the show .... because you hear music ......... keep listening, because you will get an approximate 60 second musical piece first.

Thank you Dr. Candace! And wow Devin I had no idea. Excellent and wonderful congratulations to our President.

Thanks Liz for the show plug. I guess I had better go in and change the music intro because it is too long! LOL!

The entire nation should be proud for their President and collectively honored~

I am, seeing as much of the world despises America, its quite an accomplishment. I am proud to have President Obama leading our nation.

Who cares what the "much of the world" thinks? If it wasn't for"dispised America",western Europe would still still be a part of the greater German Reich,eastern Europe would still be under the iron boot of Communism,and Asia would still be a totalitarian hell-hole. All this "hatred " for America is being driven by a hostile media and their fellow travelers on the left. You need to crack a few history books,Amy.-Norman

I am one proud cookie that another person for the US recieved the award and it happens to be our President.

It would appear that he received this award because he dared to be different. He bucked trend trend in America to be a warring, colonializing, selfish, murderous withdrawn leader. He showed the world that indeed this country still has remnants of greatness within it. He showed the world that indeed there are those here who still actually care about the rest of the world.

Granted, this is not what one ordinarily receives a Nobel Prize for ... however, the award shows how far into a quagmire Republican foreign policy has dragged down not only our image but that without America to lead [it always withdraws from its leadership role when in Republican hands - and at times when in Democratic hands] the world felt real hope dimming fast. This president represent the hope of America to others ... the hope America always used to represent ... people feel just may have returned.

Do you hate this country that much,Liz?

Don't be silly Norm, I work with our veterans because I love this country and by extension them. I grew up with Republicans and understand the profound nature of money's place amongst Republicans [well, those with whom I grew up - it is first and foremost, before all else - it comes before all else - and as I said I grew up within this milieu - I have no use for it and fully understand its limiting and repressive nature - I also understand its seductive allure ].

Liz,first of all I honor your compassion for our veterans. But this vision of peace based on weakness and pacifism only encourages more (and more distructive) wars. That only makes for more wounded and dead soldiers. As for the money aspect,who do you think is running the Democratic Party? Some of President Obama's biggest supporters are some of the world's richest people (Warren Buffett,George Soros,and Oprah Winfrey come to mind). Sure, Republicans enjoy having-and spending-money, but there are a lot of people on your side of the aisle that enjoy feasting on their slice of the American pie as well.-Norman

Norm ..... if we sat down and spoke, I suspect that we would differ upon rather little. Typing takes me forever so I cannot have a lengthy conversation. On top of which this is a conversation that begs eye contact and body language. I am a hawk. I believe in a strong military. I did not and do not believe in the war in Iraq. I hope like hell that we can win in Afghanistan but the history of occupiers in that country is abysmal. I cannot abide the Bush family and their ilk. You are soooooooooo right about the D. party and for that matter most politics and political figures. But this is a lost conversation, one better had in real time. I have found that for me to be successful at what I do [which happens to be more important to me than my politics] ......... I must put aside my ego which includes my politics, and focus upon those who have been to hell and back. Frankly they are more important, more deserving and in more pain than most.

Boy-- I like this thread on the subject at hand better than some of the spew I've read about it on other people's blogs tonight. Lonnie Ray Fowler

North Korea open to multilateral talks... Iran agrees to talks... Obama sets groundwork for talks to eliminate nuclear weapons...

President Obama has set a whole new international tone towards seeking "peaceful" solutions. Who can name anyone who has effected international relations as much as President Obama has recently. Not since President Carter have we seen a man so dedicated to that end. If not President Obama then who?

Besides, the only folks I've seen complain about the president winning are the same ones who hate him already.

Total nuclear disarmament is a naive pipe-dream. The thugish Kim Il Sung is certainly not going to give up membership in the nuclear club,and the mullahs in Iran see the bomb as a source of prestige-and intimidation. To put all your hopes into someone who thinks that he can charm the world into peaceful co-existance is sheer madness.-Norman

A young politician, not yet fully tested, makes important and history-altering moves on the international stage – moves whose long-term outcomes remain uncertain – and is surprised to find himself with a Nobel Peace Prize.

That describes Lester B. Pearson in 1957. It describes Barack Obama in 2009.

Mr. Pearson's role in creating a United Nations peacekeeping force to resolve the first Middle East conflict won him the award six years before he was prime minister. It didn't change attitudes among Arabs or Israelis, but the Norwegian judges felt it was a symbolically important action that had a good chance of creating lasting peace in the Middle East.

Mr. Obama's leadership in uniting all the world's powers around total nuclear disarmament, his ending the impasse between Russia and the West and his goal-driven engagement with Iran and the wider Muslim world have not yet borne fruit, but the Norwegian judges believe the nature of the world has been significantly altered for the better.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not a lifetime-achievement award. It tends to honour actions that change the way the world functions, the way countries engage or publics think about a conflict. They should be important, historic actions, but the prize does not wait for results.

Mr. Obama falls squarely into this tradition: He has changed the game. International relations no longer function the way they have for the past decade, and important new possibilities are now open. On the issues that matter – a nuclear-free world, an end to dangerous rogue states – the path is no longer blocked, and all the world's major powers act and vote together.

To read the rest of this article by Doug Saunders click link
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-deserves-the-nobel/article1319532/

Sorry here is a clickable link http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-deserves-the-nobel/article1319532/

This is for you RK, since you didn't bother with a reply to this comment link.

The Nobel Peace Prize is also a political prize. Its judges are not neutral, scientific arbiters of accomplishment; they are instructed to encourage international co-operation, arms reduction and acts of engagement.

Among people who follow politics without national interest, Mr. Obama's diplomacy has been far more significant than anything else in the world this year.

“For people working on nuclear disarmament, this prize is overwhelmingly important, in particular because Obama has taken the most important steps in his few months in office, and because we view it as an endorsement of the urgency of this mission,” said William Hartung, director of the New York based Arms and Security Initiative and a leading arms-control authority.

Peace is never easy to define, especially in the middle of the action.

Very aptly put.

Liz is exactly correct. Very aptly put.

President Obama was very humble in his acceptance of the prize; but I ask again: what did he do to earn it? I can't think of a more patronizing way to honor someone for saying basically "Peace for our Time".-Norman

He has not done anything to earn it. I know numerous Obama supporters, my husband being one who does not understand why he received this. I posit that the people who present this award look to America for hope as they have for many years ........... perhaps since our existence. For many years now, no one could look to us for leadership and thus hope for the world. It looked a very dark horizon. This man has dared to speak of hope and of the USA rejoining the the world, stepping in to a leadership role. Will he follow through? No one knows ... but many hope that he does so. He received this award because he dared to be different in the message that he brings. And that is a good thing.

Ok, he received the award for lifting spirits.
I say what a lovely thing.

President Obama's world view is peace through weakness and appeasement. That is a an extremely naive philosophy that could,in my opinion,lead to a very dangerous world in the future.-Norman

I disagree with you. I also hope that you are wrong. To first show a willingness to negotiate is not naive nor weak. However, to not follow it up with significant military strength if it should fail, that is another matter. That would be naive and that would be weak ... in my opinion. Yes, it can potentially be a slippery slope ....... however, the one upon which we have slid for the last 8 years is made of black-ice.

Norman has conveniently forgotten that President Obama has not ruled out war as a possibility. He tried the increase in troops, in Afghanistan, that did not achieve a desired result, instead of sending evermore he has now said, hey let's look at what we are doing, what do we want.
Before proceeding. I am not going to argue with that.