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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 9 October | 87 comments (87 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Barack Obama prix Nobel de la Paix, Culture - Information NouvelObs.com		Barack Obama Nobel Peace Rize - NouvelObs.com
Le président américain, élu il y a moins d'un an, est récompensé "pour ses efforts extraordinaires en vue de renforcer la diplomatie internationale et la coopération entre les peuples".		Elected less than a year ago, the American president is awared the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among peoples."

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 at 05:19:27 AM EST
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Re: World (4.00 / 5)

Sorry, but the Noble Peace Price just lost the little credibility it had left with me. :-(

How can they give it to Obama with Afganistan getting worse and worse, with Quantanamo still open, with Bargham enlarged, with no solutions for the middle east, and with renditions still carried out.

What in this world has improved because of him. Not even the climate seems to move on thanks to him. :-(

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 at 05:29:52 AM EST
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Re: World (4.00 / 2)

Well, it had already been awarded to such peaceniks as Theodore Roosevelt, Menahem Begin and Henry Kissinger...

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 at 05:45:03 AM EST
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Re: World (none / 1)

One year, when the Physics Department in a certain Israeli university was asked for nominations for the prize, one of the professors nominated Menachem Begin. His reason?

Menahim Begin deserves the Nobel Prize for Physics at least as much as he deserves the Nobel Prize for Peace

It will be interesting to see if this nomination shows up on the official list of nominations, or whether they have quietly dropped it.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 at 06:07:34 AM EST
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Re: World (none / 1)

What a nonsense !! All I can suggest is that the nominating committee have a wicked sense of humour.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 at 05:45:40 AM EST
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Re: World (none / 1)

I put up an FP story for y'all to express your puzzlement in the comments.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 at 06:21:16 AM EST
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