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Date Posted: 03:56:36 10/18/09 Sun
Author: Edie
Subject: Re: Who do you think should get the Nobel Peace Prize?
In reply to: Ani 's message, "Re: Who do you think should get the Nobel Peace Prize?" on 23:44:00 10/17/09 Sat

The following appeared as the Nobel Committee�s reason for giving Obama the Prize

�In a rare public defense of a process normally shrouded in secrecy, four of the Nobel jury's five judges spoke out Tuesday about a selection they said was both merited and unanimous.
To those who say a Nobel is too much too soon in Obama's young presidency, "We simply disagree ... He got the prize for what he has done," committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland told The Associated Press by telephone from Strasbourg, France, where he was attending meetings of the Council of Europe.
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," he said.
�
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/13/nobel-jury-defends-obama_n_318689.html

And Obama�s acceptance speech was � as usual- superb. It�s wonderful to hear the English language spoken appropriately instead of the �manglings� that were common over the past eight years. Though to be honest I rather miss George's "missunderestimations"

One of my favorites:

�There�s an old saying in Tennessee � I know it�s in Texas, probably in Tennessee � that says, fool me once, shame on � shame on you. Fool me � you can�t get fooled again.� �President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

Priceless!!!!

Edie

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Re: Who do you think should get the Nobel Peace Prize? -- Edie, 03:58:13 10/18/09 Sun
Re: Who do you think should get the Nobel Peace Prize? -- Ani, 08:52:34 10/18/09 Sun
- Re: Who do you think should get the Nobel Peace Prize? -- Gilly, 16:38:36 10/18/09 Sun