Thanks for getting a post up so soon, Erin. BTW, on my Examiner post somebody dropped by to say Obama is the anti-Christ. I knew that was coming as I said in the post you linked to. And yet I hope the guy was kidding about his feelings.

I also said on Twitter that his win is showing me that "What I'm learning from this Obama Nobel Peace Prize win is that most of us don't know why people win the prize. period."

I suspected it might be a message from the committee when I first heard the news. However, it's true that Obama did inspire hope around the world and wants to seek diplomacy before war. Will the world and this nation let him do that?

Whew! I've been reading some blood curdling venom out there today. Thanks for the link.

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If Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, I deserve the Giggle Peace Prize. Sounds fair to me. Vote for me! What could it hurt?

Christa @ www.giggleon.com

And I'm curious what you think about the President receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, as per the post. 

Politics & News Contributing Editor Queen of Spain

I'm glad you visited and hope you vote for me. I've had a hard week (as you may have noticed if you read my post, Grieve, Give, Giggle) and I could use some support.

I think the President's win of the prize is ludicrous. It is not a testament to any real or noteworthy accomplishment. It appears to be more prize for not being GWB.

I'm also not GWB but I could use 1.4 million right now.

I would like to ask President Obama to use some of his prize money to help me start a non-profit so I can reach more people in the community and promote peace through laughter. I've got a heart of gold but my bank account doesn't look like Oprah. :-)

Christa @ www.giggleon.com

and humbled, and inspired to be in such company, and all the things he said. He has a big-time serious job to do, and the entire world needs him to succeed at it. The vote of confidence for his start, premature as it may seem to some people, demonstrates how much we, we humans, treasure the Hope that was all that was left in Pandora's box. 

People who have a problem with that, I don't understand.

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I too am surprised that he won but I am even more disturbed by the way some people are reacting to it.  Joe on Morning Joe said there was no upside to winning.  Then comes the class dunce idiot joke Micheal Steel and Rush then all of the other sarky crap.  I was thinking should we not be proud?  OUR President won THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. The President of OUR country.  WTF?  I just could not get over how mean, small and dare I say unpatriotic this is. Last I checked we were all citizens of the same country, right? 

As to it being premature Rachel Maddow did a good peice on that last night.  She talked about Desmond Tutu getting it for his work to end appartied years before appartied actually ended and Aung San Suu Kyi getting the prize for her stance against the junta even though they are still in power.  It may well be that the committee sees his start and his vision worthy of the award.  I do think that is part of it but a big thing may be that we insulated Americans did not realize the depts of hatred GWB had tapped into for this country.  It may be a simple as he is not GWB.  Either way I took my halloween flag down and put up my American flag yesterday before going to work.  I am truly proud of my President.  By the way I hope he has some plans for that upcoming 3 day weekend and Bo's birthday. Priorities!

Michelle

I blog at http://www.mommycan.blogspot.com/

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Slate's John Dickerson has called for Obama to give the thing back.  The Nation wrote that it thought it was reading about this in The Onion vs. the NYTimes. 

It doesn't get anymore Obama-supportive than Dickerson and The Nation. 

Ruth Marcus of the Washington post said:

"This is ridiculous -- embarrassing, even. I admire President Obama. I like President Obama. I voted for President Obama. But the peace prize? This is supposed to be for doing, not being."

We posted that it is GWB who has brought some very amazing changes to women in the Middle East.  In last winter's Iraqi elections:

"Of the estimated 14,000 candidates, close to 4, 000 are women.
Wow….28% of the candidates were women! That is striking and a VERY big margin for hope."

Our stand is that if progress is made for women we need to accept that it can come from sources we may not like, but it is still progress.  And the idea of leaving women in Afghanistan to the Taliban is reprehensible. 

To the Nobel committee, a predominately female crew, I send them this quote from our March 15th story:

No one is going to place sanctions of South Africa because women are treated as 2nd class citizens. But the question remains why not?

 

Editors of Femisex.com

We did not support GWB but are not so partisan we are unwilling/unable to see the good coming out of his war.  It was a war for oil and yes GWB lied to us to get in there.  But BHO has lied to the public about health care reform as well.  We are able to say liar no matter who does the lying.

shrug.

We are not suggesting GW for a Nobel, but in 20 years, I dunno.  In Medicine and Physiology the award is often given out years later to see if the science has borne fruit.   In 20 years women may have come so far in the Middle East ---and when women gain power peace is often a outcome!--that such an award would be feasible.  Iran and Iraq are inextricably linked in matters of competition that date back centuries.  If Iraq moves away from religious and sectarian government to a democratic system where women have a fighting chance at a life fully lived, Iran will follow!  period.  Look at what is happening in Iran right now.  Yes we must wait and see, but I leave you with this from last week's NYTimes:

Oct. 1, 2009, we get this pretty astounding news:

DHULUIYA, Iraq — Iraqi politics has a new catchphrase, the “yes, we can” of the country’s coming parliamentary elections. It is “national unity,” and while skepticism abounds, it could well signal the decline of the religious and sectarian parties that have fractured Iraq since 2003.
Across the political spectrum — Sunni and Shiite, secular and Islamic — party leaders have jettisoned explicit appeals to their traditional followers and are now scrambling to reach across ethnic or sectarian lines. In some cases, the shift is nothing less than extraordinary.
party leaders agree that something fundamental is changing in the mood of Iraqi voters.
Provincial elections last January showed diminishing popular support for religious or purely sectarian parties

We wanted Bush gone and he is.  Obama is tabla rasa.  We agree with Ms. Marcus, this award is plain silly and makes Obama look silly for his acceptance. 

What I can say per Mr. Obama is that since taking office public support for abortion is at its lowest point in the history of asking the question.  One more "abortion is a moral tragedy" speech out of Obama's lips and we may see a real backwards backlash towards women take shape.   We expect such talk out of GWB. but for Obama I truly fear the impact on women and their lives.

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Dear She-Who

   If you are "creeper" about our format it would mean you are "creeper" about how the NYTimes speaks in their editorials, as a united voice.  to wit: we endorse HRC for potus.   Nothing sinister my friend.  visit our site and read our "about."   We are noted for our centrality, something very sorely missing in journalism these days.  

And for the record, I will never demand to know who you are Ms. She-Who:-)  We don't keep any lists, only links!

Abortion is a human right?

Murdering the unborn a right? WOW! Glad your mom didn't take that route.

Ok then, then you should have no problem with putting a bullet in the head of every criminal, including terrorists and low life at Gitmo and in our prisons. All the child molestors, rapists and murderers should be put to death too. Actually, forget a bullet, that's too humane - chop off their hands, heads and arms...maybe get some forceps out and do some damage there.

If abortion is a human right then torturing and killing criminals and terrorists is a right too.

Glad we got that straight.

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Dear She-who--

 I am an editor at FemiSex. for this post I culled items from posts written on our site by various voices.  that leads to the we stand.  I suggest :  let's don't get too far off topic on this thread but please feel free to comment post on our site if you are displeased.   And  fyi::: Andrew gets a whole lotta help on his editoral page.  trust us there!

I am off for the day, but I hope the focus returns to BHO and his Nobel. 

Giggle on:  I would NEVER force my mother to sustain a pregnancy she did not wish.  I am sorry you don't have the same respect for you mother and her body.  But I am so glad the choice is not yours,either way, when it comes to my or anyone else' s body.

I respect you right to bodily freedome, please learn to respect others.  best wishes,

FemiSex 

In my opinion, there is a strong reason why President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. It was something almost imperceptible, but I'm sure I heard it, and felt it myself. You might remember it yourself. 

It was the almost audible collective sigh that very nation in the world gave when they heard he won the United States presidential election. 

You know how satisfying a sigh can be, especially one of that magnitude.  A sigh of relief is one of the best feelings the world can experience. The tension is the world seemed to drop dramatically. So if one man can do that for the entirety of the world, if he can make it sigh, then by golly give him the prize!

Well said.

I am not bashing President Obama if I am stunned at the decision.  To put it in perspective: Teddy Roosevelt was awarded the prize for brokering an end to a war between China and Russia.  President Obama was awarded the prize, really, for making campaign promises.

I've just completed _Three Cups of Tea_ about Greg Mortensen, who has spent about twenty years buidling schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, giving a generation of boys and girls access to an education other than the rabid, violent, hateful and exclusively male schools of terrorist indoctrination.  The locals who staff and administer these schools teach a conservative but more accurate version of Islam that properly admonishes violence and not only allows but requires that communities educate their young girls.

The children attending these schools will learn math, literature and science from qualified instructors rather than hate from illiterates.

One of the first he built has produced a young woman who has finished medical school and returned to her rural Himalayan village to further improve the lives of her neighbors.

I tell you this as a US Marine Captain.  I have proudly deployed four times in the war on terror and I tell you that Greg Mortensen's work is where the tide against extremism will turn.

His work began long before 9/11 and the results will reverberate for generations. 

His work has established clearly evident progress and he is a countryman worthy of Nobel consideration.

President Obama is, perhaps, a beacon of hope.  I am rooting for him, certainly.  I like him, in the end, but cannot help but feel that the Nobel commitee has diminished their credibility by awarding it to someone's potential work rather than actual accomplishment.

Thank you all for weighing in on your feelings on Obama's peace prize win. 

Politics & News Contributing Editor Queen of Spain