Obama won this award because........

[joey2000]

:-2

I give up.

[Ahso!]

joey2000;1272068 wrote: :-2

I give up.What award are we talking about, Joey?

[Saint_]

Probably the Nobel Peace prize he won for reducing nuclear stockpiles worldwide and getting both China and Russia to the nuclear negotiating table.:-6

or maybe it was just his diplomacy and tact in working with the moderates in the Islamic world.

Or it could have been:



Signed executive orders to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year, ban torture and end the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and define treatment of Detainees.

Reversed restrictions on stem cell research.

Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Reducing discrimination based on gender, age, religion, or race.

Signed an executive order reversing the ban that prohibits funding to international family planning groups that provide abortions. Gag rule revoked (Mexico City policy).

Creates the White House Council on Women and Girls "to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls and to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families."

Signed a Presidental Memorandum extending federal benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers and announced support for the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act of 2009.

Reverses U.S. position on LGBT Issues at the UN: At the "Durban Review Conference," U.S. supports language condemning “all forms of discrimination and all other human rights violations based on sexual orientation.”

Signed executive order requiring federal contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change.

Reversed a Bush order requiring federal contractors to post notice that workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.

Signed executive order preventing federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses meant to influence workers deciding whether to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.

Created a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners.

Expanded eligibility for the refinancing portion of the Making Home Affordable plan to help Americans struggling with distressed mortgages refinance at lower interest rates, even if they owe up to 25 percent more than their homes are now worth.

Established a credit card "bill of rights".

Expanded loan programs for small businesses.

Extended and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch.

Expanded eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP).

Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners.

Created a new White House task force on the problems of middle-class Americans, and installed Vice President Joe Biden as its chairman.

Appoints Vice President Joe Biden to Oversee Stimulus Plan Payouts.

Granted a reprieve to Liberian immigrants facing imminent expulsion.

Directed military leaders to end war in Iraq.

Allowing Caskets to be photographed when the return from Iraq with family approval.

Released nine previously secret internal Justice Department memos and opinions defining the legal limits of government power in combating terrorism.

On Arab TV Network, Obama Urges Dialogue.

Gave a speech in Cairo engaging the Muslim and Arab world.

Bars independent contractors from conducting interrogations of terror suspects.

Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba.

Ordered the release of nearly a quarter of a million pages of records from the Reagan White House that were kept from the public during a lengthy review by President George W. Bush.

Restored funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program.

Released presidential records.

Required new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.

Pushed for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors.

Invites gay families to the Easter Egg Roll as part of the Obama administration's outreach to diverse communities.

Created a White House Office on Urban Policy.

Increased funding for the NEA.

Appointed an assistant to the president for science and technology policy.

Funded a major expansion of AmeriCorps.

Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees.

Investment in all types of alternative energy.

Enacted tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars.

Support for high-speed rail.

Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes.

Extended unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits.

Created the White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers to help auto industry workers transition to new manufacturing opportunities, including jobs in alternative energy.

Stopped raids on medical marijuana dispensers.

Nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States. If confirmed, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to ever serve on the Supreme Court.

Appointed more than 60 openly LGBT persons to positions in the executive branch.

Issues Presidential Proclamation for Pride, proclaiming June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.

Signed a mercury reduction pact with 140 other nations.

Signed the Weapons System Acquisition Reform Act to curb wasteful spending by the Pentagon. Intended to price contracts and budgets lower; may potentially save billions of dollars in defense.

Signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, which serves to protect two million acres of land and creates a new system of land conservation for the Bureau of Land Management.

Phase out government payments to crop producers making more than $500,000 a year and eliminates subsidies for cotton storage to help trim the U.S. budget deficit.

Cut funding for a proposed U.S. nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain.

Restored Endangered Species Act Provision requiring U.S. agencies consult with independent federal experts to determine if their actions might harm threatened and endangered species.

Orders The Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration "to protect and restore the health, heritage, natural resources, and social and economic value of the Nation's largest estuarine ecosystem and the natural sustainability of its watershed."

Signed the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act designating two million additional acres of public wilderness areas the highest level of government protection from logging and other forms of commercial use and development.

Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act which will expedite the search for cures and treatments for millions of Americans living with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury, stroke, MS, Parkinson's and many other diseases and disorders.

Established The Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record, a new system for updating medical records of servicemen and women both during and after their military careers.

Established the White House Office of Health Reform

Created new and stronger safety standards to safeguard the country's food supply.



Yeah, I agree, he certainly deserved it!

[joey2000]

Thanks but you realize it's the Nobel PEACE Prize right? Most if not all of what you listed has nothing to do w/the award (offhand I don't have time to comb the entire list) and the question wasn't "what has Obama done since in office" - it was "what has he done to merit this award."

[Ahso!]

joey2000;1272261 wrote: Thanks but you realize it's the Nobel PEACE Prize right? Most if not all of what you listed has nothing to do w/the award (offhand I don't have time to comb the entire list) and the question wasn't "what has Obama done since in office" - it was "what has he done to merit this award."Ah! I just figured that the announcement of the award has been so long ago that I wasn't why you would bring it up now, but then I realized sore spots have been irritated again by the speech.

I guess they gave Obama the award because they could and wanted to. It was theirs to give, was it not?

[Oscar Namechange]

Sorry Saint but the reson you give ( Obama reducing nucleur stockpiles) Is Ballderdash, Piffle and Bollocks.

First of all, the deadline for nominations for the NPP were In two months before Obama was elected and even In the Whitehouse.

Second, He did not Instigate the reduction of any nucleur stockpile. In his Pre-election campaign, he maintained that the US missile shield in Poland would stand and agreed to Bush's plan to Increase the number of weapons. It was only very shortly after he was elected that Russia made the threat that If he went ahead with Bush's plan as he promised the American people, they would Install further nucleur weapons around Eastern Europe. Obama did nothing more than back down to the Russians just as kennedy did when he secretly removed missiles from Turkey during the Cuban Missile crisis. Obama did nothing to reduce the nucleur stockpile, he simply backed down to the Russian threat.

He has done nothing since being elected other than dissapoint, break promises and fail to achieve anything for the good of the US. The health care reform included.

Although our own Prime Minister is not popular at home, he would have been a far better candidate for the NPP. The US awarded him 'World Statesman of the year' this year for his peace work especially for the Palistinian people. At least he has ACTUALLY done some-thing. Obama's award has been described as Controversial. I have another word for it ..... FARCE.

[yaaarrrgg]

I think they gave it to him, because his story and message was inspiring to most of the world. It's practically a made-for-Disney movie. And for not being Bush.

[along-for-the-ride]

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Indonesians have paid tribute to Barack Obama on the eve of his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize.

A statue of the U.S. President, who lived in Jakarta, has been unveiled in a park in the Indonesian capital.

The almost life-size statue depicts a 10-year-old Obama, wearing school-boy shorts with his outstretched hand holding up a butterfly.

The U.S. president was born in Hawaii and lived in Indonesia for four years in the 1960s with his mother and Indonesian stepfather.

The young Obama, who once studied and played in this neighborhood, was known to many then as "Barry."

"We imagined Barry, and we thought the story would be inspirational to all Indonesian children that when you dream big, they can come true," said Ron Mullers, chairman of the nonprofit group Friends of Obama.

Mullers, a Hawaii native and long-time resident of Indonesia adds, "We thought wouldn't it be great to have a statue of him here as a child, not as president, but as a child, as an inspiration to the Indonesian people."

It was shown to the public Wednesday in a colorful ceremony where children from nearby schools played music and performed a traditional dance.

After the unveiling, a group of grade school students eagerly awaited their chance to have photos taken in front of Obama's statue.

The bronze statue cost about $10,000 and was paid for by eight Indonesian patrons, a private television station and a charity that helps the urban poor.

It is in a park near one of the Indonesian schools Obama attended as a child. "I'm proud because he used to study in Indonesia, and now he's the 44th president of America," said Hendrawan, a sixth-grader who wants to be a lawyer.

[joey2000]

yaaarrrgg;1272329 wrote: I think they gave it to him, because his story and message was inspiring to most of the world.


No idea what story or message you're talking about or where you got that he "inspired the world"......but it's irrelevant. You're supposed to get it for actually doing something - in this case, I presume something that significantly contributed to "peace on Earth" (so to speak). My point is he has done no such thing.



And for not being Bush.
Well then there are about oh 5-6 billion people out there who should be getting a Nobel prize, since they aren't Bush.



PS: I know a lot of people are nowdays politically very "polar" ie at one extreme end or the other; I am not (in fact find it idiotic). I'm far from Bush's biggest fan or Obama's biggest critic. I just think he's so far shown to be nothing but flash and glitter, ie all form and no substance, although hope that he proves me wrong in the coming year or 3. This is the latest example: he gets what is (or used to be) a very highly respected award......for nothing.

[Ahso!]

joey2000;1272417 wrote:

No idea what story or message you're talking about or where you got that he "inspired the world"......but it's irrelevant. You're supposed to get it for actually doing something - in this case, I presume something that significantly contributed to "peace on Earth" (so to speak). My point is he has done no such thing.



Well then there are about oh 5-6 billion people out there who should be getting a Nobel prize, since they aren't Bush.



PS: I know a lot of people are nowdays politically very "polar" ie at one extreme end or the other; I am not (in fact find it idiotic). I'm far from Bush's biggest fan or Obama's biggest critic. I just think he's so far shown to be nothing but flash and glitter, ie all form and no substance, although hope that he proves me wrong in the coming year or 3. This is the latest example: he gets what is (or used to be) a very highly respected award......for nothing.Oh, you've obviously not been one of the inspired. Too bad!

Next time the Nobel committee will be certain to check with you before giving any awards. Perhaps you shouldn't dwell too much though, that only causes personal issues.

[joey2000]

I'm not sure if you're a troll or simply weak-minded, but it really doesn't matter; you've eliminated any lingering doubts I had either way, and so confirmed that trying to engage you in an intelligent conversation is a waste of time.

[Ahso!]

joey2000;1272068 wrote: :-2

I give up.This is the opening to an intelligent conversation?

How many trolls do we actually have here, Joey? You seem to point out about one a day.