So Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Are you fucking kidding me. They have just devalued the award. I understand how the world feels about Obama, but it's just the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard. He had been in office 11 days when the nomination process closed!!! I am so incensed. I have nothing against Obama, but they have politicized the award and turned it into a farce. Didn't Bill Clinton broker the Good Friday agreement, didn't he do more for Mid-East peace than any other Pres. before him? I just don't get it. I was already pissed off that he felt the need to go to Copenhagen for the Olympic bid, surely Michelle and Oprah were enough, particularly since there is so much shit going on over here on all fronts right now.
We too are dumbfounded? I think, from his speech that he was a little embarrassed. Our commentators say its an award for not being Bush. There was a wave of peace and hope across the world the weeks after he was elected and perhaps that did it? They have chosen some dodgy winners in the past too- Northern Irish hardliners who managed to hold their tongues long enough for a treaty to be signed etc even Yasser Arrafat who lost every opportunity to get a peace in Palestine, while his people suffered and his wife shopped in Paris. We English believe that Bill Clinton was the person at the party who was able to talk to everyone because they had no understanding of the problems...lets face it the American Irish bankrolled IRA terrorism for years, and they always forget who asked the British Army in, in the first place. John Major started the talks and is recognised as the broker by both sides, Tony Blair kept the ball rolling, and Mo Mowlem was a calming influence in many heated stand offs. As for the Olympic bid, well it was about time it went south, just like next years world cup. You cant get a flight to south Africa for love nor money here, so we have decide to go to Cambodia and Vietnam for 4 weeks straight after the final!
So Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Are you fucking kidding me. They have just devalued the award. I understand how the world feels about Obama, but it's just the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard. He had been in office 11 days when the nomination process closed!!! I am so incensed. I have nothing against Obama, but they have politicized the award and turned it into a farce. Didn't Bill Clinton broker the Good Friday agreement, didn't he do more for Mid-East peace than any other Pres. before him? I just don't get it. I was already pissed off that he felt the need to go to Copenhagen for the Olympic bid, surely Michelle and Oprah were enough, particularly since there is so much shit going on over here on all fronts right now.
We too are dumbfounded? I think, from his speech that he was a little embarrassed. Our commentators say its an award for not being Bush. There was a wave of peace and hope across the world the weeks after he was elected and perhaps that did it? They have chosen some dodgy winners in the past too- Northern Irish hardliners who managed to hold their tongues long enough for a treaty to be signed etc even Yasser Arrafat who lost every opportunity to get a peace in Palestine, while his people suffered and his wife shopped in Paris. We English believe that Bill Clinton was the person at the party who was able to talk to everyone because they had no understanding of the problems...lets face it the American Irish bankrolled IRA terrorism for years, and they always forget who asked the British Army in, in the first place. John Major started the talks and is recognised as the broker by both sides, Tony Blair kept the ball rolling, and Mo Mowlem was a calming influence in many heated stand offs. As for the Olympic bid, well it was about time it went south, just like next years world cup. You cant get a flight to south Africa for love nor money here, so we have decide to go to Cambodia and Vietnam for 4 weeks straight after the final!
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