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Originally Posted by Walt
Tell me, how is it fucking ridiculous to believe that President Obama should have declined the award? Here is a list of the other nominees that Obama beat out:
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Oh I wasn't aware you were part of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Since we all know that information on nominees isn't released for 50 years after the award you must have been a part of the committee to have that information. That changes everything I fully apologize.
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Originally Posted by Xazy
He had to be nominated before Feb 11, so seriously 2 weeks in office what did he do?
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While the
NOMINATION was done 11 days after he took office the
VOTE was a couple of weeks ago. Besides, Obama had already changed the tone
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Originally Posted by Xazy
As others mentioned on a personal note since Arafat got his noble, I have lost all respect for the reward.
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This is such a fucking strawman and I'm so sick of seeing it. The 1994 award wasn't given solely to Arafat. It was given to Arafat, Rabin, and Peres after the Oslo Accords. Be as blindly partisan as you want but at the time they were working hard on achieving peace in that region. Yes it eventually fell apart but they were making real efforts at the time, not just paying lip service to international media.