Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize as ‘Call to Action’

AP: A beaming President Barack Obama says he's honored to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but says he isn't sure he's done enough to earn it. Appearing in the Rose Garden Friday, Obama acknowledged he was "both surprised and deeply humbled" to win the award. He said he does not "view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments," but rather as a recognition of goals he has set for the United States and the world. Obama said, "I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative figures that have been honored by this prize."

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October 9, 2009 at 11:38 am - MSNBC
Dateline: Washington DC
H2K   October 9th, 2009 - 11:45 am

I think the exact quote was “Let me be clear. Make no mistake. (Ss whistling in the breeze.) This heah is a call ta action.” Notice how the “n” trails off on the sentence end.

Trent   October 9th, 2009 - 11:53 am

Nobel Prize has become worthless – just about Affirmative Action now.

CH.....   October 9th, 2009 - 12:01 pm

H2K: He He He He! You read my mind!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

kmichaels   October 9th, 2009 - 12:03 pm

Obama ranks right up there with Yasser Arafat, also a Peace Prize winner, amongst the great people that hated and tried to destroy Israel.
You remember Arafat, the guy that sucked away money designated to help Palestinians into his own personal account then sent kids
out strapped with dynamite to spread his peace program? Yeah, that is how bad the nobel peace prize sucks.

kmichaels   October 9th, 2009 - 12:04 pm

It is a call to action, since even Obama knows that up until this point he has been no action and all hot air.
Here ya go, a nice affirmative action gift prize in the event that someday you might actually do something.

JF   October 9th, 2009 - 12:05 pm

says he isn’t sure he’s done enough to earn it. The first thing I agree with him on.

Larsehole in Philly   October 9th, 2009 - 12:08 pm

“Behind every successful man, there is a successful woman.”
http://www.bigfootmustdie.com/MessinWithSasquatch_3.jpg

Trent   October 9th, 2009 - 12:10 pm

kmichaels -

Actually, Obama would deserve it if he eliminated the hemorrhoid of a nation, Israel, from the Middle East.

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/mapstellstory.html

Scroll down and look at the pictures of the beautiful, peaceful place of Palestine before it was destroyed by the genocidal Zionists! Christian schools, too! Why are Christians supporting Israel’s destruction of their own heritage?

tom   October 9th, 2009 - 12:16 pm

….turn off the podium, the party’s over……

IceCream Rover   October 9th, 2009 - 12:21 pm

The Goddess of Creation is truly watching over our leader Obama. This is such wonderful and deserving news that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has noticed the world has become a safer place since President Obama has become President. I’m just so happy for Obama and his wonderful family

tom   October 9th, 2009 - 12:22 pm

Certainly his diplomacy rather than a fabricated senseless and expensive war merits significant recognition

IceCream Rover   October 9th, 2009 - 12:32 pm

I’m gonna make a new flavor of ice creams, and dedicate it to Obama.
It will be called The Mulatto Marxist Messiah’s Mocha Mint Royale.
After you eat a quart you will have a strange craving to hit CK in Philly in the a$$.

Desiree   October 9th, 2009 - 12:38 pm

TOTUS got robbed.

rodeo clown   October 9th, 2009 - 12:59 pm

Whether you want to give him any credit or not. Obama has deftly gone about trying to reset the global image of America. The guiding impulse seems to be to start reviving U.S. standing in the world quickly in the hope that policy gains will accrue later. He has ordered the future closure of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, barred torture of terrorist suspects, and made public the Bush administration’s internal memos authorizing harsh interrogation methods. He has put Washington back at the center of efforts to curb climate change and eliminate nuclear weapons over the long run. He has moved to repair relations with Moscow, and he has modestly eased the U.S. travel ban and embargo on Cuba. In the Mideast, Obama has set plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, relaunched U.S. mediation for Mideast peace, and approved talking directly with Syria and Iran and reached out to the Muslim world.

Even if he had not done that.I think he should get something for the zen like calm he has exhibited while you right wingers have demonized and disrespected him and his family.The likes I haven’t seen in my life time.

It was just last week when you whack jobs were celebrating because America lost the games because you thought it hurt Obama.

Waving at kmichaels my favorite right wing whacko.

claspur   October 9th, 2009 - 1:07 pm

Maobummercorn accepts Nobel Peace Prize as “continued call for *inaction” /fixed

H2K   October 9th, 2009 - 1:37 pm

rodeo clown,
As if helping Indonesia after the tsunami, helping Iran after earthquakes, the fact that the USA contributes more to Palestinians than any other country in the world ((including their Musl!m “brothers”) and countless other examples was not enough, remind me why only Obama and his “zen-like” calm does ANYTHING to promote anything? In other words, which intelligent person thinks that talking a line of sh** can positively influence anyone other than those with a moderate to low IQ?
This is all a political game at the expense of the US. I don’t think we should bomb the world, but I think we shouldn’t be naive.

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   October 9th, 2009 - 2:01 pm

Well your right on one point…big boy! You did NOTHING to deserve it!

You are the puppet of the puppetmaster Bilderbergs and they bestowed it upon you for following orders to take America down from within to bring in the New World Order!

America…now do you believe in a conspiracy?

No one in their right mind…under normal procedures would elect a man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize just 8 months into his term of office.

He was also put into nomination to receive this just 12 days into his Presidency! America…no one could get this done…other than the Bilderberg Society!

They have engineered this award and because of it…this former prestigious award has been diminished to nothing more than an MTV Award!

Put Bilderberg Society and/or Obama Deception into your search engine and find out who is control of this world and our Republic.

America…this is evil! This has to stop and it has to stop by the Congress. The Congress of these United States of America that is supposed to represent us…the “real” American people…need to legally remove this man from office.

Do you not also find it interesting that they give this award to someone who has done nothing but bring chaos and division to his own nation?

Was this not to be awarded to a peacemaker?

Isn’t it ironic that this award has gone to two Democratzi duds under the assumption that they have promoted peace…Jimmy “Hamas” Carter and Bilderberg Bush-Obama…the puppet of the Bilderbergs setting him up to rule the “New World Order” after taking America down from within!

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mark   October 9th, 2009 - 2:03 pm

Obama won the peace prize for not being CHENEY

mark   October 9th, 2009 - 2:14 pm

I won a piece of Obama for not being Cheney.
It was wonderful. But then Larry Sinclair tried
to butt in, literally. I huffed and huffington posted
about my anger as I danced (pranced more like it)
in my loafers, that somebody would butt in on
my butt action with my mammy Obammy dream.

kmichaels   October 9th, 2009 - 2:16 pm

Hey, twit dweeb moron rodeo clown. Being loved by socialist countries might impress your diseased a$$ but real Americans are not prone to prostate themselves before the worlds mighty socialist leaders inn order to be liked. Being liked is for sissy girls (you, larse, mark, obama) but real Americans would rather be right than liked.

kmichaels   October 9th, 2009 - 2:17 pm

rodeo clown would despise Jesus because when he walked the earth, he was not very well liked. Apparently in his diseased mushy brains, being liked is good, even if you have to prostate yourself in front of his might Satan, the guy that knows all the tricks about being liked.

tom   October 9th, 2009 - 2:21 pm

I belong to the party of sissified girly men, so I like it when my sissy friend Obama is loved by socialists and marxists the world over. And obviously it takes real diplomacy and skill to be loved by Hitler, I mean, Stalin, I mean Chavez, I mean Castro, I mean Iran, and of course lovely French people.

CK in Philly   October 9th, 2009 - 2:21 pm

kmichaels – I’m surprised to hear you use the word “prostate” in a sentence. I thought the only thing you knew about a prostate is that yours gets sore when your boyfriend pokes it with the end of his d**k when he’s going deep inside your a$$.

Barry Obama   October 9th, 2009 - 2:23 pm

I just want to be liked, not right.
Friendly Iranian faces means more
to me than bringing about real peace.
And I get more photos to go in the
history books too.

I wanna be loved by you, just you
and nobody else but you,
I dont wanna be loved by Jew
or Jew or Israel.

I just lover all my socialist friends
giving me the honor I so
richly deserve. It is a call to action,
now where did I leave that beer.

CK in Philly   October 9th, 2009 - 2:26 pm

Alright! So know I know who posts under the name “CrackHead in Philly”

It’s old K-MIKE!

What up, K-MIKE, you stupid ignorant prick!

kmichaels   October 9th, 2009 - 2:28 pm

Satan exhibited zen like calm when he asked Jesus to throw himself down upon the jagged rocks below, calmly pointing out that it is written that the savior would be watched over by angels. That is why it makes perfect sense that Obama should lead us all carefully down to hell. That way the less intelligent people will not be so prone to understanding that they are indeed being lead into hell. Just be calm, so that nobody knows that you are the devil yourself.

Barry Obama   October 9th, 2009 - 2:32 pm

My mammy Michelle asked me to right down a list of why I deserved this great honor.
But I am having trouble. How do you spell my middle name?

1) Don’t remember.
2) Can’t think of why.
3) I am not Bush.
4) I am a socialist.
5) I took five months to pick out a dog, which leads to world peace.

Mammy, mammy, I am so excited. I just figured it out.
Barry, don’t be a god damned idiot kid, keep trying.
Better yet, ask Uncle Ayers to come help you write your list.
He did it before, he can do it again. Besides, me and
Uncle Ayers have some catchin up ta do.

Buford T Justice   October 9th, 2009 - 3:33 pm

I think the Swedes got a batch of bad herring – hallucinations and insanity are symptoms of eating spoiled fish.

F U B H O

Brother Johnson   October 9th, 2009 - 3:46 pm

Arafat? Gore? Obama? I believe I would rather have a $20 gift certificate to Applebee’s than win the Nobel Peace Prize. A $20 meal at a mediocre restaurant would have more substance.

Larse   October 9th, 2009 - 4:17 pm

Congratulations to President Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Prize for Peace!!!!!!!!!!

Of course all the Obama hating loons will be super we weeded up over this. But nobody cares…

Ray D. Aider   October 9th, 2009 - 4:29 pm

“I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative figures that have been honored by this prize.”

Many, finally, have something that they can agree with concerning this POTUS.

Wait! That had already been said.

kmichaels   October 9th, 2009 - 4:33 pm

No sh$t Crackhead, it took you this long to discover that I posted under Crackhead after I used the term Crackhead for about a hundred times. God, you are so brilliant.
How many decades will it take you to discover that Obama is a socialist, you dimwitted ignorant troll?

jason   October 9th, 2009 - 4:34 pm

I would like to thank the academy…..oops, that’s later.

Hollywood stars have nothin’ on this dude.
Vanity – look in the dictionary and his pic is there, with his wife Chewbacca looking over his shoulder for scraps.

http://cafepress.com/rightwingstuff

Larse   October 9th, 2009 - 4:35 pm

Congrats to girly boy Obama for winning a meaningless prize just for being a black socialist. What effort, what pizazz, what mental re-ta-dation it must have taken to get there.

AtlasObjectivist   October 9th, 2009 - 5:30 pm

What a total embarrassment.

Mauna   October 9th, 2009 - 5:42 pm

What a joke. I am sure Obama and Michelle are thrilled – they get to go again to a foreign country (pick up their award) on their private plane with hundreds of security guards,…..Oh, if he is so peaceful and loved, why does he have to take hundreds of security guards everywhere with him all the time?

BJC   October 9th, 2009 - 7:01 pm

I heard they renamed the award :”The NoBallz prize”.

mark   October 9th, 2009 - 7:53 pm

choking on SOUR GRAPES?

fauxmark…your limmerick, uh… don’t quit your day job….buttercup

BJC   October 10th, 2009 - 1:39 am

Now the White House and Gibbs along with Obama said they had no idea about this award. I want you to go to http://www.c-span.com and watch today/Friday’s white house briefing with Gibbs and tell me what you hear. It’s around the 26 minute mark. White House lies and not one reporter caught it or would question the remark. Now remember they were shocked and surprised this morning and knew nothing of it…
The reporter ask the question…Has the President thought of inviting other Nobel Prize winners to the White House? Gibbs answers, “We talked about it earlier this week”. Now why would they be talking about the Nobel Peace Prize earlier in the week if they had no idea about it?

Chris in San Jose   October 10th, 2009 - 1:43 pm

Some many people with their hearts filled with hatred. President Obama has a good heart for people. He cares for all and is looking out for the best interest of all. Those of you who oppose him must be honest with yourselves; you hate people different from you, you only care about your life and not the lives of people different from you. Stop living in fear. Relax. No more hatred.

Chris in San Jose   October 10th, 2009 - 1:53 pm

Barry,

Please explain why you use the word socialist in a negative way? There is nothing negative about socialism. Capitalism is the playground of injustice. Socialism is caring about the needs of each other. Capitalism inspires greed, I want more than my neighbor has mentality.

Every nation has corrupt leadership, American has had plenty in the past. Corrupt leadership is to blame for any abuses that they allow and not the economic models. My dream is to live in a world where there is no poverty. I envision a world where everyone has food, a home, and clothes.

Chris in San Jose   October 10th, 2009 - 1:56 pm

So many people in this world have hatred in their hearts. President Obama has a good heart for people. He cares for all and is looking out for the best interest of all. Those of you who oppose him must be honest with yourselves; you hate people different from you, you only care about your life and not the lives of people different from you. Stop living in fear. Relax. No more hatred.

Desiree   October 11th, 2009 - 1:53 am

Chris in San Jose,

Move your silly azz to Cuba. You know nothing about loving the freedoms and
liberties of this country and nothing of those that paid the ultimate
sacrifice to keep us free. The obama administration is corrupt. It’s the Chicago
way you azzhat. They promised transparency during the campaign, they have yet to
show it. Explain whitehouse.gov and turning people into them for fishy e-mails.
Very hitleresque. We see schoolchildren singing songs that are nothing but
propaganda and indroctrination. Again, very hitleresque. They stage a healthscare
photo op using doctors, some of them given white lab coats by whitehouse staffers,
and not dislosing these doctors were part of a group that are obama supporters.
There is no way I trust this group of liars with my life. Why don’t you and the rest
of you obamabots move someplace where you can all live in peace and harmony. My
question is who’s going to pay for it. You claim so many people have hatred in their
hearts, well that’s better than people like you that have shizz for brains. Now
blow it out your azz.

J.B. Youknowwho   October 11th, 2009 - 6:30 am

J.B. hearts Desiree.

Desiree   October 12th, 2009 - 8:39 pm

Back at ya JB

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