Obama Nobel Peace Prize

Obama's Nobel More Deserved Than Teddy Roosevelt's?

James Bradley | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Theodore Roosevelt won the Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and Japanese to the negotiating table to end the bloody Russo-Japanese War. In fact, Roosevelt did little to abet peace.

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Obama Nobel Peace Prize: President Picks Up His Award

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

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OSLO — Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his pre...

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Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech: Oslo Prepares For President's Arrival (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 12.09.2009 | World

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He's coming to collect the Peace Prize, but the visit may not be entirely peaceful. When President Obama arrives in Oslo Thursday to accept his Nobe...

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Obama's Nobel Snubs Judged 'Impolite' By Many Norwegians

AFP | Posted 12.09.2009 | World

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A majority of Norwegians consider "impolite" US President Barack Obama's decision to snub parts of the official Nobel Peace Prize programme in Oslo th...

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Count Your Blessings: Two Must-See Films Hit Colorado This Week

Kiri Westby | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

As someone who has spent time in Chinese detention for protesting on behalf of Tibetans, I recommend you see both Tibet: Murder in the Snow and Blessings.

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Sean Penn Visits Hugo Chavez, Talks Politics And Obama's Nobel Prize

AP | RACHEL JONES | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may fil...

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A Missed Opportunity: Human Rights in Asia

Jack Healey | Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact

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Our president is afraid of being seen in public shaking the hand of the Dalai Lama. Publicly acknowledging the Dalai Lama's cause would be type of change I hoped to see when I gave money to Obama's campaign.

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Obama Treaties Face Uphill Battle In Senate

The Boston Globe | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

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President Obama's vision of global cooperation - symbolized by his surprise Nobel Peace Prize - is in for a crucial test in the months ahead when he b...

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Obama Flexes Nobel Muscles, Brings Peace to Lost

Roy Rivenburg | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

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Lost executive producer J.J. Abrams also welcomed the peace treaty, saying he and the show's writers had no idea how they were going to end the series otherwise.

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Causing Peace: A Nobel 'Call To Action'

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

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Learning to listen beyond our firmly established filters that dictate what we think before we've even heard what the other person is saying, opens the doors to authentic communication.

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The Case for Barack Obama

Charles Perez | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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As Michelle Obama once warned critics, "Don't ever underestimate my husband." Maybe we shouldn't. Obama is playing a big game. His biggest challenge will come in righting the economy.

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Obama Has Earned the Nobel

José Ramos-Horta | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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By giving hope to the millions of disfranchised, the poor and the angry in Middle East, Asia and Africa, Obama has begun to drain the swamp in which extremist groups operate and recruit.

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Oslo's Calling

Will Durst | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy

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What worries me is, what kind of message are we sending kids? Bomb the Moon. Win a Peace Prize. You know what's next. People are going to want to bomb Mars. Just to see what happens.

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Video: Bill Clinton Reacts to Obama Nobel Prize

Julia Gorin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy

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The Nobel Prize With an Asterisk

Michael Winship | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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Better to call this prize, as many have, including the Nobel committee, an aspirational award -- the committee expressing its own audacity of hope.

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Obama Nobel Controversy: Most Jury Members Initially Argued Against Obama, Says Report

Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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Today, news broke that many on the Nobel Peace panel had initially balked at President Obama's nomination. The apparent leak, reported by Norway's t...

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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Announcement (For the Diplomatically Impaired)

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 10.14.2009 | Comedy

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Since there has been an uproar over something as non-controversial as winning the Nobel Peace Prize, this transcription is being provided for the "Diplomatically Impaired," who otherwise may have difficulty comprehending the context of President Obama being named the winner.

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Obama Wins Family Monopoly Game: Sparks Right Wing Outrage

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Comedy

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Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced this morning that the President and his family played a game of monopoly in the White House kitchen this past Sunday, which the President won. Reaction from the right was instantaneous and vitriolic.

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Why Ostrom's Nobel Is Even More Shocking Than Obama's

Randall Amster | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

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Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical, demonstrably anti-corporate, and implicitly socialistic.

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The Nobel Peace Prize; or Pissing on the Prose of Alfred B Nobel

Mark Axelrod | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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It's absolutely unconscionable that the negative reaction to a sitting US President for receiving the Nobel Award would cause the Nobel Committee to defend its decision.

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Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz

Michael Kubin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

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What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.

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Eyes on the Prize -- A New Nobel for a New World

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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Obama's detractors don't seem to understand that the Nobel Committee has offered not a false Medal of Distinguished Service to a green recruit, but a powerful weapon to a talented cadet eager to take to the battlefield.

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Nobel Jury Defends Obama Decision: We Disagree That He Has Done Nothing

AP | IAN MacDOUGALL and KARL RITTER | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

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OSLO — One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate....

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It's Hug a Conservative Week

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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It's not like President Obama gave an award to himself. The Nobel committee felt the U.S. president was deserving. And it's their football. In the end, it honors the man. It honors the nation.

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Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Politiku

Susanna Speier | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Who else in power/ Rallied throngs worldwide to work/ For peace and justice

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