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To: longnshort who wrote (328283)	10/9/2009 10:48:50 AM
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The runner-up, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is calling for a recount.

To: longnshort who wrote (328283)	10/9/2009 11:32:12 AM
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Scott Ott is on top of the story U.N. Decries Obama's Preemptive Nobel Peace Prize by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace · Comments (7) · ShareThis · Print This Story Print This Story (2009-10-09) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today rejected in the strongest possible terms the deployment of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, which he said was "reminiscent of George W. Bush's disastrous doctrine of preemption." "The Nobel committee, perhaps persuaded by faulty intelligence and a hyped sense of urgency, made an historic blunder in its rush to judgment," said Mr. Ban. "When Obama was nominated in February, he had just taken office…so the prize was awarded based on his speeches as a presidential candidate, not even for the good intentions that he has implemented in the past eight months." Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident known as 'the father of Chinese democracy', is among the 176 nominees who lost to Mr. Obama, but said he was honored to have been edged out by "a man of such staggering accomplishments." "I was imprisoned more than 15 years for speaking out against a totalitarian communist regime," said Mr. Wei, "A book of my essays was published from my writings, initially scribbled on toilet paper in jail. But I have to admit that Barack Obama has written two books and given hundreds of autobiographical speeches with thinner material than that. I bow respectfully to the father of global peace."

To: longnshort who wrote (328283)	10/9/2009 11:54:41 AM
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Even the MSM knows. NBC's Lauer: Not to Be Rude, But Obama Hasn't Done Anything By Rich Noyes (Bio \| Archive) October 9, 2009 - 10:37 ET Even Barack Obama’s fan club on NBC’s Today were stunned at the President’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. Co-host Matt Lauer found it baffling: “We’re less than a year into the first term of this president and there are no -- I'm not trying to be, you know, rude here -- no major foreign policy achievements, to date.” Meet the Press moderator David Gregory felt the need to point out the “left-leaning” impulse of the Europeans who christened Obama as the world’s leading peacemaker for 2009: “This is a lot more about tone than it is substantive accomplishment. In many ways, this is a European body who is more left-leaning, certainly, and opposed to the administration of George W. Bush.” Lauer followed up: “So, what you're saying in some ways and, again, not to be rude here or sarcastic, that in some ways he wins this award for not being George W. Bush?” Gregory agreed: “I think that that is an inescapable conclusion about all of this.” Lauer and Gregory were also fixated on what conservatives would say about the Nobel committee’s choice. Lauer insisted: “It's no secret that conservatives have opposed some of his foreign policy initiatives, reaching out to Iran, allowing former President Clinton to go to North Korea on that mission to free those U.S. journalists. Even that early speech in Egypt to the Arab world -- a lot of critics, conservatives, called it the ‘Obama apology tour.’ So how are they gonna deal with this?” “I think his conservative critics will say, you know, a lot of sizzle here, but not a lot of accomplishment,” Gregory predicted, just moments after he and Lauer had agreed that Obama lacked any “accomplishment” that would merit the award. In their barely seven minutes of coverage on Today, NBC also repeated three times the White House talking point that Obama was “humbled” by the award. Lauer at the top of the show relayed: “The President, according to administration officials, is apparently humbled by the announcement....” Co-host Meredith Vieira soon reinforced: “And as Matt reported, the President apparently very humbled by receiving that prize....” And Gregory finished his analysis by insisting that “as honored and humbled as I'm sure the President is by this award, he would much rather have unemployment rate go down from 9.8%.” newsbusters.org