Yet another dubious "accomplishment" for Barack Obama - he has now been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-wor...-grbw.html

The granting of this award to Obama has raised eyebrows both in his own country, and also around the world.

The article above quotes a Republican lawmaker as saying:

"I'm not sure what the international community loved best: his waffling on Afghanistan, pulling defense missiles out of Eastern Europe, turning his back on freedom fighters in Honduras, coddling Castro, siding with Palestinians against Israel, or almost getting tough on Iran"

Funny he should mention the Palestinians. The Nobel Committee has made some strange choices in the past when choosing Nobel Peace Prize recipients.

Here's a few quotes from the PLO terrorist group chairman and co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, Yasser Arafat:

Strange words for a man who was given a "peace prize".

Source for these quotes: http://davidhuntwork.tripod.com/id38.html

This one is not quite an accomplishment yet but Barakus Obamus Caesar has promised it will happen. He has promised to eliminate the "Don't ask-Don't tell" policy in our military forces. This, in my opinion, is a huge mistake. I believe it will be the cause of a lot of violence in the ranks. For any of you who have served in the Armed Forces I certain you are aware that one of the most despised things among the troops is homosexuals. That is just the way it is. By allowing homosexuals to openly serve in the military I believe they will become targets.

Let me express my second concern to you by relating a story of what happened to me while I was in the Navy.

I was serving as Fleet Center Supervisor at NavCommSta, Guam during the Viet Nam War. One morning as we were on the day watch things started to really heat up in country. The circuits were really jammed. We had a bank of circuits from the Message Center next door we called the Ponies. Message Center handled traffic from ships that did not have the capability of communicating with us directly. They were extremely busy that morning and my best operator was not there.

I went in to my Division Officer's office and told him the Kelly was missing and asked if we could send someone to the barracks to look for him. The Division officer told me I would have to get along without him for a while because he was at the Captain's office. I explained the situation to the Division Officer and asked that when Kelly showed up he be sent in right away.

About an hour later Kelly showed up in his dress whites. I told him it was not the right thing to wear to work and to get back to the barracks and change into his dungarees. He told me he couldn't because he had to go back to the Captain's office pretty soon. So I told him that when he got done to come right to work.

After about another hour I went back to the Division Officer to ask about Kelly. My Division Officer told me that I would have to get along without him because he (Kelly) was out of the Navy. I asked how I could sign up for that program. My Division Officer said, "All you have to do is be queer." I asked, "Do you mean the guy we have been living in the barracks with, taking showers with and all of that is a fairy?" My Division Officer replied in the affirmative.

At that instant I felt the greatest feeling of revulsion I have ever experienced. I believe I may have come close to feeling what a woman feels when a man undresses her with his eyes. It was absolutely sickening. It took me a long time to get over that and when the rest of the men in the barracks heard about it I thought we were going to have a riot.

Now our President wants these types to serve openly in the military. There is no place in the United States military for homosexuals. I intend to send our President a copy of that little story and let him know my feelings on the subject.

In Christ,
George

This post was last modified: Sun Oct 11, 2009 06:19 PM by George.

Well now that he has won the Nobel Peace Prize, I think they ought to crown him Miss America too!

I heard that the POTUS was up for an Oscar. He has the potential* to be one of the greatest actors that we have ever had.

*That is the new qualification for a Nobel prize. Not actual performance.

Looks like he plans to take over the Internet soon - at least that is the rumors I have been hearing. If true we can all kiss this message board and our emails good bye!

This post was last modified: Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:52 AM by IM4given.

Finally! Looks like the "birthers" have the goods on Barry.

(From the World Net Daily site - http://www.wnd.com)

A Kenyan lawmaker told the nation's parliament last month that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore "not even a native American."
During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country's minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America's election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:
"If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation," Orengo posited, "how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the president of America?"
Orengo held up the U.S. as a country no longer "living in the past," since Americans elected a Kenyan-born president without regard to "ethnic consideration and objectives."
Debate is then recorded in the Kenyan government's official March 25, 2010, hansard – a traditional name for printed transcripts of a parliamentary debate – as continuing with no other MPs mentioning or attempting to correct Orengo's comments about Obama.
As WND has reported, several other sources – including National Public Radio – have claimed Obama's birthplace as Kenya prior to his election as president.
WND also reported when a video appeared in which Michelle Obama said her husband's "home country" was Kenya, though her comments didn't specifically suggest his birth there.
The video, posted April 3 on YouTube and forwarded by a score of Internet e-mails, shows Michelle Obama saying, "When we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya, we took a public HIV test."
The reference drew attention because of the claim made in numerous lawsuits and other challenges to Obama's occupancy of the Oval Office that he is not eligible to be president under the requirement of Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution that the president be a "natural born citizen."
But the NPR reference and Michelle Obama's comment are far from the only ones of their kind.
At one point, there were reports that even Obama's grandmother claimed being in attendance at his birth in Africa.
According to a compilation of images at a military forum, another reference was made in 2008 in the Nigerian Observer.
Under a byline from Solomon Asowata and a Washington dateline, the report says, "Americans will today go to the polls to elect their next president with Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama largely favoured to win. The Kenyan-born Senator will, however, face a stiff competition from his Republican counterpart…"

A commentary at The Post & Email website said, "It is no wonder that many doubt Obama's claim of a Hawaiian birth."
It cited another report from African Travel Magazine that said, "As Kenyan born U.S. Senator Barack Obama jets into Kenya today as part of his African tour, concerns have once again been raised on the security preparations for other visitors and residents. ...."
The Post & Email commentary also cited a report from Indonesia Matters that includes similar references.
WND documented earlier several other statements linking Obama and Kenya.
These included the apparently archived article from the Sunday Standard in Kenya.
The report begins, "Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack (sic) Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations."

The article is credited to the wire service Associated Press at the bottom of the page. However, the article could not be found either in the AP archives available to the public online or the archive on the newspaper's website. WND telephone calls and e-mails to the newspaper did not generate a response.
Last year, an African news site and an MSNBC broadcaster referred to President Obama's birthplace as being outside of the United States.
Network correspondent Mara Schiavocampo was reporting on the celebratory atmosphere in Accra, Ghana, immediately prior to Obama's visit to the west African nation.
Interviewing a person who appeared to be a shop operator, she stated, "Barack Obama is Kenyan … but Ghanaians are still proud of him."
Also, a report at Modern Ghana posted in advance of the president's visit cited his birthplace on the continent of Africa.
"For Ghana, Obama's visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth," the report said.

WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
Some of the lawsuits question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.
Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.
Complicating the situation is Obama's decision to spend sums exceeding $1.7 million to avoid releasing an original long-form state birth certificate that would put to rest the questions.
WND also has reported that among the documentation not yet available for Obama includes his kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and his adoption records.
Because of the dearth of information about Obama's eligibility, WND founder Joseph Farah has launched a campaign to raise contributions to post billboards asking a simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"
WND also reported previously when Michelle Obama contradicted Obama's story that he lived with his mother and father for several years in Hawaii after he was born before his father left to pursue a graduate degree.
Michelle Obama said her husband's mother, Ann Dunham, was "very young and very single" when she gave birth to the future U.S. president.
Her comments undermine the official story as told by Barack Obama – that Dunham was married to his father, Barack Obama Sr., at the time of birth.
The remarks were made by Michelle Obama during a July 2008 round table at the University of Missouri. Obama was responding to criticism of her husband's presidential campaign speeches about fatherhood and faith-based initiatives.