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blogs.telegraph.co.uk - 10/15/2009

Barack Obama: ‘Oh, did I mention I won the Nobel prize?’ – Telegraph Blogs

— blogs.telegraph.co.uk — The conventional wisdom is that President Barack Obama was embarrassed by the patently ludicrous award to him... of the Nobel Peace Prize . And to be fair it did seem so when he accepted the honour (a term I use loosely) last Friday, quoting his daughter ... (more) Barack Obama: ‘Oh, did I mention I won the Nobel ...

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time.com - 10/15/2009

How Obama Could Earn His Nobel Prize

— time.com — How can Obama possibly live up to his Nobel? By using it to strike a deal in... the Middle East (more) How Obama Could Earn His Nobel Prize

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freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/12/2009

What This Year’s Nobel Prize in Economics Says About the Nobel Prize in Economics

— freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com — What This Year’s Nobel Prize in Economics Says About the Nobel Prize in Economics... (more) What This Year’s Nobel Prize in Economics Says About the ...

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Majority of Norwegian Judges Were Against Obama Winning the Peace Prize
Gateway Pundit — But, they gave it to him anyway. The largest daily paper in Norway reported today that a majority of the judges on the Nobel Committee objected to giving Obama the Peace Prize. AFP reported, via Drudge: Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday. "VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give ...

Report: More Than Half Of Nobel Committee Initially Objected To Obama Nobel
Below The Beltway — Well, this is very interesting: OSLO — Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday. “VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give the peace prize to Barack Obama,” the newspaper said. In a surprise move last Friday, the Nobel committee attributed the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama less ...

Minority Report
JustOneMinute — This report of divisions on the Nobel Peace Prize committee are interesting but hardly surprising: OSLO — Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday."VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give the peace prize to Barack Obama," the newspaper said. ..."The committee was unanimous," its influential secretary Geir Lundestad told ...

The Nobel Committee's Not-So Unanimous Selection of Obama
Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog — The Agence France Presse today reports that three of the Nobel Committee's five committee members had problems with awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama. ...

Nobel Committee Having Buyer's Remorse?
Gates of Vienna — Can some Norwegian please translate the politics underlying this news report from AFP ? First of all the report itself couldn’t be more vague. It claims that the “Norwegian tabloid” Verdens Gang says that three of the five members of the (now infamous) Nobel Committee “had objections” to awarding the prize to President Obama. There were five members on that committee: The chairman of this august body is one of the two members from the Labour Party. Did his vote simply carry more weight so that he was able to vote the others down? Last week, this man (secretary Geir Lundestad) ...