Congratulations mister pvvesident

[mudshark]

Barak Obama just recived the peace price here in Norway. just met up with our King ( I know, it's medival to have a king) and held a spectacular speach at the Town Hall.
in a coupla hours he will wave at the people from the Grand Hotel.
the people will consist of two groups. One is there to cheer, one to protest.
I belive the sorry asses protesting will be few and soon forgotten.

Tomorrow hes off to a much more important task.
Kopenhagen, Denmark.

these are the dry facts.
what we really wanna know is if he stops by the cafeteria to have a cop of coffe. like Clinton did.

[mudshark]

"The most important speach through out all time!"

- an american analyst
if you havent seen it already. well... you will.

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/585078
around 55. min



http://nrk.no/

[mtmynd]

good to hear his speech was a success in the EU and beyond. I caught most of it (it was early here) and even our news media actually did not disparage the speech (one channel anyway). I personally thought his speech to be wonderful and meaningful.

hope you share some coffee with the Pres!

[mudshark]

It was a dazzeling one. must of it about war(!), but still... always with inspirational amounts of hope.

CNN pisses me of though. shameless bstrds.

[Arcadia]

I read a sort of abstract in MSN latino page (maybe not at all the most adecuate place.. I´ll try to read more later). Curious...each day I can understand Obama more and at the same time agree with him less!

[the mingo]

Bingo, V. Glad I'm not the only one having that backwards seeming notion. I say that without rancor and I wish him well but he is just a man after all and subject to the same things that bedevil all men everywhere.

[mudshark]

I was a bit nervous about the ballcony-thing, wre he would greet the people.
the protesters never made it anywhere near the crowd of ten tousands cheering him. and the wife.


Torches flaming up the night in a ocean of light.


come to think of it. hes speach earlier today, did have a flinging odeur of conservatism. and I do belive he was talking to the american people the hole time.

[mnaz]

No comment.

[mudshark]

really special. started the speach by saying " we will never have peace in our lifetime"... further on: " war itself is never glorious. war itself is at some level an expression of human failure. war is sometimes necceserry.
almost appoligising receiving the prize.

never seen anyone do that.

[mudshark]

the difficult choises he had to make as a pvvesident.
He stod there as a representative for the American army.
weird.
but the retorical part of it was totally mindblowing.
to me that is important.
I've been waiting for someone like that.

it's a lot of love in mindblowingness-

[mtmynd]

His speech opened more doors and closed none from what I heard.

[mnaz]

yeah, he's a good orator, for sure. he's no peace prize winner though. not from where I sit. will it all make more sense with the passage of time? maybe.

[mudshark]

no peace prize winner??
let me remind you: the prize is awarded to the one person who has done best THE LAST YEAR.
got anyone else?

we didn't.

[mnaz]

in my humble opinion, peace prizes should not be given to persons of power who escalate foreign wars based primarily on imperial/economic interests (despite the noble rhetoric).

then again, if we crush the Taliban and prop up that bastard Karzai in Afghanistan, no harm no foul, I guess.

[mnaz]

okay, I apologize. I'm acting like a jerk here, I guess. perhaps my sour protest isn't going to help anything. I think he's a good man, but I'm beginning to suspect he lacks spine to stand up against the mega-corporate machine on our behalf. then again, he is only one man, and he sure as hell wasn't given much to work with. so I should probably "stand down" now and quiet my protest. I wish him well. Us (we) too.