Today in History: October 9, Barack Obama
wins Nobel Peace Prize
Associated Press News,
by
Associated Press Board
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Posted By: 4250Luis,
10/9/2025 7:24:36 AM
On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Also on this date:
In 1910, a coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado left 56 miners dead.
In 1962, Uganda won autonomy from British rule.In 1963, a mega-tsunami triggered by a landside at Vajont Dam in northern Italy destroyed villages and caused approximately 2,000 deaths.In 1967, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Safari Man 10/9/2025 7:27:40 AM (No. 2014463)
I did more for peace than he did. And if you’re reading this, so did you.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Doc1 10/9/2025 7:31:56 AM (No. 2014466)
First time in history someone got a Nobel Prize just for being a certain race.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 10/9/2025 7:43:30 AM (No. 2014472)
You can't this stuff up.....what a joke.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Encore 10/9/2025 8:16:07 AM (No. 2014484)
Sucked the prestige right out of the award. Might as well be a free ice cream cone.
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I would be banned for life from this lovely website if I put into words my thoughts on this topic. I will say, however, in a college book a friend of mine showed me which was her daughter's book, stated the reason why he received the award was "for his potential". That is a direct quote.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/9/2025 8:58:29 AM (No. 2014498)
The Nobel Committee further cheapened its prestige giving Obama the Peace Prize only months after he became President and before he'd done anything worthy except to be Black. Then around the same time the University of Notre Dame awarded O'Mama an honorary doctorate for pretty much the same reason even though Obama was literally the most prominent pro-abortion politician America had ever seen. Trump in contrast would be a truly deserving recipient, but he'd need to wipe the shite off the award first.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/9/2025 9:46:51 AM (No. 2014518)
For what? That question still lingers!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mr Clean 10/9/2025 10:04:47 AM (No. 2014525)
The award and the recipient have equivalent values—that is to say, zero.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 10/9/2025 10:26:48 AM (No. 2014528)
Trump will never get that now worthless prize and I don't think he even gives a schiff whether he does or not. He feels that he has a job to do and he is going to do it. The Nobel is now like one of those "participation" trophies that losing members of your son's pewee baseball team get after a game.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
thefield 10/9/2025 10:45:02 AM (No. 2014532)
His accomplishment was a DEI hire.
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#4 nailed it. I don't care who wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Donald Trump shouldn't either.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/9/2025 10:50:45 AM (No. 2014537)
This point in history was straight out of “Atlas Shrugged.” In fact, nearly all of what Obama did was straight out of “Atlas Shrugged.” The guy is a Looter extraordinaire, while his grifting “wife” is an endless Moocher.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
hershey 10/9/2025 11:00:48 AM (No. 2014540)
Just proves the Nobel prize is worth exactly more than a bowl of cow manure...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
C4londie 10/9/2025 11:42:17 AM (No. 2014556)
Reading the headline actually made my stomach churn. This faker did absolutely nothing to help humanity. In fact, he divided the Country. Praying that Trump 2.0 will keep us on the track towards greatness.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sw penn 10/9/2025 12:22:52 PM (No. 2014569)
"Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39,
was executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture. "
So what liberal dream can be crushed
in a proper celebration of X Che Day?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 10/9/2025 1:00:59 PM (No. 2014581)
A prize awarded for doing exactly NOTHING AT ALL.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 10/9/2025 1:24:54 PM (No. 2014585)
If the committee truly wanted to live up to that statement they will present the Nobel PEACE prize to Donald J. Trump.
"for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
No one deserves it more for all he's done in just the last few months for peace and strengthening international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/9/2025 1:38:11 PM (No. 2014589)
Posters here, frankly, are wrong. 0bama was not given the Prize by the Nobel Committee for primarily being black. But for hating America. They certainly saw the potential.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 10/9/2025 2:39:29 PM (No. 2014605)
The day the committee awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace to Obama, who had accomplished nothing more by that time than writing three self-promoting memoirs, and lying his way into the White House, was the day the prize lost all credibility.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/9/2025 3:24:24 PM (No. 2014623)
A Day That Will Go Down In Infamy. When Nobel went DEI.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
rochow 10/9/2025 3:58:33 PM (No. 2014628)
The lazy lefty commie swine did what? This piece of trash was only busy to find some 'blow' that he could remember where he is. Of course, the dumber than dumb Norwegians are such moronic lefties.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/9/2025 5:29:28 PM (No. 2014657)
Second question, which of the aforementioned events was the least significant?
Interesting #5. By that logic, I have the potential to develop an FTL drive ship and be the first earthling to set foot on a planet in the Alpha Centauri system. Where's my prize?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 10/9/2025 10:55:56 PM (No. 2014747)
Obama hadn't done anything to receive any award up to that point, and he hasn't done anything since to receive any kind of award. He and Wifey are the biggest bags of nothing I've ever seen.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 10/10/2025 7:51:09 AM (No. 2014846)
For showing up and breathing? Set the bar low enough and you'll trip over it.
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