The Norwegian politicians gave their prize to Obama because they believed that he would leave Europeans in their comfortable prosperity without making unreasonable demands. That is their definition of peace, and Obama seemed to promise that.
“You don’t have to be on television every minute of every day. You’re the President, not the rerun of Law and Order.”
best comment: “I’m disappointed that no President has taken of the opportunity afforded by this chart to kill pirates in half-pirate increments.”
Obama is the new Dubya. When it comes to finance at least, the parallels are way (way) too striking to ignore.
— Is Obama the Financial Dubya? - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
“In an apparent bid to stand out in the crowded fast food market, a Brooklyn business has rechristened itself “Obama Fried Chicken.” Previously known as Royal Fried Chicken, the eatery, located at Rockaway Parkway and Rutland Road in Brownsville, unveiled its revamped name last Thursday afternoon when the business’s new awning was installed”
Barack Obama’s ‘lost’ brother found in Kenya
The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi. Mr Obama, 26, the youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, spoke for the first time about his life, which could not be more different than that of the Democratic contender. “No-one knows who I am,” he told the magazine, before claiming: “I live here on less than a dollar a month.”