I don't think Al Gore deserved one either

[howeird]

What the eff has Obama done which deserves the most prestigious prize there is for promoting world peace? Granted, in time he might actually end the war in Iraq and maybe even get NATO out of Afghanistan. In time he may even spread enough goodwill in the Islamic world to lower the number of fanatics willing to blow themselves up to eradicate the Infidel.

The official citation reads "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." By the end of his term, he will probably have done this.

But not yet.

This is an even bigger WTF than giving a Peace Prize to that stuffed shirt Big Al whose claim to fame was scaring the bejeezus out of the world using incomplete data and offering no real solutions to the bogeyman he created.

Compare his non-record to the massive lifetime accomplishments of last year's winner, Martti Ahtisaari. (follow the link, be amazed at the difference)

Edit add - fixed the broken link

Comments

[bovil.livejournal.com]

I guess to the rest of the world, "not being Bush" is a big deal.

[didjiman.livejournal.com]

To me, not being Bush is enough to award him the Nobel prizes for Peace, Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine.

[howeird]

If not being Bush is all it takes, we should all share the prize money.

[didjiman.livejournal.com]

Only if you get to talk to the other head of States and can command the US Army etc

[howeird]

If you consider the time frame in which the selection was made, Obama had not talked to anyone or commanded anything when the nomination came in. If you look at the list of Peace Prize winners, there are ample examples of people who had no dealings with heads of state. Mahammad Yunus, Wangari Maathai, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mother Teresa all won the prize without being commanders in chief or having talks with heads of state.

And IMHO commanding an army is not a qualification for a peace prize, unless you use it to make peace, which Obama has not done yet.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Well, there was a part of me that thought, for a few minutes, they should instead have given the award to the American voters, for electing a black man to the Presidency, for turning back from the brink of fascism, for all sorts of things.

They could have given Obama the award next year. Of course then the conservatives would be bitching and moaning that the Nobel committee was trying to influence US politics in an election year instead of nitpicking the (so opaque they're engaging in conjecture) selection process and complaining that it was too early.

[howeird]

If there was a negative Nobel, it could have gone to the Red States for the 2004 election. But Bush was going to be gone regardless, and they ought not be giving the most prestigious prize on the planet for just showing up.

As for the Republicans, they started screaming as soon as the news was released. There used to be a joke that a nanosecond was the time between a New York City cab driver honking his horn at the car in front of him, and the traffic light turning green. Now it's the time between Obama doing something and the Republicans screaming about it.

[howeird]

If there was a negative Nobel, it could have gone to the Red States for the 2004 election. But Bush was going to be gone regardless, and they ought not be giving the most prestigious prize on the planet for just showing up.

As for the Republicans, they started screaming as soon as the news was released. There used to be a joke that a nanosecond was the time between a New York City cab driver honking his horn at the car in front of him, and the traffic light turning green. Now it's the time between Obama doing something and the Republicans screaming about it.

[scendan.livejournal.com]

I am deeply surprised by this as well. Deeply.