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I think Obama deserved Nobel Prize. Let us check his struggled Childhood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama#Early_life_and_career
I didn't know that the Nobel peace prize was awarded to the person who struggled the most in his childhood.
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My theory - Republicans bribed the Nobel Prize Committee to award this to Obama. Cheap for an instant PR disaster.
Or the democrats did it, so Obama can hold a long rejection-speech, highlighing all the people more worthy of it than him for an instant PR success.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. It should be a prize for achievement, not for intentions. The Nobel Prize has just devalued considerably.
Nobel Peace Prize. No reason to drag the other Nobels into that.
So, I really did mean the Nobel Prize as such and I'm really sorry they did that.
From the wikipedia article on the Nobel Prize:
"The interval between the accomplishment of the achievement being recognized and the awarding of the Nobel Prize for it varies from discipline to discipline. The prizes in Literature are typically awarded to recognize a cumulative lifetime body of work rather than a single achievement. In this case the notion of "lag" does not directly apply. The prizes in Peace, on the other hand, are often awarded within a few years of the events they recognize. For instance, Kofi Annan was awarded the 2001 Peace Prize just four years after becoming the Secretary-General of the United Nations."
So, maybe this is a case of prescience or something ?
I really think this was dreadfully misguided and that it devalues the whole of the Nobel Prize, of course there is absolutely no way they could ever do anything about it now but the Nobel Prize is now synonymous with 'has the potential to do great things, some day. We hope.'
From the secretary of the peace prize committee: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibu-kfROlV... _ Myth: The prize is awarded to recognize efforts for peace, human rights and democracy only after they have proven successful. More often, the prize is awarded to encourage those who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes at critical moments. Posted by AP 6 hours ago. Clearly they knew this would…
_ Myth: Candidates can be nominated until the last minute.
The nomination deadline is eight months before the announcement, with a strictly enforced deadline of Feb. 1.
Wow! So Obama was president for only 11 days before he was nominated.
I'd like someone to inform me of one accomplishment of his that warrants his receiving of the award. And pushing a catchy a slogan of 'change,' to get elected, isn't one of them.
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons." I'm happy for him, and I'm glad to be rid of Bush too, but isn't that a little prem…
MLK gets imprisoned, shot at, fire bombed and beaten. Encourages millions to stand with him at non violent civil disobedience actions. Millions do so DESPITE the fact that they will be imprisoned and beaten. Nelson Mandela . . . yeah . . . ditto. Oh, did I mention 27 years in a notorious prison for 'enemies of the state'. Gorbachev. OK, when was the last time American school children practiced what to do in case of n…
AFAIK, yes - Israel completely obliterated Palestine during Christmas bombing.