Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe...ize/index.html

I guess it really is just an encouragement for him to keep his plans and promises. Cos' seriously, what did he do so far, except for touring Europe, giving up the idea of anti-missile shield and giving a speech at UN?

Thank you, Norway. Type Chi-ha is just going to hate us even more for that :roll:

He has a lot of fancy plans. I wouldn't have given him crap till he actually made them all work. Seems to me they had no one better to give it to or they just got a little too excited about him.

What a joke. They should have at least waited for him to be in office for a full year before giving him the Peace award for being the first black president of the America. I'm sure he's capable of doing something that warrants a Nobel Peace Prize, but he has done no such thing so far. If you look at the time line, he was already nominated for this back in February, where he was only a month on the job. Let's stop giving out awards for good intentions and wait for some results first, OK?

They do realise that he's been refusing to meet the Dalai Lama out of fear to upset the China, right? That doesn't sound like a very extraordinary effort to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.


I just hope this doesn't cause too much of backlash to him somehow. Perhaps he should respectfully decline the prize? He's bound to get a nomination again sooner or later anyway.

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Actually looking at the previous winners, it seems like this is pretty standard fare. Looks like the Peace category isn't held in that high of a regard as the other ones either.

Wow, sweet. You've got to be rather good to get a prize while not having achieved anything yet. Either that or the alternatives looked really bad. His "Come on, muslim extremists, let's simmer down and talk for a bit" is a mighty gesture, but it seems that they're a bit too quick in giving him the prize.

I hope he lives up to the prize, though. It is a healthy idea he has there.

It's because he looks so peaceful... The pun! THE PUN!!



:P

One previous winner was Yasser Arafat. 'Nuff said.

Hmmm, still fighting a war and you get the Noble Peace Prize?!!! Not that I don't like Da Bamba but right now he is a lot of talk and promises... Actions speak louder than words in the long run... This award makes Noble Peace Prize look like a joke and the Noble Committee a bunch of ass kissing fools... His Holiness the Dalai Lama received the prize before... talk about someone committed to peace...

Well... I guess since he didn't get the Olympics they decided to give him a consolation (nobel peace) prize. :roll:

Sideshow Bob made it perfectly clear that Nobel Prize is not awarded for attempted physics... what makes attempted peace any different?

Nah. Not when even Obama's most ardent supporters are calling the whole thing ridiculous. :lol:

In Sweden we've always made jokes about Norwegians being stupid...

... But are they really just jokes?

Just when you thought the news couldn't have gotten worse...

I since learned that nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize have to be submitted by February of the awarding year. So Obama had to be selected when he wasn't even president for more than a month or so!

With that in mind, he could have refused it without shame to himself, as he could honestly claim he hadn't earned it yet. But by accepting it now, with no good reason to, he ends up looking like a foolish egotist. If Karl Rove had set the whole thing up to greatly embarrass the Obama administration, he couldn't have done better! :P

I'd be angry about Obama winning, too, if this was actually anything important.

Wow... I wouldn't have guessed everyone would be so negative about this. I guess you wouldn't have any idea what he means unless you live outside the US.

I am not saying he has done anything special in office, I am sure that people are frustrated with him, but I would argue that you can't blame him completely, you have no idea what kind of crap system he is dealing with. In fact his lack of action might actually show America the flaw in the system, as the president actually doesn't have much of any power.

ANYWAYS back to my point. The fact that he was voted in DRAMATICALLY changed the world view of the US. Just the act of becoming the first black president did more than any of us can ever appreciate. That is all I will say about that.

I take your point... just seems like a lot of hype, just way too soon..

I consider myself an Obama supporter, but this is a crock. Its like giving a kid a trophy for showing up to school on time. He's done absolutely nothing so far outside of setting the FCC on Net Neutrality (thank heavens), and "considering" repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell (which he needs to get done now). He's still committed to fighting two wars we can't morally or financially afford, we're still in Iraq, Guantanamo will probably still be open in 2012, meaningful health care reform isn't coming because of his corrupt constituents in congress, and he just told the Dali Lama to GTFO so the American landlords in China don't ruffle their panties (shows who the real world leader is, eh?). He deserves no such award because he isn't really doing anything worthy of the award.

Frankly, I'd be really freaking pissed about this if not for what Ai just said.

Exactly.

Well, if the US is getting any benefits out of this new world opinion, I sure see no sign of it. It's beside the point anyway. All we care about is whether he can do the job-and it is looking more and more like he can't, not even with his party having a solid veto-proof majority in Congress. Just because he may be loved outside the US (which may not be for very much longer at the rate things are going) doesn't prove he's a good President. Ask the Russians how they liked Boris Yeltsin.

Jesus Tap dancing christ. He we go again.

Probably chiming in too late, but yeah, this is kind of a load of sh*t. I voted for Obama, I generally support him, but what exactly did he do to get this? He got elected. In all likelyhood he was a shoe-in the moment he took office, as long as the world didn't erupt into nuclear war during his term.

And yet, the world goes on. There have been plenty of undeserving recipients of this award.

Hey, atleast he actually said in his press conference that he didn't believe he was deserving. I mean...even he thinks its a load.

You're right, excuse me. I was trying to explain some things to someone who strikes me as rather slow on the uptake.

It's cool, I just don't want a repeat of the last time. As long as it doesn't happen again, there's no harm done.

And that goes for everyone.

Whoa, that's crazy. I didn't even know he was nominated.

Note that, aside from a fancy medal and additional paragraph in his Wikipedia article, the laureate receives US$1.4 million. Now I guess there is a bunch of peace activists worldwide who struggle for cash much harder than President Obama.

Unless they decided to fund his healthcare reform with that money.

You have an unhealthy obsession with that Boris Yeltsin of yours.

He already said he's giving the money to charity

we do the same here in Norway about the swedes

Who is this Obama guy again?

Yes, I got the idea. BTW, Canadian Turtle and other people might want to make a note of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels

That's right, there was an African-American US Senator in 1870, scant years after the end of slavery. And that's why we find the hype over Obama so ridiculous.

Yeah, I know :P But you still have the funnier accent :P Though the Danish are no.1, no one can top their accent.




.. Wait, peace prize? Huhwhaa?

Damn, Jim Henson should have made his Swedish Chef into a Dane instead. He could have gotten more laughs from "The Muppet Show"!


Pay no mind, we've all determined it is worth less than a Cub Scout merit badge. :lol: Obama should still have known better than to accept it though. :roll:

I gave him credit back when I heard him say he doesn't deserve it, and that he's at least giving the money to charity. I'm not sure if it would have been a slap in the face to just out right no accept it or not though. Not sure what the ettiquite there is.

Yeah, that's a good thing

No idea either, but...

... actually, I looked this up, and to win the Nobel peace prize you don't have to have achieved anything per se. You can still win it if you're in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace... So I dunno, is he? Like, at all?

Somebody who did decline it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AA...9c_Th%E1%BB%8D

I don't know how sh*t works down there, but...is it common to vote for someone you "generally" support? That seems...not right to me.

As long as the "charity" he gave the money to isn't ACORN... I'd call shenanigans on that one... :lol:

I just mean I think with the way people react negativley to EVERYTHING he does, if he declined it a lot of the same people attacking him for accepting it, would attack him for turning it down. Not all, but you have to admit that there is a lot of people that attack him for the sake of it.

Oh good lord seriously.

This just in, Obama saves puppy from tree. Most internet experts claiming puppy was chinese communist terrorist, Obama wanted for questioning.

If Obama said he ate bacon for breakfast, people would demand it be outlawed

I bet he killed the pigs with his bare hands!