And the Peace Nobel Prize for 2009 goes to...

[MadImmortalMan]

YO OBAMA, I'M GONNA LET YOU FINISH, BUT I JUST WANNA SAY THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAS THE BEST NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OF ALL TIME.

I knew it had to be up already:

[MadImmortalMan]

[The Brain]

Me when I learned of this:



Sometimes you just, you know... oh man.

[The Brain]

It will be hard to take Obama seriously from now on. Whenever you think of him you will snicker.

[Martinus]

I think it is funny, I don't get the outrage, tbh.

I can't speak for others, but personally I'm not "outraged", just "shocked and dismayed".  I have not looked at the list of other nominees but I'm quite certain there are plenty of people listed who have achieved far more.

Well some people are using expressions like "disgusting" etc. I think this is an overreaction.

[Martinus]

The peace prize is a total joke anyway. Even the legitimate recipient actually haven't really done anything for peace.

Yeah, it's weird to have a prize related to your ability to *prevent* shit.  I mean, they don't give the Nobel Prize for Medicine out to people who prevent AIDS from being cured. 

We should probably have a Nobel War Prize.  I mean, Arafat would have actually been a good candidate for that particular award.   Get on this, Slargos.

Actually, there should be like a set of Opposite Nobel Prizes.

Nobel War Prize.
Nobel Plague Prize.
Nobel Famine Prize.
Nobel Illiteracy Prize.
Nobel Reality TV Prize.
etc.

[Gambrinus]

Hey, don't drag the real Nobel Prizes into this 

[Martinus]

I remember something like this happened when Al Gore won the prize, in that another nominee had saved a ton of Jews from the Holocaust, and while Gore is really, really concerned about the environment, he hasn't really had an opportunity to broker peace, not having been elected POTUS and all that.

I heard that story on the radio. A woman in a Nazi occupied nation (Holland/Belgium/France, not sure which) saved a bunch of kids from the Nazis, hid them and got them to Switzerland. Pretty amazing and quite worthy.

For Fucks Sake

The woman was Polish.

She saved Jewish kids in Poland.

She died last year. I posted a thread on Languish. There was an obituary in the Economist.

[The Brain]

I remember something like this happened when Al Gore won the prize, in that another nominee had saved a ton of Jews from the Holocaust, and while Gore is really, really concerned about the environment, he hasn't really had an opportunity to broker peace, not having been elected POTUS and all that.

I heard that story on the radio. A woman in a Nazi occupied nation (Holland/Belgium/France, not sure which) saved a bunch of kids from the Nazis, hid them and got them to Switzerland. Pretty amazing and quite worthy.

For Fucks Sake

The woman was Polish.

She saved Jewish kids in Poland.

Oh the irony.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

I wonder if this will colour his decisions re: Afghanistan. Nobel Peace prize winner, a week later sending in 40,00 farm boys to the poppy fields?

[Ed Anger]

For Fucks Sake

The woman was Polish.

She saved Jewish kids in Poland.

they forgot poland.

[Martinus]

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

[The Brain]

Obama is essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic and public life.

[Martinus]

I remember something like this happened when Al Gore won the prize, in that another nominee had saved a ton of Jews from the Holocaust, and while Gore is really, really concerned about the environment, he hasn't really had an opportunity to broker peace, not having been elected POTUS and all that.

I heard that story on the radio. A woman in a Nazi occupied nation (Holland/Belgium/France, not sure which) saved a bunch of kids from the Nazis, hid them and got them to Switzerland. Pretty amazing and quite worthy.

For Fucks Sake

The woman was Polish.

She saved Jewish kids in Poland.

Oh the irony.

Like the iron you fuckers sold to the nazis?

[Martinus]

Obama is essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic and public life.

That's your second quote from TIOBE within the last few days. What's up with that?