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

[Ed Anger]

I won a major award.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mjruvE310Y

[Malthus]

There should be a Jaron option in Nobel peace prize voting.

I seriously believe that would be a good idea. 

[derspiess]

Whatever happened to Republicans taking pride in OUR country?

our country = Obama?

[Admiral Yi]

During the "Bush" years we have at least 4 prizes which are explicitly anti-bush

2002 Carter
2005 Mohammed el Baradei
2007 Gore
2009 Obama

I hope the Committee gets over this and awards future prizes on merit.

Next year: the Iraqi shoe throwing reporter.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Wow.    Just wow. 
Agree that this is worse than Arafat.  The prize committee lost little creditability with this choice, for they had little to lose.  But they lost all that they had.

Obama is worse than Arafat? Give me a fucking break.

Obama isn't worse than Arafat; giving Obama the Nobel makes less sense though, because he hasn't really done much of anything yet. With Arafat, the Committee was merely wrongly of the opinion that Arafat *had* done peaceful stuff.

After all, you aren't worse than Arafat, either, but we'd all be pretty surprised if you got the prize.  

There should be a Jaron option in Nobel peace prize voting.

That was Michael Jackson this time around.

[Viking]

There should be a Jaron option in Nobel peace prize voting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A5re_Kristiansen

He was an ardent supporter of the State of Israel, and in 1994 he resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the prize to Yasser Arafat, whom he labeled "world's most prominent terrorist".

The Jaron option.

[Jaron]

2009

The prize goes to:

BARACK OBAMA for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.


2008

The prize goes to:

MARTTI AHTISAARI for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.


2007

The prize goes to:

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) and ALBERT ARNOLD ( AL) GORE JR. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.


2006

The prize goes to:

MUHAMMAD YUNUS and GRAMEEN BANK for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.


2005

The prize was awarded jointly to:

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY and MOHAMED ELBARADEI for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.


2004

The prize was awarded to:

WANGARI MAATHAI

for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace


2003

The prize was awarded to:

SHIRIN EBADI

for her efforts for democracy and human rights


2002

The prize was awarded to:

JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America,

for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development


2001

The prize was awarded to:

UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA

KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General


2000

The prize was awarded to:

KIM DAE JUNG for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular.

Look at that list. Now give me a fucking break. These people have all done mediocre things compared to Obama. The possible exception being "Red" Jimmy Carter. He seeks peace all right...too bad its rarely, IF ever on good terms for America. Al Gore? Seriously? For what..bringing the world closer together with the internet?

Kofi "Turn A blind eye" Annan?

And to the rest of the nobodies. Whatever.

This is probably the first time in quite awhile that the reciepient actually deserves it. I'm quite pleased by this, so please stop acting like they gave Obama the Congressional Medal of Honor.

[Jaron]

for his efforts not on the half of Democrats, nor just Americans, but every single human being on this planet today and untold multitudes yet to be born into the world of tomorrow.

behalf

I was typing in a rage, fuck you.

[Admiral Yi]

I just thought of something.  If the Peace Prize winner sends more troops to Afghanistan that means everyone else has to as well.

[The Brain]

He should create a dessert and call it peace.

[Agelastus]

Look at that list. Now give me a fucking break. These people have all done mediocre things compared to Obama. The possible exception being "Red" Jimmy Carter. He seeks peace all right...too bad its rarely, IF ever on good terms for America. Al Gore? Seriously? For what..bringing the world closer together with the internet?

Kofi "Turn A blind eye" Annan?

And to the rest of the nobodies. Whatever.

This is probably the first time in quite awhile that the reciepient actually deserves it. I'm quite pleased by this, so please stop acting like they gave Obama the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Yes, I agree. They are all pathetic winners who probably did not deserve to win the prize.

This does not change the fact that Obama has also done nothing to deserve the Peace Prize; it only shows how devalued and pointless the award has been allowed to become.

I'd really like to know what Obama did in his first 11 days in Office that you think justifies his nomination, Jaron?

[Ed Anger]

He should create a dessert and call it peace.

watermelons for all.

[Darth Wagtaros]

He should create a dessert and call it peace.

Or cover a model in chocolate and call it a piece.

[The Brain]

I don't know much about the Norwegian way of doing things and I don't want to, but isn't the peace prize given to a person and not a specific act, much like the literature prize and unlike the real prizes? Maybe the nomination was for Obama (period) and when the time came for a decision (recently) he had in fact done more than 11 days? Getting hung up on the nomination date may not be productive.

[Malthus]

His first move after receiving this prestigious award? To escalate the war he's in:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jWX7WCpPOVuAYAYvQYK0nawX7wWA