Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize?

[ukerduker]

President Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Political News - FOXNews.com

What in the world is going on? He was nominated in Feb, shortly after he was elected.

[mousegunner]

Well, Woodrow Wilson got one. So did Jimmy Carter. The Nobel Peace Prize is NONSENSE. They simply pick the most Liberal guy/gal around, and give them some money for their Liberalness. Ridiculous! Might as well give it to Oprah (and maybe they will, next year.)

[Guest Old goat]

Yeah, so did Yasser Araphat, in 94 I think. Great Leaders,

[analog_kidd]

In other news, the Nobel Prize for Science went to little Jimmy Smith of Podunkville for his amazing Volcano display.

Nobel = Joke

[Guest tnpanscraper]

He should get the Nobel "F@ck everything up prize"....

[LagerHead]

All you have to do is hate America and you're automatically nominated. Gore and Obama are cut from the same cloth.

[Guest tnpanscraper]

All you have to do is hate America and you're automatically nominated. Gore and Obama are cut from the same cloth.

Gore invented the internet. Remember. Surely that deserves a prize.... Obama didn't invent the idiot, but he sure perfected it....

They're both fuzznuckles...

[USMCJG]

Gore and Obama are cut from the same cloth.

Used diapers?

[Guest tnpanscraper]

LOL...

[LagerHead]

Used diapers?

I was trying to think of something clever like that. You got it!

[Guest dkirby]

In my youth I always figured the Nobel Prize was given for making an actual contribution. The President was given the award for wanting peace. I wanted an extra few minutes sleep this morning, am I nominated for next year?

[FUJIMO]

Used diapers?

:clap:

Edited October 9, 2009 by FUJIMO

[dunndw]

[Mr. Brooks]

Oh and...

[creeky]

Hilarious "Prize!"

[Dropkick Murphy]

The Nobel Peace Prize nomination deadline was January 31, 2009. Based on that fact, Obama had only been in office for 11 days. I'm sure that his accomplishments in these 11 days were so overwhelming that he was the clear winner.

[Guest tnvolfan]

This is a little of what I have learned from my internet searches:

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FROM REUTERS NEWS SERVICE:

Wanted - a peace maker or rights activist engaged in a current conflict whose influence would benefit greatly from winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

That is who Norway's Nobel Committee will choose for 2009 Peace Prize.

"It's quite likely this committee will reward somebody who is engaged in current processes," said Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the International Peace Institute in Oslo (PRIO).

"They want the prize to have an impact on things that are about to happen and want to affect events," he told Reuters.

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FROM "TO THE CENTER.COM:"

Obama won because of “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

Obama was nominated for the grand award less than two weeks into his presidency and just meeting the Feb. 1 deadline. At this time, there are no media reports as to who nominated the president.

Obama is the third-sitting U.S. president to win the award. Woodrow Wilson won in 1919, and Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906.

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These are some of the previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize:

Albert Schweitzer (1952)

Martin Luther King (1964)

Henry Kissinger (1973)

Albert Gore Jr. (2007)

Nelson Mandela (1993)

Mikhail Gorbachev (1990)

Dalai Lama (1989)

Desmond Tutu (1984)

Lech Walesa (1983)

Mother Teresa (1979)

Anwar Sadat & Menachem Begin (1978)

Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin (1994)

Jimmy Carter (2002)

Andrei Sakharov (1975)

Elie Wiesel (1986)

and now . . . . Barack Obama (2009)

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except for Yasser Arafat, who was a murderer,

what is wrong with this picture??? WHAT IS YOUR OPINION???

Edited October 9, 2009 by tnvolfan

[Mr. Brooks]

except for Yasser Arafat, who was a murderer,

what is wrong with this picture???

Jimmy Carter (2002)

[GKar]

Hmmm...guess the Norwegians were still having their "obasm"...

[analog_kidd]

Albert Gore Jr. (2007)

What'd he ever do for "Peace"

[Guest tnpanscraper]

The Nobel Peace Prize nomination deadline was January 31, 2009. Based on that fact, Obama had only been in office for 11 days. I'm sure that his accomplishments in these 11 days were so overwhelming that he was the clear winner.

I think you meant to say the he was clearly the "weiner".(as in Oscar Mayer)

[billkill]

Polling Results FAIL!!

[frontier737]

You all are such racists! Any words negative about The One are, by definition, racist. At least that's what I understand after reading the newspapers.

(Tonge firmly planted in cheek)

[BryanP]

What in the world is going on? He was nominated in Feb, shortly after he was elected.

It's not just conservatives who are scratching their heads over this. A friend of mine who is a big Obama fan, and actually finds him to be a bit too centrist for his taste (good guy, good friend, but we disagree on a few topics ...) said "I heard about this when i woke up and thought it must be an Onion headline."

[TNTitan]

look at the cnn polls - even the dems think this is dumb.