Ok. I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around this.

He' been in office 9 months. When votes were "due", he had only been in office 2 weeks.

Seriously? What gives?

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I'm right there with you.... It makes me see the process and prize itself in a whole new light... not necessarily a good one.

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Am I understanding this correctly....he got the prize on the assumption that he is going to do things he says he is going to do.

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I haven't read much on it - but I'd guess it has a lot to do with the past 8 years and our political and world positions and actions during that time.

I think it's interesting to think just how the world has viewed us over the past 8 years when Obama's actions (such as bringing an emphasis back to diplomacy & a consideration not previously found in our foreign policy) now are considered worthy of a Nobel Peace prize. Positions which I think should be relatively standard for any POTUS.

But then again Bush was nominated for a Peace prize (what???) so maybe it's just a screwed up process.

Regardless - it's not like Obama had anything to do with it (he didn't nominate himself) but without a doubt it'll send the right's blogosphere into connipution fits!

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LOL - after reading some more I'm reminded that Kissinger was also awarded the Peace Prize so yeah...it's hardly a fool proof process.

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You have a President who hasn't done any thing to win the Noble Peace Prize. What did they do? Give it to him based on what he said he is going to do? He was President for less then 2 weeks when he got nominated.

Here are some past "winners":


2001: United Nations, Kofi Annan

1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin

1993: Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk

1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum

1990: Mikhail Gorbachev

1989: The 14th Dalai Lama

1988: U.N. Peacekeeping Forces

1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

1984: Desmond Tutu

1981: Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

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I'm just not getting it.

Are you sure of that? The Committed as the ability to add names at a meeting which takes place after the February nomination deadline.

Do you have a source which indicates that Obama was nominated before then?

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Okay what am I missing here...why does everyone think he one the prize because he was president. I did not know that was a requirement.

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He hasn't done anything in his entire life that would qualify him... unless going on a world tour bashing and apologizing for your country is what it takes these days....

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