Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize

[MartinM]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8298580.stm

What the fk? The guy has been in office less than a year and so far has just proven he's very good at PR, talking a good job and being of mixed race.
This seems almost as bad as that giving tt Gore the prize a couple of years ago.
What a load of politicised nonsence.

[mcdjl]

Maybe its as he hasn't started anymore? Or a kind of encouragement not to start any....

[MartinM]

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the winner of the prize should be someone who "during the preceding year [...] shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses"
Hmm
Previous laureates include; Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Lech Walesa, Desmond Tutu, the 14th Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela....Al Gore and Barack Obama?

Edited by MartinM on Thursday 10th December 18:24

[Blue Meanie]

The moment Al Gore won it, the Nobel peace prize lost all credibility.

[enioldjoe]

........Yasser Arafat won in once.

[Diderot]

Blue Meanie said:

The moment Al Gore won it, the Nobel peace prize lost all credibility.

[grumbledoak]

Wasn't this announced ages ago? He'd won it within ten days in office, or something equally ridiculous.

Methinks Coke'n'Hookers is looking for publicity.

Edited by grumbledoak on Thursday 10th December 18:40

[gamefreaks]

Its a bribe to make him turn up for this Copenhagen summit crap we're going to rue for the rest of our lives.

[Uhura_Fighter]

extraterrestrial life




ROFL

[VX Foxy]

O M F G

I had hoped this was a joke...well I suppose it is! AN will be turning in his grave.

Who should've got it? Tsvangirai?

[nonegreen]

so thats 17, 30, 60 and 180 yards swimming proficiency and the nobel peace prize. All he needs now is city and guilds numberpower and NVQ level 2 in customer service and he will be elligable for fast track promotion to employee of the month.

[dcb]

Blue Meanie said:

The moment Al Gore won it, the Nobel peace prize lost all credibility.

+1

I think I'm right in saying Obama hasn't completed even a year
in office, and has been in charge during a couple of
foreign wars, so getting a Peace Prize is *somewhat*
surprising to me.

What next - the UK's Mr Brown winning a prize for
Europe's most successful politician ?

[ErnestM]

dcb said:

Blue Meanie said:

The moment Al Gore won it, the Nobel peace prize lost all credibility.

+1

I think I'm right in saying Obama hasn't completed even a year
in office, and has been in charge during a couple of
foreign wars, so getting a Peace Prize is *somewhat*
surprising to me.

What next - the UK's Mr Brown winning a prize for
Europe's most successful politician ?

Nobel prize for economics

[jeff m]

dcb said:

I think I'm right in saying Obama hasn't completed even a year
in office, and has been in charge during a couple of
foreign wars, so getting a Peace Prize is *somewhat*
surprising to me.

When he was nominated he had been in office about two weeks, probably still looking for the White House bathroom at that time.

[stigmundfreud]

he got it for lasting a year in office as a black prezdent without being capped in his ass by a kfc junkie

[andy_s]

I think he was recognisant of the above comments. Which in itself speaks volumes.

[sneijder]

Bit of a farce, but if it encourages him to crack on then fair be it. He's humble enough to admit his exploits so far are 'slight' in comparison to past winners.

Anyhoo, I live in Oslo and work at the airport. His Airforce One exploits caused great fun today, he delayed around 40 flights over 30 minutes. The Norwegian folk are a patriotic bunch, and Obama declined an invitation to lunch with the King and to kip at the castle. This was seen as rude, to the point 44% of Oslo-ites don't want him here.

[Blue Meanie]

sneijder said:

Bit of a farce, but if it encourages him to crack on then fair be it. He's humble enough to admit his exploits so far are 'slight' in comparison to past winners.

Anyhoo, I live in Oslo and work at the airport. His Airforce One exploits caused great fun today, he delayed around 40 flights over 30 minutes. The Norwegian folk are a patriotic bunch, and Obama declined an invitation to lunch with the King and to kip at the castle. This was seen as rude, to the point 44% of Oslo-ites don't want him here.

He can't win, this chap... He bows to a foreign Monarch, and he gets laid into. He leaves without seeing a monarch, and he gets laid into...

[wiffmaster]

Blue Meanie said:

The moment Al Gore won it, the Nobel peace prize lost all credibility.

I think it was lost well before that. Remember Kissinger back in '73?

[Blue Meanie]

wiffmaster said:

Blue Meanie said:

The moment Al Gore won it, the Nobel peace prize lost all credibility.

I think it was lost well before that. Remember Kissinger back in '73?

No.. I was -3 years old...