Good for the US to have a sitting president win -but how could he possibly deserve this award already ?
To motivate him to act decisively on Iraq/Afghanistan/Israel-Palestine. It's a tactic to spur action by avoiding embarrassment that he doesn't deserve the award.
Funny how this thread comes out, and then 1 1/2 hours later basso starts a new thread with an unclever attempt to be insulting, but talking about the same thing. Rather than just reply here, he starts a new thread. This might be the thread where finally nobody replies. Some misguided person might think basso didn't know about this thread, but that person just doesn't know basso.
The right wing internetosphere's screaming and bleating over this today will provide a nice little bookend to their triumphant "america loses HAHAHA!" chest beating over the Olympics last Friday.
Grats to him but I dunno why he deserves it. Good thing is that it's going to be an entertaining Friday. The news has all the looneys at my work talkin about Illuminati and the New World Order. Somehow this is one more step for the "anti-Christ" to declare martial law and put all good Christians in concentration camps while the "moslems" run amok. TGIF!!!
Cool. Good for Obama. I do have one question though. Shouldn't you have actually done SOMETHING in order to win? Unless you include giving countless speeches about what you plan on doing as merit. Perhaps they should just divide up the award every year, and give it to the top 10 contestants in the Miss. America pageant for ending world hunger.
wow so many threads on this...might as well write here. Yeah he hasn't done anything in terms of ending wars, completely stopping Nuclear Bombs, Restored GLobal CLimate/ Economic Change. He has however undeniably provided leadership in these areas that nobody has, changing the climate of international politics, and for one thing improvement of the US image around the world (It was difficult before, but now I can hold up my head abroad). Providing a foundation for these areas that did not exist is underrated, without a foundation, its difficult for any element to evolve.
Okay, I LOLed. Overall, the Nobel committee seems to be homework averse in this one award. Their scientific awards appear to be researched like nobody's business, and then they pick a big name each time for the peace prize. In the entire world, there have to be countless people who've spent their lives devoted to the process of peace and the mitigation of conflict. And you come up with someone like Arafat? And now Barack, who was a junior senator of Illinois a year ago?
I didn't mean embarrassing for the President, but rather for the people handing out the award. I by no means am implying you reject the award.
