Maybe, but he still deserved the award.

He is giving it away...
 

maybe to acorn...

YOU went from zero to CRAZY in 2 seconds flat%/

Prior winners.


2009 - Barack Obama
2008 - Martti Ahtisaari
2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
2004 - Wangari Maathai
2003 - Shirin Ebadi
2002 - Jimmy Carter
2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
2000 - Kim Dae-jung
1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama
1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 - Desmond Tutu
1983 - Lech Walesa
1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979 - Mother Teresa
1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
1977 - Amnesty International
1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
1975 - Andrei Sakharov
1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
1973 - Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
1972 - The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
1971 - Willy Brandt
1970 - Norman Borlaug
1969 - International Labour Organization
1968 - René Cassin
1967 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1966 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1965 - United Nations Children's Fund
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
1962 - Linus Pauling
1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld
1960 - Albert Lutuli
1959 - Philip Noel-Baker
1958 - Georges Pire
1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1955 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1954 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1953 - George C. Marshall
1952 - Albert Schweitzer
1951 - Léon Jouhaux
1950 - Ralph Bunche
1949 - Lord Boyd Orr
1948 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1947 - Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
1946 - Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
1945 - Cordell Hull
1944 - International Committee of the Red Cross
1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1938 - Nansen International Office for Refugees
1937 - Robert Cecil
1936 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935 - Carl von Ossietzky
1934 - Arthur Henderson
1933 - Sir Norman Angell
1932 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1931 - Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 - Nathan Söderblom
1929 - Frank B. Kellogg
1928 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1927 - Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
1926 - Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
1925 - Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
1924 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1923 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1922 - Fridtjof Nansen
1921 - Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
1920 - Léon Bourgeois
1919 - Woodrow Wilson
1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917 - International Committee of the Red Cross
1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1915 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913 - Henri La Fontaine
1912 - Elihu Root
1911 - Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
1910 - Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909 - Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
1908 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
1907 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt
1905 - Bertha von Suttner
1904 - Institute of International Law
1903 - Randal Cremer
1902 - Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
1901 - Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy

The Nobel Peace Prize today is a tactic used for advancing political agendas. The most obvious example of using the Nobel Peace Prize for a political agenda was awarding it to Jimmy Carter in 2002. The head of the Prize committee admitted explicitly that awarding Jimmy Carter was meant to slap GW Bush in the face for initiating war in Iraq.

http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/p/p...wlik101303.htm

Big Bush got slapped and now Little Bush? Whew, man their beating the Bushes handing this prize out. :)

So Obama got it for vision not accomplishments.

Hey, Stockholm, I see a huge line of people drinking Coke and singing. No more war. Cancer is cured. I see a universal currency and the world ruled by the UN. I see socialism in every country. I see Ernie as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. I see the Pope naming Obama as the first living saint based on the many miracles he's performed.

Now give me my million dollars, I've got some shopping to do.

This is beyond ridiculous...
 

Obama really needs to politely decline on the grounds that though he may have good intentions, he has not achieved any measureable, material success(es).

"Thanks for the thought, but I am not ready to accept this. Check with me next year and we'll see how things have worked out."

The Nobel Prize committee is already seriously wanting as a respected, credible body and if Obama is not intelligent, aware and man enough stand up and decline this ludicrous award, it will be a huge blow to his own already questionable credibility.

Obama a Nobel Peace Prize recipient?
An oxymoron if I ever heard one.
Are you $%$#ing me?

That's a great proposal Buzz. It won't kick any sense into the Nobel committee, but it will be an appropriate slap in their face to wake up and use the prize as Nobel intended.

According to Wikipedia, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee consists of five Norwegians selected by the Norwegian Parliament. Their dominant party is a social democrat group called the Labor party. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that the selections of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee reflect the political leanings of the people who created it. As with all things touched by politicians, the results are far from fair and objective. .... Obama's selection says far more about what the Norwegians want from him than about anything he's done.

From Wikipedia:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...peaker.svg.png Alfred Bernhard Nobel (help·info) (Stockholm, Sweden, 21 October 1833 – Sanremo, Italy, 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him.

Dynamite and machine guns, now there is a guy that knows all about peace!
He also invented detonators.

:)

Tommy,

Since he has done nothing but talk and take vacations your idea makes sense.

Ron :o

The Nobel Prize
 

Obama won the Nobel prize,
For what, I can only surmise.
Maybe it was the world apology tour,
That he was given this award for.

A $1,400,000 check he'll also deposit,
I have an idea what he should do with it.
Endorse the check to the US Treasury,
To help "bail out", our economy.

I didn't write this, to be funny,
But, I bet I'm right on the money.
What comes next ,what wiil it be,
An Oscar from the Academy?
Or maybe the AKC will reward his dog Bo,
With a ribbon for the best in Show?

Obama will accept the award in the spirit that it is a call to action for the world nations. The award money will be donated to charity.

He hardly needs the money...
 

When he retires in 2016 he will make more money legally than all the other Presidents combined...

When he retires in 2020 you mean.

The next big step in "Hope and Change" allows for the big O to run (and win) a third term. :cool:

The prize is given for (among other things):

The Nobel committee had this to say:
That being said, I can see the logic in awarding the prize to Obama, premature though it may be.

Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is BS and an embarassment. It proves this prize is BS. Gahndi did not win it (neither did Teddy Roosevelt). Arafat won it. Gore, Carter also. Reagan? No way. Yet Reagan effectively ended the Cold War and averted massive loss of life. Bush 2 freed up to 50 million people in Iraq and Afgahnistan. No prize there. There is a stupid belief system out there that claims peace is possible with "talk" and inspirational speaches. It never works. But Obama? Not a damn accomplishment under his belt period. Yet he gets the prize. How embarassing. Those of you who are thinking of this as a prize for what he "will do" are living in a fantasy world.

Its all about creating a legacy, one based on nothing.

Mike

Eh...lo siento, mi amigo...Teddy Roosevelt did win the Peace Prize (negotiated the end of the Russian-Japanese War).

:)