Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

Barack Obama has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The BBC opines: "In awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian committee is honoring his intentions more than his achievements. After all he has been in office only just over eight months and he will presumably hope to serve eight years, so it is very early in his term to get this award. ... The committee does not make any secret of its approach. It states that he is being given the prize 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples.' This is of course an implied criticism of former US president George W Bush and the neo-conservatives, who were often accused of trying to change the world in their image." The Washington Post collects more reactions from around the world.

Comments

Re:personally

[thej1nx]

If the actual message is to diss bush, I am all for it! Heck, the whole world is all for that one! :p

It is moot whether Obama deserves it or not. Bush definitely deserves this! ;)

Re:personally

[shacky003]

Considering the first year of his predecessor, not doing even one thing could actually in theory be considered doing the right thing at this point..

It seems just, oh, 8 years ago, that people were saying the president wasn't doing anything, etc, and everyone cried "he's just getting started!" - Now those
same people who cried it out back then, are on the other side this time accusing Obama of not doing anything yet..

Pot, meet kettle.

On a seperate note, WONDERFUL Sneakers reference in the sig.

Re:proletariat

[b4dc0d3r]

He's obviously a Republican.

Spending your money to help people is socialism, giving your money to people who worked for it is good. Even if all they did was build stuff to kill people with, even if its our own people. Military suppliers are honest businessmen pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, while single mothers and people whose parents didn't insist on them getting a good education should be punished for their poor decision making. Having children outside of wedlock can be avoided by keeping your legs together you dirty hooker, everyone knows birth control isn't 100% effective. After all, if we help one out we have to help them all, and that's when government increases and taxes go up.

I'm pretty sure that's correct, I've watched Fox News before.

Re:I'm an Obama supporter but...

[Dr. Hok]

What exactly has he done to deserve the prize? Would it not have been better to wait until he got done with his presidency first?

As a non-American, I'd say the prize is justified alone because he treats foreign countries like peers, not pawns (think "fraternity'). This much was obvious from day 1 of his presidency, and it came as a great relief after 8 years of Dubya's lunacy, arrogance and ignorance (if you pardon my French).