Top Ten Reasons Obama Won the Nobel Peace Prize

[EriktheRed]

I am not having a "cow"---I think it's absolutely hillarious-- It's kind of like winning the Heisman Trophy before you've ever played a game. He was nominated for this just two weeks after he took office.

Really--Obama should have gracefully stated he could not accept the award at this time. It's nothing more than political manuvering--especially with his generals asking for 40K more troops. In essense he (by not turning it down)--has put himself between a rock & a hard spot.

Obama will be taken apart by the opposition over this--if he does not send more troops to Afganistan. If he wouldn't have accepted the prize--he could have done whatever without to much ridicule.

Much has been made today of the fact that the nomination deadline for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1 -- just 12 days after President Obama took office.

But the winner isn't selected until much later, usually around mid-September. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, made up of five members appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, makes the decision. Here's the process, according to the committee's web site:

Nominators -- including members of governments, university professors, past Nobel laureates and members of the International Court of Justice -- must make their picks to the committee by Feb. 1. The committee usually receives between 150 and 200 nominations for the Peace Prize, but this year they received a record 205 nominations.

The committee then holds its first meeting,when members can add their own nominees to the list. They then narrow the list down to between five and 20 candidates.

Those candidates are then reviewed by the Nobel Institute's director, research director and a team of advisers, usually university professors. Those advisers draw up reports on each candidate, a process that takes a few months, and present those reports to the committee.

And then the committee "embarks on a thorough-going discussion of the most likely candidates." They sometimes request more information, especially when, like Obama, candidates are involved in current affairs. The committee usually makes its decision by mid-September, but has been known to take until the final meeting in early October.

The decisions are almost always unanimous. But when committee members can't get a consensus, they use a simple majority vote to determine the winner.

So while Obama was indeed nominated less than two weeks after becoming President, the decision was made several months later. We won't know who nominated him, however, unless that person (or people -- thousands of nominators have been known to gather behind one candidate) comes forward. The committee keeps details of nominations secret for 50 years.

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[California Girl]

Whether the decision was made on 02/02 or 09/22 doesn't matter. Nine months of 'achievement' or 12 days of 'achievement'.... the fact is that the award is political, not merit based.

If liberals have no issue with being Obama being given an award that he has not yet earned, then that is entirely fine. We should expect nothing less from people who want the rest of society to support them anyway so it is not surprising. Liberals always like something for nothing, that is what makes them liberals. The right believe in hard work and achievement so we respect individuals who have earned their reward.

And therein lies the difference.

 

[Zona]

I am proud of Obama for winning this. I am very happy the president of the United States won. God bless america.

 

[California Girl]

I am proud of Obama for winning this. I am very happy the president of the United States won. God bless america.

Bless your heart for not even grasping the concept that he didn't actually 'win' the award. He was awarded the prize - he didn't 'win' in.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that there are some who don't understand the difference.

You'll be fine - stupidity isn't terminal.

 

[Zona]

I am proud of Obama for winning this. I am very happy the president of the United States won. God bless america.

Bless your heart for not even grasping the concept that he didn't actually 'win' the award. He was awarded the prize - he didn't 'win' in.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that there are some who don't understand the difference.

You'll be fine - stupidity isn't terminal.

Fantastic. Thanks. Then I am glad Obama was awarded the Nobel peace prize. I am glad our President...The president of the united states of america was awarded it. Arent you?

 

[elvis]

I am proud of Obama for winning this. I am very happy the president of the United States won. God bless america.

yeah I am sure you would have been proud had bush won.

 

[elvis]

I am proud of Obama for winning this. I am very happy the president of the United States won. God bless america.

Bless your heart for not even grasping the concept that he didn't actually 'win' the award. He was awarded the prize - he didn't 'win' in.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that there are some who don't understand the difference.

You'll be fine - stupidity isn't terminal.

Fine. He shouldn't have been "awarded" the prize. happy now, smart ass?

 

[Zona]

I am proud of Obama for winning this. I am very happy the president of the United States won. God bless america.

Bless your heart for not even grasping the concept that he didn't actually 'win' the award. He was awarded the prize - he didn't 'win' in.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that there are some who don't understand the difference.

You'll be fine - stupidity isn't terminal.

Fine. He shouldn't have been "awarded" the prize. happy now, smart ass?

So you are against this coming to America? Isnt that sort of anti American?

Are you a republican or a democrat?

 

[DiveCon]

Did you listen to the right wingers on the radio today?

No. Go back to your Kos lair, scum.

Naw, they're not bugged by this at all, Zona....

laughing at morons like you and zona over this, not bugged at all
you just dont get it

 

[DiveCon]

Bless your heart for not even grasping the concept that he didn't actually 'win' the award. He was awarded the prize - he didn't 'win' in.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that there are some who don't understand the difference.

You'll be fine - stupidity isn't terminal.

Fine. He shouldn't have been "awarded" the prize. happy now, smart ass?

So you are against this coming to America? Isnt that sort of anti American?

Are you a republican or a democrat?

fine that you are glad that a prestigious award has been devalued by awarding it to someone that didn't do anything to deserve it

 

[California Girl]

Bless your heart for not even grasping the concept that he didn't actually 'win' the award. He was awarded the prize - he didn't 'win' in.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that there are some who don't understand the difference.

You'll be fine - stupidity isn't terminal.

Fine. He shouldn't have been "awarded" the prize. happy now, smart ass?

So you are against this coming to America?

I'm not for or against it "coming to America" because it isn't "coming to America". If you had half a brain, you would understand that. I prefer it go to a deserving recipient - whatever country that individual or group of individuals reside is of no importance.

Isnt that sort of anti American?

Isn't that sort of stupid?

Are you a republican or a democrat?

I am able to think for myself - I need no party to tell me what path to walk. Only idiots choose to align themselves with a 'party'.

 

[garyd]

I'm curious as to exactly why it is that leftist are so happy about Obama receiving an award that has previously been given to terrorists and mass murderers, as well as sweet little ole Catholic nuns and to US presidents who seem to be primarily engaged in screwing up the country?