Today the famous peace prize named after the guy who spent his life creating and manufacturing weapons of war, descended into ridiculousness. Of course the Person who who nominated Obama was even more ridiculous, after all nominations had to be filed by February first, less than two weeks after Obama became President.
According to the Committee the POTUS won the Nobel Peace Prize on for giving the world “hope for a better future” and striving for nuclear disarmament. And he did all that between January 20th and February 1.
The decision to award one of the world’s top accolades to a president less than nine months into his first term, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, came as a big surprise and provoked strong international criticism as well as praise.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples“.
The first African-American to hold his country’s highest office, Obama has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January.
“Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said in a citation.
In a speech in Prague in April, Obama declared: “So today, I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.“
But he was not the first American president to set that goal, and acknowledged it might not be reached in his lifetime. (Source)
This is not the first weird Peace Prize Award, other recent strange awards included, Al Gore, Yassir Arafat, and Mohamed ElBaradei (the head of the IAEA who has been covering up Iraq's nuke program).
The last ten winners include:
- 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
4 comments:
This had to be some sort of Chicago style pay off. When I read the headline this morning I had the same reaction as you. It has to be some sort of weird hoax.
I know he's viewed by many as the Messiah/Mahdi/12th Imam, but come on - shouldn't he actually do SOMETHING first? Al Gore did that video that I didn't see and got an award for participating in making a movie.
The Nobel awards have declined into the absurd and surreal.
Sammy,
Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize after wishing for World Peace. Obama beat out Miss Japan and Miss Brazil, who also wished for World Peace in the Miss Universe Competition but Obama had a much stronger showing in the swimsuit competition.
Shows how low the prize has become. I wonder if Chevez will win it next year?
My view is that the NPP Committee committed ritual credibility suicide in 1884 when they awarded the prize to Arafat. On that subject see:
http://libertarianadvocate.blogspot.com/2009/10/nobel-peace-prize-committee-commits.html
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