There's always organizations that have been doing good work for decades.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 13/10/2009 04:21:55 PM
The other two candidates were Sarkozy and Tsvangirai. Sarkozy has seriously done nothing for peace, and Tsvangirai is a puppet for a still reigning tyrant.
There's no one who's contributed seriously to world peace in the past year, but of those three I'd also choose Obama.
I'd give out the Peace prize once every 5 or 10 years if I had a choice. From the trends, it seems that such exceptional human beings don't appear on an annual basis, and the award invariably cheapens due to poor availability of candidates.
So you can't tell me that there were no serious or deserving candidates - MSF, Red Cross, Amnesty International, Oxfam and many others are there even if nobody else is, and I'm sure there are many people who've been doing good work, even if it's in smaller countries that don't get much media attention. People have gotten the Nobel Prize in recent years for promoting the peace in Timor-Leste, in Guatemala, and other small countries; there's no reason why the committee has to pick someone famous or known worldwide.
So, I was discussing Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize with a friend and...
12/10/2009 05:01:38 PM
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I think this was actually the Nobel Committee's rationale, wasn't it?
12/10/2009 05:06:12 PM
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wait. Obama won the peace prize? *NM*
12/10/2009 05:18:12 PM
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He got it for bombing the moon. *NM*
12/10/2009 06:14:10 PM
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I heard it was hiding WMDs. *NM*
12/10/2009 08:18:19 PM
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Well, it wouldn't allow the UN inspectors in so what would you think? *NM*
12/10/2009 08:34:11 PM
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Obama was probably the best available choice
13/10/2009 05:26:26 AM
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Do you have a source for that?
13/10/2009 04:03:47 PM
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There's always organizations that have been doing good work for decades.
13/10/2009 04:21:55 PM
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Re: There's always organizations that have been doing good work for decades.
14/10/2009 07:23:54 AM
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If it was "given to the American voters," the I want my share of the prize money.
13/10/2009 04:01:12 PM
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