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Obama won the Nobel Peace prize.

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Really old guy
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/obama.nobel.international.reaction/

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/

(CNN) -- The surprise decision to award U.S. President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize elicited swift reaction Friday, with some hailing the choice and others expressing astonishment and skepticism.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it gave the prize to Obama for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy," his "vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons" and for inspiring hope and creating "a new climate in international politics."
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... Um. Yeah. I don't see what he's done to earn this yet, and apparently they're awarding it to him in hopes that he will make everything better?
 
Sure he has! He intends to send 20,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

Oh, wait.
 
Should've given it when he actually did something.

As it stands, Obama got the Peace Prize for not being Bush.
 
Might as well give everyone a Nobel Peace prize.

Actually fuck that, I should've won it, not Obama.
 
It's sure swell that we have a Nobel laureate for a president now, I'd say, but I still can't help but feel that there's some human rights activist out there who we're really cheating out of something (s)he's worked really hard for.
 
he does seem to have a good attitude about the whole international relations thing - they should definitely have waited for him to have more impact before awarding him anything though
 
But isn't it true that Obama has managed some communication with places like North Korea, which some presidents haven't managed?
 
All Obama has done is make promises and talk. Hell, even I can do that, where's my prize? Oh wait im not worshipped by every liberal and thier grandmother!
 
Loco Mocho said:
All Obama has done is make promises and talk. Hell, even I can do that, where's my prize? Oh wait im not worshipped by every liberal and thier grandmother!
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The majority of liberals are horribly frustrated by Obama's inability to actually be liberal.

Anyway. I read his speech, and it was actually very classy. He acknowledged he hasn't really done anything to deserve it yet and said it was a "call to action". To me it seems more like "right, we've given you the Nobel Peace Prize. if you fuck up now every activist ever will be at your throat".
 
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