You know who else won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Oh, wait, never mind.
Tiger Woods.
That’s an interesting question. Anybody know?
Well, the choices are unfortunately limited: economics, medicine, physics, literature…perhaps if there were a specific Nobel Prize for awesome…
No, it won’t. It just makes the committee look silly.
Yeup, pretty headscratchingly strange.
I saw the headline on Yahoo, and wondered, “What for?” I mean, I’m not the guy’s biggest fan, though people seem to think if you voted for him that means you want to have his babies, but what has he done to deserve it?
The point about Kissinger is a good one, though. Maybe they should call it the Nobel “Peace” Prize instead.
It’s possible. It was refused by Le Duc Tho, who was jointly awarded the prize with Kissinger.
Looks like somebody was really impressed with Obama’s ‘Beer Summit’ between Professor Gates at that Boston cop. This Nobel is totally deserved, IMHO.
Complete agreement on that. I mean, I like the guy and he’s off to a pretty reasonable start - but really, he’s only just started, and he’s not done much yet. It’s just a silly decision.
No. The black guy with the good looking wife with the bangin’ booty.
This is crazy. I wish someone would explain to me how this can even be seen as anything other than a mistake.
I think the nomination was well deserved, and Obama’s efforts to reach out to other world leaders clinched the deal. Of COURSE its a reaction to George W. Bush, as it is clear Obama has no intentions of starting wars with other countries under false pretenses, setting up secret prisons overseas, holding prisoners without due process.or refusing to negotiate with world leaders we don’t like.
Plus, I LOVE how it now takes the wind out of the sails from all the idiotic right wing media pundits who have been laughing at Obama for not getting the Olympics. Go get your crying towels, Obama Haters. The reason Obama is getting the Peace Prize is because unlike many American xenophobes he has a much more enlightened vision of world affairs than Billy Bob hiding in the bomb shelter he built under his trailer, curled up with the shotgun waitin’ for the Commies to come.
NPR news said this morning that the Taliban opposed awarding the Nobel to Obama, which means that the Republicans, Beck, Limbaugh et al are now aligned with the Terrorists! 
Put me in the column of Obama supporters who don’t understand why he won the award either.
We’re still holding prisoners without due process.
If they wanted to react to George W. Bush they could have posthumously awarded it to Saddam or something. It would only have been slightly less ridiculous (and I say this as an Obama fan).
I hope he refuses it.
What’s to understand, its a love letter to America, and some of you guys are bitching because the sentiment is corny. Well, of course it is! Does he deserve it? Do we? Does anyone, can anyone, actually deserve such a thing?
He hasn’t given them peace, he’s given them hope for peace. And we gave them him! Obama couldn’t have happened anywhere else. America, number one!
One flag-waving, red-blooded All American radical says “Yeeeeee-haw! Ride 'em and spank 'em, Barry!”
I actually would have been plesently surprised it they had gave it to “The people of America” for going with Obama. It would have been great fun seeing the right react to that.
I’d say the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Elie Wiesel, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Mother Teresa, Amnesty International, Andrei Sakharov, Martin Luther King, Linus Pauling, Medicins Sans Frontieres, George Marshall, Albert Schweitzer and Teddy Roosevelt were pretty deserving.
This isn’t exactly like Kissinger accepting the prize while bombing Cambodia, but it’s not good.
My first thought – as someone who is awful fond of our Prez – is to say “Are they KIDDING?”
But to respond to this –
This may be kind of the point. I know that there’s people out there who think Bush wasn’t so bad in many respects and don’t much care that people didn’t like him off in other countries. But this is certainly a statement: it’s an indication that the people out there were REALLY FREAKING AFRAID of Bush. And not in the Machiavellian ‘love me or fear me’ way, more the ‘You punch him in the neck while his back is turned’ way.
ISTR also that it’s not really hard to get nominated for a Nobel prize – your name just has to be put forward – but to actually GET it, they toss the name back and forth and squint at what the guy’s done/is doing. So no, when he was nominated he hadn’t done jack, but they may have been peeking over their cover sheets since then.
But yeah: count me as one bewildered ninja right now.
It’s kind of embarrassing they announce this the same day we declared war on the moon.
Wow. Highly premature, to say the least.