President Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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Hitlers goal was world domination. To say Germany would have let us be if the U.S. had stayed out of World War II is ignorant in the extreme.stinkychops said:
What surprises and annoys me is that he's won the award based on what he wants to do, rather than what he has done. I wasn't aware that the judging criteria consisted of how much someone really wants to make the world peaceful. I thought you had to accomplish something to that end.
I really want to make the world peaceful. Where's my million dollars and cool medallion?
I really want to make the world peaceful. Where's my million dollars and cool medallion?
Traditionally, the award is more often given to someone in the midst of a project than a completed project. It is meant less as a reward and more as encouragement - hence the 1.4 million dollar prize, usually meant as a fund for the project the individual(s) is/are working on. And all nominations are done by a limited number of past winners, judges, etc. - all before February 1st of the award-giving year.Seldon2639 said:
It's actually a kind of funny story. His brother died, and it was reported in the newspapers that Alfred Nobel had died. He got to see how the world would remember him, and it remembered him as a man who had exponentially increased people's ability to kill each other. He made the Nobel Prize to salvage his legacy. It wasn't really a foresight thing, don't give him too much credit.Bobbovski said:
Further proof that the nobel prize is meaningless now. I mean from what I read Obama got the Nobel Prize because he wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and likes the idea of peace in the Middle East. So in other words every President from Truman to Obama (including both Bushes) should have gotten a Nobel Peace prize.
To be fair, he has moved America towards nuclear disarmament and encouraged better relations with Russia... Surely that counts for something?
The Nobel Prize is not for domestic policy as much as changing the World's perception of America. This is largely due to closing the prison at Guantanamo which deserves a peace prize in itself. Detaining people perpetually outside of the jurisdiction of Constitutional law is atrocious. We can not protect our governmental systems by acting contrary to the principles that they are based upon. The few months of domestic policy have not been as fruitful as we had hoped, but it is important to realize that America is now regaining the respect that it lost due to neglecting to follow it's own precepts globally.
Honestly I don't think Obama deserves the prize just yet. I say they should have awarded it to someone else and depending on how Obama did during is term they should award him the next prize.
Just my two cents.
Just my two cents.
I do understand the process. What still doesn't make sense is that he isn't working on a "project" for world peace. He's been diplomatic with other countries, so have most presidents. He's expressed an interest in disarmament and a bunch of other "good" things for "peace", but there's no progress. Once again, I've done about as much to foster peace in the world, but I don't have the nobel committee banging down my door with a cash prize for saying I'd like to make the world more peaceful.Roxilla84 said: