Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Ya it is interesting to look back on our old opinions.

I still stand by what I said. Actions speak louder than words, and Obama did nothing but talk (or even propagandize) his way to a Nobel Prize. He should have been judged on his actions in the years since first being inaugurated rather than his uplifting campaign speeches.

Would he still get the prize now? Probably not.

Obama gets it, Kissinger does, but not Ghandi??????

Here's a quote from Wiki:

Criticism of individual conferments[edit]

Main article: Nobel Prize controversies

Barack Obama with Thorbjørn Jagland at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Yasser Arafat receiving the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize following the Oslo Accords

The awards given to Lê Ðức Thọ and Henry Kissinger prompted two dissenting Committee members to resign.^[19] Thọ refused to accept the prize, on the grounds that peace had not actually been achieved in Vietnam.

The awards given to Mikhail Gorbachev,^[20]Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin and Yasser Arafat,^[21][22]Lê Ðức Thọ, Henry Kissinger,^[23]Jimmy Carter,^[24]Al Gore,^[25]Liu Xiaobo,^[26][27][28]Barack Obama,^[29][30][31] and the European Union^[32] have all been the subject of controversy.

Notable omissions[edit]

Foreign Policy has listed Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, U Thant, Václav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Sari Nusseibeh, and Corazon Aquino as people who "never won the prize, but should have".^[33][34] Other notable omissions that have drawn criticism include Pope John Paul II,^{[35][dead link]}Hélder Câmara,^[36] and Dorothy Day.^[37] (Both Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Day were recipients of the Gandhi Peace Award.) It was widely reported that Irena Sendler had been nominated for the 2007 prize, which was jointly awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore.^[38][39]

The omission of Mahatma Gandhi has been particularly widely discussed, including in public statements by various members of the Nobel Committee.^[40][41] The Committee has confirmed that Gandhi was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and, finally, a few days before his death in January 1948.^[42] The omission has been publicly regretted by later members of the Nobel Committee.^[40] Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, "The greatest omission in our 106-year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize. Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace prize, whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question".^[43] In 1948, following Gandhi's death, the Nobel Committee declined to award a prize on the ground that "there was no suitable living candidate" that year. Later, when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was "in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi."^[44]

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[Moonlight Graham]

Ya, not awarding Gandhi is a joke. He's easily one of the greatest human beings of the 20th century. Probably the most influential person in regards to non-violence, besides Jesus Christ.

Edited April 18, 2014 by Moonlight Graham

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Ya, not awarding Gandhi is a joke. He's easily one of the greatest human beings of the 20th century. Probably the most influential person in regards to non-violence, besides Jesus Christ.

I didn't realize this until I started researching the topic!

I'm appalled this is true!

As far as I'm concerned, the nobel peace award doesn't mean the same thing anymore.

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[Moonlight Graham]

I didn't realize this until I started researching the topic!

I'm appalled this is true!

As far as I'm concerned, the nobel peace award doesn't mean the same thing anymore.

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Subjective awards don't really mean anything anyways. The only awards with real credibility are those based on objective info/data, like a student being on the Dean's List at a university if their GPA is about a certain specified level.

[WWWTT]

Hey, lets give this guy a nobel peace prize!

What a freekin joke!

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