Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

[Kasz216]

NJ5 said:

Kasz216 said:

ManusJustus said:
Nobel Peace and Literature Prizes are a joke. The Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, and the like are for those who do great things.

I dunno.  Aside from Obama the rest of the Nobel Peace Prize winners are extradonary figures.

Well outside of the Israel and Palsetine guys who ultimatly whiffed on a peace deal.

 

Literature is a joke though.

True for example the Finnish diplomat who won last year had spent decades working for peace, often in dangerous places risking his own life. He had also received numerous peace prizes before the Nobel Prize, showing that there was consensus in the world for his value.

I'm more and more inclined to believe that this prize was given to try to shape Obama's policies. Imagine you get a Peace Prize, you'd feel enormously guilty for doing or not doing certain things after that...

 

I can see that... but I mean that's a horrible misuse of the comitee's responsibility.

Besides.  The only other time they tried that it failed.  Ariel Sharon walked away from the table despite having a really good deal.