According to the will of the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel, The Nobel Peace Prize, which is one of five Nobel prizes, should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
So can someone enlighten me on what President Obama has accomplished, since or before his election as president of the USA, that qualifies him to be nominated… much less win this prize?
Unless it’s for The Beer Summit:
However, according to the The Norwegian Nobel Committee, they stated that they awarded 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.”
Huh?! Okay… I’ll play along, drink the kool-aid and give him an “A” for effort also, but that still doesn’t answer the question of what has he actually accomplished in this vein?! As Financial Times foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman states in this article on his blog, “What did Obama do to win the Nobel Peace Prize?”, “While it is OK to give school children prizes for ‘effort’, my kids get them all the time, I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard…”
I ain’t hatin’… just askin’…
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I made a list of accomplishments by Barak H. Obama that more than qualify him to be awarded the Nobel. *hurl*
Check it out here.
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There are two versions of the Nobel Peace Prize, one is based on “accomplishment”, the other on “aspiration”. President Obama’s award was aspirational…. The link below explains the differences…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902278.html?referrer=facebook
Now, we can agree or disagree with President Obama policies and achievements, but there’s no denying that him being elected the first black President of the most powerful country in the world is arguably the most profound and transformational event in modern American history..
Yvette
I have read and watched lots and lots of commentary on this topic and surprisingly, most of President Obama’s supporters, Black and White, are in agreement that his receiving this award is premature. They all agree clearly that he has accomplished nothing to justify him winning, much less being nominated for this Prize… in February of this year nonetheless!
There are those few (very few that I found) who do argue that his winning is appropriate and although I find their arguments weak, I understand that it is motivated more on their cult worship of the man rather than anything substantial that he has achieved… before or after winning the presidency. He’s a symbol and an inspiration… I get that. However, the above washington post article is a desperate attempt to justify… rationalize… give some sort of credibility to his winning this Prize. Two versions of the prize: “accomplishment” and “aspirational”… okaaay… it’s the first time I have ever heard that line of argument but whatever floats your boat…
Nevertheless, the author’s arguments in the article borders on the ridiculous, as ridiculous as an article I read which stated that Obama’s win of the Prize was a part of a conspiracy to create a one world government with him at it’s head.
I totally agree that Obama winning the presidency “of the most powerful country in the world is arguably the most profound and transformational event in modern American history…” Not a basis to win the Nobel Peace Prize though, which is an international based award not an American one. Furthermore, it’s not the “Nobel First White House Negro Prize”, which he would surely deserve to win.
Asa,
I agree with the chorus of people who say that President Obama did meet the qualifications to receive the Nobel Prize. I say this not because of “cult worship”(if you’ve read my blog recently, you’ll note that I’ve been very critical of Obama as of late, so much for that vast over-simplification) but because of who President Obama is and what he represents.
If you’ve found only very few people who believe Obama should have received the award, then you haven’t been watching much American T.V. or reading many American newspapers OR you’re being dismissive of any opinion which conflicts with your own.
“Two versions of the prize: “accomplishment” and “aspirational”… okaaay… it’s the first time I have ever heard that line of argument but whatever floats your boat…”
Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it’s not true. Yasser Arafat received the “inspirational” prize in 1994. He left the Palestinians in the same mess in which he found them, didn’t accomplish anything….
I’m not even going to address the whole “house negro” thing because I find it demeaning and insulting. It minimizes what had the potential of being a thought provoking and intellectually stimulating conversation. Oh well…..
Yvette
What a joke. This man talks out of both sides of his mouth. He doesn’t stand for anything except the status quo, while pretending to be about progressive politics.
His easy capitulation on the “public option” let’s anyone with a brain know where he stands: the public can go to hell. The insurance conglomerates need to feed at the public trough, your little tumor be damned.
A trojan horse, who swallows up the dreams and hopes of the naive and ig’nant. The Black-churian candidate, programmed by his evil handlers to deceive YOU, trick YOU.
The Nobel is supposed to make you forget what he hasn’t done and what he has…scumbag!
Lubangakene… that’s what I like about you… straight to the point! “scumbag!” had me on the floor! Thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating if I can say so myself! lol!
@ Yvette
I’m not even going to address the whole “house negro” thing because I find it demeaning and insulting. It minimizes what had the potential of being a thought provoking and intellectually stimulating conversation. Oh well…..
oh well… you shouldn’t continue to comment here then. I encourage you to consider that option. In fact, I would support you 100% if you made that decision… before I make it for you. Chalk it up to my “black man syndrome” [;o)
“…of the most powerful country in the world is arguably the most profound and transformational event in modern American history…”
I am yet, to understand, what is transformational about Obama ascending to the white house. Oh, a brown face can be seen lying to us now, rather than a pale face, if one sees this as transformation then that one is very very short sighted. He has transformed nothing, but is an obvious contiunation of the ‘same ole same’.
I can see, in no way, a person should receive the Nobel PEACE Prize, while conducting WAR!!! He is prosecuting two overt wars, and at least two covert wars. War has nothing to do with peace, period. One cannot argue he was given the prize for what he may accomplish, since his intent is the ESCALATE the war in Afganistan.
Oh yeah, just to show, however simple it may appear, Bush was the first sitting president ever to attend an olympics overseas….Obama is the first president to ever attend the summit to choose a city for the olympics. This is a continuation, not a transformation. And, yet no one sees that the rejection by the olympic committe was still a rejection of the U.S., a rejection of the U.S’. future spending power. The rejection of President Obama, the symbolic figure of the U.S.
We should remember, Hope was the last EVIL Zeus allow Pandora to release from her box into the world.