Ok so I am sure everyone is going to be talking about this today but I am not sure what the motivation for this Obama Nobel Peace Prize was. Are they trying to tell Obama that he is expected to accomplish great things? Or do they really believe what he has already accomplished was worthy of the Peace Prize?
I guess I hope the award was to inspire him to do something. Apparently the nomination deadline was 12 days into his presidency. That is pretty clearly not enough time for him to have made enough change to compete with other nominees who have dedicated their lives to creating peace. So this means that the committee is really trying to tell him that he better start doing something good for world relations?
I don't know, I think they secretly are just awarding him for not being Bush and that is the biggest waste of a Nobel Peace Prize I have ever heard of. Not that I liked Bush (or respected him) but for Pete's sake when can we MOVE ON? I have never been on a selection committee like this, but I just don't get it.
Obama
Only by virtue of not
Being someone else
Ain't a reason for Nobel
Medals to be
Added to your shelf
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Although it is accurate that the nominations were made not long after the inaguration, the noteworthy and historical election was in November,2008, and the voting for the Nobel Prize was October, 2009. Just sayin'.
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