Obama's Nobel honors promise, not action

By Jennifer Loven

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kwatt at 05:54 PM JST - 10th October

OK, Kim Jong il would have a Nobel Prize when he decided to dismantle nuclear weapon program. He makes peace for the world.
Badsey at 06:13 PM JST - 10th October

"Honors promise -not action"

-need not worry! I have faith in my Obama-god (little g I call him). He will come thru and indebt us all.

-still waiting on my George Foreman grill Little g.
thethudelh at 06:46 PM JST - 10th October

I honestly wonder what Obama has done to win the Nobel Prize. He hasn;t spent but like two days in the D.C. The rest of the time he was jet setting around the world...Wait a sec I forgot about the beer drinking with the cop and the scholar...that makes three days. But still wasting tax payers money to go on vacation. Obama seems more and more corrupt everyday.
jeancolmar at 07:48 PM JST - 10th October

The Nobel Prize people work in strange ways. They always have and always will. They have not always made the best choices. Tolstoy, Proust and James Joyce were passed up for the prize. The prize should never have been given to a mass murderer like Henry Kissinger, or to Pinochet's poster child Milton Friedman, whose economics has caused misery to the poor of the world.

The Nobel prize should not be political but it is. It always has been and always will be.

Obama's Nobel Prize is interesting. Forget whether he deserved or not for a moment. The question is why Obama got it. He has done a few remarkable things. First he got elected President, the first Aftrican-American to do so. That alone might have gotten him on the short list. In his short tenure as President he has evened out relations with Russia, which Bush messed up, declared as his goal the abolition of nuclear weapons, which no US President has done, worked for ending the war in Iraq and has fought for universal health care in the US and saved the world economy (for now) among other things. Sadly, he is still committed to Bush's Afghanistan war, which would, in my view, disqualify him for the prize, though Obama's pluses out shine his minuses.

The common wisdom is that Obama got it on the promise on what he could deliver. In that case, I should have the prize for my Nurse Oppai tales in JT. But there is more to the story than promise.

My view is that the Nobel Prize represents a collective sigh of relief after 8 terrible years of Bush. After so much evil we suddenly have an American President who wants peace in the world. It is a sigh of a relief and a statement that someone like George Bush (meaning an Republican) should take Obama's place in the White House 4 years from now. Above all, it is a prize for the US for electing not an African-American as President, a mile stone in American history and an a guy who stood up against Bush's Iraq war.

Anyway, Obama has it and let him enjoy it. Let the people who put him into office rejoice as it is their prize as well.

I also think it would be bad form for Obama to reject the prize. It would be insulting. And under Bush the US insulted way too many people and nations.
DS at 08:23 PM JST - 10th October

He got it because a group of left leaning Euro-snobs felt like giving it to him. Maybe a bit of subtle pressure perhaps? Hell, even Time Magazine was lampooning the Nobel folks' selection of BO.

The fact that he is continuing the vast majority of the Bush administration's foreign policies should tell us something. Either Obama is far more of a pragmatist than people think, or once he got into office and realized the true state of the world, he wised up.

If you want to REALLY see an undeserving winner, check out Al Gore. Take the time to look up Irena Sendler, who was beaten by Gore and his docudrama about global warning.
cow76 at 09:50 PM JST - 10th October

Why all the comparisons to Bush? Does anyone seriously believe Bush deserves a Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama? The idea is laughable - the guy started two major wars, pushed ahead with Star Wars (prompting a new arms race), wrecked relations with Europe, Russia and the rest of the world, refused to negotiate with NK, Iran etc (= getting nothing done at all). The list goes on.

As for Obama's accomplishments, I think a lot of people need to reread the headline.
lunchmeat at 10:07 PM JST - 10th October

wrecked relations with Europe

Now, oddly, turning conservative.
realist at 10:33 PM JST - 10th October

What exactly has Obama done to deserve this award? NOTHING. Before he became President, he arrogantly stated that he would "save the world." From what, God alone knows. Personally I think that the world, and America in particular, needs saved from him. This award of the Nobel Peace Prize to president Obama has brought the Nobel Institution into disrepute. The award should have been given to the Leader of the Burma Opposition, who has been a prisoner in her own home for th past few decades.
realist at 10:35 PM JST - 10th October

Last time, they gave the award to the non-entity Al Gore, so I guess they are just keeping up the tradition....
DenDon at 10:42 PM JST - 10th October

This award of the Nobel Peace Prize to president Obama has brought the Nobel Institution into disrepute.

Last time, they gave the award to the non-entity Al Gore, so I guess they are just keeping up the tradition....

so which is it? awarding Obama brought disrepute or did giving it to Kissinger or Gore already do that? make your mind up
michaelqtodd at 11:20 PM JST - 10th October

Can you win it more than once?
Badsey at 11:24 PM JST - 10th October

It does make sense from the Globalist (World Order) point of view. Obama has indebted the American people ($1T+) and is working to enslave them thru more taxes and control (health care etc). Also the globalists are heavily going after the oil now (Iran, Iraq, Afghan Pipeline, Venezuela).

If Peace means indebted to the Federal Reserve (corrupt bankers) = Obama has won this award by a landslide.

Real Peace = anti -bankers, anti-debt, anti-inflation. -the Globalists do not make money on "peace" -harder to enslave people (fear) or steal their resources. But we are getting into an anti-war era = control thru CO2 scam.
PepinGalarga at 04:19 AM JST - 11th October

It's a consolation prize for not getting the Olympics.

Reading CNN is so funny, how they spin it. It's like watching Fox News. Perhaps according to CNN Jon Favreau should have got it?

I think he still has got a lot of work to do, but this should open a lot of doors.
shadrin at 01:41 PM JST - 12th October

That's funny, the award speech I heard said he was awarded for past deeds, not future deeds. Maybe we're talking about different peace prizes.
hudagree at 07:54 PM JST - 16th October

Should have said thanks but no thanks. Already engulfed in a lot of controversy at home, reception of the prize is a flamer for O.