Do you think U.S. President Barack Obama is a good choice for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Saturday 10th October, 05:00 PM JST

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Seiharinokaze at 04:30 PM JST - 12th October

Rather subtle timing of being awarded when the president is now considering whether or not to approve to send more troops to Afghanistan and attack Taliban's training camps in Pakistan and even Iran. Prodding at the heartland has actually destabilized the region. Sending troops to cut off supply line has been a turning point in some of the past wars to be bogged down into a morass.

For the peace prize not to sound too hollow, will the president ever also persuade Israel to abandon nukes while trying to check Iran's pursuit of nukes?
timorborder at 03:43 PM JST - 13th October

No. Nothing against the President, but giving him the prize now stinks.
Altria at 03:52 PM JST - 13th October

No. I bet BHO was as surprised as the rest of us.

How about waiting til he actually does something?
Mittsu at 05:18 PM JST - 13th October

No - he hasn't achieved anything yet. He got it because he is first black prez - norwegians can't believe it.
mnemosyne23 at 05:24 AM JST - 14th October

I'm an American, and I think it's ridiculous that President Obama received the Peace Prize for, ostensibly, doing absolutely nothing. He won it solely due to the cult of personality. Maybe one day he will achieve something truly worthy of acclaim at this level, but he hasn't even been in office a year and he's spent most of that time trying to destroy the American healthcare system. How does that in any way qualify him to win a Nobel Prize of any sort? Why isn't the prize committee rewarding the efforts of Middle Eastern women who are willing to speak out against their own oppression, despite the possibility of retaliation? Or any of the hundreds of military chaplains who minister to deployed soldiers? Or someone, ANYONE, who has actually done something tangible to achieve harmony in the world? It's ridiculous.

But then, why are we even talking about this? The Nobel Peace Prize lost all legitimacy when they gave it to Arafat.
sfjp330 at 05:43 AM JST - 14th October

Give President Obama a break, he didn't ask for Nobel Peace Prize. Blame it on the committee. Sure, Obama's soft approach to other nations inspired better understandings and relations compared to hardline approach of previous U.S. presidents but does this constitute a Peace Prize?
zurcronium at 05:44 AM JST - 14th October

Arafat is demonized the the pro-israel lobby in the USA. Of course he deserved the prize along with the others who shared it with him.

Obama is doing more good that any single voice in the world can, since he is the president. His impact has been immediate and impressive on the world stage. Israel withdrew from Gaza for example which bush approved and promoted. NK is back at the table again after being pushed to become a nuclear nation by bush. Sure there is more he can do and the peace committee knows it. But he has already done more for peace that any single person has in the last year. Period. Most of the above posts are by the birthers who cannot accept a black, intelligent, peace creating president. Its just more of the same racism and hateration.
Zurg at 09:22 PM JST - 14th October

NO !! He hasn't done anything to deserve it. He's caused a turbulence of troubles in the US and will do the same to the rest of the world. He is on the top of HIS world only. That's it.
anderstungtwist at 07:09 AM JST - 16th October

Maybe by giving it to him, they think Obama will feel forced to live up to the award.
Seema at 08:12 AM JST - 16th October

I think most people are SO MISERABLE, they do not like when good things happen for others. If all these TWITS who are opposed to Pres. Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Award, were chosen, ONE DAYafter they were in ANY OFFICE, they would have been happy. This is nothing but JEALOUSY, AND BIGOTRY EXALTED. I don't care what anyone thinks about President Obama, I know he deserves the Prize, and I want to say, A HEARTY, "CONGRATULATIONS" TO HIM, for myself, and ON BEHALF OF ALL PEOPLES WHO LOVE OUR PRESIDENT. PRESIDENT OBAMA IS DOING A SUPERB JOB, AND HE WILL WIN MORE AWARDS, MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF HIS ENEMIES. It is such a very delightful thing to watch all of you sour lemons, under duress from your mire of madness, and the overload of your misery!!!
mansen at 10:42 AM JST - 16th October

i think it's all about competition. Maybe this year's nominees lack depth and the best one they came up with was Obama.

There's always got to be a winner.
mansen at 10:49 AM JST - 16th October

If it was someone else, there probably wouldn't be much of an disagreement. But since this time it's a polirizing figure- the sitting president of the united states- maybe some many of us expected more. I would have rather giving Obama more time to enlarge his pofolio of acheivements before I vote on him. Like I said before, maybe the competition was weak this yr.
DS at 10:34 PM JST - 16th October

I think Tsvingali (sp) from Zimbabwe would have been a better choice. He literally risked his life for freedom and democracy.

It is patently obvious that the Nobel just wanted to give Bush a shot in the nuts again......
rajakumar at 10:38 PM JST - 16th October

President,one award in the bag. There many more to go,may be the OBE.
Badsey at 11:53 AM JST - 17th October

When has Obama ever done anything? -besides flying around in jets and saying how important he is.

=bow down to your new god and first do-nothing President.