Obama wins Nobel Peace prize

[mhacadoir]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8298580.stm

Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize 
 
US President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Committee said he was awarded it for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".

The committee highlighted Mr Obama's efforts to strengthen international bodies and promote nuclear disarmament.

There were a record 205 nominations for this year's prize. Zimbabwe's prime minister and a Chinese dissident had been among the favourites.

The laureate - chosen by a five-member committee - wins a gold medal, a diploma and 10m Swedish kronor ($1.4m).

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the Norwegian committee said as the prize was announced.

"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

[PadraicHenryPearse]

So how will republicans, right wing, and fox news respond to this?

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[Shamrock Shore]

WTF!

How did this happen?
Did I miss something?
Did he solve Middle East/Afghanistan/Iraq/Darfur crises(es). Destroy 1,000,000 nuclear missiles.

I must have been asleep for the past year.

Offaly rejoices.

[orangeman]

Must have been a very quiet year !

Hard to believe - I thought this was a wind up to begin with.

[Doogie Browser]

This is a bit of a joke to be honest, lets call a spade a spade here, he gets it for being the first black president.  Bruce Forsyth will not he happy, it wasn't like this in his day.

[Maiden1]

He has only been president for 5 minutes and last time I looked they where increasing the troop numbers in Afganistan.  Then again if Henry Kissenger can win the nobel peace prize then anyone can.

[Gnevin]

Bono was more deserving of a Nobel

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Bono was more deserving of a Nobel

When, in 1961?

Oh sorry, you mean his ego needs even more massaging?

[Gnevin]

Bono was more deserving of a Nobel

When, in 1961?

Oh sorry, you mean his ego needs even more massaging?

I was been facetious .

[playwiththewind1st]

Was Nelson McCausland not due to be given it, for his sterling work across the divide with his very good friends, the GAA ?

[omagh_gael]

No, it was actually Mc Causland and Willie Frazer running as a double ticket, bad luck fella's

[deiseach]

I'm dreading tyrones own's take on this, laden with emoticons and non-sequiturs. What's worse, his scorn will be totally justified. What the heck has Obama done to deserve it? The Nobel Prize committee are just picking Obama to stick it to Bush.

[tyronefan]

how can he win a peace prize and the US involved in 2 major wars at the minute

[deiseach]

how can he win a peace prize and the US involved in 2 major wars at the minute

Not only that, Obama is indulging the ambitions of people who want to start another war. As Green Greenwald noted recently, "No other country sits around debating, as a routine and permanent feature of its political discussions, whether this country or that one should be bombed next, or for how many more years conquered targets should be occupied".

[playwiththewind1st]

If Trimble can waltz down Garvaghy Road & end up getting it, any ould eejit can get it too.

Obama probably threatened to nuke Oslo, if he didn't get it, so the Committee probably didn't have much choice.