THE PRESIDENT WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

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LOL at people thinking Presidency has anything to do with this Peace Prize award! You do NOT have to be a sitting US President to qualify. You do not even have to be in public office to qualify! Stop saying "Because he was only in office so many days before the nomination, that he does not qualify" That sounds like you havent read anything about the prize itself. Achievements do not have to be made, but progress must be underway, which it is. NOBODY is even taking into account his efforts for a nuclear weapons free world

Mike, your analogy on heavyweight championship title is FAR from accurate

[Vteckidd]

LOL at people thinking Presidency has anything to do with this Peace Prize award! You do NOT have to be a sitting US President to qualify. You do not even have to be in public office to qualify! Stop saying "Because he was only in office so many days before the nomination, that he does not qualify" That sounds like you havent read anything about the prize itself. Achievements do not have to be made, but progress must be underway, which it is. NOBODY is even taking into account his efforts for a nuclear weapons free world

Mike, your analogy on heavyweight championship title is FAR from accurate

Man you totally miss the presidency point. Of course you dont have to be a president to win, no one said you had to be.

BUT HE DID NOTHING BEFORE HIS PRESIDENCY TO WIN A NOBEL PIECE PRIZE, WHAT DID HE DID HE DO IN 11 DAYS THAT:

Achievements do not have to be made, but progress must be underway, which it is

Stop the rhetoric, Tell me what he did in 11 days that made him worthy of winning, or tell me what he did PRIOR to his presidency that made him worthy of winning.

I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR ANSWER.

What he did after FEB 1st is well known, ive already stated it, hes done nothing. Unemployment, worse, war in iraq, still going on , war in afghanistam, worse, healthcare, not passed i could go on and on and on.

SOMEONE thought he was worthy of being nominated. If he should have been nominated BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT why wasnt he considered in 2006,2007? He was running for office those 2 years so he didnt do anything legislative.

Waiting.............

[bigdare23]

11 days

Damn he won the noble peace prize in 11 days. This man must be great then, everyone should love him then since no other man/woman has done that before



Naw, they may have looked at everything during that 11 day period, the things he was doing few months after he won the election (when Bush was still in office), the whole time he was traveling during his campaign, and the stuff he has done before that. Never know.

I'm done with this thread because it's going to turn into another "I hate Obama", "Obama is fucking everything up " thread like every other in the Politics section. Shit, IA might as well change the Politics section to Bash Obama section. Have fun guys

[tony]

LOL at people thinking Presidency has anything to do with this Peace Prize award! You do NOT have to be a sitting US President to qualify. You do not even have to be in public office to qualify! Stop saying "Because he was only in office so many days before the nomination, that he does not qualify" That sounds like you havent read anything about the prize itself. Achievements do not have to be made, but progress must be underway, which it is. NOBODY is even taking into account his efforts for a nuclear weapons free world

Mike, your analogy on heavyweight championship title is FAR from accurate

Heres the thing, everyone who is so critical of Obama and what he has or hasn't done seem to dwindle the fact that NOBODY has done what the man has done.. not one person. To his critics he's done nothing but in reality he's made history. I praised H.W Bush for being the first and only President to have an MBA, the man is very intelligent even though many claim him to be an idiot. Obama has done some pretty amazing things considering his upbringing, his story is quite inspiring to those who have similar backgrounds.

Now this award is pre-emptive I will say that and it would have been better to wait.. but nonetheless he won and a simple 'congratulations' is not asking too much.

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Heres the thing, everyone who is so critical of Obama and what he has or hasn't done seem to dwindle the fact that NOBODY has done what the man has done.. not one person. To his critics he's done nothing but in reality he's made history. I praised H.W Bush for being the first and only President to have an MBA, the man is very intelligent even though many claim him to be an idiot. Obama has done some pretty amazing things considering his upbringing, his story is quite inspiring to those who have similar backgrounds.

Now this award is pre-emptive I will say that and it would have been better to wait.. but nonetheless he won and a simple 'congratulations' is not asking too much.

This is what im trying to say, and people just arent getting it.

[green91]

This is what im trying to say, and people just arent getting it.

No, you keep reminding us that Obama's presidency has nothing to do with him winning the prize. Obama campaigned many of the same ideals on how to handle the war as other candidates.. but within the time frame of the nomination there was no possible way they could even be enacted. Obama did very little/nothing prior to the presidency to merit the award. So basically by your conclusion anybody who won the presidency by campaigning about ending the wars would be equally as entitled to winning as Obama.

The fact is that I have a hard time believing that Obama was the best candidate for the award, at least this year. Obama has made history and etc etc but none of this has anything to do with the qualifications for nomination for this award. Its tiring to see so many nutswingers latching on and backing him no matter how obsurd the reason or stretch.