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Is the nobel peace prize a joke?

Is the nobel peace prize a joke?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 78.7%
  • no

    Votes: 10 21.3%

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Yassar Arafat won one. Obama won one before doing anything. Gandhi never won one.
 
Yassar Arafat won one. Obama won one before doing anything. Gandhi never won one.

I have to admit that I lost any respect I might have had for the organization when they handed it to a terrorist. If that was a joke, it was certainly a bad one.
 
Looking over it's entire history, I think it's a worthy prize mostly given to worthy people. Lots of really amazing people have earned money to further their projects or campaigns. I think a lot of wonderful humanitarian work been furthered by the Nobel fund by and large. Yeah, the committee went totally political went in 2008 when it gave BO the prize. And, sure, maybe Yassar Arafat wasn't a great choice, either (don't harp on me about Arafat; I don't know much about Palestine/Israel).

But looking through all the winners since 1901, I can't help overlook a few miscalculations and see the bigger picture. The Nobel prize is a pretty good thing, I'd say.

I'm expecting some pretty bitter comments regarding this issue...
 
I agree with RM. The Nobel Peace Prize has, I think, gotten it right more often than it hasn't. I think it's biggest mistake was Obama in doing it before he had a chance to prove himself worthy, but I can understand why they did it. When he was running for president, he wasn't just affecting many Americans, he really was affecting many people throughout the world. Hopefully, they won't jump the gun like that again.
 
Looking over it's entire history, I think it's a worthy prize mostly given to worthy people. Lots of really amazing people have earned money to further their projects or campaigns. I think a lot of wonderful humanitarian work been furthered by the Nobel fund by and large. Yeah, the committee went totally political went in 2008 when it gave BO the prize. And, sure, maybe Yassar Arafat wasn't a great choice, either (don't harp on me about Arafat; I don't know much about Palestine/Israel).

But looking through all the winners since 1901, I can't help overlook a few miscalculations and see the bigger picture. The Nobel prize is a pretty good thing, I'd say.

I'm expecting some pretty bitter comments regarding this issue...

I agree. They may not have a 100% success rate, but there are some amazing people on that list. Note Norman Borlaug in 1970. As for Yasser Arafat, did anyone notice that Yitzhak Rabin also received one that year? Think maybe it was a gesture rooted in mutuality to help the peace process, and recognition for work they had done together? It's almost like the Nobel committee has a take on current events. Who'd a thunk?
 
Yassar Arafat won one. Obama won one before doing anything. Gandhi never won one.

It is a joke now, but at one time it may have not been.
 
It is a joke now, but at one time it may have not been.

That's how I feel - but I've noted quite a few recipients in the past that were unworthy - like hitler
 
Obama won one before doing anything.

He ran for president and won.

In a country that, not even a half-century ago, allowed blacks to be segregated from whites.

Our country has a long sad history of violent bigotry and mistreatment of minorities, especially blacks.

His accomplishment of winning a presidential election is major. We've finally caught up to the 20th Century.

Ghandi should have one.
 
He ran for president and won.

In a country that, not even a half-century ago, allowed blacks to be segregated from whites.

Our country has a long sad history of violent bigotry and mistreatment of minorities, especially blacks.

His accomplishment of winning a presidential election is major. We've finally caught up to the 20th Century.

Ghandi should have one.

That does not speak to his actions, though. Plenty of world leaders have broken barriers equally, if not far more impressive, than Obama's.
 
He ran for president and won.

In a country that, not even a half-century ago, allowed blacks to be segregated from whites.

Our country has a long sad history of violent bigotry and mistreatment of minorities, especially blacks.

His accomplishment of winning a presidential election is major. We've finally caught up to the 20th Century.

Ghandi should have one.

BO won the prize for defeating Bush in a national election, more or less. The implications were that Bush being out of power was a boon for peace, thus, the prize for the man who took his place.

Of course, if you think about that for more than seven seconds, it's total bull****. But that's how Obama won.
 
He ran for president and won.

In a country that, not even a half-century ago, allowed blacks to be segregated from whites.

Our country has a long sad history of violent bigotry and mistreatment of minorities, especially blacks.

His accomplishment of winning a presidential election is major. We've finally caught up to the 20th Century.

Ghandi should have one.

Is achieving something that was not possible 50 years ago a actual category for a Nobel peace prize.Is there a prize for the first black man to take a **** in the first desegregated toilet,the first female to play in the PGA,The first sold out WNBA game?
 
He ran for president and won.

In a country that, not even a half-century ago, allowed blacks to be segregated from whites.

Our country has a long sad history of violent bigotry and mistreatment of minorities, especially blacks.

His accomplishment of winning a presidential election is major. We've finally caught up to the 20th Century.

Ghandi should have one.
Yeah, but while all of that is great, it doesn't make him a peacemaker.
 
Its just politics now.
 
Its just politics now.

Really.

I don't think anybody would have a problem with 95% of the recipients on the list. So it's not "just politics". Just because Obama was misguidedly given the prize four years ago, now it's all hopelessly political? Geez, short sighted.
 
Most people couldn't name 20 NPP winners. The idea that it's "political" is nothing more than bull****ting cause you don't like a small percentage of the people who got it.
 
They gave one to Obama.

'Nuff said.
 
The reputation and integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize jumped the shark when the powers that be awarded it to Obama.
 
It's just a political tool and shock factor now. It holds credibility somewhere between The Communist Manifesto and People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive award.
 
All Nobel prizes are presumptuously manipulative. Its a biased ideological politicalized group (retired members of Norwegian parliament) trying to dictate cultural behavior world wide. In fact the Norwegian Nobel Committee maintains an proportional political party representation as a rule. So in fact the Nobel peace prize is a single country acting as a judge on all world affairs. Which I find a bit arrogant.

That being said though the Nobel peace prize is a complete failure since two world wars were fought after the foundation was setup. Then there was the cold war. ETC....
 
The reputation and integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize jumped the shark when the powers that be awarded it to Obama.

You keep proving the point people have made. Can you name 10 other Nobel Peace Prize winners off the top of your head without looking it up? I'll be dollars to dirt that you can't. Tell me how the voting process changed in ANY discernible way in 2008? Better yet, can you tell us what changed between the person who received it in 2008 and 2007? Were new people brought in to vote?
 
The reputation and integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize jumped the shark when the powers that be awarded it to Obama.
I said that.

You said it better. :lol:
 
Yasser Arafat, Barack Obama, Al Gore. I mean come on. Of course it is a joke. But any time a bunch of liberals get together and give other liberals prizes for being liberals, it's a joke. And it doesn't just have to be the peace prize. Krugman won a Nobel Prize for economics, and he has to be the worst economist in existence.
 
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