Obama's Nobel honors promise, not action

Yes action and results should be shown first before an award is presented. I hoping to see good results and a total reduction of nuclear arms. Everyone, especially the leaders of the world should visit Hiroshima.

My question is, "Who is working for world peace?" Is it only President Obama? It is reported in the US news that even he was surprised that he had one. Are there no others sitting in N. Korean, Chinese, etc. prisons who just want to live peacefully? There are hundreds or even thousands of people who work for some kind of kindness to others let alone world-wide calmness. I voted for President Obama, but if this award is becoming political, it is time to end it. He was very gracious in his acceptance. What else could he do?

hollywood1 at 01:41 PM JST - 10th October: What else could he do?

He could humbly reject the prize. That would be interesting.

I think the idea is that if Obama is working for peace, the award will make him even more powerful and able to achieve his goals. He hasn't achieved enough to merit the award but, as the article explains, the award is not just about merit.

I don't know about reducing the number of nukes to zero though. You can't trust all countries to do that but when all countries are in a position to destroy any other country, the chance of war is less because the risks are greater. Mutually Assured Destruction often brings peace.

Joke. Basically, this is the third time the Prize has been awarded as a kick in the nuts for George Bush. Obama hasnt done anything, hasnt been at risk of danger or death (like Tsvangili (sp) from Rhodesia). All he has done is blow hot air.

Ironicc that he was awarded this in the same week as he refused to meet the Dalai Lama , (who is in Washington this week), becoming the first ever US President ever to refuse such a meeting

The Nobel Prize has jumped the shark.

The prize should have been given to those standing behind the curtain telling Obama what to say via his teleprompter.

Actions always speak louder than words; unless, of course, you win the Nobel Peace prize.

OK, Kim Jong il would have a Nobel Prize when he decided to dismantle nuclear weapon program. He makes peace for the world.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

wrecked relations with Europe

Now, oddly, turning conservative.

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.

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

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

Can you win it more than once?

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.

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.

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.

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.