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As the birthplace of all things awesomely fantastic about our country, Phillyist would like to extend a congratulations to President Obama for winning the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.
The White House had no immediate comments this morning, perhaps because they awoke the President at 6:00 a.m. to tell him the news. Phillyist never has immediate comments at that hour, before our coffee, either. His official statement from the White House Rose Garden will be at 10:30 this morning. Obama is the fourth U.S. president to win this award.
As of 9:30 AM today, 70% of Philly.com's pollers thought President Obama did NOT deserve the prize.
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I think it is a little strange, and I'm not even a mouth-frothing, tea-bagging, Dan Savage excoriated weirdo.
I'd just kinda like to know what he's done to deserve the award...
I really like Obama. I don't agree with him all of the time, or even close to all of the time, but I genuinely like him as a person. And I think that, in a few years, he could be really deserving of this honor. But the deadline to nominate for the prize was February 1. Obama hadn't even been in office a month by that point. And I'm really not sure what he could possibly have done during those two weeks or so that is deserving of this honor. I'm glad that we have a president who's so highly regarded by the international community, but this really feels like too much, too soon.
"You won a Nobel Peace Prize?"
"What, like it's hard?"
You have got to be joking! What in the hell has this guy done to get this. He hasn't even proven himself yet! Shenanigans! End the occupation of Palestine then we will see, but for now this is total BS. Who did he pay off? What next, is he going to call himself Grand Chancellor?
I was wondering if you guys could come up with some people that deserve it more? I don't really feel strongly one way or the other, but, it sure seems like if you're going to get all upset about it, you'd have a couple of people in mind who got robbed, and contributed more units of peace to the world this year?
I just like that Jenn got a Legally Blonde reference in here.
I do what I can. :)
How about any of the incredible doctors doing largely thankless, on-the-ground work in Africa?
I think this is (sort of) like how Jimmy Carter was awarded the prize in '02 -- at least in part as a censure against Bush and his policies.
When did Obama become the next Miley Cyrus? I never remember seeing the president's picture on t-shirts, underwear, mugs, towels, tote bags, etc. I wonder when the Obama glitter nail polish line is coming out? People are seriously obsessed with him.
OMG, now I want Obama underwear, and I want it to say "Nobel Piece Prize." COME ON! :)
Only if we can bedazzle the part that says "Nobel Piece Prize."
Um, YEAH. Obviously. :)
Umm, if it's a "piece" prize, it should really be a jock strap...
Crap, you're right. The "piece of ass" connotation isn't nearly as funny.
well, they are wonderful people. but it's unclear to me why they deserve the Nobel Peace Prize any more or less than Obama. unless they just deserve thanks, and the nobel is a way of saying thank you, but then they should give out a lot more nobels to a lot more people, because a lot of people do thankless jobs in horrible parts of the world.
Alright, hang with me for an off-the-wall analogy here, but I think giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize at this juncture (especially given that he was nominated only twelve days after he took office) is kind of like if they'd awarded Drew Brees the NFL MVP award after hanging 358 yards and 6 touchdowns on Detroit in Week 1 of the season. Sure, it's impressive, and he might win the award when all is said and done, but don't you want to see how things play out over time, in reality, before going and handing off a major award on spec and potential?
I agree, he's on my fantasy team and the last few weeks have been brutal. :o)
i completely understand what you're saying. if you want concrete accomplishments, he's moved the international community much closer to nuclear disarmament, and reignited that debate. he's also recommitted the most powerful military country in the world to a dimplomacy-first foreign policy. i think in real ways that contributes to peace.
now, obviously, i hope he does great things and would deserve the award even more in the future, but to just say he doesn't deserve it means that you have to have in mind who deserves it more and why, and some way of measuring the difference.
also, everyone gets nominated for it. like, tons of people.
also, after the last two weeks, Breez doesn't deserve to sniff the MVP award. at least for my fantasy team he doesn't.
if we're going to start throwing names out here, then after reading his book three cups of tea, i'm pretty convinced that greg mortenson deserves a nobel peace prize for his efforts in promoting education throughout pakistan and afghanistan in the past decade.
he built over 80 schools in some of the most far reaching, desolate, and volatility violent areas in the pakistan mountain ranges while enduring a ton of grief from all sides, but especially political and religious resistance.
frankly, i find him and his work remarkable.
i guess i should also mention that he strongly believes the way to peace is through education, especially for women.
You're the second person today I've heard say Mortenson should have won the prize, and the third person to recommend that book. I think I have to get on that.
That's a bee-autiful suggestion. I'm surprised he hasn't received more recognition for his efforts, that book was released back in 06 wasn't it?
i believe it was published a few years ago. i only just read it this summer.
Ross, I think the award needed the star treatment and so they picked him instead of some researcher trying to cure something or discover something new. Sadly the award has gone from just being recognition of a great breakthrough in humanity to an agenda approval certification award.
If we say he is bringing the world closer to nuclear disarmament, then what about Iran? Or the tenuous hold Pakistan has on its arsenal? Or even Russia and how it can hold on to their weapons from theft? Then we have Afghanistan, and his reservations about being there, and if he decides to pull out and the country goes back to the way it was that would be a serious blow not only to the women and children of Afghanistan but to our committment to peace through diplomacy. Look I am not hoping he fails but too much is on the table that needs to be finished or even looked at for him to win this award. Its not a question about who else besides Obama that is worthy of the award it is about how Obama is not ready for this award.
i'm not sure what you mean, len. saying he's bringing the world closer to nuclear disarmament is obviously not saying that the world has disarmed.
greg mortenson sounds amazing. maybe he was nominated and will win one year, and he probably should. the world is significantly better for his work. it's also significantly better for obama's. and to say that it's not--that he's accomplished nothing--displays a rather short memory of what the world was like when Bush was prez. that's my only point.
Did anyone see or hear the (acceptance?) speech Obama was supposed to make this morning?