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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 4:00:11 PM | | I'm on another thread that's Obama, something like, does Obama spell doom for America,and the Nobel prize keeps coming up,off topic ofcourse, and the usual jokes of how was Obama picked in 11 days.Its to the point its hard to figure the denseness of some of these people,just unbelievable logic,first off Jimmy Carter nominated him not the Norwegian committee ,Obama might not have been any stranger to Jimmy,who knows that point,anyways,Jimmy does peace talks himself,I see the connection,anyways,then 10 whole months into his term the Norwegian Committee chose him as the winner,they act as if the Nobel prize people awarded him after 11 days,they did not,this is not rocket science. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 6:01:21 PM | "chastising them for their blatant disregard by ignoring the meaning of the award"
And what gives Obama the right to chastise them? Particularly when the spokesperson has already stated the voting followed the standards and Obama's selection was unanimous?
i really don't understand who you and yours think you are to challenge the selection.
It's not your money, not your selection and not your award. Grow up already. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 6:15:16 PM | "Take a look at the video when the announcer said Obama's name the guy in the background was giggling/laughing. I wonder why. Most of the week was jokes about Obama's Nobel Prize, not just Fox but all the other major networks, and many networks overseas. (just look at previous threads and you will find a slew of jokes and sites for jokes)."
This comment and many similar like ones in this entire thread are simply proof positive of GOP propaganda... We're now going to discredit the entire process by speculating that the facial expression of the guy in the background reveals "the real truth".
What it boils down to is a belief in Obama's secret agenda and therefore Obama can't be associated with anything positive, even for something like being awarded a Nobel prize... The Christian conservative right still has to attack... still has to undermine or discredit... there is no such thing as Obama doing anything right, trying to do anything right, or perceived of doing anything right... | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 6:54:17 PM | ^^^Message 478 ...
there is no such thing as Obama doing anything right, trying to do anything right, or perceived of doing anything right... It's the neocon propaganda and it's truly the dumbing down of the people ... those who are stupid enough to listen ... the right ... wingnuts!! Lush Phlegmbaugh's listeners.
They just have to do anything they can to make OBAMA look bad. It's what they do ... the "birthers", the "truthers", and in the case of the award ... the "haters".
They are truly sooooooo stooopid that they don't get it. If President OBAMA fails, the nation could also fail. The hate is strong and it's so strong that many would rather see the nation fail than get behind a man who is doing his best to clean up the awful mess he inherited.
So part of the agenda is obviously to put him down for not only qualifying, but actually winning the Nobel Peace Prize. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 7:01:12 PM | Absolutely agree with all those that believe the one thing Obama “shouldn’t” do is turn down the prize just to appease critics that hate the committee, the process, and Obama himself.
The LAST thing I want to see is any president taking marching orders from critics. They weren't elected, he was, so get over it. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 7:14:50 PM | What a huge disappointment this has been for some......first Obama wins the Presidency and now the Nobel Peace Prize!
Boo hoo
Obama 2012
Brandie    | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 7:31:28 PM |
.....at the time of his win many of us had no idea what criteria the Nobel Prize committee used to determine a winner...because we were curious about what concrete accomplishments Obama had that warranted such a Noble Prize we began researching....as we researched it became evident that the award was not what most of us had thought it was, most laypersons wrongly believed that the award was based upon a lifetime of work or an accumulation of concrete accomplishments that were consistent with the criteria that Alfred set forth in his will....
Alfred?!?... you make it sound as if your notion of his intent is derived from a personal relationship... Except it is in accordance... always has been...
It's nobody's fault you didn't understand that but your's... The award to Obama is not dependent on the perceptions of a group of unwordly, jingoistic, isolationist narcissists... welcome to the real world... life outside of CONUS... there's a whole world beyond your imaginings out there... and sometimes sh*t happens in which you have no say... in which your perception is irrelevant...
Now... again I ask... if you've just realized how "meaningless" it is... and I assure you that is a largely localized perception... why are you still bothering?... what is the value to you in continuing to tilt away at something you now know to be "meaningless"?...
...Wherein is to be found the profit if not in the sowing of hate? | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 8:51:21 PM | where is the profit in labeling everyone full of hate because they don't agree with you? that is the real question you all must hate easily to think that everyone is as driven by hate as you think they are....
same reason everyone else is still bothering, its fun to watch the arguments change and to watch people resort to name calling and labeling other posters as haters, Jingoistic,Isolationist Narcissist and unworldly because they dare to disagree with the Obama supporters on this site,,
For all of your terminology and vocabulary after reading through your posts you really didn't have much to offer in the way of supporting Obamas winning of the Prize...Pretty much boiled down to you saying it was the Committees decision and then the rest of the time you ridicule other posters....
One would think that someone as seemingly intelligent as you may have been open to the idea that perhaps there was a chance that the committee may have made a poor decision....its strange how when words such as "has a vision and created an environment "etc...are used, Fanatical supporters are unable to see the ambiguity....
Say what you will I believe the committee gave it to Obama for the following....The Committee envisions a world without nuclear weapons in which all countries are beholden to the U.N. and they believe that Obama can be used as an instrument to get there....{not saying that a world without nuclear weapons is a bad thing, just saying I think that factor weighed heavily on their decision}
"and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Notice the words used by Nobel- DONE, MOST, BEST WORK. ABOLITION, REDUCTION, HOLDING OF,.....don't see anything about visions and what not.....hmmmmmmmmmmm | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 9:01:45 PM |
...you really didn't have much to offer in the way of supporting Obamas winning of the Prize...
Okay--that cracked me up.
It doesn't matter if one supports Obama winning the Nobel, or not.
Get it?
The Nobel Committe made the decision--they couldn't possibly care any less about our 'support', or not, of their decision.
Obama was awarded the Nobel.
Nothing more to see, here.
Move on. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 9:15:04 PM |
Say what you will I believe the committee gave it to Obama for the following....The Committee envisions a world without nuclear weapons in which all countries are beholden to the U.N. and they believe that Obama can be used as an instrument to get there....{not saying that a world without nuclear weapons is a bad thing, just saying I think that factor weighed heavily on their decision}
It seems that there a few others who have even written articles about this same concept. That would mean that some of the media feels the same way, along with also wondering WHY? | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 9:30:19 PM | It seems that there a few others who have even written articles about this same concept. That would mean that some of the media feels the same way, along with also wondering WHY?
Why ask why?
IT DOES NOT MATTER.
The award was given. Period.
Obama is the recipient. Period.
Don't like it?
Get yourself on that Nobel Committe and make your case for the next recipient.
Seriously.
Get over it.
Seems like some just can't move on.
Seems like. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/25/2009 9:54:56 PM |
It seems that there a few others who have even written articles about this same concept. That would mean that some of the media feels the same way, along with also wondering WHY? Blank stare............. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/26/2009 12:07:31 AM |
One would think that someone as seemingly intelligent as you may have been open to the idea that perhaps there was a chance that the committee may have made a poor decision....
Whether one agrees or disagrees with Obama as the best choice is irrelevant... the fact of his winning is sufficient evidence of his deserving to win... the fact that the justification and criteria of his being chosen is consistent with the historical justification and criteria is sufficient evidence of his deserving to win.
I've never said whether I thnk he was the BEST choice of the candidates... just that the Committee concluded that he was... and yet to you this boils down to some kind of Obama worship because I won't jump on the "I don't care what the Committee decided, he doesn't deserve it" bandwagon... My opinion of the BEST choice is not relevant to the decision, or the value of the award, neither is yours...
Notice the words used by Nobel- DONE, MOST, BEST WORK. ABOLITION, REDUCTION, HOLDING OF,.....don't see anything about visions and what not.....hmmmmmmmmmmm
Ah... so we're back to the "I know Nobel's intent better than the Committee does" nonsense... but didn't you just admit that you really had NO IDEA about the real nature of the criteria for award... only what you incorrectly percieved it to be...?
Explain this to us... How can one be admittedly incorrect about what he THOUGHT the basis of the award was... and still know Nobel's intent better than the Committee which decides the award based on Nobel's intent...?
How's the view from inside the rabbit hole? | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/26/2009 5:50:47 AM | Not bad thanks....lol The committee is made up of five ordinary people, they have no greater insight into the will of Nobel than anyone else. Your argument is based on the infallibility of the Committee.Being that they are human it is possible that they sometimes make an error in judgment as in this case.
I will concede that Obama was chosen by the committee so this whole debate is a moot point, but I do not think he deserves an award as Seemingly prestigious as the Nobel Peace Prize based on what he has done,envisioned, thought or said to date. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/26/2009 5:56:22 AM |
I will concede that Obama was chosen by the committee so this whole debate is a moot point, but I do not think he deserves an award as Seemingly prestigious as the Nobel Peace Prize based on what he has done,envisioned, thought or said to date.
Write the committee maybe they will consult with you before awarding the next Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/26/2009 2:23:27 PM | The committee is made up of five ordinary people, they have no greater insight into the will of Nobel than anyone else.
Do you mean "ordinary people" as in no more knowledgable, educated or intelligent than you or the majority of the American conservatives who decided this should be an issue of controversy...?
Do you mean "ordinary people" as in no better qualified or capable of undertanding the intent of the prize than you or the majority of Ameican conservatives who decided this should be an issue of controversy...?
Do you mean "ordinary people" as in, by your own admission, a "lay person" who had mispercieved the meaning and intent of the awards...?
Obviously "lack of self esteem" is not an issue for you given that you seem to feel they are no better qualified or capable of handing out the award than you are...
... and YOU tried to characterized my statment about "narcissists" as being insulting and unwarranted...?
You give yourself FAR too much credit... | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/26/2009 2:58:09 PM | Since the committee members are referred to repeatedly as normal average citizens,reminding one of sorts like the average man "Joe the Plumber",lets check their credentials,shall we ! Let it be known that one is male and 4 are female !
Thorbjørn Jagland-born. 1950.
Chair of the Nobel Committee.
President of the Storting.
President of the Storting. 2005-2009. Prime Minister 1996-1997. Foreign Minister 2000-2001. Member of the Storting 1993-2009.
Member of the Committee since 2009, appointed for the period 2009-2014.
Kaci Kullmann Five-born. 1951
Deputy chair of the Nobel Committee.
Self employed Advisor Public Affairs. Chairman of the Young Conservatives, 1977-79. Member of the Storting, 1981-97. Cabinet Minister for Trade, Shipping and European Affairs, 1989-90. Chairman of the Conservative Party, 1991-94.
Member of the Committee since 2003, reappointed for the period 2009-2014.
Sissel Marie Rønbeck-born. 1950
Chairman Social Democratic Youth (AUF) 1975-1977. Member of the Storting 1977-1993. Cabinet Minister 1979-81, 1986-89 and 1996-97.
Member of the Committee since 1994, reappointed for the period 2006-2011.
Inger-Marie Ytterhorn-born. 1941
Senior political adviser to the Progress Party's parliamentary group. Member of the Storting, 1989-93. Member of the Election Law Ad hoc committee 1998-2001.
Member of the Committee since 2000, reappointed for the period 2006-2011.
Ågot Valle-born. 1945
Member of the Storting.
Member of the Storting 1997-2009. President of the Odelsting 2001-2005.
Member of the Committee since 2009, appointed for the period 2009-2014.
For that do not know what the Storting is,its national parliament of Norway, dating from 1814. Its members are elected by direct universal suffrage for a four-year term, and representation is proportional. The Storting elects one fourth of its members to form the Lagting, or upper house, the remainder constituting the Odelsting or lower house, in which all bills must originate. Ministers may attend the Storting but may not vote.
NOBEL COMMITTEE
According to Alfred Nobel's will, the prize to champions of peace is to be awarded by a committee "of five persons, to be elected by the Norwegian Storting". The rules subsequently adopted by the Storting for this election state that the members of the Committee are elected for terms of six years, and can be re-elected. As far as possible, the composition of the Committee is to reflect the relative strengths of the political parties in the Storting. The Committee chooses its own chairman and deputy chairman. The Director of the Nobel Institute serves as the Committee's secretary.
During the Committee's earliest decades, it was normal for both current Storting representatives and Government Ministers to be members. The first Committee thus consisted of Prime Minister Johannes Steen, Foreign Minister Jørgen Løvland, Storting representative John Lund, Professor of Law Bernhard Getz, and the national bard Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
With prominent politicians so heavily represented, it became difficult over time to convince the surrounding world that the Committee was not influenced in its work by Norwegian authorities. In 1936, in the wake of the Peace Prize award to Carl von Ossietzky, the practice was changed so as to bar members of the Government from sitting on the Committee. In 1977, out of regard for the Committee's independence, a further restriction was imposed whereby current members of the Storting can not be elected to the Nobel Committee. At the same time, the Committee changed its name from the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The Nobel Committee holds all its meetings in a special committee room at the Nobel Institute. The interior was designed by architect Carl Berner. On the walls of the committee room there are photo-portraits of all individual laureates and the emblems of all prize-winning institutions and organizations.
THE NOMINATION PROCESS
Each year there are 100 to 250 nominees for each prize. It should be noted that the expression "nominated for a Nobel Prize," when used to establish someone's credentials or expertise in a certain field, is not an essentially meaningless expression. Although anyone can be nominated, not anyone can nominate anyone else for a Nobel Prize. For example the website of the Nobel Foundation says that in the case of the peace prize the following people may nominate:
* Members of national assemblies and governments of states
* Members of international courts
* University rectors
* Professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology
* Directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes
* Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
* Board members of organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
* Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
* Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute
Paraphrased from Nobel Prize for peace nominator qualifications.
The strictly enforced deadline for nominations being postmarked is 1st February. If someone nominated themselves, they would automatically be disqualified. Only living persons may be nominated for the Nobel Prize. This has sometimes sparked criticism that persons deserving of a Nobel Prize never received the award because they passed away before being nominated.
In the past in two cases the prize was awarded posthumously to people that were nominated when they were still alive. This was the case with UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld (1961, Peace Prize) and Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1931, Literature) - both of whom were awarded the prize following their death the same year. The rules were amended in 1974 to prohibit being awarded after the nominee has already died. For example, William Vickrey who was nominated in 1986 for the Nobel Prize in Economics, died three days after the announcement, but two months before the actual award. The award was given to James M. Buchanan Jr..
Similar requirements are in place for the other prizes. However unlike other awards ceremonies the Nobel Prize nominees are not publicly announced and they are not supposed to be told that they were ever considered for the prize. The records are sealed for 50 years. This is done to avoid turning the awarding of the prize into a popularity contest. Due to this secrecy it is questionable whenever someone uses a Nobel nomination as a qualification (how could you check it?).
Prize categories
Prizes have been awarded annually since 1901 for achievements in:
* Physics (decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
* Chemistry (decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
* Physiology or Medicine (decided by the Karolinska Institute)
* Literature (decided by the Swedish Academy)
* Peace (decided by a committee appointed by the Norwegian Storting) | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/26/2009 5:35:19 PM |
And what gives Obama the right to chastise them?
Because he is the POTUS...leader of the free world. He can do/say what he wants. It's what leaders do.
i really don't understand who you and yours think you are to challenge the selection.
I don't challenge it. I just think it was dumb and said so in a forum post. This thread would have been pretty boring if all the posts were from people fawning over Obama, eh? | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/26/2009 6:00:11 PM |
I don't challenge it. I just think it was dumb and said so in a forum post. This thread would have been pretty boring if all the posts were from people fawning over Obama, eh? Wow that sure is the sugar coated version of what you actually did say,actually you say Obama you should chastise them,by purposely going against the rules,and now that he has reamed the prestigious Norwegian committee members they'll think twice before purposely making next time a political statement.Here's your actual words
Imagine this scenario... Obama goes before the Committee and refuses to accept the award, chastising them for their blatant disregard by ignoring the meaning of the award and marginalizing it by the politicization of it. The President returns home to accolades and next year the Committee, now properly shamed, award the Peace Prize to someone truly deserving of it, restoring the integrity of the Prize in the eyes of the world. What do you think?
Why don't you read my above post and familiarize yourself with these honorable Parliament members you want Obama to purposely offend and accuse of breaking the stringent rules.That must be your way of diplomacy.Obama would never do something as unbelievably stupid as you proposed ! | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/26/2009 10:19:03 PM | Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. That being said, I think it has been demonstrated that several other candidates of low caliber have achieved the same distinction. There is nothing new there. Mark Twain said
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure."
That axiom seems to apply in this case.
Therefore, saying that Obama is a poor choice, suggests that the committee could potentially make a better decision, which apparently is not the case. The real question is, why should anyone care if Obama won an award often given to jack balls for doing what they do best, which is "nothing".
I think it's the name of the award that is throwing some folks off. It should be called the Nobel "He's No Prize" award. Then we can agree that he deserves this non honor. | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/27/2009 6:50:54 AM |
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. That being said, I think it has been demonstrated that several other candidates of low caliber have achieved the same distinction. There is nothing new there. Mark Twain said
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure."
That axiom seems to apply in this case.
Therefore, saying that Obama is a poor choice, suggests that the committee could potentially make a better decision, which apparently is not the case. The real question is, why should anyone care if Obama won an award often given to jack balls for doing what they do best, which is "nothing".
I think it's the name of the award that is throwing some folks off. It should be called the Nobel "He's No Prize" award. Then we can agree that he deserves this non honor
I guess I will just have to rely on the committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, the future will tell just how successful President Obama is at reducing the risk of a global war, since intent is part of the criteria for the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize the committee made a great choice | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/27/2009 7:11:10 AM |
I think it has been demonstrated that several other candidates of low caliber have achieved the same distinction. There is nothing new there. Mark Twain said
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure."
That axiom seems to apply in this case.
Therefore, saying that Obama is a poor choice, suggests that the committee could potentially make a better decision, which apparently is not the case. The real question is, why should anyone care if Obama won an award often given to jack balls for doing what they do best, which is "nothing". Who exactly are these low caliber people.If the Nobel prize means so little to you why do you care.People just because Goober,Bubba, Gomer and Cleatus make ignorant statements doesn't make it true ! I have shown the committees credentials,all were told to be absolutely average just they are all members of Stort which is a requirement,all Parliment members the leader ,Stort president.I do not think those that make these statements have a clue as to what the prizes are,how they are chosen,whom the members are ,whom nominates them,and whom the recipients are.
Please note,some winners have shared the prize such as Arafat,where they took the 3 country leaders and awarded them each a third.All you ever heard from the peanut gallery was Arafat,which was incorrect and gives it a different meaning altogether.
Prize Laureates
2008 Martti Ahtisaari
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2006 Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
2005 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei
2004 Wangari Maathai
2003 Shirin Ebadi
2002 Jimmy Carter
2001 The United Nations ( U.N.) and Kofi Annan
2000 Kim Dae Jung
1999 Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
1998 John Hume and David Trimble
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta
1995 Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin
1993 Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1989 The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
1988 The United Nations Peace-keeping Forces
1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986 Elie Wiesel
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1983 Lech Walesa
1982 Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
1981 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979 Mother Teresa
1978 Mohammad Anwar Al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
1977 Amnesty International
1976 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
1975 Andrei Sakharov
1974 Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato
1973 Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
1972 The prize money for 1972 was transferred to the Main Fund.
1971 Willy Brandt
1970 Norman Ernest Borlaug
1969 The International Labour Organization (ILO)
1968 René Cassin
1967 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1966 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1965 United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
1964 Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 The International Committee of the Red Cross and The League of Red Cross Societies
1962 Linus Carl Pauling
1961 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
1960 Albert John Lutuli
1959 Philip John Noel-Baker
1958 Georges Pire
1957 Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1955 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1954 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1953 George Catlett Marshall
1952 Albert Schweitzer
1951 Léon Jouhaux
1950 Ralph Bunche
1949 Baron John Boyd Orr of Brechin
1948 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1947 The Friends Service Council and The American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers)
1946 Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott
1945 Cordel Hull
1944 The International Committee of the Red Cross
1943 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1942 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1941 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1940 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1939 One-third of the prize money was transferred to the Main Fund, and two-thirds to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1938 The Nansen International Office for Refugees (Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés
1937 Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil) Cecil of Chelwood
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935 Carl von Ossietzky
1934 Arthur Henderson
1933 Sir (Ralph) Norman Angell (Lane)
1932 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund.
1931 Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
1929 Frank Billings Kellogg
1928 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund.
1927 Ferdinand Edouard Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
1926 Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
1925 Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes
1924 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1923 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund.
1922 Fridtjof Nansen
1921 Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange
1920 Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
1919 Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1918 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1917 The International Committee of the Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge)
1916 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1915 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1914 The prize money was allocated to the Nobel Institute's Special Fund
1913 Henri La Fontaine
1912 Elihu Root
1911 Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried
1910 The Permanent International Peace Bureau (Bureau International Permanent de la Paix)
1909 Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault
1906 Theodore Roosevelt
1905 Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner
1904 Institut de Droit International (Institute of International Law)
1903 Sir William Randal Cremer
1902 Elie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat
1901 Henri Dunant and Frédéric Passy | |
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| President Obama Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!
Posted: 10/27/2009 7:38:46 PM | "Say what you will I believe the committee gave it to Obama for the following....The Committee envisions a world without nuclear weapons in which all countries are beholden to the U.N. and they believe that Obama can be used as an instrument to get there....{not saying that a world without nuclear weapons is a bad thing, just saying I think that factor weighed heavily on their decision}"
Now this is close... the only part i would disagree with is "Obama can be used as an instrument"... the Nobel prize does not come with stipulations.
They are applauding his effort and his devout, righteous beliefs and adamant actions in following the LAW.
This is why, even with the Nobel PEACE Prize, if we commit into Afghanistan for the purpose of routing out those that perpetrated 9/11, there will be international understanding and applause. | |
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