For What?

The Nobel Peace Prize?  Really?

Honestly?  What has President Obama done?  We are about 9 months into his administration, and I have to honestly ask, what has he done to be awarded this? 

Teddy Roosevelt won the prize for stopping a war.  Jimmy Carter won it for a lifetime of work.  And although I feel that Carter was one of the worst Presidents ever, it's hard to argue against all the work he did after his Presidency.  Woodrow Wilson worked hard for the formation of the League of Nations.  Al Gore for his work regarding the environment.

So did Obama win it for simply breathing?

From remarks from various sites around the web:

“It’s a peace prize, not a peace peace prize.”

“How do you say ‘jumped the shark’ in Norwegian?”

“Today the Nobel Committee announced a posthumous Peace Prize for Neville Chamberlain.”

“Why not the Cy Young Award, too?”

"Nobel peace prize and MTV VMA award now hold the same status in my mind."

“Let’s be fair . . . he did pull off the Beer Summit.”

I think I like that last one the best.

Hell, even the Huffington Post is questioning what he's done to have been awarded this.  And they are typically Pro-Obama supporters.

Interesting

"In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.

This, just a day before he is to consider a 40,000 troop increase in Afghanistan.

LMAO:

In a stunning announcement, Millard Fillmore Senior High School chose Shawn Rabinowitz, an incoming junior, as next year’s valedictorian. The award was made, the valedictorian committee announced from Norway of all places, on the basis of “Mr. Rabinowitz’s intention to ace every course and graduate number one in class.” In a prepared statement, young Shawn called the unprecedented award, “f—ing awesome.”

At the same time, and amazingly enough, the Pulitzer Prize for Literature went to Sarah Palin for her stated intention “to read a book someday.” The former Alaska governor was described as “floored” by the award, announced in Stockholm by nude Swedes beating themselves with birch branches, and insisted that while she was very busy right now, someday she would make good on her vow to read a book. “You’ll see,” she said from her winter home in San Diego.

And again in a stunning coincidence, the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the Oscar for best picture will be given this year to the Vince Vaughn vehicle “Guys Weekend to Burp,” which is being story-boarded at the moment but looks very good indeed. Mr. Vaughn, speaking through his publicist, said was “touched and moved” by the award and would do everything in his power to see that the picture lives up to expectation and opens big sometime next March.

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