Usually you don’t get this important award while being in office, so it may have come a but early. Ya there were exceptions made before, even for US presidents, but what has he done yet? Some speeches that may lead to positive changes, true, but why award him this year already?

I guess it’s about visions and a desire for change.

So does it devaluate prior winners?

Obama Posted:

I do not feel I deserve “to be in the company” of past winners.

Obama Posted:

I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership

After all, an interesting choice.

Especially interesting considering that nominations had to be made by February 1, 2009. I guess he was given the award based on good intentions, not accomplishments. In fact, the reason given by the committee was

Nobel Prize Committee Posted:

”for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”

I don’t think it devalues the accomplishments of previous winners because their accomplishments live on. But then again, a lot of the previous winners didn’t deserve it either as the Nobel committee has a long history of giving the prize to despots and thugs and Obama is definitely a step up from some of those guys.

It’ll help Obama because it gives him a bit more power in the world’s eyes to pull the nations together.

Either that or it’ll screw him over if he can’t, but that’s only an image problem, not a national one.

Either way, it’s just a silly award.

E: If you think he’s not done much you’re wrong, go do some research please. In the first ten days alone he did a wondrous amount of work.

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The first two are noteworthy, though undesirable. In comparison Obama hasn’t really gotten any major legislation pbumed, and his healthcare plan will likely die in office, which will kill half a year’s worth of effort.

Ahahaaha until 9/11 Bush spent like half his time at Camp David and otherwise did nothing. Most of you were like 5 years old and not paying attention to the news prior to then. Then he completely ****ed up the country by sending us to a fake war, which IS the main reason for the current economy (with some other amusing factors), destabilized the Middle East even more than it was, and by purposely lowering the value of the dollar has caused global financial chaos. Barvo. Barvo to Osama, that is, because his terrorist attack was more successful than he could have possibly dreamed.

Obama has been disappointing, but there is a slight improvement in the economy. He basically made some extremely lofty promises and they would have been wonderful, but he can’t get them to pbum in the real world. If he gets health care in this country to pbum and it’s successful, I think he’ll have earned the Nobel from that alone. There’s way too many people uninsured and just ignoring their health completely until an emergency arises. Btw, hospitals lose tons and tons of money from covering non-paying patients and then the costs go up. Preventative care is the cure for that sector of the economy, and health care is also a factor in the recession.

For the record, I’m not really satisfied with Obama at this point, but I’ll reserve my judgement for 3 more years.

Sergeant Cid Posted:

Bush had very little to do with getting us through the dot com aftermath. And as far as high approval ratings during a time of national crisis, people will grasp at any form of comfort and security when they are scared. The fact that he had a high approval rating in the months following 9/11 has nothing to do with him in particular. It was the situation that drove that approval rating, and the fact that he didn’t screw thing sup completely. Basically, so long as he didn’t get us all killed, he was going to have a high approval rating.

lol For serious. The internet sector of the economy was too small to have much impact, Shii. The rest of the strong economy pulled it back up. The 9/11 attack brought everyone together and briefly made them forget their partisan feelings. It dropped quickly to some of the lowest ratings. Everyone was apathetic towards him before 9/11.

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Ahahaaha until 9/11 Bush spent like half his time at Camp David and otherwise did nothing. Most of you were like 5 years old and not paying attention to the news prior to then. Then he completely ****ed up the country by sending us to a fake war, which IS the main reason for the current economy

Bush didn’t devalue the dollar; Alan Greenspan did.

Shii Posted:

Mostly talking about getting us out of the dot com bubble burst aftermath, and soon after getting us through 9/11 with the highest approval rating of any president in the US’s history.

What did Bush do to get us out the dot com bubble burst?

Inertia Posted:

No he’s actually the ANTI-Christ

I keep saying and people won’t believe me… just wait in 2.5 years

Maybe less! I say next year he will try starting a new war with Iran.