a Nobel? really?

[cellio]

I'm neither an Obama fan nor an Obama detractor -- not an extremist on either side. From some things I've heard today, it seems important to state that.

I'm mystified by his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. It's possible that he could earn that someday, but now? He'd been in office for ten days when nominations closed, and since then he really hasn't done anything on the peace front yet. I don't understand what's going on in the heads of the folks on the Nobel committee.

Al Gore's prize doesn't seem to have anything to do with peace either, so this isn't the first time they've done something to prompt "WTF?"s. Have they changed the charter of the Peace Prize? It would be sad if it became meaningless.

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[byronhaverford.livejournal.com]

Meh. That's nothing. Rank the following Nobel Peace Prizes in order of least to greatest WTF?:

Barack Obama
Al Gore
Yassir Arafat

[cellio]

Oh, Arafat was a big WTF, definitely. Presumably he got it for being willing to shake hands, despite his unwillingness to call off his terrorists. That one had to be so mired in politics as to have no hope of making sense to the rest of us.