.The Nobel Prize (Swedish: Nobelpriset) is an annual, international award originating in Sweden.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Awarding the Nobel prize to Obama, is debatable.

• Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous - Full Comment 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC network.nationalpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Prize is an award socialists give to socialists.

• Live Blog: Cartoonists Respond to Obama’s Nobel Prize Win | Cartoon News 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC blog.cagle.com [Source type: General]

.The award was established in 1895 by the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel.^ The Nobel Peace Prize has a cash award worth 10 million Swedish crowns(US$1,431,438)!

• Reason Morning Links: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, FHA May Need Bailout, Gay Marriage Battle in D.C. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC reason.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, the peace prize is given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament.

• Reid: Obama won Nobel Peace Prize with 'new type of politics' - Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 | 2:15 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.lasvegassun.com [Source type: General]

^ LOL!” Alfred Nobel was from Sweden not Norway, and it is the Swedes that award the prize…….but then why does your ignorance not surprise me?

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[1] .It was first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.^ He's done as much for chemistry, medicine and physics in the last 10 months as he has for peace.

• Reason Morning Links: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, FHA May Need Bailout, Gay Marriage Battle in D.C. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC reason.com [Source type: Original source]

^ This recognizes achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.

• Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: He’s Becoming Jimmy Carter Faster Than Jimmy Carter Did. - Erick’s blog - RedState 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.redstate.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The greater prestige comes with the Nobels for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine as these can be objectively measured by peer experts, and literature (the letter has about as much relevance as the Peace Medal but at least it keeps the arty farties happy).

• Did Obama Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]

.An associated prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was instituted by Sweden's central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.^[2] Although the Nobel Prize in Economics is not technically a Nobel Prize, its winners are announced with the Nobel Prize recipients and it is presented at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.^ It is one of five prizes awarded from the estate of Alfred Nobel in accordance with his will.

• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

^ Now that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace they blame the recipient.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The other Nobel Prizes were to be awarded by Swedish bodies (Swedish Academy, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet) that already existed, whereas the responsibility for the Peace Prize was given to the Norwegian Parliament,[4] specifically “a committee of five persons to be elected” by it.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.The Nobel Prizes in the specific disciplines (physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature) and the Prize in Economics are widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive in those fields.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Awarding the Nobel prize to Obama, is debatable.

• Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous - Full Comment 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC network.nationalpost.com [Source type: General]

^ I guess the Nobel Prize for Literature is next!

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[3]

.A recipient of the Nobel Prize (called a laureate) earns a gold medal, a diploma bearing a citation and a sum of money.^ The first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Oratory.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ December – Nobel Laureates receive their prize.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Gothamist 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC gothamist.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony takes place on 10 December in Oslo, Norway, where the Nobel Laureates receive their Nobel Prize, which consists of a Nobel Medal and Diploma, and a document confirming the prize amount.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Gothamist 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC gothamist.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[4] .The amount of money awarded depends on the income of the Nobel Foundation that year.^ The Nobel Committee is under no obligation to award the Peace Prize to someone every year.

• Obama's won the Nobel Peace – WTF?! – Telegraph Blogs 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: General]

^ This year the Nobel committee has given awards to people who did breakthrough work in fiber optics, charge coupled devices(digital cameras), and antibiotics.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Not to mention there are people such as Mortenson or Mukwege who have worked YEARS on projects that are in need of the money awarded with this prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.In 2009, the amount was 10 million SEK (US$1.4 million) per prize.^ October 9th, 2009 at 12:25 pm openid.aol.com/runnswim 10 The Prize wasn’t awarded after 12 days; he was merely nominated.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ Sat, 10/10/2009 - 21:49 — Chris Wood (not verified) Nobody's noticed that the Peace Prizes are intentionally ironic?

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Al “ global warning ” Gore got the prize for telling us that the globe was warning all while the globe has been actually cooling over the last 10 years.

• Think Progress » Sean Hannity on Nobel Peace Prize: ‘Frankly, I would’ve given it to George Bush.’ 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^[5] .If a prize is awarded to more than one laureate, the money is either split evenly among them or, for three laureates, it may be divided into a half and two quarters.^ Yes, and in more ways than one...

• BARACK OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.businessinsider.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ May be he should be awarded the prize in 2-3 years.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Unlike the scientific and literary Nobel Prizes, usually issued in retrospect, often two or three decades after the awarded achievement, the Peace Prize has been awarded for more recent or immediate achievements taking the form of summary judgment being issued in the same year as or the year immediately following the political act.

• » President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log. 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.dvorak.org [Source type: General]

^[6]

.The prizes are awarded by different associations.^ The difference is that the Judges awarded Yassir the prize and not W… Why does Fox NEED a ‘right’ to broadcast lies?

• Think Progress » President Barack Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize. 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^ Said said that the awarding of the prize to Obama "touches many people" because the US president represents "people from different walks of life."

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ I have a different thought about why award Obama the Nobel Peace prize now.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

.The Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at (the) Karolinska Institutet; and the Nobel Prize in Literature is granted by the Swedish Academy.^ (The Nobel committee, sufficiently mollified only after 24 years of the peanut president's America-bashing, awarded Carter his 1978 Peace Prize finally in 2002.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Likewise a review of Nobel laureates in economic science confirms that the awards largely honor Ashkenazi “Chicago School” economists.

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]
• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

^[7][8] .The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation, but rather by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Shame on you Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[7][8]

.The Nobel Prize has been criticised for not always choosing the best candidates, the lack of a Nobel Peace prize for Mahatma Gandhi, being one example.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize is a badge of shame.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[9] .Also controversial is the strict rule against a prize being awarded to more than three people at once.^ Unlike the scientific and literary Nobel Prizes, usually issued in retrospect, often two or three decades after the awarded achievement, the Peace Prize has been awarded for more recent or immediate achievements taking the form of summary judgment being issued in the same year as or the year immediately following the political act.

• » President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log. 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.dvorak.org [Source type: General]

^ Maybe the white elitists of Manhattan realize that they share far more in common with Wall Street, than they do with the common people (minorities) they supposedly love so much.

• Did Obama Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]

^ What once was a fine, noble and honorable prize has become a lobbyist arena – wonder how much Obama's men paid to be awarded that prize...

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.This inevitably means one or more people will not be recognised if a notable achievement is accomplished by a team of collaborators.^ Which one do more people read today?

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^ He has not yet accomplished ANYTHING. Yet his people will throw it around as if it really means anything.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Takes away from other more formidable people who have won this award after accomplishing real change.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[10] .Similarly, the prohibition of posthumous awards fails to recognise achievements by a collaborator who happens to die before the prize is awarded.^ More often, the prize is awarded to encourage those who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes at critical moments.

• Think Progress » President Barack Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize. 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]
• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]
• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

^ According to the Nobel Prize web site, the prize is not a lifetime achievement award, which many media voices imply it is, nor is it a reward for enduring prison and privation---it’s given for given to the person who: "during the preceding year [...

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^[11][12]

.Alfred Nobel ( listen (help·info)) was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden into a family of engineers.^ October 9, 2009 8:16 AM Alfred Nobel.

• Conservatives4Palin.com: Breaking News: Nobel Prize Committee Sanctifies The One 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.conservatives4palin.com [Source type: General]

^ Stockholm wards the Nobel Prize - created by the scientist Alfred Nobel* in his will in 1895.

• Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: He’s Becoming Jimmy Carter Faster Than Jimmy Carter Did. - Erick’s blog - RedState 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.redstate.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Reply Markinsanfran October 12th, 2007 at 5:21 am 32 I saw Al Gore speak in SF, just hours before the Nobel announcement.

• Firedoglake » Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC firedoglake.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[13] He was a chemist, engineer, and inventor. In 1895 he purchased the Bofors iron and steel mill, which he converted into a major armaments manufacturer.^[14] .Nobel amassed a sizeable personal fortune during his lifetime, most of it from his 355 different inventions, of which dynamite is the most famous.^ Norwegian Nobel committee has no other person suitable in the current list for their contribution toward world peace, it is completely two different international issues.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Nobel prize recipients, something few here have actually done, mentioning onlly the most famous winners.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ (This is because Sweden and Norway were in a union during Nobel's lifetime) .

• Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize | Crooks and Liars 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: Original source]

^[14] In 1888 Alfred had the unpleasant surprise of discovering and reading his own obituary, titled ‘The merchant of death is dead’, in a French newspaper.^[15] .The obituary was eight years premature as it was actually Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died.^ I would rather have this intellectual running this country for the next eight years and than, you know who.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Or is awarding a prize to a leader who has yet to reach the end of his first year simply too premature?

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ If the point of the Nobel is to credit the individual who has done the most for world peace in the last year, Obama is actually a good choice.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

.Nevertheless, Alfred was disappointed with what he read and with how he would be remembered, inspiring him to change his will.^ How about changing one single word in your above comment and make it reads as follows: .

• Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Truthdig 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: Original source]

^ If you believe climate change is an issue you can see how its implications would affect a peaceful life on earth, as well as an increased potential for war.

• Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize | Crooks and Liars 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I promised myself I would not force myself to read him just because he was considered great, because I’d rather read a cereal box.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^[15] .On the 10th of December 1896 Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy at the age of sixty-three after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage.^ Alfred Nobel died in December 1896, and in January 1897 the contents of his will were unveiled.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Alfred Nobel was Swedish and prize is technically awarded by the three Scandinavian countries, but Nobel felt there would be less corruption if it was awarded by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament.

• » President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log. 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.dvorak.org [Source type: General]

^ Edgar Says: December 10th, 2009 at 12:31 pm And today, Barack “Napoleon” Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Why the Nobel Prize Matters | Politics @ Perkisets 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.perkiset.org [Source type: Original source]

^[16][17]

.To the surprise of many,^[18] Nobel requested in his last will and testament that his money be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in physics, chemistry, peace, physiology or medicine, and literature.^ He's done as much for chemistry, medicine and physics in the last 10 months as he has for peace.

• Reason Morning Links: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, FHA May Need Bailout, Gay Marriage Battle in D.C. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC reason.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Barack Obama 'surprised' and 'humbled' by Nobel peace prize .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Nobel Prize for Peace should be used as a preventative means.

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

^[17] .Though Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last was written a little over a year before he died, and signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895.^[19][20] Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million Swedish kronor (US$186 million in 2008), to establish and endow the five Nobel Prizes.^ Frost’s fourth Pulitzer was awarded 20 years before he died.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I do not think that he deserves the Nobel prize this year.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The funds are at the moment approx US$ 500 million in total (it shrunk approx 20% last year).

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[21] Due to the level of scepticism surrounding the will it was not until April 26, 1897 that it was approved by the Storting (Norwegian Parliament).^[1][22] .The executors of his will were Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilljequist, who formed the Nobel Foundation to take care of Nobel's fortune and organise the prizes.^ Is that all it takes to get the Nobel Peach prize?

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Nobel prize period is given to people who have ACCOMPLISHED something throughout their "long career," not based on potential momentum of an individual's early career.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ October 9th, 2009 1331 GMT He absolutely not deserve this: this cheapens the Nobel prize concept (will the Literary prize be awarded to someone who had a good idea for a book...

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[23]

.The members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that were to award the Peace Prize were appointed shortly after the will was approved.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Shame on you Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

.The prize-awarding organisations followed: the Caroline Medico-Chirurgical Institute (known as the Karolinska Institute) on 7 June, the Swedish Academy on 9 June, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on 11 June.^ The other Nobel Prizes were to be awarded by Swedish bodies (Swedish Academy, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet) that already existed, whereas the responsibility for the Peace Prize was given to the Norwegian Parliament,[4] specifically “a committee of five persons to be elected” by it.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ October 9th, 2009 11:29 am ET It is way to early in the the President's term to award him the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ October 9th, 2009 11:41 am ET Well, I agree that a little effort in the workup would have been great before he was awarded the prize.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[8] .The Nobel Foundation then reached an agreement on guidelines for how the Nobel Prize should be awarded.^ Hey I should have been eligible for the Nobel Prize too.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Kanye should be in the Nobel Prize Committee.

• Obama's Nobel Farce - The Daily Beast 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Awarding the Nobel prize to Obama, is debatable.

• Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous - Full Comment 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC network.nationalpost.com [Source type: General]

.In 1900, the Nobel Foundation's newly created statutes were promulgated by King Oscar II.^ The statutes of the Nobel Foundation restrict disclosure of information about the nominations, whether publicly or privately, for 50 years.

• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Gothamist 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC gothamist.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^ Observing the rules given in the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the Committee does not publish the names of candidates.

• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^[18][22] .In 1905, the Union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved, which meant the responsibility for awarding Nobel Prizes was split between the two countries.^ Norway awards the Peace Prize; the remainder are awarded by Sweden.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ When Nobel created his prize Norway was a part of Sweden.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[22] .Norway's Nobel Committee became responsible for awarding the Peace Prize, leaving Sweden with the other prizes.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Shame on you Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[1][22]

.The Nobel Foundation was founded as a private organisation on 29 June 1900, specifically to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes.^ The Nobel Foundation manages the assets.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ October 9th, 2009 11:29 am ET It is way to early in the the President's term to award him the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ "But I also know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[26][27] .In accordance with Nobel's will, the primary task of the Nobel Foundation is to manage the fortune Nobel left.^ The Nobel Foundation manages the assets.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ There have been several ’scandals’ surrounding the asset management, presumably deriving from the lack of ethical guidelines from the Nobel foundation .

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Nobel was the last name of Alfred Nobel,a chemist after whom the prize was named,in accordance to a will he left behind after his death.

• Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Truthdig 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: Original source]

^[28][29] .Another important task of the Nobel Foundation is to market the Nobel Prize internationally and to oversee informal administration related to the Prizes.^ I hope he will get another Nobel peace prize, even more deserved, when he has accomplished his mission.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, he has exemplified peace in his efforst to bring about positive international relations, he maintains his since of peace on a daily basis as Pres.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Nobel committee has done an elementary misunderstanding of its task when it has chosen to interpretate “peaceprize” instead of looking at the words Nobel used and his specific intention with the prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.The Nobel Foundation is not involved in any way in the process of selecting the Nobel laureates.^ Below is a brief description of the process involved in selecting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Committee which selects the Nobel laureates, have a rull.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ In selecting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, the Nobel Committee bases its assessment on nominations that must be postmarked no later than 1 February each year.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[28][30] .In many ways the Nobel Foundation is similar to an investment company, in that it invests Nobel's money to create a solid funding base for the prize and the administrative activities.^ Originally the directive from Alfred Nobel was to place the funds in real estate or similar safe investments, however since 1953 the foundation was allowed by the Swedish government to invest in shares, which stopped the hither to depletion of the funds.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ In 1998, the Observer made an investigation into the investments and found that many of the world largest arms manufactureres (including Boeing, British Aerospace, GKN och Smiths Industries) were in the Nobel foundation portfolios .

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

.The Nobel Foundation is exempt from all taxes in Sweden (since 1946) and from investment taxes in the United States (since 1953).^ Originally the directive from Alfred Nobel was to place the funds in real estate or similar safe investments, however since 1953 the foundation was allowed by the Swedish government to invest in shares, which stopped the hither to depletion of the funds.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ October 9th, 2009 10:21 am ET We should all be so proud that our President won the Nobel prize and brought it to the United States once more.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Thank you.....United States of America for allowing Barack and his awesome wife give us what we all need!

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[31] .Since the 1980s, the Foundation's investments have become more profitable and as at December 31, 2007, the assets controlled by the Nobel Foundation amounted to 3.628 billion Swedish kronor (approx.^ The Nobel Foundation manages the assets.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ October 9th, 2009 1218 GMT That appears to be more of a cry out to the States to stop further attempts to control every profitable part of the world.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Landmark Legal Foundation herewith submits the name of Rush Limbaugh as an unsolicited nomination for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.” .

• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

US$560 million).^[1][29][32]

According to the statutes, the Foundation should consist of a board of five Swedish or Norweigan citizens, with its seat in Stockholm. .The Chairman of the Board should be appointed by the King in Council,^[33] with the other four members appointed by the trustees of the prize-awarding institutions.^ Board members of organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; 6.

• Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To President Obama! : Delaware Liberal 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.delawareliberal.net [Source type: General]

^ May be he should be awarded the prize in 2-3 years.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]
• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

.An Executive Director is then chosen from among the board members, a Deputy Director is appointed by the King in Council, and two deputies appointed by the trustees.^ Who was a terrorist member of the Irgun as a young man, and was still wanted by the British for blowing up the King David Hotel and the hanging of two British soldiers.

• Think Progress » Sean Hannity on Nobel Peace Prize: ‘Frankly, I would’ve given it to George Bush.’ 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

However since 1995, all the members of the board have been chosen by the trustees and the Executive Director and the Deputy Director appointed by the board itself.^[33] .As well as the board, the Nobel Foundation is made up of the prize-awarding institutions, (the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly, the Swedish Academy, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee), the trustees of these institutions, and auditors.^ Nobel Committee made the right choice.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Are they (the nobel prize committee) making his mind up for him?

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[1][33]

.In 1938 and 1939, Adolf Hitler's Reich forbade three laureates from Germany (Richard Kuhn, Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, and Gerhard Domagk) from accepting their prizes.^ An European Voize Says: October 9th, 2009 at 10:30 am Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize so did Adolf Hitler .

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Adolf Hitler, was nominated once in 1939 by E.G.C. Brandt, member of the Swedish parliament.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[34][35] Each man was later able to receive the diploma and medal.^[34] .Even though Sweden was officially neutral during World War II, the Prizes were awarded irregularly during this period.^ Were they still giving out nobel prizes during world war II? .

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^ If they didn't give President Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, or Pope John Paul II the Nobel Prize for their work during the Cold War, Sarah Palin won't receive the Nobel for anything she does.

• Conservatives4Palin.com: Breaking News: Nobel Prize Committee Sanctifies The One 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.conservatives4palin.com [Source type: General]

^ The buildup has raised the number of U.S. troops deployed to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan above the peak during the Iraq “surge” that President George W. Bush ordered, officials said.” .

• Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize at Larvatus Prodeo 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC larvatusprodeo.net [Source type: Original source]

.In 1939 the Peace Prize was not awarded and between 1940 and 1942 no Nobel Prize was awarded in any category, due to the occupation of Norway by Germany from 9 April 1940.^[36] In the subsequent year, all prizes were awarded except those for Literature and Peace.^ We are really happy that President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Nobel Committee is under no obligation to award the Peace Prize to someone every year.

• Obama's won the Nobel Peace – WTF?! – Telegraph Blogs 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: General]

^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^[37]

.During the occupation of Norway, three members of the Nobel Committee fled the country into exile.^ The Nobel committee members .

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Reports are that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Norway is now in conference to determine whether to raise the maximum number of wars allowed to ten.

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Nobel committee members have not just picked him for any kind of US political stunts, they know that they have to face the world when picking anyone and they know that they have to get it right.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.The remaining members escaped persecution from the Nazis due to the Nobel Foundation stating that the Nobel Committee building in Oslo was Swedish property and thus a safe haven from the German Military which was not at war with Sweden.^ Valle, the Nobel Committee member.

• Reid: Obama won Nobel Peace Prize with 'new type of politics' - Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 | 2:15 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.lasvegassun.com [Source type: General]

^ The former was Swedish, and both were members of the Nobel Committee at the time.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Originally the directive from Alfred Nobel was to place the funds in real estate or similar safe investments, however since 1953 the foundation was allowed by the Swedish government to invest in shares, which stopped the hither to depletion of the funds.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[38] .These members kept the work of the Committee going but did not award any prizes.^ The prize is awarded by a five-member member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ What's going on with this Nobel prize committee?

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[35] .In 1944 the Nobel Foundation, together with the three members in exile, made sure that nominations were submitted for the Peace Prize and that the prize could be awarded once again.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Nomination to the Nobel Peace Prize is by invitation only.

• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^[35]

.The Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) celebrated its 300th anniversary in 1968 by donating a very large sum of money to the Nobel Foundation.^ ACORN just got Bank of America to give me a no money down, interest only loan for a Nobel Peace Prize, with a low teaser rate.

• Reason Morning Links: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, FHA May Need Bailout, Gay Marriage Battle in D.C. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC reason.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Sherry Says: October 10th, 2009 at 12:58 pm I wonder if Obama will donate the Nobel prize money to ACORN? Nobel Prize Winner for 2010?

• Ron Paul On Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.prisonplanet.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ October 9th, 2009 1204 GMT Obama must have donated a huge amount of money to the Nobel Committee.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[39] .The following year, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded for the first time.^ What are the criteria for awarding a Nobel Peace Prize?

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The Prize is awarded each year.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences became responsible for selecting a laureate for this prize.^ The other Nobel Prizes were to be awarded by Swedish bodies (Swedish Academy, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet) that already existed, whereas the responsibility for the Peace Prize was given to the Norwegian Parliament,[4] specifically “a committee of five persons to be elected” by it.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Below is a brief description of the process involved in selecting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Says: October 9th, 2009 at 11:26 am Below is a brief description of the process involved in selecting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[39] .Although not technically a Nobel Prize, it is identified with the award; its winners are announced with the Nobel Prize recipients, and the Prize in Economic Sciences is presented at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.^ Awarding the Nobel prize to Obama, is debatable.

• Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous - Full Comment 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC network.nationalpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to recipients whose works are aspirational.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Now that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace they blame the recipient.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[39][40][41] .Subsequently, the Board of the Nobel Foundation decided that after this addition, it would allow no further new prizes.^ The Nobel prize has no integrity anyway.

• Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize | | AlterNet 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.alternet.org [Source type: General]

^ News results for: nobel prize 2009 .

• Nobel prize 2009 - surchur 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC surchur.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ No, I’m going to win the Nobel Prize.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[39]

.In 2008 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared among two French virologists who discovered HIV and a third German virologist who discovered that a virus causes cervical cancer.^ The only two to do so of their own will were Jean-Paul Sartre, who turned down the 1964 Literature Prize, and Vietnam's then-prime minister Le Duc Tho, who refused to share the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ More empty accolades for a man who has done nothing, achieved nothing except affirmative praise from a fawning media and now the already laughable Nobel Prize Committee.

• Obama's Nobel Farce - The Daily Beast 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ What a disgrace to those individuals who have received the Nobel Prize to be compared to Barack Obama.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^[42] .Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, together share half the prize for their discovery in 1983, which was that the virus now known as HIV causes AIDS.^ The reason why Norway distributes a part of the prize is that at the time of Alfred Nobel's death, Norway and Sweden were joined together in a personal union known as the Swedish-Norwegian Union.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Now now children, lets all behave…I think you could relable this list “10 well-known writers who did not get the Nobel Prize”.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^[42][43] Harald zur Hausen also shared this prize for discovering that the human papilloma virus causes cervical cancer.^[42][44] .The Nobel prize in Chemistry for that year was shared among three biologists.^ I do not think that he deserves the Nobel prize this year.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize has been devalued this year.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Nobel Committee is under no obligation to award the Peace Prize to someone every year.

• Obama's won the Nobel Peace – WTF?! – Telegraph Blogs 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: General]

^[45] Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien isolated and developed a green fluorescent protein (GFP) from a jellyfish.^[46][47] The GFP has a vast number of applications, from searching for a cure for deafness to developing treatments for Huntington's disease.^[48][49] .Martti Ahtisaari received the Peace Prize "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts".^[50][51] The Prize in Physics was awarded to Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.^ More on Obama's Nobel peace prize .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ So I guess he can keep his peace prize award.

• Reid: Obama won Nobel Peace Prize with 'new type of politics' - Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 | 2:15 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.lasvegassun.com [Source type: General]

^ At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[52][53] .Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio received the Literature Prize with the motivation: "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".^[54][55] The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Paul Krugman for his work on international trade and economic geography.^ News results for: nobel prize 2009 .

• Nobel prize 2009 - surchur 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC surchur.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Awarding the Nobel prize to Obama, is debatable.

• Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous - Full Comment 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC network.nationalpost.com [Source type: General]

^[56][57]

.In 2009 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath, for creating detailed structures of the ribosome.^ Earlier in the day, Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Awarding the Nobel prize to Obama, is debatable.

• Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous - Full Comment 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC network.nationalpost.com [Source type: General]

^[58] .The Physics Prize was awarded to Charles K. Kao for his research on how to transmit light through glass fibre and to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for inventing a sensor that turns light into electrical signals, thus making possible inventions such as the digital camera.^ Friday, October 9th at 9:52AM EDT ( link ) Which ones will criticize the Nobel Committee for turning the Nobel Peace Prize into the “Screw You George W. Bush Award?” .

• Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: He’s Becoming Jimmy Carter Faster Than Jimmy Carter Did. - Erick’s blog - RedState 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.redstate.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Perhaps some sort of prize should be awarded for the declaration of “good wars,” (without getting into the arguments over whether or not the Iraq War qualifies as such), but it seems oxymoronic to give a peace prize for the declaration of war.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ How about awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to whoever can stop the wars on the South and West sides of Chicago?

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^[59][60] .Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson were awarded the prize in Economics for "their work in economic governance, especially the commons".^[61][62] Elinor was the first woman to win the prize in Economics.^ Obama is the third sitting U.S. president to win the award: President Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906 and President Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize in 1919.

• Reid: Obama won Nobel Peace Prize with 'new type of politics' - Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 | 2:15 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.lasvegassun.com [Source type: General]

^ Parra (inventor of anti-poetry) and huidrobro an excellent poet were left behind for novel prizes, however Neruda’s sissy work and Mistral child’s poetry was awarded.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^ In a major surprise, President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize , making him the first sitting American president to win the prize since Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Gothamist 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC gothamist.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.The Physiology or Medicine Prize was awarded to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak for their research on telomers.^ Will they now start to award Nobel Prizes in medicine for hoping to cure disease?

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Nobel prize is awarded to people with significant achievement and are judge by people of their peers in Medicine, Economics, Literature, etc.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Elizabeth Blackburn from the University of California, San Francisco, Jack Szostak from Harvard Medical School and Carol Greider from Johns Hopkins University all share this year's Nobel prize for medicine for 2009.

• Nobel prize 2009 - surchur 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC surchur.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[63] The Literature Prize was awarded to Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".^[64][65] The President of the United States, Barack Obama, was awarded the Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".^[66][67]

.The award process is similar for each Nobel Prize, the main difference being the choice of individuals responsible for the nominations for a particular prize.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Awarding the Nobel prize to Obama, is debatable.

• Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous - Full Comment 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC network.nationalpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Why not, if Obama is being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

• Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize | | AlterNet 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.alternet.org [Source type: General]

^[68]

.First, nomination forms are sent out by the Nobel Committee to about 3000 qualified individuals, usually in September the year before the prize is awarded.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Kanye should be in the Nobel Prize Committee.

• Obama's Nobel Farce - The Daily Beast 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Awarding the Nobel prize to Obama, is debatable.

• Jonathan Kay: Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize is ridiculous - Full Comment 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC network.nationalpost.com [Source type: General]

^[69] .These individuals are often professors working in the same area as the prize they provide nominations for.^ I was getting ready for work this a.m., when they broke the news that he was awareded the Peace Prize.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Just like the crowns placed on royals’ heads – these international prizes are nothing but that – symbolism placed on certain individuals chosen by the global elite to implement their programs.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Peace Prize is not given every year and two notable figures who failed to get the prize, although they were nominated several times each, were Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[68][69] .For the Peace Prize, inquiries are sent to various nominating bodies, including: governments, members of international courts, professors and rectors, former Peace Prize laureates and current or former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Nomination to the Nobel Peace Prize is by invitation only.

• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^ Shame on you Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[68][69] .The deadline for the return of the nomination forms is 31 January of the year the prize is to be awarded.^ May be he should be awarded the prize in 2-3 years.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Nobel Committee is under no obligation to award the Peace Prize to someone every year.

• Obama's won the Nobel Peace – WTF?! – Telegraph Blogs 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: General]

^ The prizes are only awarded every four years.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[68][69] .The Nobel Committee looks at the forms and selects preliminary candidates.^ Sadly, by selecting Obama over other more eligible candidates the committee has damaged the Nobel brand.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Nobel committee has done an elementary misunderstanding of its task when it has chosen to interpretate “peaceprize” instead of looking at the words Nobel used and his specific intention with the prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ To show that a degree of consistancy does exist in the way the Nobel Committee makes its selection.

• Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Truthdig 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: Original source]

.The Nobel Committee may also add additional names and often about 300 potential laureates are nominated.^ But are we really ignorant about Nobel committee?

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Thanks, Nobel nominating committee.

• Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize | Crooks and Liars 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC crooksandliars.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The only people in the world who think Obama deserves to win Nobel Prize may be Norbel Prize committee.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[70] .The names of the nominees are never publicly announced, and neither are they told that they have been considered for the Prize.^ Considering his past, the prospect that he may qualify as a Peace Prize nominee is tinged with irony.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ If Barack Obama was the best nominee this year, they should have not given a prize at all.

• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | TPMDC 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ India from the British through peace and non violence for almost 2 decades was never considered for this prize, where as Obama who has been on the forefront with war every where is given the prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.All nomination records for a prize are sealed for 50 years from the awarding of that prize.^ The Prize is awarded each year.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Nobel Prize nominations are to remain secret for 50 years.

• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^ May be he should be awarded the prize in 2-3 years.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[30][71]

.The Nobel Committee then consults experts in the relevant fields about the list of preliminary candidates.^ But are we really ignorant about Nobel committee?

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ The greater prestige comes with the Nobels for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine as these can be objectively measured by peer experts, and literature (the letter has about as much relevance as the Peace Medal but at least it keeps the arty farties happy).

• Did Obama Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]

^ Sadly, by selecting Obama over other more eligible candidates the committee has damaged the Nobel brand.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.Using advice from the experts the Nobel Committee then writes a report, which along with the list is signed and then submitted to the different prize awarding institutions: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish Academy, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.^ According the the Norwegian Nobel Committee, he’s won it for: .

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The prize is awarded by a five-member member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ I used to believe the Nobel Prize was awarded for accomplishments, not intentions.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^[72][73] .The prize-awarding institutions meet to consider the lists and vote on who will become the laureate or laureates in each field.^ What once was a fine, noble and honorable prize has become a lobbyist arena – wonder how much Obama's men paid to be awarded that prize...

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I thought that the Peace Prize was awarded to someone who had actually achieved something.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ October 9th, 2009 1331 GMT He absolutely not deserve this: this cheapens the Nobel prize concept (will the Literary prize be awarded to someone who had a good idea for a book...

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.This is done through a majority vote and their decision is final and not subject to appeal.^ The decision is final and without appeal.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Gothamist 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC gothamist.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ At the beginning of October, the Nobel Committee chooses the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates through a majority vote.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Gothamist 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC gothamist.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.The names of the Nobel Laureates are announced immediately after the vote.^ The names of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates are then announced.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ At the beginning of October, the Nobel Committee chooses the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates through a majority vote.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[73] .A maximum of three laureates and two different works may be selected per award.^ People spend their whole lives working in their profession and may be selected for something like this.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ His two most titanic works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, would have been more than sufficient to secure Knut Hamsun an award.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

.Except for the Peace Prize, which can be awarded to institutions, the awards can only be given to individuals.^ "We condemn the institute's awarding him the peace prize.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ What are the criteria for awarding a Nobel Peace Prize?

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize is NOT a lollipop - it is given only once a year!

• Obama's Nobel Farce - The Daily Beast 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[74]

.While posthumous nominations are not permitted, individuals who died in the months between their nomination and the decision of the prize committee were originally still eligible to receive the prize.^ And the Nobel Prize is not awarded to a person who has already died (that is, it is not awarded posthumously).

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The only people in the world who think Obama deserves to win Nobel Prize may be Norbel Prize committee.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ By awarding Obama the peace prize, the committee seems to have lowered its standards on who can get the award.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.This occurred twice: the 1931 Literature Prize awarded to Erik Axel Karlfeldt, and the 1961 Peace Prize awarded to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld.^ So I guess he can keep his peace prize award.

• Reid: Obama won Nobel Peace Prize with 'new type of politics' - Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 | 2:15 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.lasvegassun.com [Source type: General]

^ What are the criteria for awarding a Nobel Peace Prize?

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

.This changed in 1974 and now laureates must be alive at the time of the October announcement.^ I have no doubt his foreign policy will produce great things over time, but all he has changed right now is the dialog.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

.There has been one laureate, William Vickrey (1996, Economics), who died after the prize was announced but before it could be presented.^ He can be included Along with Sharon however among the one's who prove the Nobel Peace Prize is no longer to be taken Seriously.

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ The prize should have gone to one of the dissidents under consideration who have spent their lives suffering for justice and equality.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I thought Nobel prizes were for people who have actually done a lot of things to change the world (in a good way) not to promote it before it actually takes place.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[75]

.Nobel's will provides for prizes to be awarded in recognition of discoveries made "during the preceding year" and during the early years of the awards the discoveries recognised were often recent.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Prize is awarded each year.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I do not think that he deserves the Nobel prize this year.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[76][77] However, some awards were made for discoveries that were later discredited.^[78] .Taking the discrediting of a recognised discovery as an embarrassment, the awards committees began to recognise scientific discoveries that had withstood the test of time.^ That time the award was an integral part in reaching a human goal that all real Americans recognize today as essential to our moving forward as a country.

• Why the Nobel Prize Matters | Politics @ Perkisets 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.perkiset.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Obama should feel embarrassed receiving this award at this time.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Surrounded by a harsh atmosphere of criticism, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by an incautious committee that caused him embarrassment and unintended trouble.

• Nobel prize 2009 - surchur 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC surchur.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[79][80] .Since the first years the discrepancy between award and initial discovery has happened more often.^ In his first year as president, he has already done more good in the world than "W" did in 8 years.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ In a major surprise, President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize , making him the first sitting American president to win the prize since Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Gothamist 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC gothamist.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Mabye the Nobels Peace price should be awarded every five years, and not so often.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[77] According to Ralf Pettersson, former chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee for Physiology or Medicine, "the criterion ‘the previous year’ is interpreted by the Nobel Assembly as the year when the full impact of the discovery has become evident".

.The interval between the accomplishment of the achievement being recognised and the awarding of the Nobel Prize varies from discipline to discipline.^ I used to believe the Nobel Prize was awarded for accomplishments, not intentions.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ However, Nobel Prize, I thought is awarded for verifiable achievements.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

.The prizes in Literature are typically awarded to recognise a cumulative lifetime body of work rather than a single achievement.^ I thought they were given to recognize a body of work or outstanding achievement.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ I was, and still am, under the impression that Nobel prizes are awarded for achievement rather than intention.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]
• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

^[81][82] In this case the notion of "lag" does not directly apply. .The prizes in Peace can also be awarded for a lifetime body of work, for example 2008 winner Martti Ahtisaari won it "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts".^[83][84] However, they can also be awarded for specific events.^ Only after he has won the award for Peace is he attacked.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ And been underwstood, more than they know.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ More on Obama's Nobel peace prize .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

.In this case, they are generally awarded within a few years of the event, sometimes within the one-year timeframe.^ Perhaps next year they should give the award to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ They can award it to whomever they choose, but was now clearly just used to make a political statement that they agree with Mr. Obama's vision as gleened from a few speeches.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Mandela win this award in a few years ago.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[85] .For instance, Kofi Annan was awarded the 2001 Peace Prize just four years after becoming the Secretary-General of the United Nations;^[86] Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres received the 1994 award, about a year after they successfully concluded the Oslo Accords.^ The prizes are only awarded every four years.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Yasser Arafat did win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.

• Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Truthdig 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Isn't this the same peace prize that was also awarded to Arafat??

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[87]

.Awards in the scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry, and medicine require that the significance of the achievement being recognised is "tested by time."^ October 9th, 2009 1239 GMT I do not think he has a body of work at this point of time that justifies being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Nobel prize is awarded to people with significant achievement and are judge by people of their peers in Medicine, Economics, Literature, etc.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Awards of this type are not usually the best indicators of how a particular figure will stand the test of time.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

.In practice, this means that the lag between the discovery and the award is typically 20 or more years.^ Frost’s fourth Pulitzer was awarded 20 years before he died.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^ He is by no means as peaceful as I would like, but has anyone in the world done more in the last year (or two years, including his campaign) for changing the atmosphere re the possibility of peace.

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ As for his achievements, he has stated he's not as "deserving" (whatever that means) as other recipients, and the Nobel committee has said his award is based more on what they hope he will do than what he's already done.

• Obama's Nobel Farce - The Daily Beast 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thedailybeast.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.For example, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on stellar structure and evolution from the 1930s.^ I imagine the decision makers gave the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama for his intention to work for peace and have the nation do so as well.

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ You do earn or win the Nobel Peace Prize for only a few months of your work in the White House office.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ October 9th, 2009 1201 GMT I believe he should get the Nobel prize.Congrads MR. President keep up the good work that your doing.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[88][89] .Not all scientists live long enough for their work to be recognised.^ (I am also ecstatically happy that I have lived long enough to see an African American occupy the presidency!

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Live long enough and you’ll see everything.

• Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Truthdig 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I seriously doubt that I’ll live long enough to get any benefit from it ( I’m not old, just dying).

• Ron Paul On Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.prisonplanet.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Some important scientific discoveries can never be considered for a Prize if the discoverers have died by the time the impact of their work is realised.^ They truly respect the Nobel Prize and think it is a prestigious and meaningful award, never mind some of the yahoos to whom it’s been awarded.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ He also found time to do excellent scientific entomological work on butterflies (see by Johnson & Coates).

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

^ October 9th, 2009 1239 GMT I do not think he has a body of work at this point of time that justifies being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[90][91][92]

.The Nobel Prizes, with the exception of the Nobel Peace Prize, are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual Prize Award Ceremony on the 10th of December, the anniversary of Nobel's death.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Earlier in the day, Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

.The recipients' lectures are held in the days prior to the award ceremony.^ Obama won the award for his efforts during the 10 days he was in office prior to the cutoff.

• Say What? Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | NewsBusters.org 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC newsbusters.org [Source type: General]

^ Very much the same, they should have award him the peace medal on his Brit Mila (circumcision) ceremony when he was just 8 days old.

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

.The Nobel Peace Prize and its recipients' lectures are presented at the annual Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, also on the 10th of December.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize is a badge of shame.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

The award ceremonies and the associated banquets are typically major international events.^[93][94] .The Prizes awarded in Sweden's ceremonies' are held at the Stockholm Concert Hall, with the Nobel banquet following immediately at Stockholm City Hall.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ What are the criteria for awarding a Nobel Peace Prize?

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]
• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

.The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony has been held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute (1905–1946); at the auditorium of the University of Oslo (1947–1989); and most recently at Oslo City Hall (1990–).^ Rush is most deserving of the peace prize.

• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Unfortunately this devalues the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[95]

.The highlight of the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm occurs when each Nobel Laureate steps forward to receive the prize from the hands of His Majesty the King of Sweden.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Nobel Prize is a joke award so it’s fitting it goes to the king Joker.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ December – Nobel Laureates receive their prize.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.In Oslo, the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee presents the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of the King of Norway.^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

^ I sincerely hope that the day comes when President Obama is a deserving recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Mission Accomplished and Nobel Peace Prize and the wars continue???

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.The Nobel Laureate receives three things: a diploma, a medal, and a document confirming the prize amount.^ The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony takes place on 10 December in Oslo, Norway, where the Nobel Laureates receive their Nobel Prize, which consists of a Nobel Medal and Diploma, and a document confirming the prize amount.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ December – Nobel Laureates receive their prize.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ A classy thing for President Obama to do would be to turn the prize down and to tell the committee to revisit the issue three years from now.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[94][96]

.Since 1902, the King of Sweden has presented all the prizes in Stockholm.^ He apparently got the prize because he 'restored multilateral international diplomacy' and publicly declared, for the first time since Reagan, that he wanted an end to all nuclear weapons.

• Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it! | CommonDreams.org 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.commondreams.org [Source type: General]

^ The reason it’s confusing is because the prize came into existence at a time when Norway and Sweden were politically connected and there was no contradiction in presenting the award in Norway.

• Obama's won the Nobel Peace – WTF?! – Telegraph Blogs 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC blogs.telegraph.co.uk [Source type: General]

.At first King Oscar II did not approve of awarding grand prizes to foreigners, but is said to have changed his mind once his attention had been drawn to the publicity value of the prizes for Sweden.^ What once was a fine, noble and honorable prize has become a lobbyist arena – wonder how much Obama's men paid to be awarded that prize...

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ If there was ever a time when the "Nobel Peace Prize" award has NO VALUE, it is now.

• Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it! | CommonDreams.org 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.commondreams.org [Source type: General]

^ After awarding the 2002 prize to former President Jimmy Carter, the committee chairman said it should be considered a "kick in the leg'' to the Bush administration's war policies.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^[97]

.After the award ceremonies banquets are held at the Stockholm City Hall and the Grand Hotel in Oslo.^ The president also plans to attend the award ceremony at Oslo City Hall, in Norway, on Dec.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

Around 1,300 guests attend the Swedish banquet, which features a three-course dinner (four courses during the 90th anniversary of the prize^[98]), entertainment and dancing. The banquet is attended by the Swedish Royal Family and is extensively covered by local and international media.^[94][95] Before 1930, the banquet was held in the ballroom of Stockholm’s Grand Hotel.^[95]

.The 250 guests at the Peace Prize banquet in Norway enjoy a five-course meal.^ Reports are that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Norway is now in conference to determine whether to raise the maximum number of wars allowed to ten.

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Norway gives the peace prize as nothing more than a socialist political statement.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Norway awards the Peace Prize; the remainder are awarded by Sweden.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

.As well as the winner, other notable guests include the President of the Storting, the Prime Minister and (since 2006) the King and Queen of Norway.^ Compound that by all of his other failed financial policies and childish family world feud, and it is amazing that this president has held up so well.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Yet on the very line above the Israeli entry is a perfectly correct dual entry as well as numerous other correct dual winner entries in the table.

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Peace was not established anywhere and they'd be Nobel Price winners all of them, even our Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende would be eligible.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[99][100] .For the first time in its history, the Nobel banquet was cancelled in Oslo in 1979 because Mother Teresa refused to attend saying the money would be better spent on the poor.^ Hilary said it truthfully; if Barack Obama was seen walking on water, people would say it's because he can't swim.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ October 9th, 2009 1145 GMT First I would like to say that I am from India.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I would say that this year he did not deserve a Nobel Prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.Mother Teresa used the US$7,000 that was to be spent on the banquet to hold a dinner for 2,000 homeless people on Christmas Day.^ Just what did he do in only 11 days that other people have spent so many years doing earning the right to the Peace Prize?

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ James Madison wrote the Constitution and used “natural born citizen” to refer to a person born to a US citizen mother and US citizen father.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ I think people are tired of the constant negativity that bombards us every day.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[99][101]

.At the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in both Stockholm and Oslo the dress-code is formal, with gentlemen required to wear a dark suit and ladies required to wear dresses.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ What are the criteria for awarding a Nobel Peace Prize?

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]
• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

The Nobel banquet that follows in Stockholm is a strictly formal affair and gentlemen are required to wear a white tie and tailcoat, while ladies should be clad in an evening gown.^[102] Wearing one's national costume is an alternative to tailcoat or evening gown. If one is invited to both gatherings, the most strictly formal attire applies.^[93][96]

.According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, each laureate is required to hold a public lecture on a subject related to the topic for which they will be awarded the Nobel Prize.^ They gave him the prize Nobel, .

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ December – Nobel Laureates receive their prize.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[103][104] .All of the lectures normally occur during Nobel Week, before the award ceremony.^ All the other Nobels are awarded for achievement.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ Aren't nearly all Nobel award recipients, percentage wise, not US presidents with completed records?

• Did Obama Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]

^ This award disgraces and slanders all past winners of the Nobel Prize, and it further disgraces the idea of the Nobel Prize.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.This is not mandatory, the laureate is only obliged to hold the lecture within six months of receiving the prize.^ You do earn or win the Nobel Peace Prize for only a few months of your work in the White House office.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ But, his presidency is only a few months old and the Nobel Peace Prize is the biggest if not the ultimate recognition of such contribution to global peace.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Even if his actions in the last nine months qualify him for the prize, which I think is a still a stretch, he was only in office 12 DAYS before the nomination deadline!!!!!!

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

.Laureates who have held their lectures even later exist, an example is Theodore Roosevelt who won the prize in 1906 and held the lecture in 1910 after finishing his presidency.^ Teddy Roosevelt won in 1906.

• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | TPMDC 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ If not President Obama, who should have won the Nobel Prize?

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ I'm thrilled that our president won this prize.

• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | TPMDC 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[105] The lectures are organised by the same association who selected the laureates.^[106]

.A Nobel Prize laureate, earns a gold medal, a diploma bearing a citation, and a sum of money.^ You do earn or win the Nobel Peace Prize for only a few months of your work in the White House office.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ In selecting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, the Nobel Committee bases its assessment on nominations that must be postmarked no later than 1 February each year.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ That Mr. Obama feels it appropriate to snub the Dalai Lama, a true Nobel Laureate, is a repudiation of Mr. Obama's Prize.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^[107] .The amount of money awarded depends on the income of the Nobel Foundation that year.^ Conversely, by awarding the prize to Obama at the beginning of his presidency, the Nobel committee is assured of at least 3 1/2 years of Obama proving they were right.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ I, for one, can understand the decision for awarding this year's Nobel Peace prize to Mr. Obama.

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ With this new criteria I expect next year's Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to all of the Miss America contestents.....

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^[5] .If a prize is awarded jointly to two or more laureates the money is split among them.^ The Nobel peace prize was devalued a long time ago – this award is simply one more nail in the coffin, unfortunately not a final one.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The Peace Prize loses a little more credibility, awarding a prize for what it considers to be good intentions.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Considering the concordance of information you provide it even makes awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize that much more chilling and starkly Orwellian.

• Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it! | CommonDreams.org 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.commondreams.org [Source type: General]

^[6]

.The Nobel Prize medals, minted by Myntverket^[108] in Sweden and the Mint of Norway since 1902, are registered trademarks of the Nobel Foundation.^ When Nobel created his prize Norway was a part of Sweden.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Reports are that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Norway is now in conference to determine whether to raise the maximum number of wars allowed to ten.

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, he has exemplified peace in his efforst to bring about positive international relations, he maintains his since of peace on a daily basis as Pres.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.Each medal feature an image of Alfred Nobel in left profile on the obverse (front side of the medal).^ Nobel was the last name of Alfred Nobel,a chemist after whom the prize was named,in accordance to a will he left behind after his death.

• Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Truthdig 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.truthdig.com [Source type: Original source]

.The Nobel Prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature have identical obverses, showing the image of Alfred Nobel and the years of his birth and death (1833–1896).^ I do not think that he deserves the Nobel prize this year.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ I guess the Nobel Prize for Literature is next!

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ This recognizes achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.

• Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: He’s Becoming Jimmy Carter Faster Than Jimmy Carter Did. - Erick’s blog - RedState 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.redstate.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Nobel's portrait also appears on the obverse of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Medal for the Prize in Economics, but with a slightly different design.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize is a badge of shame.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ Unfortunately this devalues the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

For instance, the laureate's name is engraved on the rim of the Economics Medal.^[107] .The image on the reverse of a medal varies according to the institution awarding the prize.^ According to the normal practice the Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to someone who has contributed to the cause of peace.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ "We condemn the institute's awarding him the peace prize.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

.The reverse sides of the Nobel Prize medals for Chemistry and Physics share the same design.^ The greater prestige comes with the Nobels for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine as these can be objectively measured by peer experts, and literature (the letter has about as much relevance as the Peace Medal but at least it keeps the arty farties happy).

• Did Obama Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.thenation.com [Source type: General]

^ How about awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to whoever can stop the wars on the South and West sides of Chicago?

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ I’m waiting for the other side to start the “Obama couldn’t bring the Olympics here, but the egoist can win the Nobel Prize for himself” meme.

• Think Progress » President Barack Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize. 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^[109]

.All medals made before 1980 were struck in 23 carat gold.^ I think we should all be rewarded with cookies and gold stars for the wonderful promises we have made and have yet to live up to.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.Now, they are made from 18 carat green gold plated with 24 carat gold.^ They hate Norway now (or Sweden, if they, like Billy Kristol, don't know where and by whom the Nobel Peace Prize decision is made).

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

The weight of each medal varies with the value of gold, but averages about 175 g for each medal. The diameter is 66 mm and the thickness varies between 5.2 and 2.4 mm.^[110] .Due to the high value of their gold content and tendency to be on public display, Nobel medals are subject to medal theft.^ I'm sorry, but giving a Nobel Peace Prize to someone who didn't do anything is like giving an Olympic Gold medal to someone who didn't actually compete in Olympic races.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^{[111][112][113]} .During World War II, the medals of German scientists Max von Laue and James Franck were (illegally) sent to Copenhagen for safekeeping.^ World War II was worth fighting.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ That peace held until the end of World War II, when the Soviet Union finally declared war on Japan.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ So World War II was, in my view, very much a “war of choice.” We could have sat it out, as Kennedy and Lindbergh and many other isolationists advocated.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

When Germany invaded Denmark, chemist George de Hevesy dissolved them in aqua regia, to prevent confiscation by Nazi Germany and to prevent legal problems for the holders. After the war, the gold was recovered from solution, and the medals re-cast.^[114]

.Nobel laureates receive a Diploma directly from the hands of the King of Sweden.^ December – Nobel Laureates receive their prize.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Maybe, just maybe, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate will get to meet President Obama in Sweden at the formal ceremony.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony takes place on 10 December in Oslo, Norway, where the Nobel Laureates receive their Nobel Prize, which consists of a Nobel Medal and Diploma, and a document confirming the prize amount.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Each Diploma is uniquely designed by the prize-awarding institutions for the laureate that receives it.^ December – Nobel Laureates receive their prize.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 89 times to 119 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2008 – 96 times to individuals and 23 times to organizations.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Actually: More often, the prize is awarded to encourage those who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes at critical moments.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^[107][115] .The Diploma contains a picture and text which states the name of the laureate and normally a citation of why they received the prize.^ So I do not understand why all of a sudden Obama should be the one to get the Nobel Peace Prize for stating the same thing that other Presidents have about Nuclear Bombs.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I suspect the reason Obama received the prize is that he has at least stated his intention of reversing the Bush legacy.

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Since Obama is giving away the prize money to a charity or charities, why hasn't the GOP come forward and suggested (if a republican president had won) which charity or charities they would give the prize money to?

• Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize | | AlterNet 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.alternet.org [Source type: General]

.No Nobel Peace Prize has ever had a citation on its diplomas.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel prize has no integrity anyway.

• Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize | | AlterNet 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.alternet.org [Source type: General]

^[116][117]

.The laureate is also given a sum of money when they receive the Nobel Prize, in the form of a document confirming the amount awarded; in 2009 the monetary award was 10 million SEK (US$1.4 million).^ The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony takes place on 10 December in Oslo, Norway, where the Nobel Laureates receive their Nobel Prize, which consists of a Nobel Medal and Diploma, and a document confirming the prize amount.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ December – Nobel Laureates receive their prize.

• Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.infowars.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Earlier in the day, Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^[5][107] .The amount of prize money may differ depending on how much money the Nobel Foundation can award that year.^ I do not think that he deserves the Nobel prize this year.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Peace Prize has been devalued this year.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ May be he should be awarded the prize in 2-3 years.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.The purse has increased since the 1980s, when the prize money was 880 000 SEK (approximately 2.6 million SEK or US$350 000 today).^ Maybe he should donate the prize money towards the stimulous since he didn't have to print the 1.6 million himself.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Since Obama is giving away the prize money to a charity or charities, why hasn't the GOP come forward and suggested (if a republican president had won) which charity or charities they would give the prize money to?

• Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize | | AlterNet 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.alternet.org [Source type: General]

^ The White House announced this afternoon that Obama has decided to give the approximately $1.4 million that comes with the prize to charity, though no decision had been made on which charity or charities that will be.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^[5][118] .If there are two winners in a particular category, the award grant is divided equally between the recipients.^ There should have been ONLY one column to pay respect equally to all the winners.

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ People out there are divided whether it was a right decision to award Obama with a Nobel prize for peace.

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I find it incredibly sad that the two winners over Vladimir Nabokov were both on the Nobel Committee – sounds rather like bias there.

• 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize - Listverse 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC listverse.com [Source type: Original source]

.If there are three, the awarding committee has the option of dividing the grant equally, or awarding one-half to one recipient and one-quarter to each of the others.^ Michael Steele eagererness to get out there and be one of the first to criticize the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barck Obama is in keeping with his selection as Chair of the Republican National Committee in the first place.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

^ This is due to the fact that a number of Nobel Peace Award recipients, such as American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), have had difficulties of their own on American soil.

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

^ There is a big difference between disappointment and disaffection, on the one hand, and raw hatred on the other.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^{[6][119][120]} .It is not uncommon for recipients to donate prize money to benefit scientific, cultural, or humanitarian causes.^ Perhaps if the president announced that he was donating his prize money to build a monument to the First — “Oh What a Lovely” — World War?

• Nobel Peace Prize : NOVAKEO.COM 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC novakeo.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I hope Barack Obama will give the prize money to a worthy cause that will help make children's lives better.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^[121][122]

.Since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901, the proceedings, nominations, awards, and exclusions have generated criticism and engendered much controversy.^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Nominations for Nobel Peace Prizes don’t mean much.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ The first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Oratory.

• Rollins: Obama must now 'earn' Nobel Peace Prize – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC amfix.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.The Prizes in Literature and Peace have tended to generate the most criticism, while the other Prizes have generally received less.^ Obama received a peace prize, not a "we all love each other now" prize.

• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | TPMDC 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Rush is most deserving of the peace prize.

• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^ I am proud that he has received the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

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.The Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and, finally, a few days before he was murdered in January 1948.^[126] The omission has been publicly regretted by later members of the Nobel Committee.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

^ Shame on you Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[127] .In 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, the Nobel Committee declined to award a prize on the grounds that "there was no suitable living candidate" that year.^ If there was ever a time when the "Nobel Peace Prize" award has NO VALUE, it is now.

• Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it! | CommonDreams.org 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.commondreams.org [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel prize has no integrity anyway.

• Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize | | AlterNet 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.alternet.org [Source type: General]

^ The Nobel Committee has to award the prize to someone.

• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]

^[127][128] .Later, when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was "in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi".^[129] Over the years there have been other notable omissions to the Nobel Peace Prize.^ Nobel peace prize: A call to action .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ If there was ever a time when the "Nobel Peace Prize" award has NO VALUE, it is now.

• Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it! | CommonDreams.org 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.commondreams.org [Source type: General]

^ Where is my nobel peace prize??

• Obama: Nobel Prize for Peace: The Swamp 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.swamppolitics.com [Source type: General]

.High profile individuals with widely recognised contributions to peace have been missed out.^ President Obama is a world wide recognised icon of Inspiration, Hope and Peace.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ He missed out on the US presidency but has been awarded the Nobel peace prize for raising awareness about climate change .

• Nobel peace prize winners list: how does Barack Obama compare? | News | guardian.co.uk 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ About contributing to the war-efforts in Afghanistan/Pakistan, he has to do this out-of-necessity, because you can't make "peace" with Al-Kaida or the Talibans.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

As well as Gandhi, Foreign Policy magazine lists Eleanor Roosevelt, Václav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sari Nusseibeh, Corazon Aquino and Liu Xiaobo as people who "never won the prize, but should have".^[130]

.Along with the Peace Prize, the Prize in Literature has some of the most controversial omissions.^ Rush is most deserving of the peace prize.

• Think Progress » Next Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Rush Limbaugh? 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^ In his will, it was declared that a Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded “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”,[2] and that some of Nobel’s money was to be donated to this prize.

• Waking up to a joke: Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize [Darleen Click] 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ He can be included Along with Sharon however among the one's who prove the Nobel Peace Prize is no longer to be taken Seriously.

• t r u t h o u t | Nobel Prize for Promises? 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.truthout.org [Source type: Original source]

.Marjorie Kehe has suggested that many notable writers have missed out on the award for political or extra-literary reasons.^ Sometimes awards are given for political reasons, even if the recipient is worthy anyway.

• Think Progress » President Barack Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize. 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC thinkprogress.org [Source type: General]

^ WillyP Says: October 9th, 2009 at 11:11 pm This award is right in line with so many that have been given out.

• Why the Nobel Prize Matters | Politics @ Perkisets 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.perkiset.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Awarding a Peace Prize is, to put it bluntly, a political act – which is also the reason why the choices so often stir up controversy.

• President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | TPMDC 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[131] The heavy focus on European authors, and authors from Sweden in particular, has been a subject of criticism.^[132][133] .The Eurocentric nature of the award was acknowledged by Peter Englund, the 2009 Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, as a problem with the Award and was attributed to the tendency for the academy to relate more to European authors.^ Michael Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and author.

• Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize | | AlterNet 24 January 2010 15:015 UTC www.alternet.org [Source type: General]

^ Britain has been a stalwart ally in Afghanistan, and despite problems there its Foreign Secretary David Milliband is calling for more troops there.

• Credit/Blame Bush for Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.floppingaces.net [Source type: General]

^ As of now, the award is nothing more than wishful thinking by those loopy Europeans who drink too much wine.

• Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize -- Now Please Earn it! | CommonDreams.org 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC www.commondreams.org [Source type: General]

^[134] .Other notable writers that have been overlooked for the Nobel Prize in Literature include; Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola, André Malraux, Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Proust, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, August Strindberg, John Updike, Arthur Miller and Mark Twain.^ Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace.

• Reaction: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize | 44 | washingtonpost.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC voices.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]
• Conservatives, Critics Blast Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize | The Plum Line 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC theplumline.whorunsgov.com [Source type: Original source]
• Liz Cheney on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize - POLITICO Live - POLITICO.com 10 January 2010 14:42 UTC www.politico.com [Source type: General]

^ He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize if for no other reason than the peace he brings to America.

• Connect the World: Blog Archive - Does Obama deserve Nobel Peace Prize? « - Blogs from CNN.com 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ What other country on earth would be embarrassed to have their President win the Nobel prize for peace.

• Post User Polls: Obama's Nobel Prize - Hal Straus 9 February 2010 16:016 UTC views.washingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

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