Nobel Prize goes to Obama...

[Gandalf]

Who said Obama deserves the Nobel peace prize more than me? That's an outrageous thing to say!

I am a very peaceful man, but I'm not willing to allow people to walk all over me. Whence my confrontations with those that cause intense noise pollution and those that try to rip me off by telling blatant untruths. I just won't tolerate it. I most certainly do not climb trees.

I would much rather the prize went to someone like Chomsky tbh. Someone who has been advocating practical solutions to the middle east problem and has been a keen critic of U.S. foreign policy for many years.

He got it purely because the Norweigen Commitee wanted to show solidarity with Obama and his policies on Europe, Israel (specifically) and other socialist issues. Have a google of exactly who comprised the Norweigen committee and it all starts to become clear........

That evidently seems to be the case. Like I've said elsewhere, I actually quite like Obama but really don't think that he has done anything concrete. It's all just been rhetoric so far. Israel continues to build settlements, the US continues to possess more nuclear weapons than everyone else, Afghanistan is corrupt as hell and falling to pieces and Iraq is still full of soldiers who were fed lies to get them out there.

Obama inherited a horrible situation, so I don't blame him for not having done more. But he has hasn't really contributed subtantially to world peace as of yet. His Israeli policy has so far been very dissapointing.