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Does Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
- 22% are saying yes
- 78% are saying no
comments from readers
- Daniele
10 October 2009 - no
No for all the reasons that Medhi Hasan list so eloquently in his article ( and Pilger a few months ago).
When he tells Israel to give up their Nuclear weapons and stop threatening Iran who hasn't got them yet ,and oh! when he decides to seriously dismantle America's own nuclear capability, then I might start changing my mind. A charming man, same politics. No surprise there. The system would never have allowed a black man to undo what America is about. It was a very clever coup to install him in the White house. - Luddite.
10 October 2009 - no
Let's never forget Henry Kissinger received the same worthless bauball.
- Tim Mann
10 October 2009 - no
Not compared to Morgan Tsangarai
- Nicky Gardner
10 October 2009 - no
This is a parody of all that the Peace Prize has stood for. To give the Peace Prize to the President of a country at war is an absolute travesty.
- ladi
10 October 2009 - no
shame on Nobel Commitee
Iranians deserve this while peacfully demonstrate in the streets and asking for their rights while being beaten, raped and jailed for nothing while trying to have democratic country and spread the peace to the world
I am not suprised just see how for Europeans Other parts of world vaue!!
OBAMA win this justr for talking who can be done by everyone!!! - nils
10 October 2009 - no
This is exactly like Kissinger, a disgrace to Nobel and proof to the world of who rules and sets the rules for all of us. Shocking, absolutely shocking
- Stevepayne
10 October 2009 - no
Preposterous
- Sir Richard N Douglass
11 October 2009 - no
His vote was an anti-bush election. nothing else.
- Yvonne Torjek
11 October 2009 - no
Obama is cinisk person. The Nobel Price is because he put the jewish hat on his head? or for what?. He continues the war that Israel wants with their people in USA. England gives drogs to the people for destroying them for exemple Afghanistan
Thank You
- d. munton
11 October 2009 - yes
Obama has changed the world's perception of USA. the international diplomatic world has fundamentally changed because of his work and his appointments.
- William
11 October 2009 - yes
Has done more in less than 1 year in Office, than others in comparable political mode have acieved this Century.
- Ayla
12 October 2009 - no
The last comment that I read was that Henry Kissinger received the same worthless bauble. I was reading on another site that there is a considerable purse that goes with the prize. Is this true?
- Roma
12 October 2009 - yes
Looking at the list of past recipients of the peace prize, Obama is head and shoulders above most of them in terms of leading the World back to civilised behavior after the orgy of fascism led by Bush and Blair. We now have some hope instead of black despair.
- wmooney
12 October 2009 - no
See: http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/process.html
At this point, His cabinet was not even fully in place. Roughly ten days into his administration. The award is a bad joke.
- annelka
12 October 2009 - no
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama was premature. Although the president has been given ipointers of his good intentions to enhance world peace, the awarding tem should have waited for the rhetoric to be translated into real deeds.
- explodingbadger
13 October 2009 - no
How can someone who is waging war in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and whos government members have threatened to obliterate Iran be awarded a peace prize ? It is nothing new tho, who after Kissinger (essentially a mass murderer) can take this prize seriously.
- Bob AH
13 October 2009 - no
When he was nominated for this (and exactly who nominated him I wonder?) he'd barely found where the WCs were in the White House. Was it just a coincidence that his prize was announced the same day that the Americans bombed the moon?
- jason from weymouth
13 October 2009 - no
The issue is whether the immutable values of profit and imperialism that lie at the heart of the U.S. political system can be challenged and overridden by one person. If they can and that person is Barack Obama then he will deserve the prize and much more.
- theeggking
14 October 2009 - no
I said years ago that we should get rid of all nuclear weapons. I didn't get a prize.
- npgdavies
15 October 2009 - no
It's rather too early to tell
