OSLO — In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
“He has created a new international climate,” the committee said in its announcement.
This is no joke.
Well, it's one whose punchline I surely don't get.
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the terminally pacifist Norwegians gave Obama the award in order to prevent him from bombing Iran and increasing troop levels in Afghanistan.
this is hysterical. now this well-intentioned puppet can join the ranks of arafat and peres as a prizewinner who was selected for what the comittee HOPES he will do, as opposed to anything he's actually done. a shanda.
Nominations had to be in by Feb. 1. That was two weeks into his presidency.
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September – Invitation letters are sent out. The Nobel Committee sends out invitation letters to individuals qualified to nominate – members of national assemblies, governments, and international courts of law; university chancellors, professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology; leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs; previous Nobel Peace Prize Laureates; board members of organizations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize; present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; and former advisers of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
February – Deadline for submission. The Committee bases its assessment on nominations that must be postmarked no later than 1 February each year. Nominations postmarked and received after this date are included in the following year's discussions. In recent years, the Committee has received close to 200 different nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The number of nominating letters is much higher, as many are for the same candidates.
http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/process.html
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