Say what you will about Obama winning the Peace Prize...

[argonaut]

...but he at the very least he deserves it more than Henry Kissinger, right? ;)

[elocs]

1. As with many things, my guess is that the person who deserves to win

often does not. Such is life.

[RichGirl]

4. Oh please!

Expectations are so high for Obama that he will have to create world peace, save the planet, cure cancer and reconcile Jon and Kate before anyone gives him a break!

World peace requires that the world is united in a common goal....that the hearts and minds and vision of the world changes. Obama has done that more than anyone else. The speech he gave in Berlin before he even became president, the speech he gave to the muslim world did more for world peace than all the other events combined.

[uponit7771]

6. AMEN!!! Does EVERYONE forget his speech in Egypt and Ghana?!!??!!?

[elocs]

7. I was simply saying that had Obama not won, that not everyone who deserves to win does.

I had no idea he had won when I had posted, capiche?

[Honeycombe8]

8. Not everyone who should win an Oscar wins one. Only one person per year can win it.

That means some worthy people do not.

That is the way it is with all awards, isn't it?

[elocs]

10. That's pretty much exactly what I said in my first post. n/t

[arcos]

2. He sure does. nt

[Ineeda]

3. Reasoning of the Committee makes sense to me...I'm thrilled.

Who else do you think deserves this prize? (not a snarky question)

[MetaTrope]

5. Some of the other candidates?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/08/nobel.peace.prize/

Cordoba, 54, heads Colombians for Peace, a group trying to end to the 45-year-old war between the government and the guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC.

Since 2007, she has obtained the release of 16 hostages held by the FARC and has gotten commitments from the rebels for the release of several more. Colombian officials have said the guerrillas are holding about 700 captives.

A government critic and longtime peace activist, Cordoba was kidnapped by a right-wing paramilitary group in 1999. She was released after several weeks and then fled to Canada with her family, where she stayed for 14 months before returning home. There have been at least two assassinations attempts against her.

...
Harpviken said Muhammad, an Islamic scholar known for trying to bridge gaps with other faiths, also is a leading candidate. "Certainly, the purpose ... he stands for makes him very strong," Harpviken said.

A member of the Jordanian royal family and educated at Princeton and Cambridge universities, where he received a doctorate, Muhammad, 42, "is playing an increasingly central role as an advocate of interfaith dialogue," PRIO said.

In 2005, the prince brought together 170 Islamic scholars from 40 countries for the Amman Initiative to work out what they called a "theological counter-attack against terrorism."

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The third PRIO front-runner is Samar, head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the U.N. special envoy to Darfur in Africa.

A medical doctor, Samar also established the Shuhada Organization, which focuses on health care, particularly for Afghan women.

After obtaining her medical degree in 1982, Samar and her son fled to Pakistan in 1984 when the communist regime then ruling Afghanistan arrested her husband.

...
Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Malahat Nasibova was awarded the Rafto this year and also is considered a possible Nobel prize winner.

Chinese dissidents Hu Jia, Gao Zhisheng and Wei Jingsheng also are contenders, other observers said

Ain't a patch on Obama's achievements, of course!

[Ken Burch]

9. True Dat.

n/t.

[Orsino]

11. Yeah.

To some extent, this may be the president's Not Being Bush award.