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In reply to the discussion: Celebrating Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and his efforts in the spirit of the award. [View all]NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)That being said, it really doesn't bother me. It doesn't really hold much significance. Just look at some of the others who have been awarded the same honor. Pretty mixed bag. Overall I think it hurt him more than helped him. The timing of it was awful. No one I knew thought it was anything more than pathetic at the time. They actually laughed at it and joked about how the rights heads were exploding. These people were very supportive of Obama, yet they saw it for what it was, a play in hopes of steering the commander of the worlds most powerful military in a certain direction.
I am not really sure why you, or others, take something of such insignificance so seriously. (insignificance = peace prize, not the unnecessary bloodshed being perpetrated by the us across the globe)