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[McLaren]

Why? So hes the first black president,can't think of any other reason, hes done the best part of naff all since being there.

[stonemonkey]

Maybe they're comparing with his predecessor.

[Jim Riven]

Maybe they're comparing with his predecessor.

Yes, in all honesty this is just the rest of the world saying "thank god your not Bush".

[JamesD89]

If it's supposed to be so prestigous, why do they give one out each year?

[Juliet P]

I think Sky News' Foreign Affairs editor hits it right on the head:

http://blogs.news.sky.com/foreignmatters/Post:264debca-49bd-49b7-9a00-ac0643e8df91

Particularly like the Miss World reference...

[Gilles 27]

I think Sky News' Foreign Affairs editor hits it right on the head

That would be the first time in history then...

All sorts of inappropriate people have won nobel prizes;

The IPCC
Milton Friedman (!)
Harry Markowitz

[Juliet P]

I think Sky News' Foreign Affairs editor hits it right on the head

That would be the first time in history then...

Yeah, I was surprised too!

[Amanda]

I think Sky News' Foreign Affairs editor hits it right on the head

That would be the first time in history then...

All sorts of inappropriate people have won nobel prizes;

The IPCC
Milton Friedman (!)
Harry Markowitz

...Yasser Arafat.

[Gaz]

Why isn't Brown getting one then? i mean his predecessor invaded Iraq and Afghanistan for Oil...err sorry I mean Peace..

Good to know Catch Phrases win you noble prizes nowadays, not actually doing something.

[Amanda]

Why isn't Brown getting one then? i mean his predecessor invaded Iraq and Afghanistan for Oil...err sorry I mean Peace..

Good to know Catch Phrases win you noble prizes nowadays, not actually doing something.

Only the Peace one. The physics nobel prize still has worthy winners

[Gaz]

Why isn't Brown getting one then? i mean his predecessor invaded Iraq and Afghanistan for Oil...err sorry I mean Peace..

Good to know Catch Phrases win you noble prizes nowadays, not actually doing something.

Only the Peace one. The physics nobel prize still has worthy winners

Really? Dam!

I was just going to forward a press release to the media saying "i hope to build a working fusion reactor"

[7UpJordan]

If Obama can win the nobel prize for not doing much then I should win next year's nobel prize.

[JamesD89]

Why isn't Brown getting one then? i mean his predecessor invaded Iraq and Afghanistan for Oil...err sorry I mean Peace..

Good to know Catch Phrases win you noble prizes nowadays, not actually doing something.

Only the Peace one. The physics nobel prize still has worthy winners

Contentious. I'm not sure I'm with you on that, when was the last ground braking discovery? There's plenty of people trying, but I don't think that warrants a yearly prize either.

[Amanda]

Why isn't Brown getting one then? i mean his predecessor invaded Iraq and Afghanistan for Oil...err sorry I mean Peace..

Good to know Catch Phrases win you noble prizes nowadays, not actually doing something.

Only the Peace one. The physics nobel prize still has worthy winners

Contentious. I'm not sure I'm with you on that, when was the last ground braking discovery? There's plenty of people trying, but I don't think that warrants a yearly prize either.

I don't know much about the three winners this year but last year Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa were very deserving imo. I did a presentation on CP violation which happened to coincide with their work into symmetry breaking quite nicely. I'd say some discoveries and predictions are more worthy of a nobel prize than others but I still believe that most of the winners deserved their prize, unlike some of the Peace prize laureates.

[madbrad]

Other Presidents who have got it are Carter(but not until some 25 odd years after his presidency) and Teddy and Wilson.
Wilson Declared war on Germany, suppressed anti war groups at home, and officialized segregation. Yet they give him the world's biggest peace prize for forming the League of Nations, which the US never joined, and which ultimately proved a failure. I hear he also wanted to enter armed conflict with Canada, but I heard it before therte was teh internets and I can't find anything about it.
I don't wanna say anything disparaging about Obama, but I just never heard anything about his peace efforts. If we go by what's reported on, Nixon did more for peace than Obama.