Oh this aged like sour goat milk.
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That's some smooth manipulation right there. He just complained that he should have won it and they slyly nominated him. Expect lots of great favors for Pakistan going forward.
Fits right in with Obama, lord of drones.
Norwegian here. I can still hear the gasping from the laughter of the nobel committee in Oslo. And I'm on vacation abroad.
Nobel committee knows that if they pick him, it would tarnish the prize.
Time: Person of the year, 2007
Is it still a respected thing? I was under the impression it's not Obama didn't do anything except be elected and he was nominated. Can't remember if he won it though but that seems like pretty weak criteria to be nominated.
Obama did win, and it was for his commitments to green energy and climate change. It's widely considered bad to award people before they follow through to the end, especially for the nobel committee. I think they were trying to use it as further motivation to keep those commitments, but if anything it's usually the opposite.. at least when they give them to sociopath politicians. Could definitely be worse than Obama though.
Edit: Reading more on it, it looks like it was also for nuclear non-proliferation. I guess both are pretty valid awards for Obama, even if he could have done far more, especially in his first two years.
Kissinger won after setting a bunch of infants on fire. Obama winning for nothing wasn't the worst by a long shot.
He won for not being Bush.
That's how terrible Bush was.
And Trump is even worse.
He was awarded and did a lot of un-peaceful things later on
I hear some Oscar winners go on to work in some really un-oscar films -- and they didn't take the Oscars back. Similarly I had a great day on 14 Aug 1999 and some really un-good days after.
Is it okay to pick someone's best achievement and demand that excellence every day? Please answer how you're doing the same in your own life.
Not peaceful at all. I really think it's a bullshit award these days. Constant drone striking, basic bitch democrat Obama is the best this country can do? Maybe but I hope not
Always has been 🏆🔫
As as to be said somehow literally every time these headlines are published, nominations for any Nobel prize are kept secret and announcing that you've submitted a nomination if anything makes them less likely to be accepted as it harms the nomination by harming the image of the nominator. Anyone can say they've nominated anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize and they can't be proven or disproven for 50 years.
Oh and "Pakistan" can't nominate anyone for a Nobel Prize. All you need to be a nominator for the Nobel Peace Prize is to be an elected official or a university professor, but you do have to be a person. The likely of a headline not bothering to distinguish between a person and their 250 million people nation seems to increase linearly with distance east from the Greenwich meridian.
Please remember this when that Norwegian 'scientist' nominations Trump or Elon or whoever in October like he does every year.
Trump helped secure Pakistan-India ceasefire last month, preventing a broader conflict between the two nuclear
No he didnt, India has already said it was talks between India and Pakistan and Trump had zero to do with it.
Well Hitler was nominated too. Sarcastically, by an anti-fashist, but he was nominated.
So one more thing they have in common now.
In other news, I hereby nominate my butt for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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