Nothing against him but exactly what has he done to promote peace in 2009.
I guess that the award suggests that the committee are jumping on the Obama bandwagon somewhat and could be accused of looking for a poster boy in this image dominated age taht we live in.
Benedict Brogan agrees
The whole busines of a bunch of Scandinavian worthies doling out the profits of a long-gone dynamite maker’s fortune has always smacked of the worst sort of self-satisfied plutocrats worthiness. But this takes the biscuit. President Obama remains the barely man of world politics, barely a senator now barely a president, yet in the land of the Euro-weenies (copyright PJ O’Rourke) the great and the good remain in his thrall. To reward him for a blank results sheet, to inflate him when he has no achievements to his name, makes a mockery of what, let’s face it, is an already fairly discredited process (remember Rigoberta Menchu in 1992? Ha!).
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