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[Gopher]

[ontheway]

[Bondrock]

[bucheon bum]

[xingyiman]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Nominations must be submitted by Feb. 1.

The committee meets and pares down the nominees to 5-20 from the around 200 that are made. (Who nominated someone is kept secret for 50 years.)

Aides do research on the remaining nominees and report back to the committee.

The vote is taken, usually in mid-September. Most of the time the selection is unanimous.

Announcement is made in October.

Anyone arguing that the selection was made in February are misinformed.

Some people posting don't seem to have heard/read the announcement itself:

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."

Oslo, October 9, 2009

I agree. Starting with his first interview, the Cairo speech, the way he handled US policy during the Iranian election demonstrations, the pull out of the missile shield in E. Europe and the decision to talk to the Iranians have all been very positive steps in re-orienting US relations in a new direction. Considering that for quite some time the discussion has been about when would be the best time to attack Iran, it is undeniable that President & Nobel Laureate Obama has significantly changed US policy toward values that a majority of the world--including Americans--shares.

The Norwegian committee made an appropriate and inspiring choice this year.


The best line so far:
"Michael Steele had a Kanye West moment coming out there and saying Beyonce should have gotten the award. He shouldn't have done that." --Pat Buchanan

[Street Magic]

[Old Gil]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[visitorq]

[Old Gil]

[Konglishman]

[snoopdrew]

I think all Americans, regardless of political affiliation, ought to be proud that their president won a nobel peace prize.

I think it's a bit early too, but that alone doesn't mean he should refuse it. He accepted the award with grace and humility and used it as a call to action for all nations to come together. The award will heighten expectations for Obama's progress on world peace (sorry to sound like a beauty pageant), but who doesn't want that?

So what if the motivations of the nobel prize committee might be influenced by their disdain for bush? That doesn't take away from what Obama has done in his first year in office, nor is that relevant in the sense that one of the criteria used to give an award that people are overlooking, is as obama stated, to provide momentum to a worthy cause.

And so what if the motivations of the nobel pize committee might be to influence US foreign policy? Do you think Obama and all the brains working for him are going to start inviting European leaders to cabinet level meetings? Not... You could tell from Obama's acceptance speech that he was rooted in his family and day to day activities.

Speculation about intentions of the nobel committee does not diminish what Obama has done and will do. If he can instill hope to all corners of the earth and bring an attitude of openness and dialogue in one year of work what Bush couldn't do in eight, then I'm very excited to see what he'll do in the next three.

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[On the other hand]

Bucheon Bum wrote: