for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,"...what extraordinary efforts? The nomination process takes place on Feb 1 -- 2weeks after Obama was sworn in?!?!! WTF has the whole world gone insane?

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Алексей, я очень уважаю Ваше мнение. Может я чего-то не понимаю? 2 недели в оффисе и Нобелевская Премия. Учитывая что г-н Обама не сделал ничего до того как стал президентом, за что её вообще дают? За полит. принадлежность ?

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Oleg, I didn't say he deserves it. In fact, I don't think he does. People work their whole lives to get a Nobel prize (at least in physics).
However, this fact has no relation of him being re-elected (or not re-elected) for the second term. I was pointing this fact out.
Эта тема -- за что люди получают Нобелевскую премия мира -- весьма интересна и я надеюсь оне не превратится в обычную перебранку демократов и республиканцев.

wow! it's nice to be a liberal...too bad I didn't realize it earlier...the whole world loves you for accomplishing nothing??...:-) just speending...:-) that's what I need to start doing - spending!!...:-)

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1987 - Oscar Arias Sanchez 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 1984 - Desmond Tutu 1983 - Lech Walesa 1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso Garcia Robles 1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1980 - Adolfo Perez Esquivel 1979 - Mother Teresa 1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin 1977 - Amnesty International 1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan 1975 - Andrei Sakharov

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Ok, so here are some recent winners: 2009 - Barack Obama 2008 - Martti Ahtisaari 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore 2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei 2004 - Wangari Maathai 2003 - Shirin Ebadi 2002 - Jimmy Carter 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan 2000 - Kim Dae-jung 1999 - Medecins Sans Frontieres 1998 - John Hume, David Trimble 1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams 1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jose Ramos-Horta 1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin 1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk 1992 - Rigoberta Menchu Tum 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev 1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama 1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces (cont'd)

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Renata, this list is irrelevant. What is relevant, is the list of NPP winners, who are US presidents. With their accomplishments. Do you have that?

Присуждение Обаме Нобелевской премии уменьшает значимость премии в глазах людей. Теперь он в одном списке с Ясером Арафатом. Пусть гордится.
Иронично то, что он получает эту награду в тот момент когда решает сколько солдат отправить на войну в Афганистан.
New Glenn Beck book just wrote itself.

Carter mg ot one and then we got Iranian revolution, mullahs, hostages in Iran...real peace...:-) then Reagan became president, and hostages the released right away...but Reagan didn't even get the prize for ending THE COLD WAR...tell me there is something wrong with it...

Да с Афганистаном он делает большую ошибку не уделяя внимания такому серьзному терроризму который растет как снежный ком а когда будут взрывы во всех точках мира спохватятся да поздно будет.... многие мировые политики не понимают какую серьезную угрозу несет нарастающий терроризм в Афгане и Пакистане....