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Originally Posted by TheGame
No it's more like "Thanks for being against the idea of Bush"
Bush was a world wide joke, and easilly one of the most hated people in the world by both terrorists, his own people, and other countries that are considered to be allies. Bush ruined the reputation of the free world in general.
Obama wasn't even running directly against Mccain, he was running against Bush's ideas last election. And that was enough to get him nominated for the prize since the world hated Bush so much. And once he took his job, he appologized to other countries for all of Bush's dumb mistakes.
That's my theory on why he won the Nobel peace prize.
(And that's why he won the election too, his own people were against the idea of Bush. Mccain, even though he was a different person then Bush... wasn't against the idea of Bush. Which is why he got destroyed last election. If he'd have joined the world in our hatred of Bush, he'd have stood a chance on other issues.)
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I can agree with much of that, I would simply include the market crash in Sept. `08 as bein a huge factor in the election as well. The election had gotten reasonably close to that point, buts soon as the economy shit the bed McCain didn't have a prayer because he had an "R" in front of his name.
Also, as mentioned before he was basically nominated for winning the election because he had only been president for 8 days at the time, so I doubt his (embarassing, IMO) apology tour had much influence.
But in the end, it's an award given for speeches and general ideas and little accomplishment. In fact, we don't even know if his tactics will inspire world peace or encourage bad actors to seize for opportunities. This all could end up blowing up in the Western world's face is the bad actors aren't as inspired as the Eurpeans seem to be.
Oh, and for the record I hold no ill will toward Pres. Obama for winning. How could you? He woke up and won the Nobel Peace Prize. It's not like he won it in a foot race or something.