How to win a Nobel Prize!!!!!!!!

[CaptJ]

Although President Obama had only been in office for 12 days before the nominations for this year's Nobel Peace prize closed the entire process actually takes a full year. According to the official Nobel Prize Web site invitation letters are sent out in September. Every year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee sends out thousands of letters inviting a qualified and select number of people to submit their nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The deadline to submit nominations is February 1. -- Two hundred five names were submitted for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, 33 of which are organizations. A short list of nominees is prepared in February and March. The short list is subject to adviser review from March until August. At the beginning of October, the Nobel Committee chooses the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates through a majority vote. The decision is final and without appeal. The names of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates are then announced."
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. Over the last decade the only requirement to win the prize was that the nominee had to be critical of George W. Bush (see Al Gore, Mohamed El Baradei and Jimmy Carter).
President Obama has broken new ground here. Nominations for potential winners of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ended on February 1. The president took office only 12 days earlier on January 20.
Let’s take a look at the president’s first 12 days in the White House according to his public schedule to see what he did to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize:
January 20: Sworn in as president. Went to a parade. Partied.
January 21: Asked bureaucrats to re-write guidelines for information requests. Held an “open house” party at the White House.
January 22: Signed Executive Orders: Executive Branch workers to take ethics pledge; re-affirmed Army Field Manual techniques for interrogations; expressed desire to close Gitmo (how’s that working out?)
January 23: Ordered the release of federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries. Lunch with Joe Biden; met with Tim Geithner.
January 24: Budget meeting with economic team.
January 25: Skipped church.
January 26: Gave speech about jobs and energy. Met with Hillary Clinton. Attended Geithner's swearing in ceremony.
January 27: Met with Republicans. Spoke at a clock tower in Ohio.
January 28: Economic meetings in the morning, met with Defense secretary in the afternoon.
January 29: Signed Ledbetter Bill overturning Supreme Court decision on lawsuits over wages. Party in the State Room. Met with Biden.
January 30: Met economic advisers. Gave speech on Middle Class Working Families Task Force. Met with senior enlisted military officials.
January 31: Took the day off.
February 1: Skipped church. Threw a Super Bowl party. So there you have it. The short path to the Nobel Peace Prize: Party, go to meetings, skip church, release federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries, party some more. Good grief.

[macojoe]

Don't get me started!

[spareparts]

Regardless of whether you like Obama or not, or if you think he's earned the award, the fact that he was nominated after only two weeks in office, and had yet to accomplish anything, just shows how currupt and biased the Nobel Prize awards are . It is nothing more than a slap at GW Bush

[Mac_Attack]

He deserved to be slapped! Don't get me started !

[spareparts]

regardless of your opinion of GW Bush, it just goes to show how the Nobel Prize has been politicized to the point it has lost its credibility( remeber Arafat), its no longer a "nobel" prize, just another way for politicians to play favorites

[LESTERUS]

now he's in very select company: yasser arafat, rigoberta menchu, jimmy carter among others

[tsubaki]

ok, what'd I miss.
I've been in DC for the last week.
You mean to tell me someone less capable than even Al Gore has won the Peace Prize??
I gotta catch up....

[tsubaki]

Man, where are they giving these things away at???
I've been too busy paying taxes to see where the line is.

Somebody let me know!

[tsubaki]

Reminds me of a quote from Lewis Grizzard.

"Some people have said, a University of Georgia degree don't mean anything. That Georgia is such a bad school, if you drive through downtown Athens with your window down, they will throw a diploma in your car.
That ain't true.....

you got to stop".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADNDxVi5uq8

[Stinky_Hooker]

Its the Nobel Piece prize...as in piece of sh!# that hasnt accomplished a damn thing.