Obama didn't close Gitmo, end the wars or broker Middle East Peace. How did he will the Nobel Peace Prize?

it's because of obamamania. remember that a few months back when he won everyone went over the moon with happiness. I didn't get it then and i still don't get it now.

Because he's a globalist, and the Nobel Peace Prize has become nothing more than a fake prize issued by globalists to their globalist friends.

Sort of like the Acadamy Awards... it's all for show.

Someone astutely pointed out that Henry Kissinger also won the Nobel Peace Prize. Kissinger is a ranking globalist, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral commission, and has been involved in determining foreign policy for many presidential administrations, including Obama's.

Kissinger authored a state department memorandum in the 70's which called for massive depopulation of third world countries through forced sterilization, puppet dictatorships, and other means (see NSM 200) as well as being the mastermind behind multiple proxy wars over the last few decades, killing untold numbers of innocent people around the world solely for purposes of geopolitical manipulation.

So naturally, the globalists love and worship Henry Kissinger as he has done much to further their cause.

As for Obama, well, he's probably just getting it for political reasons, to further confuse those who think he's anti-war, even as he prepares to engage in more war. It's doublethink.

Occasionally, they will give it to someone who deserves it (Doctors without Borders, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama) but this is just to provide legitimacy for when they award it to someone who doesn't.

They also gave the Nobel Prize to Al Gore, Paul Krugman and Henry Kissinger... If you know anything about those losers, you will understand how the Nobel Prize has lost merit and is really just a mere Grammy award.

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."

They couldn't give him the Olympics so they gave him the Peace Prize.

He has the rest of the world buffaloed.

Here's a list of his ehhh...successes???

The Saudis twice said no to his request for normalization gestures towards Israel (at Barack Obama's meeting with King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, and in Washington at meetings with Hillary Clinton)

The North Koreans said no to repeated attempts at talks, by test-launching long-range missiles.

Russia and China keep on saying no to tougher sanctions on Iran.

Iranians keep saying no to offers of talks by saying they're willing to talk about everything except a halt to uranium enrichment.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is saying no by refusing to meet with Binyamin Netanyahu until Israel freezes all settlement construction.

Israelis said no by refusing to agree to a settlement freeze, or even a settlement moratorium until and unless the Arabs ante up their normalization gestures.

Which brings us back to the original Saudi no.

The only thing Obama did manage to get Bibi and Abbas to say yes to is a photo-op at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in NY.

Obama asked Europe for more stimulus money, they said NO!

Obama asked Europe for more troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, they said NO!

Obama asked Europe for more investment in NATO, they said NO!

Obama asked Hugo to come to the table, not only did he say NO, he held military air/naval exercises with Russia and is negotiating for a permanent Russian base in Venezuela.

Obama asked Putin/Mededev to leave Georgia alone, not only did they say NO, they resumed long range bomber flights near Britain and Canada.

I forgot, USA is still involved in 2.5 wars (Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan)

And Obama won this prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"?

Kissenger won it in 1973 for talking "peace" about Vietnam. Need I say more?

Well at least CNN and MSNBC will have a story that they can run for the next week and a half

Strictly race, it was nothing that he has done, he has amazingly done nothing yet.

I'm still scratching my head over this one. Someone PLEASE tell me it's April Fool's Day!