...For doing nothing?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_ ... obel_peace

He has been doing some stuff

However giving him the prize was a very clever political move and the fact that the money was all given to charity means that there is not much of a downside.

You can feel bitter if you felt like you had a chance but I doubt it so it's not a bad thing

I like Obama, I support Obama and I'm glad he's in office (Either candidate would have epicly sucked, so why cry about which one does the sucking?) But REALLY?

The president of a country in the midst of a pointless war gets the Nobel Prize? What the hell for!?

well he did reverse all those laws Bush passed for mining companies to basically say that whatever they say is good for the environment. thats a pretty good feat, and he's finally getting somewhere with our economy.

Obama completely forgot about the economy about six months ago.
And I had never seen a single coal company claim that it's good for the environment.

no, bush made it ok for them to say that, they just never got the time to.

Right, because mining kills the atmosphere
With like drills and stuff

no, they would be able to go into stateparks, say " its for the best" and blow off moutain sides...in stateparks. and tons of other stuff involving endangered animals.

You Lie, you f*** loon.


The oil is located in undeveloped land. More than half of Alaska is uninhabited, and it holds enough oil to fuel our country's gas guzzling habits for about five to six years.
The government is so loony, they don't realize how much undeveloped land there actually is in our country. I live in the f*** woods, and my family isn't allowed to build one shed because it would 'disturb the environment'. That's utter s***. The f*** forest covers thousands of acres and my family can't build one f*** shed that would take up fifteen feet in our backyard?

Things change; the earth shifts, animals go extinct. it's all natural and everything takes part in natural selection. The problem is that too many tree huggers can't live with the fact that it's natural for species of both animals and plants to go extinct, and they try to change the inevitable.
Normal people get caught up in this s*** and suddenly, half the country is brainwashed that we must save every species.
LOOK AT THE GODDAMN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY! THAT f*** DROUGHT WAS CAUSED BY LOONS WHO THOUGHT ONE f*** MINNOW, THAT WASN'T EVEN INDIGENOUS TO CALIFORNIA, WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE LARGEST FARMING AREA IN THE ENTIRE f*** WORLD!
f*** TREE HUGGING HIPPIES ARE RUINING OUR PROUD COUNTRY!

The comments on that video were hilarious. About 80% were just blind labelism, it was like watching one of Obama's speeches, except it was in letters.

Hey, if Al Gore and Mother Theresa can win a Nobel Prize, I can imagine shattering the poor man's testament further to satisfy political agendas.

I think of this more as bad news for Obama. For him, now is the worst time for questions of his competence, but this prize has raised exactly that.

People have been constantly questioning his competence, cause he hasn't turned water into wine and stuff.

I wonder if McCain would even have been considered if he were president. But Obama to get the Nobel Peace Prize, that is surprising to say the least. I say good for him.