Personally I too am disappointed with their pick this year, I think they had other strong candidates who'd deserve the acknowledgement more than do mr. Obama. That's not a critique of his work, though. I would have thought him a natural candidate in the years to come if he continues as he's started out.
Jostein 2009/10/9 Michael Gaudet <[email protected]>: > Yeah, this is slightly off-topic. But I'm not a fan of reading reports > wrong. According to the NYTimes link that was referenced, the Nobel > Committee based the decision on what Obama *has* accomplished in the > last 9 months: > > "Thorbjorn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and > a former prime minister of Norway, said the president had already > contributed enough to world diplomacy and international understanding > to earn the award. > > “We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future, but > for what he has done in the previous year,” Mr. Jagland said. “We > would hope this will enhance what he is trying to do.”" > > Sure, people disagree. But saying "Apparently based not on what he's > accomplished so far" is misleading. > > John Sessoms wrote: >> I've been following the Photo.net thread there's a site I regularly >> have problems accessing. I bet "server not found" errors >> intermittently. I just tried opening the site to see if I could >> generate the error; get the exact wording for the error message. >> >> Instead, the site opened and there's a headline Obama's been awarded >> this year's Nobel Peace Prize. >> >> Apparently based not on what he's accomplished so far, but as "an >> early vote of confidence" for "Obama's calls for peace and >> cooperation, and praised his pledges to reduce the world stock of >> nuclear arms, ease American conflicts with Muslim nations". >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/world/10nobel.html?hp > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
