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[SmartBase]

Well..since they gave Obama one the award kind of lost it's meaning. After that you can easily hand them out for shit and giggles.

Pretty much this.

Carlos the Jackal wins Nobel Peace Prize 2015. Believe.

 

[linsivvi]

That Putin invaded Georgia is a myth spread by certain mainstream media. Was Russia completely innocent in this? Of course not, but Georgia was the one who attacked and killed first.

EU report:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8281990.stm

 

[Enkidu]

Putin will never win the Peace Prize, not because he will never do anything deserving of it but because the committee giving the prize is entirely political. While the other prizes (physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and the "fake" economics one) are given by various scientific academies in Sweden, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is appointed by the Norwegian parliament and consists primarily of old members of parliament.

 

[bankster]

Putin is a better candidate than Obama was when he won.

This.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Look at this picture and tell me that's not a Nobel Peace Prize winner?

 

[Blake'sGrave]

Tbh I kind of understand their reasoning.

 

[jimi_dini]

Putin is a better candidate than Obama was when he won.

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If Obama got one, Putin deserves at least 2.

 

[kevm3]

Except Putin has actually initialized a war, while Obama was a new President who had only just inherited some - and suggested that he was going to end them.

Libya would beg to differ.

 

[Empty]

i don't think it would be an outstanding choice but i think forcing a peaceful solution in a significant international crisis against so many world leaders demanding military intervention as the default response is sufficient reason to merit consideration.

 

[Liha]

Nobel Peace Prize was a joke long before Obama won.

Also, while I'm no fan of Putin, I wish people would stop trotting out the Georgia thing in every Putin thread. It makes you look uninformed if you don't know that Georgia was the aggressor in that conflict.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...mes-Georgia-for-starting-war-with-Russia.html

perfect

 

[Doffen]

Putin is a better candidate than Obama was when he won.

This is what happens when Norwegian ex-politicans runs the peace prize committee.

Both Obama and Europe was shit ideas.

 

[jorma]

Putin is a better candidate than Obama was when he won.

Yep.

Not that this tells us much at all about how good a candidate he is.

 

[Kinyou]

Look at this picture and tell me that's not a Nobel Peace Prize winner?

*the dog will also be killed if Putin doesn't win

 

[i_am_ben]

Hold up. You mean like ordering drone strikes on your own civilians?

As for his global politics...how many wars is Russia currently engaged in? How many wars has Russia started over the last decade?

Putin doesn't deserve one but there is a bit of merit in saying that Obama was the worst choice for a peace prize in recent history. (Edit: Except for the EU)

The EU has done a lot to promote peace and prosperity in Europe. I think it's one of the better recipients.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Except Putin has actually initialized a war, while Obama was a new President who had only just inherited some - and suggested that he was going to end them.

drone strikes diagram....

 

[Salvor.Hardin]

What's up with the reflections in the sunglasses?

Dead bodies on the left and a naked chick on right - Classic Putin.

 

[YoungHav]

IMO NaS should've got one before Obama.

 

[jorma]

IMO NaS should've got one before Obama.

I think it's easier to count the people who shouldn't have gotten one before Obama. A handful of African warlords, some mexican mafia bosses. And a few others, like Rupert Murdoch.

Every other human being on the planet would probably have been a better choice.

 

[Gannd]

The prize hasn't meant anything for years. It's just a political trick, see: Obama.

 

[params7]

Given Obama was awarded one, I don't see why Putin shouldn't get it either. The man pretty much saved Syria from being bombarded..by Obama.

 

[Operations]

I guess it's now twice LOL-worthy.

 

[FStop7]

Obama is “the person who initiated and approved such aggressive acts as Iraq and Afghanistan and who is preparing for intervention in Syria.”

Man, remember when Obama invaded Iraq under false pretenses back in 2003? That shit was tight.

 

[Smellycat]

If Obama can win one, I don't see why Putin can't.

 

[BLACKLAC]

Nice bump lol.

 

[jond76]

Its coming folks; Cold War 2: Hot War.

Guess the Red Dawn remake could have still used Russia after all.

 

[DOBERMAN INC]

The butcher of Grozny,Nobel peace prize? hmm I don't see it.

 

[Acorn]

Is this a fucking joke? Because it has to be...

The doge shit is older than I thought.

 

[dripdripsplash]

I think personally the Nobel Prize turned into a joke when Obama got it.

 

[Josh7289]

PFffffft hahahahahaha

Granted, Obama should not have received one either.

 

[Bedameister]

nobel peace price nominations don't mean shit. No need to even discuss such things

 

[rudieboy77]

They gave one to Henry Kissinger, so why not?

 

[XiaNaphryz]

 

[BundysFeet]

If Obama can win it, why not Putin.

 

[slit]

Putin is a better candidate than Obama was when he won.

HEY YOU!!

Come in here and take your lumps like a man!!!

I want to hear what you have to say now.

 

[Guileless]

I'm waiting for the thread where a pompom stuck into a pile of mashed potatoes is nominated and we get 25 responses of "lol Obama won so the pompom stuck in the mashed potatoes should win too."

 

[UnluckyKate]

oh sh bwahahahaha

 

[Loxley]

*edit - Nevermind, old thread.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

Putin has done a great deal to stabilize eastern Europe by moving to annex it.
Look at how smoothly they invaded Ukraine, and compare it to the disastrous drone bombings in Iran that were approved by Obama.

 

[hipbabboom]

So when did Obama become the worst human alive?

 

[pottuvoi]

So when did Obama become the worst human alive?

Not worst, but he is certainly not someone who should have won a Nobel.

 

[FourMyle]

They gave one to Henry Kissinger, so why not?

I doubt the people talking about Obama ITT are even aware of who Henry Kissinger was or the things he did.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Any professor and any elected politician can nominate anyone for the Nobel peace prize, so these "so-and-so was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" are sort of non-stories in the absence of either the nominator being significant or some evidence that the committee is seriously considering the nomination.

 

[Cereal KiIIer]

HEY YOU!!

Come in here and take your lumps like a man!!!

I want to hear what you have to say now.

He's sure to win now.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

All the Obama comments seem...odd to me. Obama himself even said he didn't think he was deserving of the award. But so many people mention it like, "Oooooh shit. Stirring the pot!".

Putin should never get a Nobel Peace Prize---whether Obama got one or not doesn't change my opinion of that.

Any professor and any elected politician can nominate anyone for the Nobel peace prize, so these "so-and-so was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" are sort of non-stories in the absence of either the nominator being significant or some evidence that the committee is seriously considering the nomination.

Is this really all it takes? Like...could the mayor of my small town, who was elected, write a nomination?

 

[Komo]

So when did Obama become the worst human alive?

Since reddit said so

 

[Sub_Level]

The doge shit is older than I thought.

The pic has been around for quite some time. The

much
such
wow

was a more recent spin (although as of today also arguably old)

 

[zoukka]

I'm starting to see a pattern here. You give nobels to people who wage wars. This makes perfect sense.

Obama Putin Broforce.

Any professor and any elected politician can nominate anyone for the Nobel peace prize, so these "so-and-so was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" are sort of non-stories in the absence of either the nominator being significant or some evidence that the committee is seriously considering the nomination.

I would've said the same when Obama was nominated.

 

[Stinkles]

Shiiiit you've alerted Putin-GAF.

which I recently realized was a real, disturbing thing.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Is this really all it takes? Like...could the mayor of my small town, who was elected, write a nomination?

http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

Apparently it has to be someone elected to a national assembly, so your mayor couldn't, but your congressman could.

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

lolololol. Im not a Putin fan, but that is hilarious