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Originally Posted by garinda
'The closing date for nominations for the prize was February 1st. Obama was only sworn in as president less than two weeks before that. You do have to wonder what achievements he made during that fortnight, except not being Bush, the Bomber of Baghdad.'
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for me the strange thing is not that Obama won the prize, but why he was nominated in the first place... the bloke seems to be as surprised as anyone and has even said he does not think he deserves it.
makes me wonder if there is some diplomatic stuff going on.. the man that stood up to Mugabe in Zimbabwe was beaten half to death along with his family, and he was nominated..but perhaps the "panel" did not want to rock the boat (however the panel are)!