Other nominees were more deserving then Obama. What did Obama do for peace prior to Feb. 1st, 2009 during the period under review?
Recently he has drone bombed Pakistan, pushed for 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Prior to that, during the review period, he was campaigning for president.
There is no merit to Obama winning this year, there were no real grounds for the nomination. The nominations were closed on Feb. 1st 2009. He had only been in office 2 weeks at that point. He had yet to accomplish anything worthy and still has yet to do so. Campaign promises do not qualify one to be a Nobel Laureate, no matter how driven the person is. Yes, his goals have peace in mind, but campaign promises that have yet to bear fruit on the President’s policy agenda do not merit the world’s most renowned prize for peace. Even the Associated Press was unsure on what grounds he was nominated.
Thus far, in his presidency, he has bombed Pakistan and increased troop numbers in Afghanistan (and is pushing for increased troop numbers). He has yet to accomplish his Middle East peace goals or really make much of a headway. In fact he has backpedaled on many of these goals. Does this mean he will not accomplish them? No. There is time, and if/when that time comes he deserves proper recognition. In the future, if he is successful in his push for Nuclear Non-Proliferation, he will certainly deserve recognition for that as well, but not now, not yet.
The human rights fighters throughout Africa, China, the Middle East and South America on the list, the woman’s rights activists across the depressed world, and jailed democracy fighters in Vietnam, among others, are certainly more deserving for this year’s award.
Cross posted from my tumblr 
The Nobel Peace Prize has forever been cheapen in its value. We first saw this when Jimmy Carter hired a PR company to work for his interests after he had lost the request several times in a row and then Al Gore doing the same after doing his movie. Carter, a president who will go down in the history books as the worst in the 20th century, a Gore, VP who had now ideas except his environmental blatherings, hoping he would eclipse his Senator Father’s accomplishments and hasn’t for his state.
Now we are suffering the worst president in the 21st century. A man who has no idea of where he is headed, likes the camera and the prompter for his thoughts words, thank God our economy is strong enough to make it through another Democratic Presidential circus. It is sad to watch a grown man dangle from all those strings dancing around.