Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts
Friday, October 09, 2009
Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me!
Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
For what, exactly?! Teddy Roosevelt is the only other sitting President to earn a Nobel Peace Prize, to my knowledge, and Roosevelt thought it would be wrong to accept it while in office, so he waited four years to go and actually pick it up. What did Roosevelt do to earn it? He brokered the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
What did Obama do to earn it? He, um... Well, Iran has promised to...no. Or Russia! They're no longer threatening to...no, no they're not. Wait, something will come to me...
UPDATE: He's the third sitting President to win the prize (I almost mistakenly wrote "earn"). Wilson won it in 1919.
For what, exactly?! Teddy Roosevelt is the only other sitting President to earn a Nobel Peace Prize, to my knowledge, and Roosevelt thought it would be wrong to accept it while in office, so he waited four years to go and actually pick it up. What did Roosevelt do to earn it? He brokered the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
What did Obama do to earn it? He, um... Well, Iran has promised to...no. Or Russia! They're no longer threatening to...no, no they're not. Wait, something will come to me...
UPDATE: He's the third sitting President to win the prize (I almost mistakenly wrote "earn"). Wilson won it in 1919.
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