:techman:
No!
The Nobel Committee are to blame for this.
It isn't President Obama's fault at all.
In the end it's a 2 fold achievement in that it's a reward for Barack & an award to the United States.
Obama is an ASS SQUARED-- Nobel Prize or not.
I have more pride in America for the OTHER Nobel Prizes that we won:
Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel economics prize for their work in economic governance.
Ms. Olstrom is the first woman to win the Economics Nobel Prize. She developed an analysis of economic governance. Her work had demonstrated how common property can be successfully managed by groups using it.
Her co-winner developed a theory where business firms serve as structures for conflict resolution.
Last week, American scientists Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer. This work can save lives, and further a cure for cancer.
The physics prize was split between Charles K. Kao, who helped develop fiberoptic cable, and Americans Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith who invented the "eye" in digital cameras. These scientists actually DID something, which has widepread practical use today.
Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath of Israel shared the chemistry prize for their atom-by-atom description of ribosomes. Again, they actually DID something.
Alfred Nobel, remember, said that the prizes would go to those "WHO SHALL HAVE DONE..." You know, "future perfect" tense? But I digress...
Answer me this: What had Obama done to TRULY deserve the prize besides spew a bunch of pretty words-- only to decide to go against those words by talking about stepping up troops in an already volatile area, and tell Americans a bunch of lies?
As much as I dislike Hillary Clinton, what she did this weekend to broker vetter ties between Turkey and Armenia is far more deserving of the NP than anything Obama did. I realize it was after the fact-- but still more deserving...