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Old 10-09-2009, 12:50 PM
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I understand what the Nobel committee was trying to do by giving him the award. I disagree with their mindset, but I understand that they are using it as a message and not so much recognition of an accomplishment like it used to be.

I'm just thinking if I had gotten an award for... oh... I dunno... weight loss... I'd want to have established that I dropped significant body mass and not just because I had announced I was going on a diet. lol

I also think it's a little risky for their own reputation to have given him this award now. He's not even 25% of the way into his four years as president, and if he makes some decisions that cause peace to be upended (ticks off Iran and someone gets nuked, etc...)... hindsight is 20/20.

And if he does achieve something great, do they give it to him again? How does that work?