"For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that 'Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.'

Oslo, October 9, 2009"

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/press-release/

Really? That deserves a Nobel Peace Prize in this day and age? Is that what we have reduced the Prize to?

Well, Al Gore won it for "a really good Power Point Presentation" several years earlier, so, yeah.

And two really good books, and a really good documentary film, and eight years in high political office pushing for action that aimed to saved millions of people now doomed to be displaced from climate change in the next decades. Awarding it to Obama for not being GW Bush is one thing, awarding it to Gore something entirely different.

droning pakistanis children

No, he got the peace price before that.

That said, AFAIK Obama himself found it somewhat cringeworthy when he was awarded the price, which - if it is true - makes it a lot less embarrassing on his part.

Also it seems they really haven't had reason to be happy with a couple of other candidates too, one leading a country that massacred Rohingas under her leadership and one starting another war in Africa.

War is Peace