• definitemaybe
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    16 hours ago

    To be fair, what did Obama do to deserve the prize? Maybe I missed something, but I remember literally laughing out loud when I first heard that news. Like, he won for campaigning on hope?

    • skisnow
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      15 hours ago

      The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama’s promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a “new climate” in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize

      Essentially it was for the sort of things that the US news media skipped over, because it was about countries that weren’t America.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Still, if Obama didn’t get one, do you think he’d be whining about it for (checks calendar) the next nearly two decades?