Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Now the fact the Nobel Peace Prize is something of a huge fucking joke is not hidden, just look at some of the winners of the years:

Al Gore and the IPCC? Yasser Arafat? Henry Kissinger? Jimmy Carter?

A combination of the downright useless and downright unpleasant. Sure, there have been those deserving of it, but it's not what the Prize is about anymore.

Obama has been given it for what? "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".

Imagine Terry Jones, dressed as woman, and going "oooooohhhh!" in Life of Brian. Yeah, that's how compelling a reason I find that.

He's already signalling he plans to backtrack on closing Gitmo when he said he would, is still pursuing a war in Afghanistan, has stated he has no problem firing into Pakistan if necessary, still fine with rendition.

Now you can argue the merits of any of those in regards to battling terrorism, what you can't argue is that they're pretty antithetical to concept of a peacemaker. Sort of what the Prize is all about. He's got it for being famous, being the first black US President and not being George Bush, in a bout of rampant cocksuckery by the Nobel panellists.

Seriously, stop this - Obama is President, great and good, but stop handing him plaudits for what he is, but for his actions - and it's way to early to grab the awards for those just yet.

EDIT: Turns out the deadline for nominations was February 11th, when his Presidency was just 11 days old...