The Ig Nobel Award goes to…
Posted on October 10th, 2009 by Niket
… the Nobel peace prize committee for awarding the 2009 peace prize to the US President Barack Obama. The citation says that the award is given to Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.
Updates:
- Atanu Dey said the same thing yesterday. Great minds think alike
- Great Bong says that Eric Morley, founder of the Miss World pageant also deserves a Nobel Prize, since ‘noone in the world who has done as much as him in providing a platform for attractive people to spew warm air about “world peace”‘.
- I got an email today from Avaaz.org (where I had, in a moment of weakness, signed some online petition) stating: “let’s flood Obama with worldwide congratulations, urging him to go further and turn hope into change”. Really?
- I think after the Rabin/Perez/Arafat and the Kissinger/Tho awards, this one is the most jaw-dropping in my view. Apparently, Obama was a mere two weeks into his office before the Feb. 1st deadline for peace prize nominations.
- One does hope that Obama’s presidency lives up to the expectations. But as Rahul says, “giving a prize for future achievements requires extraordinary clairvoyance.”
well said.
I think, he deserves the accolade.
For one, his sincere efforts to extend the hand of friendship towards the Muslim World (immediately after taking oath of office of US presidentship) and his concerted efforts to eliminate the nuclear weapons.