Looks to me about 1990 things started to go downhill when it comes to Nobel Peace Prizes (some were good candidates, many weren’t.)
2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change.
_ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded.
_ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
_ 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya.
_ 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.
_ 2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.
_ 2001: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
_ 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.
_ 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
_ 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland.
_ 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, United States.
_ 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.
_ 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Britain, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
_ 1994: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, Israel.
_ 1993: Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, South Africa.
_ 1992: Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala.
_ 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar (also known as Burma).
_ 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union.
Let’s see, a terrorist, a communist, a traitor, a hot dog salesman, and Algore. Sounds about right.
Awarding a crappy, distorted powerpoint presentation a “peace” prize = new low for Nobel.
2001 Kofi Annan
Now THERE was a worthy recipient.
A much more prestigious group of names than the list of Nobel Peace Prize winners is the list of passed-overs:
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Pope John Paul II
and added this year
Rush Limbaugh