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Poll: Majority of Americans Say Obama Still Doesn't Deserve Peace Prize
Townhall.com ^ | October 9, 2014 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 10/09/2014 12:26:14 PM PDT by Kaslin

Nobel Prizes continue to be announced this week, and according to a new Rasmussen poll, Americans are both skeptical about how winners are chosen and continue to question President Obama’s Peace Prize win back in 2009. 

Rasmussen Reports has the details:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% of American Adults think politics play a role in the awarding of Nobel Prizes. Just 17% disagree, but 30% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Fifty-five percent (55%) of adults say that, six years into his presidency, President Obama still does not deserve the prize that he won in 2009. Twenty-six percent (26%) think he still deserves the prize. Another 18% are not sure.

The number who think politics play a role is up slightly from 51% last year. In 2009, the year President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, belief that politics played a role in the awarding of the prizes climbed into the high 50s. In 2008, only 40% felt that way.

Just 35% of Americans believethe Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award a person can win. Thirty-seven percent (37%) disagree, while another 27% are not sure.

That’s a slightly less positive view of the prize than adults expressed last year, but is generally in line with previous years.

The Nobel Peace Prize is an award that Mother Teresa, Yasser Arafat, and Barack Obama have won, but Gandhi never did, so Americans have every right to be both confused and skeptical about the role of politics in decision making. The committee ultimately has its reasons, however, and if one is truly interested in understanding more about how the process works, Jay Nordlinger’s “Peace, They Say” is a great place to start.

The committee will announce this year's winner of the Peace Prize on Friday. 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; nobelpeaceprize; rasmussenreports
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1 posted on 10/09/2014 12:26:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

That’s not all he doesn’t deserve, but it’s too late now.


2 posted on 10/09/2014 12:28:07 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Kaslin

Sure he deserves it! But then, every junk yard dog in the world deserves to have 3 of them attached to his tail! :)


3 posted on 10/09/2014 12:30:31 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Kaslin

This “peace” prise has been nothing short of a JOKE over the last 20 years. People ranging from Arafat to “the latte cup”. It is sooooo Orwellian to have obama win this prize. Look at the Middle East and see what condition it is in now. Courtesy of the latte cup......


4 posted on 10/09/2014 12:31:08 PM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Kaslin

It is the dynamite prize...


5 posted on 10/09/2014 12:32:10 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Kaslin

The clowns in Oslo were trying out their new “Everybody Gets A Peace Prize” idea.


6 posted on 10/09/2014 12:32:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Got Ebola? Come to America!)
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To: Steely Tom

Yes, so true...

I’d say the prize has become a joke, but it has often enough been a joke over the decades so that it was pretty much always a joke.

Reagan got no credit whatsoever for ending the Cold War and freeing up hundreds of millions of people.

Obama was gifted it for absolutely nothing tangible.


7 posted on 10/09/2014 12:33:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: Kaslin

Two of the most meaningful and prestigious “awards” in the world are:

Congressional Medal of Honor (USA)

and, I believe

Righteous among the Nations (ISR)

The Nobel Peace prize, as won by Al Gore for a factually incorrect slideshow and Barry “choom gang” Hussein for being black, has become a joke.


8 posted on 10/09/2014 12:33:40 PM PDT by golux
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To: Kaslin

about halfway into Obama’s first term it was revealed that the Nobel Committee made their decision only ** 8 days ** after Obama first took office.


9 posted on 10/09/2014 12:33:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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10 posted on 10/09/2014 12:37:24 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Kaslin

The narcissistic marxist thought he deserved it.


11 posted on 10/09/2014 12:41:24 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Kaslin

I thought he won the Piece Of Shiite prize.


12 posted on 10/09/2014 12:42:55 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (The middle east is where the enemy of my enemy is my enemy!)
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To: Kaslin

Nobel Peace Prize means nothing ,just look at the list of losers that received it


13 posted on 10/09/2014 12:49:33 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Kaslin

In the last dozen years, Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Al Gore have all won Nobel prizes.


14 posted on 10/09/2014 12:53:04 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Kaslin

Obama doesn’t deserve anything he has been given in his worthless, drug-addled life. He doesn’t deserve the Nobel, the two Grammy awards, the US Senate, the two stolen White House races, the admissions to Columbia University or to Harvard Law. The only thing he deserves in marrying Michelle; I’d wish that one on him.


15 posted on 10/09/2014 12:53:33 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: molson209

All he deserves is every one of our collective boots up where the sun don’t shine


16 posted on 10/09/2014 12:53:39 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Kaslin
This is about how much credibility that prize has now....


17 posted on 10/09/2014 12:53:51 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: ansel12

Didn’t they give it to the terrorist Yassar Arafat as well?


18 posted on 10/09/2014 12:56:46 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: Kaslin

Peace Prize for what...??? He should have got the Destroy America Prize!


19 posted on 10/09/2014 12:59:19 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Kaslin

quick intelligence quiz for the liberal lurkers here:

Which president has bombed 6 countries (all without UN athorization) AND also received the nobel peace prize?

if you said Obama, you would be correct!

(Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and now Syria)


20 posted on 10/09/2014 1:03:41 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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