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 Obamas 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.
Thats 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 Nordlingers Peace, They Say is a great place to start.
The committee will announce this year's winner of the Peace Prize on Friday.
That’s not all he doesn’t deserve, but it’s too late now.
Sure he deserves it! But then, every junk yard dog in the world deserves to have 3 of them attached to his tail! :)
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......
It is the dynamite prize...
The clowns in Oslo were trying out their new “Everybody Gets A Peace Prize” idea.
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.
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.
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.
The narcissistic marxist thought he deserved it.
I thought he won the Piece Of Shiite prize.
Nobel Peace Prize means nothing ,just look at the list of losers that received it
In the last dozen years, Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Al Gore have all won Nobel prizes.
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.
All he deserves is every one of our collective boots up where the sun don’t shine
Didn’t they give it to the terrorist Yassar Arafat as well?
Peace Prize for what...??? He should have got the Destroy America Prize!
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)
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