Obama Gets Nobel Peace Prize. Oscars Next?
Today, the White House shall celebrate after losing out on the 2016 Olympics bid. President Barack Obama has just been announced to this year’s winner for the Nobel Prize for Peace. But was he really a deserving a candidate?
Twitter user, Anantpal Saluja makes a stark comparison of this event with the International India Film Awards which has become a regular platform for awarding the Bachchans. Though, the Nobel Prize committee mentions Obama got the award “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Amit Paranjape makes a point that since when did they start giving out awards based on hope and a promise for a better world?
An online article stating the common misconceptions about the Novel Prize mentions that peace, human rights and democracy efforts often awarded before hand to encourage those who receive to see the effort through, sometimes at critical moments.
The twitter world is mixed with emotions, some obviously happy and some perplexed over the announcement. We wonder how this is possible as the nomination deadlines were the 1st of February, which was hardly a month since Obama took over the office.
Human right activists like Hu Jia in China and Afghanistan and political figures in Africa were seen as the likely candidates for the Peace prize.
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