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Al Gore and the Nobel Peace Prize (Poll)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Lugnuts, Feb 1, 2007.

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Should Al Gore win the Nobel Peace Prize?

  1. Yes. He's made global warming an issue.

    16 vote(s)
    38.1%
  2. Yes. I hate him, but give the Devil his due.

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  3. No. I like him, but the prize is about peace, not the environment.

    17 vote(s)
    40.5%
  4. No. Just can't stand the guy.

    3 vote(s)
    7.1%
  5. Don't care. It's just another meaningless award.

    2 vote(s)
    4.8%
  6. Don't care. Greenhouse gas-produced global warming is a figment of the imagination.

    4 vote(s)
    9.5%
  1. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    I voted yes, but the option I didn't have was Yes, But it's Another Meaningless Award.

    Did Yassir Arafat win one? If so, I rest my case.
     
  2. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Where is the choice, Yes, because they deserve each other. I think he stands a good chance because as the Carter selection showed us, the current criterion seems to be who can we give it to that will be the biggest middle finger to the current administration. Even before this though, when they got it right it was by accident. Arafat's all you need to know.
     
  3. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Gotta tell ya - The 4 people who voted "figment of the imagination" aren't lookin' all that bright today.
     
  4. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    And you just know Old Tony is one of them.
     
  5. Yeah, we should certainly define these people by Yassir Arafat. Great idea.


    2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
    2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
    2004 - Wangari Maathai
    2003 - Shirin Ebadi
    2002 - Jimmy Carter
    2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
    2000 - Kim Dae-jung
    1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
    1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
    1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
    1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
    1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
    1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
    1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
    1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
    1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
    1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
    1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama
    1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
    1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez
    1986 - Elie Wiesel
    1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
    1984 - Desmond Tutu
    1983 - Lech Walesa
    1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
    1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
    1979 - Mother Teresa
    1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
    1977 - Amnesty International
    1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
    1975 - Andrei Sakharov
    1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
    1973 - Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
    1972 - The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
    1971 - Willy Brandt
    1970 - Norman Borlaug
    1969 - International Labour Organization
    1968 - René Cassin
    1967 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1966 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1965 - United Nations Children's Fund
    1964 - Martin Luther King
    1963 - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
    1962 - Linus Pauling
    1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld
    1960 - Albert Lutuli
    1959 - Philip Noel-Baker
    1958 - Georges Pire
    1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson
    1956 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1955 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1954 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    1953 - George C. Marshall
    1952 - Albert Schweitzer
    1951 - Léon Jouhaux
    1950 - Ralph Bunche
    1949 - Lord Boyd Orr
    1948 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1947 - Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
    1946 - Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
    1945 - Cordell Hull
    1944 - International Committee of the Red Cross
    1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1939 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1938 - Nansen International Office for Refugees
    1937 - Robert Cecil
    1936 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas
    1935 - Carl von Ossietzky
    1934 - Arthur Henderson
    1933 - Sir Norman Angell
    1932 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1931 - Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
    1930 - Nathan Söderblom
    1929 - Frank B. Kellogg
    1928 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1927 - Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
    1926 - Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
    1925 - Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
    1924 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1923 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1922 - Fridtjof Nansen
    1921 - Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
    1920 - Léon Bourgeois
    1919 - Woodrow Wilson
    1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1917 - International Committee of the Red Cross
    1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1915 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
    1913 - Henri La Fontaine
    1912 - Elihu Root
    1911 - Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
    1910 - Permanent International Peace Bureau
    1909 - Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
    1908 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
    1907 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
    1906 - Theodore Roosevelt
    1905 - Bertha von Suttner
    1904 - Institute of International Law
    1903 - Randal Cremer
    1902 - Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
    1901 - Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
     
  6. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Arafat's award was shared by Peres and Rabin for their combined efforts.
    Wow, an Oscar and Nobel Prize in the same year. Sweet.
    It would be interesting to see te final list, but Gore would have to be considered a front-runner.
    I think he'll win it, but it will be shared with the Candian.
     
  7. Gore will get the most votes but they'll give the prize to someone else.
     
  8. Gold

    Gold Active Member

    Arafat kind of has an asterisk, because he got it with Peres and Rabin so it was like an award for the peace accord and meant to encourage it. Arafat, in my opinion, was the least effective world leader of the 20th century.

    David Trimble was the Protestant Northern Ireland leader whose party made continuing efforts to oppress Catholics in Northern Ireland, but that was an award for reaching a peace. Kissinger is no great choice either, since he made a deal for peace in 1973 that he could have had in 1969.

    I saw the entry where they don't make an award, usually because they can't find a worthy candidate or there was a world war going on, and my first thought was whether it's like the Pick-6 at the race track and the next winner gets more money.
     
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