Al Gore and the Nobel Peace Prize (Poll)

[Lugnuts]

Al Gore's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Does he deserve to win?

 

[sportschick]

I like this topic, so I'm giving it a bump!

I voted no. I like him, and he's helped raise awareness about what we as humans are doing to the environment, but I don't think that's a reason to give a guy the peace prize.

 

[Gold]

No, for a couple of reasons. I like what he is saying about global warming.

First, I think he would rank behind what Bill Clinton is doing as far as philanthropic efforts. As one business magazine pointed out, he has Rupert Murdoch and Warren Buffett on board with him - that says something.

Second, if there isn't an obvious choice - Theodore Roosevelt arranging an end to the Russo-Japanese war, for example - one purpose of the Nobel prize is to bring attention to someone or a group which is doing good work but might not get the recognition. With the movie being so widely viewed, that isn't the case with An Inconvenient Truth.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Another country heard from:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2007/0004518421&EDATE=

 

[tyler durden 71351]

Another country heard from:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2007/0004518421&EDATE=

Jeez. He's got about as much chance of winning as I do. Scratch that, he's got less of a chance of winning than I do. He's a walking, talking, farting bag of rotten cat****. What the **** has that guy ever done except lower the level of politicial discourse in this country and make a bunch of money off of dumbasses who think he posesses insight?

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Another country heard from:
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To paraphrase the West Wing, I don't think that Mark Levin is Satan, but he is the guy who runs to 7-11 at 3:45 a.m. to get Satan cigs and beer. I am ashamed that he is given a platform.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Another country heard from:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2007/0004518421&EDATE=

To paraphrase the West Wing, I don't think that Mark Levin is Satan, but he is the guy who runs to 7-11 at 3:45 a.m. to get Satan cigs and beer. I am ashamed that he is given a platform.

How did I miss that line?
Beyond fab. Sorkin must've had some fine 'shrooms that day.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Another country heard from:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2007/0004518421&EDATE=

To paraphrase the West Wing, I don't think that Mark Levin is Satan, but he is the guy who runs to 7-11 at 3:45 a.m. to get Satan cigs and beer. I am ashamed that he is given a platform.

How did I miss that line?
Beyond fab. Sorkin must've had some fine 'shrooms that day.

I added some to the general idea:

Toby: I just figured out who you were.
Kiefer: He's gonna say Satan.
Toby: No, you're the guy that runs into the 7-11 to get Satan a pack of cigarettes.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I forgot that Q from Star Trek:TNG played the evil pollster early on.

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

Pope, everytime you post, I always have to change my pants because of that pic.
F'in hilarious.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Pope, everytime you post, I always have to change my pants because of that pic.
F'in hilarious.

If you look at the picture closely, Al Davis is telling you to use Depends.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Pope, everytime you post, I always have to change my pants because of that pic.
F'in hilarious.

Damn, Chuck. You have even more issues than we suspected.

 

[HejiraHenry]

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.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

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.

 

[Lugnuts]

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

 

[JR]

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

And you just know Old Tony is one of them.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

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

 

[JayFarrar]

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.

 

[Pete Roses Bookie]

Gore will get the most votes but they'll give the prize to someone else.

 

[Gold]

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.