'US Won’t Decide Our Policies' – Sweden On Palestinian State Recognition

[Bodhi BloodWave]

29. my understanding is that he got it

primarily for his efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and climate change, and his support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations et al.

Now i do understand the basis of the 'not bush' mentality to some degree since part of the reason was also that the committee considered him to have demonstrated a willingness to engage in diplomacy rather then though talk and such(which is the aspect i think many of his critics regarding the prize focus on).

I think he deserved it based on the above, but I also agree with Obama himself that there likely were more worthy candidates then himself(with all that said i honestly think he would have gotten the prize even if he had lost the bid for the presidency since what i consider to be the core of the reasoning were things he had been working on even before running ).