Why are people shocked Obama won a Nobel?

He did absolutely nothing in politics, but he became President. Why should doing nothing not qualify him for a Nobel Peace Prize?|||your logic is flawless and then we can only now believe he will get a gold medal for coming in last in the Olympics// Man Obama is teaching the young that to be successful you must do nothing and be a phony////|||I've done nothing to deserve it either. Where's my $10,000,000 in Swedish cash?|||I did nothing. Where's my prize?|||Why not hand him an Oscar while we're at it ?|||Your Opinion Not mine .|||Maybe to let him know that if he got a prize its time for him to SHOW people he deserves to keep it?|||hes the COMMANDER IN CHIEF of a nation at war. thats peace nowadays for ya|||They just don't like him so they want to slap him in the face some more. He didn't even expect it and felt it wasn't right for him. He didn't vote on it. It just came to be. Let it be. The guy deserves something he is the first black president and he is trying to clean up Bush's disaster of a presidency.|||We are shocked, because it was so unexpected!|||I'm not, Jimmy Carter also won it when he caused our military defense to be at a low point and we were vulnerable to the likes of USSR until Reagan became president|||he has helped no other country, and obama says he doesnt deserve it.|||Obviously his nothing to you, means something to others! How long are you guys going to use this "nothing" argument? All day I'm guessing!|||Looks like his Apology to the World tour paid off for him. What a joke, but we shouldn't be surprised after some of the other clowns who have gotten it - Jimma Carter comes to mind...|||hmmm,...let me see.... Maybe it's because he has done absolutely NOTHING. And I am not talking about keeping or promoting peace only. I mean he has done absolutely nothing what so ever; in any area He's president for what? 10 months? And he hasn't done a thing.|||Conservatives saw this coming a mile away...it's the liberals that are shocked.|||I thought they were a more credible organization. Dang, if I knew it was that easy I would have nominated myself. I broke up a fight in a trailer park between democrats fighting over the last beer in the bucket about the same time Obama was getting his nomination. That took guts, didn't it.|||Maybe because the American people voted for


a Black person. Certainly not for anything he did


as he'd only been in office for two weeks. I guess


that's why people are shocked he won. But don't


forget, the worst president of the US also won a


few years back.....Jimmy Carter.|||http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/鈥?/a>


Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize


"The president had not been mentioned as among front-runners for the prize, and the roomful of reporters gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, uttered Obama's name."|||Yeah, trying to end nuclear proliferation, create a healthcare plan to give all the sick and dying in america access to medical care, trying to secure peace between Israel and Palestine, bringing Iran in with direct diplomatic peace discussions, and trying to restore the admiration and respect for america around the world..yeah he's doing a whole lot of nothing.