Obama's Nobel Prize

Prompted by the intriguing decision to give the commander in chief of the world’s largest killing machine a peace prize this site’s deputy editor has come up with a her own list of prizes. With neither a royal family nor a fortune earned from selling high explosives behind it the Mini Me Foundation prize is…

Liam

October 9, 2009

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Phone 007 Prompted by the intriguing decision to give the commander in chief of the world’s largest killing machine a peace prize this site’s deputy editor has come up with a her own list of prizes. With neither a royal family nor a fortune earned from selling high explosives behind it the Mini Me Foundation prize is one pouch of fairly decent cat food or a fatally wounded but still living bird..

Best role model for young women – Victoria Beckham
Most welcome musical comeback – Spandau Ballet
Least ludicrous head of government – Silvio Berlusconi
Successful rise from deprived background – David Cameron
Least cynical use of own dead child for political advantage – David Cameron
Most self effacing public figure – Bono
Flogging a dead horse – JK Rowling
Friend of the Palestinian people – Benjamin Netanyahu
Most charismatic politician – that man who’s the British Minister of Defence
Thanks for staying alive so long – Margaret Thatcher
Tallest head of state – Nicholas Sarkozy

The deputy editor is open to suggestions to add to the list.

5 responses to “Obama's Nobel Prize”

djinbrighton

October 9, 2009 at 6:18 pm

in the 1930s,various possible candidates for the Nobel Peace prize were discussed.One possible nominee,discussed but failing to quite make it,was a German soon to be leader,Adolf Hitler.

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djinbrighton

October 9, 2009 at 6:22 pm

I just checked Wikipedia and Hitler was in fact proposed in 1939!
“When the past nominations were released it was discovered that Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939 by Erik Brandt, a member of the Swedish Parliament. Brandt retracted the nomination after a few days.”says wickipedia,so it must be true.

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Kevin

October 9, 2009 at 11:16 pm

Tom Lehrer was right about satire becoming obsolete. But after awards for Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa, David Trimble, Menachem Begin and Shimon Peres, giving the Nobel Prize for Peace to a US president who had only been in office for two weeks at the close of nominations, on the apparent basis that at least he wasn’t George Bush, seems strangely appropriate.

My Mini Me Foundation nomination goes to the millionaire politician best qualified to utter the words “we are all in this together” – George Obsborne.

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HarpyMarx

October 11, 2009 at 1:04 pm

My nomination goes to the politician who brought human dignity to the poor – James Purnell.

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Rustbelt Radical

October 11, 2009 at 6:47 pm

Most humanitarian war machine– the pilotless drone

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