[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
So, if my math is correct, President Obama had all of roughly 12 days in office between the inauguration and the Nobel committee close.
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Your math is not correct.
Feb 1 was the deadline for the nominations. But the committee’s decision was not reached until Monday, October 5.
Geir Lundestad, who as executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute has handled the committee’s administrative affairs since 1990, said the panel met six or seven times this year, starting several weeks after the nomination deadline, Feb. 1.
Any member of a national legislature, any professor of the social sciences and several other categories of people are free to submit nominations, and someone usually puts forward the name of the American president. That was true this year, even though Mr. Obama had been in office less than two weeks when the deadline hit.
This year the panel did not settle on a winner until Monday, Mr. Lundestad said He added that Oslo now faced a major challenge: to get ready for the award ceremony for Mr. Obama, just two months away. It will probably be among the largest civic events in Norwegian history.
Brian: Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha! Are you fucking kidding me?!? Oh, gee, I’m sorry. It was OCTOBER instead of FEBRUARY. Oh, okay. So, that’s what, another eight months?!? Oh, yeah, he got a shitload of stuff during that time.
He closed Gitmo, right?
Ended the war in Iraq?
Disarmed the North Koreans?
Pushed back on the Russian’s territorial ambitions?
