Wow, a prize with even less credibility than the Nobel peace prize....

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by cisco kid

What's next? Maybe they'll award the prize to Saddam Hussein or Qaddaffi, posthumously.
If Henry Kissinger or Barack Obama can get a Nobel prize for making an empty speech, anyone can.

Arafat is probably the grand champion of undeserved peace prizes.

Carter should have gotten one for the Israel-Egypt peace treaty but instead they gave him one for "nuclear disarmament of North Korea"

Al Gore got a "peace prize" for his global warming documentary etc. (Which is like awarding the Nobel Prize in poetry to the work of Stephen Hawkings.

Just a lot of horrible horrible politicized peace prizes.

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by summers73

The Nobel prize is often referred to as a beauty pageant nowadays, because it relies on measures of fluff and how the results will shape world events rather than on the accomplishments of the individual.

I don't think it rated that high based on some of their selections.