when is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded? Who decides?

[greenbriar]

just curious

President Gore deserves it very much

[northzax]

1. in the fall, I think

it is decided on by a committee selected by the Nobel Foundation in Oslo.

[greenbriar]

2. sweet...so dimson has NO connection at all?

good

[northzax]

9. since they are given out in Norway?

no.

But Al Gore won't win. they won't give it to two American politicians from the same party in the span of five years.

[Tom Joad]

3. Yes, in the fall. Considering how many wars of aggression Gore

has supported in the last few decades, i have no doubt he will be on the list. After all, Kissinger won the prize.

[melody]

6. Gore has always been against the Iraq war

As for others, we all make mistakes ... happily for most of us, we get to do them in private and then
be pompous in public about somebody else's more public missteps.

[Tom Joad]

7. He never called them missteps. They were not mistakes, that's part of who

he is. Like it or not.
He supported Bush1 war against Iraq, and the horrific sanctions that followed.
He supported the war against Panama.

[melody]

8. When you find a saint who'll run for President, give us a call

Till then, we'll have to contend with the evil bastards the far right will all get behind because
the liberals are all off chasing rainbows.

Have you read any of Al's books? I think you'd be amazed the stuff he has backed off of.

[Tom Joad]

10. Just like to avoid freakin' war mongers, it ain't much to ask

and Gore ain't running. Could barely win against W. Bush he was such a lame ass piece of work.

[melody]

12. Gore is running ... which is why all the sudden pounding on him

And he's hardly a war monger. Plus, most reasonable people know Gore won the first time around.

I know better than to try to debate these issues with socialists, however, since
all people (as with the far-right) must be perfect in their eyes. Have your last
word, whatever it may be, and let's end this useless sub-thread.

[Tom Joad]

13. I don't know why a politician supporting war is seen like a

small imperfection.
And gore has supported useless, costly, wars.
Panama
Grenada
Iraq War 1 (and the very deadly sanctions that followed).

He has also supported anti-labor, anti-environmental trade deals.

People are trying to make it sound like just a personal quirk, equivalent to say, not remembering to put the cap back on the toothpaste.

I know gore won, but i said he *barely* won... it was a very small margin against a very poor candidate.

[malaise]

14. I hope Gore runs and wins

but you are correct. Those votes are part of the package, but he's the best of the lot. At least he learnt lessons.

[mzteris]

4. oh thank god

I am SO glad you said Gore.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. December. Google is your friend.

http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/

[MonkeyFunk]

11. Yes,

that's when the award ceremony is. The prizes are announced in late September/early October.

[rasputin1952]

15. An interesting ,yet absurd sideline to the Nobel Peace Prize and

a "nominee" for the Peace Prize.

For a little over a month, Limbaugh has professed himself to be a "candidate", which, besides being insane, apparently one of his cronies "nominated" him by letter to the Nobel Committee. For starters, that is not how the process works, and Limbaugh is not nominated and "in the running", just as I am not "in the running". What got me about the whole Limbaugh thing, is that he hasn't a clue how the process works, (as usual), and yet insists he is a "nominee"...x(

I cannot picture Limbaugh in the ranks w/Gandhi, Carter, Mendella or a host of others that have made impacts on this earth that have benefited so many. I wonder if the Committee laughed when they opened a letter from a Limbaugh friend that stated that Limbaugh is a humanitarian and was deserving of a Peace Prize...The individual who held that letter as they read it, most likely had to go to an ER for 3rd degree burns on his hands...:D