I think he deserved the award, but I do agree with what you're saying.

Somebody needed to say it Jim, nobody else has the balls to say it anyways.

Well, Kojima has officially lost every shred of credibility he ever had, in my eyes.

My stepdad gave me a pretty good theory on the award Jim. You're fairly political so gimme your words:

Stockholm was pressured to give Obama the award to stop him from putting more troops into the war and advance efforts in pulling troops out. After all he couldn't accept the award and further the war without taking MASSIVE opposition. So what happens? Well remember last week when he said he was gonna put more resources into the war? This week he retracted that saying he's putting withdraw talks back on the table.

I don't agree that Obama deserved the award and if that was Stockholm's intention then it's very underhanded. Especially with all the strife in the world. I'm taking Peace Studies and it's specifically upset my personal interest but if my stepdad's theory is true it's certainly effective.

Like the awards really mean anything, I think some dude won it once for saying worms cause cancer.

I love how if you talk about Obama and don't praise him (note that there were no insults against him) you get attacked for it.

Someday maybe he would have stopped wars and lowered the number of nukes, but god damn give the award to him when he actually does that stuff, not years before it just because he says he will.

By the way, I'm gonna make the cure for cancer and end all wars forever, award please.

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Glad to see my favorite game designer likes Obama!

To get a little political, i think alot of people are getting misconceptions about Obama getting this award.

He didn't get it for achievements (which he hasn't done yet), he got it for being an inspirational figure and extraordinary EFFORTS at making peace.

The award came from his almost inspiring story of him winning the election and the message he carried through the election. As a black man myself, i would never even think a US would be ready for a black president (let alone vote for a black man) I'm pretty sure most of you on the list thought so too when his name became known. Plus, as Jim cited, the nominations started in January 2009, so i'm sure the judges are using 2008 to gauge his worthiness. All of you can check how many "Man of the year" award he received for 2008

Say what you will about his current achievements (which are lacking at the moment), but you can't deny that him (and his wife) already made history, and his story is inspiring people ALL across the GLOBE. That should be recognized.

If Nobel Peace Prize was for achievements, Al Gore should give his back (he didn't solve global warming).

It remains to be seen how he will handle Afghanistan, Iran & Iraq, but I support the president. He's trying the best he can.

So Jim, i respectfully disagree (but i like to hear people's thoughts on it)

"In fact, the Peace Prize nominations ended after he had been in office for twelve days."

I can't really argue that too much. However, as for him not doing anything, I do know that it not true. I read an article in my local paper about 3-4 months ago I believe, and it was showing how Obama had made visits to a region in the US where many power plants had been shut down by oil companies who were trying to keep alternate fuel industries down. Obama had these facilities opened up, and it was a very large number of them, stating that the US needed to either re-establish itself as a innovative and world leader in new fuel alternatives or be left behind. He's also started a program for college students of certain majors to have internships at the White House, something that's never been done before to my knowledge. Great quote-hyping aside, he did open those plants, they will generate a large amount of power, and he is backing up education, technology, and innovation. Those are important I reckon.

And as for the "ragging on him/what it makes you" part, I aim that at everyone because I see a lot of negative criticism about him, yet he hasn't done anything wrong yet. The truth is as of now, he doesn't have to make false promises anymore. He's already satisfied any selfish desires the man could possibly have by becoming history's first non-white, U.S. black president. At this point, I think yea, he could just be trying to be the best president in history or recent history period, but why do people not want that to happen? We need the best president in history or recent history right now if we don't want to follow the Romans into collapse.

OMG, the Nobel Peace Prize, what's next? A VMA award? Both awards equally meaningful.

@dwolfwood
"We need the best president in history or recent history right now if we don't want to follow the Romans into collapse."

Socializing America makes him better than George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt? Yeah, no.

Hideo Kojima, a glorified storywriter. Why should any of us care what he thinks beyond throwing more plot holes and plot twists into MGS?

They'll give that award to anyone now these days. First Al Gore, and now Obama. Nobel peace prize, as valid as a nickelodeon blimp.

@kefkaesque
You totally miss my point and minimize it into a single comparison between him and former great presidents.

Seriously makes me sad sometimes that my country often reminds me of my ps3. Plagued by fanboyism. Don't take my critisism personal kefkaesque since I'm basing it on 1 sentence of thought from you, but that thought is completely immature and you don't share the same view as most of the people within the science, math, engineering, art, and physics wards. Why are you focused on little words and ideas such as socialism? If and when we ever get it right, I doubt it will be because we gave it a name before realized we knew what needed to be done. Your thinking is 2-dimensional and you not seeing that just because things become more socialized it does not mean things are socialized.

Unrelated to kefka, I once read an interesting result conducted from some University's research I believe, it stated that 99.9% of people who had attained ph.D had become democrats within the U.S., implying that the more educated you become the more likely you are to become a democrat.

"Hideo Kojima uses Obama Peace Prize to plug his game, and Jim Sterling uses this news to plug his personal -possibly political- opinions in on the whole situation."

Though, this IS a blog, technically. Still, I've lost a decent amount of respect for you with this.

@dwolfwood

You ranted about how I'm immature and how my thought process is inferior to yours based off one sentence I said. And then you lead that up with a citationless internet statistic about how which political party someone is in is proof of intelligence. Good job there bro.

And I used the word socialism because I like the idea of personal freedoms (I'm a libertarian, not a republican as I'm sure you also assumed after you talked about how I'm less intelligent than you because of my opinions) and socialism is close to the opposite of that, but I guess that makes you superior to me huh.

I don't really understand what Obama has done to deserve such an award. He's played the apologist for America and placated some of the world's nastiest dictators. Saying "Nuke are bad, mmkay?" is a pretty easy thing to do, every president has more or less said this and sought to reduce nukes in the last few decades.

I think he was only nominated for the Peace Prize I don't think he won it just yet.

I could be wrong.

Man, as much as I don't agree with the award choice, I wish people would realize he wasn't voted on in February. His name was submitted with tons of others. The Nobel committee voted on the winner about two weeks ago.

Also! Libertarians are funny. And by funny, I mean sad.

I was kidding, my friend. Don't be offended.

Man, the people whining about Obama getting the Nobel prize is hilarious. You all have been trolled. Griefed even. Congrats, suckers.

to Obama's defense, he did say he didn't deserve it and only accepted it as a way

of "bringing momentum to a set of causes"

keep your opinion to yourself jim

@ adultswim810:
You know, I'm a big supporter of Obama, but even I thought it was kind of dumb that he won the Nobel Peace Prize without having actually done anything yet.

Anyway, Jim, yeah, you're entitled to your opinion, and even though I share this particular opinion, there's a time and place for everything. I personally don't think Destructoid is the place for you to express your views on our president.