Barak Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate nine months after his inauguration. Subsequently, he used a drone to murder an American citizen, among a litany of other atrocities.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 74 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile Lê Đức Thọ refused the prize as it was shared with FUCKING KISSINGER.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Best thing Obama did was pulling out of Iraq, finally leaving an illegal war, so hats off for that. But all his talk about envisioning a world free of nuclear weapons and then not even attempting disarmament of the US ones kinda seems weak.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 34 points 5 months ago

Kudos to Obama for actually following through, but the withdrawal from Iraq had a deadline set by the U.S. Status of Forces Agreement signed by Bush, per the request of the Iraqi government.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago

I think his attempts to reestablish new diplomacy with Cuba and Iran were good.

Then Trump fucked it all up and Biden doesn't seem to give a shit about going back.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Putin didn’t want to even talk about a new START and unilateral disarmament is irresponsible.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 5 months ago

He got that prize mainly for not being George W. Bush if I remember 2009 correctly.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't Carter a Nobel recipient too?

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 4 points 5 months ago

Yes, but that was in 2002, long after his term in office.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

We actually bombed the moon on the day of the Nobel Prize announcement!

Seriously though, it was a middle finger to Bush more than anything.

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lots of Peace winners, but Winston Churchill had one in literature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_Nobel_laureates#In_office

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago

Churchill was a master of historical non-fiction. Not "history books," per se, but basically books about historical topics pertaining to England that interested him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_English-Speaking_Peoples. They were very popular during his day.

[–] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about Winnie. I have a lot more respect for science and literature prizes than the peace prize though. Harder work, I reckon.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nobel Laureate is a bit of an overstatement but she was part of an organization that won the Nobel Prize, similar to how Amnesty International has won it a few times:

The 61-year old climate scientist was part of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change team that would go on to share a Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore in 2007. Now, Sheinbaum — who has grandparents who escaped the Holocaust — will hold the most powerful office in the country.

She was a contributing author to the 2007 IPCC report, maybe not a huge deal (there were 100+ authors) but it is reasonably relevant. Here is a chapter that she contributed to (I don't know if there is more than one) and her earlier work is cited.