Did Barack Hussein Obama deserve his Nobel?

[RaphaelDLG]

The nobel is the award that they give out for the highest number of extrajudicial child executions, right?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Yes

-Why?

At the circumstances of the time, it was most definitely deserved; and given what happened later, there was in retrospect some wisdom to giving him the reward. (Iran deal, etc)
Obama did contribute to world peace in multiple ways.

[Lechasseur]

He shouldn't have received it when he did, but he could definitely be a serious contender in, say, 2014.

-If the prize was non-ironic, I think he'd have been less deserving of it in 2014 than in 2009.

This

[mencken]

There's probably not a bigger "HP" red flag than making a point of using Obama's middle name.

So we are not allowed to refer to anybody by their full name, unless it is a modal WASP name? What an ethnocentrist concept.

[mencken]

I love that eharding uses "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" like a freerepublic poster who's been in a coma since 2009.

Eharding is, at the very least, not pretending to NOT be a racist.

-Using O's middle name isn't racism in this case, and I didn't add emphasis to it. I think he's pretty smart, comparable to DJT, me and Putin. I just find it hilarious how Glenn Beck was right about Obama creating a Muslim Caliphate. I still believe realpolitik explains more of his actions than sympathy to militant Islam.

Maybe so, but obviously his values scale believes militant Islam is a lesser evil than nationalist autocracy, else Mubarak, Gaddafi, and Assad would not have been targeted with such enmity, at the cost of leaving a power vacuum for militant Islamists (that anyone who is not willfully ignorant about Middle Eastern politics of the last century could tell you was predictable)