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And so was Rush Limbaugh back in 2007.

https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/nobel-nominatio...

A nomination is meaningless.

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With Obama's absurd win at the very beginning of his presidency, before he could even do anything, the whole thing is pretty meaningless.

Obama is far from the most absurd example. The notorious war criminal Henry Kissinger got it years before Obama did.

Alleged war criminal. He's also an incredibly successful and accomplished diplomat.

Only 'alleged' because he's politically connected and aligned with America, and will therefore never go to trial.

Or do you also object with 'allegedly' when people call Bush the Younger a war criminal as well? He'll never see a trial either for the same reason, but he is nevertheless a war criminal.

'In your opinion'

This is an interesting piece from Chomsky on that matter: "Noam Chomsky - The Crimes of U.S. Presidents" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc.

A successful and accomplished diplomat who regularly called the folks he practised "diplomacy" with 4-letter words, racist slurs and shockingly demeaning insults. Look up his transcripts. His personal animus sabotaged so many things for the US. And then he had the gall to publish a book and boast about his "accomplishments". The type of guy who makes Trump look like a Saint.

Al Gore is another example that comes to mind. The EU was rather dubious too.

Yes, and also, sometimes made as a joke, even hitler got nominated.

Besides that, it's somewhat insulting to group assange with snowden and manning.

Indeed, its even more meaningless when you think about who is nominated. In this case, Russian trolls who release private diplomatic cables that fed into a massive disinformation campaign about western democracy.

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