Don’t forget AlGore- he got the Peace Prize for making a movie of environmental falsehood. The Nobel Prize has less prestige than a youth soccer participation trophy.
AL Gore won for his Powerpoint slides over the saintly and more deserving nominee — IRENA SENDLER, who was in her late 90’s and died a year later.
See here for her bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler
My favorite Nobel Peace Prize “winners” to laugh at are Obama, algore, Carter, and Arafat. There are many others that bring guffaws out of me, especially after researching exactly what they did, and how “effective” they were. For many their claim to fame is solely how much they advanced Communism.
There is another broad group to laugh at: those with “good intentions” ... like those who were involved in formulating the “Locarno Treaty” (England promised to protect France from German invasion, and Germany signed on to that) and the Kellogg-Briand Treaty (signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them”.) LOL ... those really worked out. Also the many prizes given to the League of Nations organizers ... really great organization.
They had a good run in the (early) ‘60s, but somewhere around 1990, when Gorbachev was given the “prize” and Reagan was shunned, it became a true joke, and I stopped having any respect for their opinion of what was “peaceful” activity and effectiveness.
They sure have been tickling my funny bone in recent years.