Posted on 10/09/2014 12:26:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
Nobel Prizes continue to be announced this week, and according to a new Rasmussen poll, Americans are both skeptical about how winners are chosen and continue to question President Obama’s Peace Prize win back in 2009.
Rasmussen Reports has the details:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% of American Adults think politics play a role in the awarding of Nobel Prizes. Just 17% disagree, but 30% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Fifty-five percent (55%) of adults say that, six years into his presidency, President Obama still does not deserve the prize that he won in 2009. Twenty-six percent (26%) think he still deserves the prize. Another 18% are not sure.
The number who think politics play a role is up slightly from 51% last year. In 2009, the year President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, belief that politics played a role in the awarding of the prizes climbed into the high 50s. In 2008, only 40% felt that way.Just 35% of Americans believethe Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award a person can win. Thirty-seven percent (37%) disagree, while another 27% are not sure.
That’s a slightly less positive view of the prize than adults expressed last year, but is generally in line with previous years.
The Nobel Peace Prize is an award that Mother Teresa, Yasser Arafat, and Barack Obama have won, but Gandhi never did, so Americans have every right to be both confused and skeptical about the role of politics in decision making. The committee ultimately has its reasons, however, and if one is truly interested in understanding more about how the process works, Jay Nordlinger’s “Peace, They Say” is a great place to start.
The committee will announce this year's winner of the Peace Prize on Friday.
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
You said it
Isn’t that the truth.
Twenty-six percent (26%) think he still deserves the prize. Another 18% are not sure.
If the shooting ever starts hopefully these people will be hiding under their beds.
Five years later, he still isn't GWB, so he deserves it now as much as he ever di. But he should have had to share the prize with the other 7 billion inhabitants of the planet who are also not GWB.
Is that why we've never seen any pictures of Moochelle pregnant? Was she really a middle linebacker for the Oregon State Beavers back in 1982?
HF
I think they were just trying to pander to the (then newly elected) President. Nothing short of blatant political manipulation.
Anyone who thinks Obama deserves a peace prize probaby thinks Bernie Madoff deserves a fiduciary prize.
More and more people consider the so-called peace prize a bad joke, so maybe he did deserve it.
The Piece of Crap prize...maybe.
Exactly
He’s bombed more countries than George Bush so why didn’t they give #43 the prize?
Yeah why not?
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