The exact requirements and process for selecting a Nobel Peace Prize laureate can be vague and secretive. But we think we've cracked the code for 2009 winner and favorite Chicago president of all time Barack Obama. Way to go B!
9. He likes Europe and tries to have reasons for his jaunts across the pond.
8. Cuz he's pretty and he talks good too.
7. He's a lover, not a fighter. Except for that one time with the light saber.
6. He doesn't let a little thing like results get in his way.
5. He wanted to prove the audacity of hope.
4. Prospects for a Chicago 2020 Olympics doesn't seem as far-fetched, now do they?
3. Sales of his Chia pet and other branded merchandise needed a boost.
2. He's a Sox fan.
1. Remember Martti Ahtisaari, who won it last year?! Exactly. The committee got the memo.
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people are so pissed about this, and I'm a little perplexed as well, but I want to hear from Chicagoans on who they think it should have been given to instead of Obama, just out of curiosity.
Clever. Well done, Fernando. That rare correction from The Onion should be coming soon.
The reason he won is simple the commite are astolagers and he being a leo the prediction is one day he will do somthing speacial HONEST
nice post, fernando --
if anyone wants to see how you should really respond to an award you don't deserve, click here:
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/district-299/2009/10/politicians-and-appointees-are-used.html
arne duncan showed us how it's done almost exactly a year ago.
/ alexander