Obama effect boosts Nobel Peace Prize nominations

The Obama Effect ?
WTF is next ?
Now we have to be subject to hearing the keepers of the Nobel peace Prize verbally dropping to their Knees for Obama , why ? who the hell Knows .
as if Obama is so Great now , that a flood of people are now eligible to get the Peace prize , all because of the one's Vast Greatness .
I'm feeling very ill at the moment , The thought that maybe Sean Penn or Danny Glover will be the Next recipients of the Tug and rub club honors from Oslo .



(Reuters) - A record 237 people and organizations have been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, with interest boosted by last year's award to President Barack Obama, organizers said on Wednesday.

The world's media focused on the Peace Prize after Obama was the unexpected choice for what some see as the world's highest accolade, although he had been in office for just nine months and critics said he had only spelt out visions of peace.

"This is the highest number of nominations ... last year's prize to Barack Obama has further enhanced interest in the prize," Geir Lundestad, head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, told Reuters.

"There are many different roads to peace and there are many different types of nominations ... (including) humanitarian organizations, environmental organizations, all kinds of statesmen and organizations that work for disarmament," he said.

Nominations have closed for 2010 and the total, which includes 38 organizations, is the highest since last year, when 205 contenders were considered by the secretive Norwegian Nobel Committee. The long-term trend shows the number of nominations is growing, Lundestad said.

This year's candidates include Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Chinese dissidents such as Liu Xiaobo, the Russian human rights group Memorial and its founder Svetlana Gannushkina, and the International Space Station programme.