Bush's chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this Friday...

[Auggie27]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 1:37pm

...are being listed as "10,000 to 1." So says CNN. So, is is Bono? Bob Geldof? Valarie Plame? Cindy Sheehan? Suggestions?

Updated On: 10/5/05 at 01:37 PM

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 1:53pm

Oh, come on now. G Dub has done some good things, like... Um. Well, I'm sure he's had some opportunities to kick puppies, but didn't.

[zzannahk]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 2:10pm

the atlantic monthly lists:

11:4 Viktor Yushchenko. The new Ukrainian president embraced the West and quelled anti-Russian sentiments. He was also badly disfigured by poison. The $1.3 million that accompanies the prize could buy a lot of ointment.

7:1 Bono. He would be the first entertainer to win the award. His credentials include recording a song to benefit tsunami victims. And you think his ego is big now.

14:1 Colin Powell. The former secretary of state was nominated for his help in trying to end the civil war in Sudan. But what about Iraq?

16:1 Bob Geldof. Is Geldof being considered because he organized Live Aid and Live 8, or because he reunited Roger Waters with Pink Floyd?

20:1 Ravi Shankar. The Indian musician influenced the Beatles and sired the pop singer Norah Jones, but he's not known for activism. Close, but no sitar.

25:1 Hugo Chavez. It's a bet Pat Robertson wouldn't take; others seem to agree. Long odds on the beret-wearing, oil-hoarding Venezuelan president.

33:1 Pope John Paul II. Rules forbid nominating the deceased, but the pope passed away just after the Nobel deadline. There's been only one posthumous winner: the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld, in 1961.

250:1 Tony Blair and George Bush. Neither one stands an earthly chance of winning a peace prize during wartime.

Updated On: 10/5/05 at 02:10 PM

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 2:19pm

Wow. The fact that a rock singer has a better chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize than the President of the United States speaks volumes on our current administration, no?

[Forester]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 2:21pm

"16:1 Bob Geldof. Is Geldof being considered because he organized Live Aid and Live 8, or because he reunited Roger Waters with Pink Floyd?"

LOL. The peace negotiation btw Floyd and Water should give him some kind of award. That was no easy task.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 2:24pm

What are Joe Brooks' chances?

[Plum]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 2:24pm

Of that list, I'm going to go with Yuschenko, too. Then again, if Yasser *%&$^ Arafat can get the prize, anything can happen.

[keggss23]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 2:27pm

"7:1 Bono. He would be the first entertainer to win the award. His credentials include recording a song to benefit tsunami victims. And you think his ego is big now."

Hahahaha! I can't imagine his ego getting any bigger.

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 2:59pm

Whoa....would Cindy Sheehan winning piss all those repubs off or what She won't of course but i get a little chubby when I picture Charles Laughton-I mean Karl Rove's face...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 10:22pm

Ego's not a bad thing when you can back it up, zannahk.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 10:24pm

I think I'll put $5 on Bush.

It will feel so good to lose that money as the indictments come down.

[zzannahk]

Posted: 10/5/05 at 11:33pm

just sharing from the atlantic monthly

which always makes me think of "the last 5 years"