Haddock,  good to see you here.  BTW, here's from the nobelprize.org: "Mahatma Gandhi was nominated in 5 different years, first in 1937 and lastly in 1948, the year he was assassinated. Although Gandhi was not awarded the Prize (a posthumous award is not allowed by the statutes), no Laureate was named for 1948 either." (Source: http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/database.html).

For me, even though I am a stauch supporter of the democrats and always have been, Gore just doesn't fit my perception of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.  See my above post where Larry King balsted him for his energy bill.  All Gore did was publicize the research already in place by the pioneers such as Reg Morrison and the sceintists who showed concrete proof in 2005 in regards to humans causing Global Warming.  They, not Gore derserve it more for enviromntal issues.  He is being crowned for research which was someone elses!!  This in my mind is not what the Nobel should be about...Atleast the guys in the Nobel economics committee have been doing a better jobin their awards.