Friday, October 9, 2009
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Holy cow! It looks like the Nobel Peace Prize selection committee has jumped on the Obama Love Train! What on earth? What peace deal did he broker? What wall did he have torn down, what terrorist organization did he shake hands with for peace, which countries has he convinced they don't need to produce Nulcear weapon producing facilities? Am I missing something here? How did they over look President Reagan back in his time for tearing down the wall helping to end the cold war, and decide that President Obama has done more than he? The committee said they chose him because he has set the tone for peace and hope for the future....crimany. How many other very worthy, hard working nominees have done that and have been doing that for much longer than he? I wish I could be supportive on this one, but I think this was a giant stretch.
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Yet more interesting is that the deadline for nominations were due last February. He had only been in office for two weeks when his nomination was submitted.
I agree with Teresa. I am stunned! I can understand Carter getting the prize in 2002. Although his efforts toward Mideast peace are mostly misguided, you can't deny that Carter didn't try.
Arafat also received the Nobel prize in 1994. Arafat was a terrorist and an embezzling scoundrel, yet he was an active player in the Middle East, so there was a sliver of a reason for Arafat to receive the prize.
Obama has done absolutely nothing yet, nothing during his tenure in the Senate, and nothing during his short presidency. It is now very clear that the Nobel Peace Prize is based on ones politics, not ones contributions to peace.
We are stunned too. I had done nothing to deserve it.
Obama is like the most popular kid in school who gets voted for most popular student of the class, the king of the prom, and president of the student council. Everyone wants to be his friend, sign his yearbook and have him sign theirs. He is naturally chosen to give the student speech at graduation. His picture appears everywhere in the yearbook. All the quiet girls secretly have a crush on him. He is selected as the guy most likely to succeed. He is the quintessential popular guy who wins everything with little or no effort. Then when he graduates, no one hears about him again. He disappears into society and finds that society operates on merit rather than accolades. Ok, maybe the analogy has gone to far.
I almost feel embarrassed for Obama. He knows he didn't earn it. He said as much himself. I'm pondering the idea that perhaps he could gain a ton of political capital by refusing the prize, but I doubt his ego would allow him to even consider the thought.
I was telling Leonardo the same thing yesterday, that it would be very admireable for him to refuse the prize and ask them to award it to one of the other nominees that are far more deserving. I think it would gain him greater respect, and that would be the right thing to do. His accepting it shows his true character. And your analagy is spot on....accept he probably won't go off into the unforgotten oblivian when he is done with his job, because he is a President. He'll still go down in historic history, and they'll probably honor him with a Holiday in his name, not to mention a library or two!
Guy Stevenson wrote the following on facebook today. It gave me a good laugh.
"Breaking news, President Obama just won American Idol 2010! He says he plans on taking voice lessons now!"
LOL
I first heard it on the radio while listening to some jokester shock jock. I thought it was a joke and my opinion hasn't changed since.
I assume he will accept it and not turn it away, not due the award itself which isn't much...a ribbon and medal. Instead it comes with, if I am not mistaken, over a quarter million dollars in cash. Not to mention the monitary value it puts into ones pockets as part of a resume for future speaking engagements and book deals. I think he could care less about the actual original purpose of the award.
He is going to accept it. I am disappointed. Ok then, maybe he should take the money they award him and dontate it to charity. I still have hope that he'll do the right thing.
Oh Teresa....The audasity of hope!
Ha, ha....you're funny Kim! I didn't read it did you?
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