Posted by John Keller
We have American soldiers dying in Afghanistan, bereft of top leadership as President Barack Obama dithers day after day. We have Iran speeding toward developing nuclear weapons as Obama sits on his hands. We have terrorists apprehended in war zones basking on Caribbean beaches instead of in cells in Guantanamo Bay.
... and for this Obama gets handed the Nobel Peace Prize. Why, you might ask? For "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Obama joins other Nobel Prize winners, who include climate change, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, and Yasser Arafat -- leading lights, all.
Evidently he made these worthy contributions for mankind within 11 days of taking office last Jan. 20., too, because the deadline for Nobel Peace Prize nominations was on Feb. 1.
Barack Obama's winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a travesty and an outrage -- as if that even needed to be said. Countless others have done more to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples than a one-term U.S. Senator and career "community organizer" who had been president of the United States for less than two weeks.
The the Norwegian Nobel Committee shouldn't be just be ashamed. It should be disbanded.
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Well said. Any illusion of nobility surrouding the Nobel Peace Prize is now completely gone.
ReplyDeleteWell said. The Nobel Peace Prize obviously has nothing to do with peace or honor, just politics.
ReplyDeleteI believe this award is for recognition that bullying the world is not pursuing peace, the bush years were aweful for everyone including Americans. Illegal spying on US citizens, secret energy meetings where cheney and the other thieves planned the theft of Enron retirement money and shut down the California electric grid, I for one see this as a sigh of relief of the world that perhaps not all Americans are crazy. Why people like you want to police the world and why you think you are empowered to is beyond comprehension. Also why is it most of the loudest and toughest war hawks are people who NEVER served. Cheney had 5 deferments, did rush limbaugh serve? How about palin?
ReplyDeleteMr. Cooley,
ReplyDeleteYou seemed confused about the topic here. It is about Mr. Obama receiving what used to be an esteemed award for promoting peace. What peace did he promote in his first 10 days in office? Giving the prize to Obama for only his political philosophy says nothing about other presidents and their policies. It only indicates that the prize is no longer about people doing something about peace, only about who the Norwegians sympathize with. And that's not really been a secret.