give me a break.so what's the problem? if you think it is not deserved for whatever is ''not enough peace'' wrought thus far, then perhaps this preemptive prize is a litmus on the desperation out there. and why would there be any desperation for someone to lead us out of this hell the world fell into while the cheney-bushy capitalists were all smugsmirky about saving the oil in iraq?
about saving the oil in iraq? and, maybe the competition wasn't so tough. only 172 peace prize nominees this year, including an afghan activist, a colombian legislator, three chinese dissidents, and some 33 do-gooding organizations. no gandhi. well.
only 172 peace prize nominees this year, including an afghan activist, a colombian legislator, three chinese dissidents, and some 33 do-gooding organizations. no gandhi. well. so you think the committee didn't have a lot to choose from and had to get a little creative? or something. whatzit to ya? eh?
this is all of a sudden a reason for throwing up your hands, america? you had somebody ELSE you couldn't believe DIDN'T get this award? what do you know from no-bell?
from no-bell? it's for sure the critics don't need your help. no sir. those foxes are so well brushed, so well attended, so attuned to drivel and amplified beyond their ability to articulate thought that they only mouth the requisite number of vowels and consonants to fill the hours.
the requisite number of vowels and consonants to fill the hours. no doubt, even as we whipped out this observation the foxes had their aprons on at the hate mill, grinding away on barack's nobel, sifting a fine flour of racist commentary for the weekend's breakfast talk shows. it seems people will eat any kind of biscuit served up these days.
and that right there is far more worthy of scrutiny.
scrutiny.
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Yeah, I'm no fan of bashing, of course, but like a lot of folks, I was surprised by the announcement of Obama's win and immediately skeptical of the committee's wisdom in granting the Peace Prize to our President. And yet, feeling quite certain that I didn't know near-eee-damn-nuff about the other nominees or the parameters of the Prize to justify my scoffing, I went googling.
In very short order, I discovered that while the other nominees did some phenomenal and inspiring things, their activities and achievements were almost entirely limited to their home countries or in SOME cases a bordering state. And since the Peace prize is supposed to be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses," I had to agree that Obama was the most deserving of this year's nominees. That is to say, you get the prize for helping promote understanding and cooperation *between* countries-- not just for doing good work within your own territory or settling a vicious dispute with your next-door neighbor. You get the prize for making the boiling pots cease their foaming, getting them to chill them the bleep out or at least simmer down for long enough to stop the violins and visualize whirled peas... And in that respect, Obama's got the cred where the others don't. Y'gotta admit, for all his faults, Barack most definitely made the rest of the world feel safer just by not being George Bush.
I'll tell ya what, tho. He'd better do something *really* good with that prize money, gawd-dangit. None of this 'squandering the surplus' nonsense... been there, done that!
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