Comments on: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: OK, He’s A Nice Guy, But … http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/10/11/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-ok-he%e2%80%99s-a-nice-guy-but-%e2%80%a6/ World news, political analysis, and opinion commentary Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Debbie Menonhttp://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/10/11/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-ok-he%e2%80%99s-a-nice-guy-but-%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-1598 Debbie Menon Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:46:34 +0000 http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/?p=2217#comment-1598 Yep! Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama makes a mockery of the entire Nobel Awards Program. The Nobel Awards Institution has been reduced to a political tool which, except for the cash grant is hardly worth making the trip to Oslo or wherever it is the recipients must go to pick up the award. And, unless they are in dire need of the funds, may not be worth the embarrassment of standing next to some of the people they might be expected to stand next to.Well said Andy. Well done. Yep! Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama makes a mockery of the entire Nobel Awards Program. The Nobel Awards Institution has been reduced to a political tool which, except for the cash grant is hardly worth making the trip to Oslo or wherever it is the recipients must go to pick up the award. And, unless they are in dire need of the funds, may not be worth the embarrassment of standing next to some of the people they might be expected to stand next to.

Well said Andy. Well done.

]]> By: Pondererhttp://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/10/11/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-ok-he%e2%80%99s-a-nice-guy-but-%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-1580 Ponderer Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:30:51 +0000 http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/?p=2217#comment-1580 The contradicitions, ironies, paradoxes, or simply double standards, as articulated by Andy can all be understood and tolerated, albeit with loss of some moral/ethical integrity, when we begin to realize that, just like the UN and its abominable Security Council, which Qadafi quite aptly refers to as the 'terror council', the Noble prize rigmarole, is set up by the Westerners to aggrandize the Western culture, the West in general., and when the West shows it barbaric nature, as with America's illegal bloody wars, to ameliorate the perceptions and image of the West. Thus instead of a war crimes tribunal to prosecute, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeldt, and all the rest of the rotten bunch, we have a happy ending a la Hollywood, every one goes home happy and jubilant, even the war criminals- and, oh yes before I forget, the guy who is supposed to cover up he white guys' war crimes gets his Noble. It is a happy happy world, unless you happen to live in Southern Iraq where pulverized Depleted Uranium gurantees you and your children to come down with strange horrific illnesses and defomities. The contradicitions, ironies, paradoxes, or simply double standards, as articulated by Andy can all be understood and tolerated, albeit with loss of some moral/ethical integrity, when we begin to realize that, just like the UN and its abominable Security Council, which Qadafi quite aptly refers to as the ‘terror council’, the Noble prize rigmarole, is set up by the Westerners to aggrandize the Western culture, the West in general., and when the West shows it barbaric nature, as with America’s illegal bloody wars, to ameliorate the perceptions and image of the West. Thus instead of a war crimes tribunal to prosecute, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeldt, and all the rest of the rotten bunch, we have a happy ending a la Hollywood, every one goes home happy and jubilant, even the war criminals- and, oh yes before I forget, the guy who is supposed to cover up he white guys’ war crimes gets his Noble. It is a happy happy world, unless you happen to live in Southern Iraq where pulverized Depleted Uranium gurantees you and your children to come down with strange horrific illnesses and defomities.

]]> By: Outernationalisthttp://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/10/11/obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-ok-he%e2%80%99s-a-nice-guy-but-%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Outernationalist Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:02:53 +0000 http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/?p=2217#comment-1558 I'm sure Alfred Nobel, like so many times before, is again tossing and turning in his grave. What a shame that 'peace' has been bought by the capitalists of the world and now awarded on corporate basis... I’m sure Alfred Nobel, like so many times before, is again tossing and turning in his grave. What a shame that ‘peace’ has been bought by the capitalists of the world and now awarded on corporate basis…

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