Friday, October 9, 2009

Huh/

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.peace.prize/index.html

7 comments:

Schteveo said...

SRK,
this is the proof that the world is in sorrier shape than we thought. This Mother Fucker may in fact be the Antichrist. I know that's not exactly your belief system, but...

Alfred Nobel must be boring a hole to China as he spins in his grave!

Hey, how does this make the family of Martin Luther King Jr, or Ghandi feel?

Anonymous said...

Did you catch the timeline:

The deadline for nominations must be postmarked by February 1 each year. Obama was inaugurated on January 20.

srk said...

yes I did

Spider said...

Does anyone actually think that "prize" was ever anything but a political statement?

Schteveo said...

Yes,
there was a time when it wasn't (leftist) political. Hell it went to Teddy Roosevelt and Elihu Root. Neither of whom was a darling of the left, then or now.

Woodrow Wilson won for starting the League of Nations. Again, not a favorite topic of the left.

Mott, who started the YMCA won. It says Christian right in his bio, and his works, that'd never pass muster now.

But the closer you come this way in history, it does get leftist, but so does everything else.

Anonymous said...

"Some analysts have speculated that the prize could give Obama additional clout as he forms a strategy for the war in Afghanistan and attempts to engage Iran and North Korea."

Does anyone actually think it will make a difference to Iran, North Korea, Arabs, etc. that someone has a Nobel Peace Prize. How many people trying to get the Arab/Isreali conflict settled have received Nobel Peace Prizes in the past?

The world is sure messed up. So kids, the moral of the story here is just say nice things and do nothing and you will get ahead. Remember when they ask you how you would change the world to include-"I want to work for world peace!".

CFC

Anonymous said...

But remember, you must have a teleprompter.