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Any opinions on Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize?
My current local nest board is ripping him to shreds...just curious how Chicagoans feel!
Re: Any opinions on Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize?
I'm not smart enough to have an opinion but all my poli-sci friends are mad about it. The say "the credibility of the award has been destroyed in one fell swoop" and "They used to give it to people who had worked selflessly for decades. Now it has become political"
(Cut and pasted from a group e-mail.)
This is one of those things where all I know is how little I know, so
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I'm with ya, Twink...just wanted insight other than that from my very red local nest board.
And Erin, I would like to request a blog post outta you!
In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."
That said, I am still considering if he should be given the award. I think it might have been more prudent to give the prize once the troops have been removed.
Did you see what I had posted on my FB the other day about fast food and how it looks so great in the picture and IRL it looks nasty? I'd love to hear your thoughts on that!
The award may be a bit premature, but I believe they awarded it to him for two reasons, 1. he galvanized the international community to support for the US in our practicies and policies. its not so much that the international political community 'didn't like' bush and ' does like' obama, but that the perspective that the US did not play by the very rules we helped to create. i.e, the geneva convention, among other international wartime practice treaties was the prevalant line of thought.
2. the nobel commitee was trying to influence policy by making that award. i.e. he's not only a president, but also a nobel prize winner.
3. his very exsistence is significant. Considering our countries difficult ( to put it mildly) racial history, our president is in essence a realization of an imense amount of healing and change in social thought and philosophy.