tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post7785163346005412568..comments2023-10-02T16:29:40.087+01:00Comments on neo-resistance: Obama's Nobel Prize? Pros & ConsNajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-2410298862429655492009-10-11T19:22:59.877+01:002009-10-11T19:22:59.877+01:00I think the committee really didn't do a very ...I think the committee really didn't do a very good service for Mr. Obama, because awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize, which many people quite fairly call undeserved, is just going to make more enemies of his and to establish an opinion of most people to be not so much in his favour. Although it's not Obama's fault. I'm really considering an idea that it was all a well-thought luxury Toronto homeshttp://ellidavis.com/toronto/luxury-homes/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-57134749707969875612009-10-10T12:31:09.570+01:002009-10-10T12:31:09.570+01:00Jan:
The nobel comitee did the same thing when the...Jan:<br /><b>The nobel comitee did the same thing when they gave the price to Arafat and Rabin.</b><br /><br />oh then this is not very reassuring :)Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-30925329914081064702009-10-10T10:46:29.986+01:002009-10-10T10:46:29.986+01:00It's a good decision to give Obama the price. ...It's a good decision to give Obama the price. Of course you both are right that they're many people in the world who have done more so far for freedom and peace and deserve it more. But the nobelprice is not so much for having achieved something. That would mean that peace is achieved and nothing would be left to do. When Shirin Ebadi got it, it doesn't say: "You have done enoughJannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-16956085272587916182009-10-10T00:43:25.707+01:002009-10-10T00:43:25.707+01:00Re Obama's Nobel - I hope it makes him feel he...Re Obama's Nobel - I hope it makes him feel he now has to PROVE he deserves it! ;-) <br /><br />Let's also remember that as a PEACE prize its original purpose was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Background" rel="nofollow">this:</a><br /><br />"According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or Parvatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07300929091932895146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-79008046879854421152009-10-09T19:03:52.585+01:002009-10-09T19:03:52.585+01:00Ped if you saw him give his speech, he really play...Ped if you saw him give his speech, he really played it as a "yah, whatever were you thinkin'"<br /><br />Now I suggest you and I share the peace prize next year. I am going to invest my share in some tobacco or gun manufacturer lol!<br /><br />For the life of me, weapon's development sucks--BUT it is thanks to these arms R&Ds that we have <br />1) internet<br />2) wi-fi<br Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-8779881232961323332009-10-09T18:48:08.641+01:002009-10-09T18:48:08.641+01:00In all honesty, I think you've actually done m...In all honesty, I think you've <i>actually</i> done more for peace in the world than Obama. So if he got it this year, it should go to you next year.Pedestrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645015502498086056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-11835824911991341462009-10-09T18:43:29.018+01:002009-10-09T18:43:29.018+01:00I'm not going to argue your points about the m...I'm not going to argue your points about the merits of his policies for Americans - because even if if is that way, the Nobel peace price is not supposed to be given towards these aims. <br /><br />Never mind that it has been cheapened many times before, but it's supposed to go to people who have taken concrete <b>actions</b> towards peace - in the world. And for the likes of me I can'Pedestrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645015502498086056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-1925671614485445862009-10-09T18:25:43.941+01:002009-10-09T18:25:43.941+01:00What has he done? Nothing; but breaking some taboo...What has he done? Nothing; but breaking some taboos in people's heads is NOT an insignificant deed!<br /><br />I am not one to be dazzled by the race politics and etc; but i think his idealistic blabbers and the "blind" and childish followers it produces will lead to a better ideological landscape in the future than one propagated by the "survival of the fittest" mantra.<Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-1900907465222482892009-10-09T18:14:58.136+01:002009-10-09T18:14:58.136+01:00I updated the post with a picture to make my post ...I updated the post with a picture to make my post more clear :)Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-747110355516843442009-10-09T18:14:23.568+01:002009-10-09T18:14:23.568+01:00LOL ...
Naj, what I don't like is that Obama S...LOL ...<br />Naj, what I don't like is that Obama SOUNDS like an idealist - but then ACTS like a center-to-right leaning pragmatist. <br /><br />And too many kids my age are worked up with his talk-and-no-walk syndrome. Here's an American friend just half an hour ago: "the committee is appreciating his persistence, faithfulness to his own dreams which brought a powerfull message of Pedestrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645015502498086056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-30948808296821245872009-10-09T18:08:04.008+01:002009-10-09T18:08:04.008+01:00I listened to John Pilger; and all that it tells m...I listened to John Pilger; and all that it tells me is that Obama is a "compromising" pragmatist who is not as radical as people expect/believe him to be.<br /><br />John pilger launches the typical leftist complaints and Obama acts like a typical pragamtist--i thought your generation loves this kind of dola-dola shotor savari ;)Najhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728668942925956610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4378687839405064553.post-41782095714453672472009-10-09T17:55:21.086+01:002009-10-09T17:55:21.086+01:00Naj, I don't like Obama at all. And I think he...Naj, I don't like Obama at all. And I think he's dangerous, b/c he's so eloquent.<br /><br />I'm with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C62KAmMzu0E" rel="nofollow">John Pilger</a> and Chris Hedges on this one. Obama is a perfect brand and has an ocean of buyers right now. <br /><br />He scares me precisely because he's so good at selling himself.Pedestrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645015502498086056noreply@blogger.com