Comments on: Why Obama? Why Now? For What?

By: Joe Markowitz

Joe Markowitz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:17:16 +0000

It appears to me that most of the people criticizing the Nobel Prize Committe for awarding the Peace prize to Barack Obama are people who don’t really buy into the whole concept of peace. These are people–mainly on the right but also on the left–who view the world in dialectical terms, and to whom it is anathema to try to find common ground with one’s adversaries. They have never understood what Barack Obama has been talking about for more than two years, when he says he wants to achieve a new kind of politics, and when he says he wants to unify America rather than seek to divide it. To the extent they have understood what Obama has been talking about, they have never agreed with it.

By: BlueDogDemocrat

BlueDogDemocrat — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:42:52 +0000

It’s become a prize for Liberals by Liberals. No Conservative I can think of has ever won, nor those of great fame (Ghandi/MLK) who sacraficed themselves for peace. Instead a bunch of faux peaceniks like Carter, Obama, Arafat, Al Gore etc. have won the prize.

Not Obamba’s fault here, the Nobel Committee has denigrated itself …

By: EireDuck

EireDuck — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:51:11 +0000

I still think it’s way too early. By this logic, we’d have to award Bush something for finding WMD’s, just because he said he would!

Look at where this precedent would lead us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVDWYAikpYo

By: Jules Crittenden » What A Nobel Laureate!

Jules Crittenden » What A Nobel Laureate! — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:28:24 +0000

[...] As long as Comments from Left Field and I are in the middle of this lovefest, more props for more clarity of thought in channeling TPM channeling Ana Marie Cox. It’s the Anyone-but-George-Bush Prize. [...]