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Skriven 2009-10-22 21:24:12 av Lee Lofaso (3:800/432.0)
    Kommentar till text 671 av Tim Richardson (1:123/140)
Ärende: The Well-Deserved Pri 2/
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TR>It was always absurd that Ronald Reagan, whose political project led
TR>the end of the gulag and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and who gambled
TR>his personal standing in the world for a system that would protect
TR>the common ma from annihilation in a nuclear missile attack, could
TR>not win it.

Ronald Reagan could have won the award had he not armed the Contras
in Nicaragua, bombed Libya, invaded Grenada, sent Marines to Beirut,
and armed Saddam Hussein.  Noonan is also mistaken, as usual, as to
which president was in office when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.
That was George H.W. Bush.  Not Ronald Reagan.

TR>But nobody wept over it, and for one reason: because everyone, every
TR>sentient adult who cared to know about such things, knew that the
TR>Nobel Peace Prize is, when awarded to a political figure, a great and
TR>prestigious award given by liberals to liberals. NCNA--no
TR>conservatives need apply. This is the way of the world and so what?
TR>Life isn't for prizes.

Well, it is true that the Nobel Peace Prize committee does not like
to award to prize to warmongers...

TR>Yet even within that context, the giving of the peace prize to
TR>President Obama is absurd.

Only to rightwing nutjobs like Peggy Noonan, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn
Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage...

TR>He doesn't have a body of work;

Yes, he does.  From his days as a community organizer, college
law professor, president of the Harvard Law Review, state senator
in Illinois, U.S. Senator, and as President of the United States.

TR>he's a young man;

So was Teddy Roosevelt when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

TR>he's been president less than nine months.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had never been President of the
United States.  And yet he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Why?
Because he was a great community organizer.  Just like Barack Hussein
Obama.  And yet, even though Barack Hussein Obama has done far more
than the Good Doctor, rightwing nutjobs claim that Obama does not
deserve to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

TR>He hopes to accomplish much, and so far--nine months!--has
TR>accomplished little.

Peggy Noonan, like all other rightwing nutjobs, continues the lie
that Barack Hussein Obama has done little or nothing to deserve having
been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

TR>Is this a life of heroic self-denial, of the sacrifice of self for
TR>something greater, of huge and historic consequence, o sustained
TR>vision? No it's not. Is this a life marked by a vivid and calculab
TR>contribution to the peace of the world? No, it's not.

President Barack Hussein Obama has said so himself, that he is not
a quitter.  In fact, he says he is just getting started.  So get used
to it.  We have not only a President, but a Nobel Laureate and man
of peace working for us, and the world.

TR>This is an award for not being George W. Bush.

George W. Bush was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.
Fortunately, the Nobel Peace Prize committee had sense enough not
to have awarded him the prize, as that would have been truly
embarrassing.  Not only for America and Sweden, but also for the
entire world.

--Lee


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