Text 12842, 61 rader
Skriven 2014-03-16 18:25:20 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
  Kommentar till text 12829 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
Ärende: Re: Kyoto anyone?
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Ross,
 
RC>WD> Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize over this and that decision isn't
RC>WD> exactly made by people "who aren't smart enough to look it up for
RC>WD> themselves!"
 
RC> "Those people" also gave Obama the prize before he actually had done
RC> anything, in fact they gave him the prize based on his campaign
RC> promises..
 
While I concur it was odd to be awarded a Peace Prize at the beginning of a
Presidency rather than at the end or after, you Americans are an odd breed.
 
Every other country would be delighted if and when it's democratically elected
leader would be considered the shining beacon of promoting world peace.
 
Except in the US. Now there's a trend:
 
American recipient ! Orientation !  US reaction         !     World reaction
-------------------+-------------+----------------------+----------------
Theodore Roosevelt ! Republican  ! Mostly Positive      ! Mostly positive
Woodrow Wilson     ! Democrat    ! Republicans objected ! Mostly positive
Frank B. Kellog    ! Republican  ! Mostly positive      ! Positive
Jane Adams         ! Republican  ! Positive             ! Positive
Cordell Hull       ! Democrat    ! Republican rejection ! Mostly positive
Emily G. Balch     ! None        ! Positive             ! Mostly positive
John R. Moth       ! None        ! Positive             ! Mostly positive
Ralph Bunche       ! None        ! Positive             ! Mostly positive
George C. Marshall ! None        ! Positive             ! Positive
Linus Pauling      ! None        ! Positive             ! Positive
Martin Luther King ! Democrat    ! Republican rejection ! Positive
Norman Borlaugh    ! None        ! Positive             ! Positive
Henry Kissinger    ! Republican  ! Positive             ! Disputed
Jimmy Carter       ! Democrat    ! Republican rejection ! Positive
Barack Obama       ! Democrat    ! Republican rejection ! Hesitant positive
 
 
The red thread in the US seems to be that recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize
meet positive approval, unless they're from Democrat origin. Then Republicans
seem a need to object.
 
At times it is sickening how in the American society everything is reduced to
this game, or whether the best thing ever to arrive for the average American
re: healthcare must be considered unconstitutional.
 
In November I was asked in Montana if Belgium had socialized medicine. I said
"yes".
 
Reaction "We'll I'm against it". When I asked "Why?" the explanation was
"Because it is unconstitutional" ... obviously a Republican.
 
The whole population of such a grand nation polarized around
"constitutionality" and religion. I can't understand it with some of the
grandest minds of all time among the founding fathers.
 
Take care,
 
 \%/@rd

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