Did Obama deserve Nobel Peace prize?
By Robert M. Collinsworth
Even the most ardent admirers of President Obama, if they were honest, would have to admit to being a bit stunned at his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. It certainly appears that this award is probably being used as the carrot portion of the old “carrot and stick” methodology. When it is awarded to people like Yasser Arafat, Al Gore and President Obama, the high esteem with which this award was held becomes unjustified.
Arafat both supported and promoted terrorism. Based on the testimony of a considerable number of top scientists, Gore was and is viewed by many as a con man who has invested a great deal of money into schemes to sell carbon credits while he burns carbon at a rate that far exceeds the amount of carbon created by the average American. President Obama has accomplished absolutely nothing to-date, except to spend American taxpayer dollars at a rate never before seen in our country. The United States has been mired in an economic morass including ever-growing unemployment for a year now, and Obama has spent his time promoting projects that demand even more spending without even the most reasonable effort to help create the jobs the United States needs so badly. One wonders what the committee who decides who the awards will be given to was thinking. For example, the next baby to be born in the world could easily do more than President Obama has done to promote peace and understanding in the world. So why not give the award to that baby based on its potential for positive and peaceful change in the world. This award has become little more than a political lever of sorts that most reasonable individuals have come to view as an insult to past award winners who really deserved it. If one looked back at the individuals these particular award winners competed against and the corresponding accomplishments of those individuals, the fact that this award is being inappropriately given becomes glaringly obvious. All I can say at this point is: “Someone really should explain what this award is supposed to represent, to the Nobel Peace Prize award committee.” With so many deserving past winners, it would be a real shame to see this award and what it stands for continue down its current path toward becoming a meaningless pawn in the hands of world-wide power-brokers.
Posted by Newsroom on Oct 14th, 2009 and filed under Point of View. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Your analysis is on-target. The Nobel has become a complete joke. The sad thing is all the good people (meaning Nobel winners of by-gone years) who actually made enormous contributions to good causes, and who now have the bad connotations of the Nobel on their names. Al Gore won the Nobel for putting together a doomsday power-point presentation which has been seriously disputed by many reputable scientists. Obama won the Nobel for intentions.
It has become more meaningful to watch the Ig Noble Awards.