Letters: Nobel Prize seems like political ploy

The Nobel Peace Prize usually makes everybody proud. But somehow I feel that the award given to President Obama looks like a clear intention to influence his decision-making process in the war on terror.

[Yo Se]

"Nobel Prize seems like political ploy...."

"For the first time, I agree with Obama. He stated that he didn't deserve the Nobel prize. He has done nothing in nine months to warrant such an honor...."

Ya THINK??? He also won the Heisman Trophy after watching a college football game!!!!

[Mims]

Ruidoso is pretty far west Mims. Oh yeah. I forget. You own property on the west side while you lollygag in Ruidoso for kicks. You rich guys are too much.

[Lou]

Yo Se wrote:

"Nobel Prize seems like political ploy...."
"For the first time, I agree with Obama. He stated that he didn't deserve the Nobel prize. He has done nothing in nine months to warrant such an honor...."
Ya THINK??? He also won the Heisman Trophy after watching a college football game!!!!

Don't forget that he was also nominated for the Nobel in Chemistry for mixing vodka and Red Bull on Air Force One.

[Alonzo]

That's why I voted for Holguin. He tells it like it is. It must really hurt to hear the truth if you live on the Westside or Ruidoso. He just said what people in other parts town already think.

[Thanks GW]

Again, the United States is reminded of how terribly the rest of the world viewed our previous President - our great Texas Hero George W. So pleased is the world that they would give a Nobel Prize to the President to follow, just with the hope that he could clean up the World Mess Created by our Texas Hero.

When you think about it, the day George W. left office, absolutely everything was broken - everything. A large society requires systems that function in order to survive. Every system in our country was and is broken thanks to George W. It takes years to bring a system back into balance but for George W., it only took months to destroy.

If I was voting on the Nobel Prize, I also would vote for the hope that America had finally come to its senses and reward it for such.

[Gimme a break II]

I'm happy you're not voting on the Nobel Peace Prize. The Prize should remain ensconced well and be given to those that have accomplished or are acitvely pursuing the furtherance of peace. The current recipient does not meet the requirement. According to Wikipedia, "unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which recognize completed scientific or literary accomplishment, the Nobel Peace Prize may be awarded to persons or organizations that are in the process of resolving a conflict or creating peace." I don't think that two current wars and a reluctance to commit troops to end one war qualify the current recipient. His award is in anticipation of a pie-in-the-sky scenario. I don't buy it.

[ggsamj]

To paraphrase our President during an occasion when he attempted to mediate peace (Cambridge Police vs Harvard Prof buddy): "I don't know all the facts....but I think the Nobel Prize Committee acted stupidly."

[Second-degree Fresh]

Nobel Prizes aren't awarded out of spite. Or at least shouldn't be... the committee is doing a poor job of hiding that of late. It'd be like giving Kruszchev the peace prize because he wasn't Stalin. A reward for doing nothing but being someone else.

[Alabama]

The ones who so against someone getting the prize, what have you done to GET the Nobel prize, I don't think whinning is a art form

[Get Over It]

Seriously. What's done is done. Our President did not actively seek this award, and only accepted it as a call to further diverge from the horrendous policies of the previous administration. I think that this award was given by the committee as much more of a middle finger to G.W. than it was in recognition of anything that our current President has done (not that he hasn't done anything, like many of you seem to think). If you really have that much of a problem with this, then you have nobody but W to blame for it. I, for one, join the committee's sentiment with a large middle finger of my own for G.W.

[ggsamj]

Get Over It wrote:

Seriously. What's done is done. Our President did not actively seek this award, and only accepted it as a call to further diverge from the horrendous policies of the previous administration. I think that this award was given by the committee as much more of a middle finger to G.W. than it was in recognition of anything that our current President has done (not that he hasn't done anything, like many of you seem to think). If you really have that much of a problem with this, then you have nobody but W to blame for it. I, for one, join the committee's sentiment with a large middle finger of my own for G.W.

Get over it...seriously. And we should be concerned about 5 Norwegians on an elite committee who have never lifted a finger to help anyone but themselves and promote their ivory tower politics. You and they can hate George Bush all you want and for the rest of your life. The campaign is over, Obama is President, and it is time for him to get to work and make his mark. Whining on about GB is just that, whining and excuse making. The Nobel committee has done nothing by making this award but further diminish it's credibility as it did when it awarded a prize to Arafat. I think President Obama would have been grateful not to have it bestowed. But at least it provided all the GB haters another opportunity to whine on.

[PEACEMAN]

War is Big Business.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [Smedley Butler, Major General, United States Marine Corps [Retired], awarded two congressional medals of honor and the distinguished service medal.]

Hardly any squeaks, squeals, or squawks were made when George W. Bush---The Liar-Decider---Pre-Emptively bombed Iraq based on false and fabricated propaganda [that Bush and his minions constantly "catapulted"], nor was there any noise when Bush awadred Congressional Medals to his dpgs.

Granted, Barack Obama hasn't brought peace and prosperity (yet) to America or the World...but WHO could have, after 8 long years of corruption, lies, and bankrupting the country and the ecosystem.

So, the Nobel Prize was given, I believe, on the basis of the enormous effect that Barack Obama's vision and words have had on the world which George W. Bush and cabal had poisoned and decimated for 8 years.

September 11 was allowed to happen on Bush & Cabal's WATCH...warnings of this attack were ignored by Bush.

Don't blame it on the rain or cards.

The country wasn't too safe prior to 9-11, and some believers think that the attack was some kind of false-flag operation to ENABLE Bush & Cabal to do what they did.

Obama is trying to undo, turn around, and rectify what the Bush gang (O.K. I meant Cabal) did to our nation and the world.

[PEACEMAN]

Thanks GW wrote:

Again, the United States is reminded of how terribly the rest of the world viewed our previous President - our great Texas Hero George W. So pleased is the world that they would give a Nobel Prize to the President to follow, just with the hope that he could clean up the World Mess Created by our Texas Hero.
When you think about it, the day George W. left office, absolutely everything was broken - everything. A large society requires systems that function in order to survive. Every system in our country was and is broken thanks to George W. It takes years to bring a system back into balance but for George W., it only took months to destroy.
If I was voting on the Nobel Prize, I also would vote for the hope that America had finally come to its senses and reward it for such.

Right on![I hadn't read your comment until after I posted mine.]

[PEACEMAN]

I had better correct my spelling errors before the Right-Wingers pounce on me:

"awadred" should be awarded

"dpgs" should be dogs.

"...but WHO could have, after 8 long years of corruption, lies, and bankrupting the country and the ecosystem?" should have had a question mark.

Any other grammatical errors should be forwarded to the Editors.

Thank you.

[PEACEMAN]

ggsamj wrote:

<quoted text>Get over it...seriously. And we should be concerned about 5 Norwegians on an elite committee who have never lifted a finger to help anyone but themselves and promote their ivory tower politics. You and they can hate George Bush all you want and for the rest of your life. The campaign is over, Obama is President, and it is time for him to get to work and make his mark. Whining on about GB is just that, whining and excuse making. The Nobel committee has done nothing by making this award but further diminish it's credibility as it did when it awarded a prize to Arafat. I think President Obama would have been grateful not to have it bestowed. But at least it provided all the GB haters another opportunity to whine on.

History will whine on long after we are gone. Bush is a stain and tragic travesty. His disgrace will live on long after he is buried, and centuries will not erase would he did to this nation and Iraq.

Not enough has been done to indict him or Dick Cheney.

But the show...I mean the wars...must go on.

All modern Presidents have been puppets to the Pentagon and the Power Elite. Fortunately, we have the words and wisdom of people like Jefferson, Lincoln, and Adams to remind ourselves of how good we were and still can be.