Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

10-11-2009 • Christine Smith's Blog

Listening to numerous discussions on talk radio shows across the nation about Obama’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, I was struck by the observation that no one mentioned what is to me the single most important (and obvious) objection to it.

3 Comments in Response to Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Comment by Dan Alter

Entered on: 10/12/2009 1:10:32 PM

Deeds speak, talks cheap. His deeds, we are staying in Afghanistan and Iraq, are not even contradicted by his words. He is studying his options.

You do not have to study being for peace, you act. Obama is a temporizer with our military industrial complex. A certain recipe for more war.

May we have misjudged him and the Nobel committee be right.

Comment by Lucky Red

Entered on: 10/12/2009 5:06:22 AM

The day Obama was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize was the day in which war officially became peace and up became down. What a travesty! What a joke! The commander in chief of the world's biggest terrorist, warmongering nation being nominated for Peace Price. I'd laugh if it weren't so sad!

Comment by Brock

Entered on: 10/11/2009 11:10:40 PM

Similarly, I found myself wishing it was a legitimate prize for fostering peace; I would have happily congratulated him for winning.

Of course, if one actually fostered peace, the Nobel prize for it would be superfluous.

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