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Not Only Republicans Attacking the Nobel Committee Today

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Friday, October 09, 2009 at 12:52 pm

Here’s Mairead Maguire, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, blasting today’s surprise announcement that President Obama has been named the newest honoree.

They say this is for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples, and yet he continues the policy of militarism and occupation of Afghanistan, instead of dialogue and negotiations with all parties to the conflict.

In awarding Obama the prize, Maguire adds, “the Nobel Committee has not met the conditions of Alfred Nobel’s will where he stipulates it is to be awarded to those who work for an end to militarism and war.”

Maguire won the Nobel at the age of 32 for her work promoting peace in Northern Ireland. And she’s still at it. Earlier this year she spent five days in an Israeli prison for attempting to deliver aid to Gaza.

Just goes to show that this concept of “peace” occupies a spectrum.

h/t: The Institute for Public Accuracy

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Adam
Comment posted October 9, 2009 @ 6:41 pm

Whatever one thinks of Obama's policies, or performance as President, this really is over the top. Kind of like The One winning a Grammy. Along with the people who've sequenced cancer DNA and fought genocide from prison cells, a sleazy and really unremarkable politician gets the Nobel. Yes, someone enmeshed scandal (ACORN, Richard M. Daley's 'Outfit'), who thinks the U.S. has “57 States”. (Kind of like Richard Nixon and Dan Quayle, rolled into one.) Maybe, they gave it to him for the Biggest Campaign Kitty Ever ($700M+).

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chrisjay
Comment posted October 11, 2009 @ 5:34 pm

If the award is meaningless, there's no reason to get worked up.
If, on the other hand, it IS a significant accomplishment then maybe you should click over and see why the Nobel committee says they gave it to him.
I don't think you can have it both ways

Besides, to me it was worth watching Limbaugh et al get whiplash after celebrating the Olympic committee's decision just a couple of days prior. Payback is hell…

Adam
Comment posted October 11, 2009 @ 7:17 pm

All of that TNT money ran out of the Nobel award pot long ago. Some of the Nobel Foundation's $400M fund likely came from the same sources that donated to B.O.'s campaign. At least Al Gore MADE his stupid film; awarding Obama a Nobel for 'stuff he'll get around to doing…eventually…we hope' has been compared to 'Nobel for best novel not yet written'.

Worst of all, President Barry-O's award for Nothing Yet Accomplished comes after he snubbed the Dalai Lama. It's sad when the world's sole-remaining superpower has been bought off by China: taking Americans' money for Made-in-China crap and buying up America's T-Bills.

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