tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post6929742433885893110..comments2023-09-29T06:57:06.991-07:00Comments on Anglachel's Journal: The Hard Work of PeaceAnglachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01110546252851760414noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-37786013538523507252009-10-17T09:26:00.959-07:002009-10-17T09:26:00.959-07:00I thought that the Nobel committee's choice wa...I thought that the Nobel committee's choice was awesome and hilarious because it was a bold act of IRL trollery, of which the world seriously needs more. They managed to befuddle everyone uniformly with it, which is what an international award for "Peace" should by all means do.Námo Mandoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04876501353961485728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-49719350162431769602009-10-11T09:18:31.895-07:002009-10-11T09:18:31.895-07:00.... I am pleased to see him publicly committing t...<i>.... I am pleased to see him publicly committing to end DADT and DOMA, but will wait for tangible results before breaking out the champagne.</i><br /><br />This is a wise policy with any Obama promise.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-48968219487021287282009-10-11T02:54:14.687-07:002009-10-11T02:54:14.687-07:00No disrespect intended to Hillary and her crew, bu...No disrespect intended to Hillary and her crew, but after reading what the Nobel Committee cited in support of the prize, I couldn't see much difference between what Obama has done and what you'd expect from your average beauty pageant contestant. Speeches advocating world peace, nuclear disarmament, and a greater commitment to environmentalism? Oh, wow.<br /><br />And I still can't get past the fact that while Obama was performing his "I am not worthy" routine for the cameras, his lackeys at the DNC were denouncing critics of the award for siding with the terrorists. I also remember watching <i>Morning Joe</i> Friday morning. Scarborough was making light of the award, and co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Savannah Guthrie suddenly got e-mails from a "senior White House official" (probably Robert Gibbs) telling them to tell Joe to "quit acting like an asshole." It's the same two-step we saw with the racism accusations against the Clintons during the primaries. Regardless of what Obama says, he and his people clearly feel he was more than entitled to this award.<br /><br />I finally decided to dive into Ayn Rand's <i>The Fountainhead</i>. It's an extremely adolescent book in a lot of ways, particularly in its attitude towards its (inhuman) protagonist, but I'm quite struck by its apparent villain, a character named Peter Keating. He's an upwardly mobile mediocrity whose talents are for gladhanding, impressing people with his "potential," and taking credit for other people's work. Oh, and he's also big on putting the screws to people he feels are standing in the way of his ascent up the ladder of success. Gee, who does he remind me of?R. S. Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044341905789599207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-76503722951711429782009-10-11T02:17:04.386-07:002009-10-11T02:17:04.386-07:00Not all Yurpeans are bowled over by Obama. Most o...Not all Yurpeans are bowled over by Obama. Most of the ones I know are just as baffled by this award. Mairead Mcguire puts it perfectly:<br /><br />Speaking from Belfast regarding the NPP Award to President Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in l976. said: <br /><br />‘I am very disappointed to hear that the Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />I believe the award is premature. <br /><br />Furthermore,I believe 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<br />militarism and war, and for disarmament. This is not the first time the Nobel Peace Committee in Oslo has ignored the will of Alfred Nobel and acted against the spirit of what the Nobel Peace Prize is all about.<br /><br />Giving this award to the Leader of the most militarized country in the world, which has taken the human family, against its will, to war will be rightly seen by many people around the world, as a reward for his country’s aggression and domination’. <br /><br /><br />http://ireland.indymedia.org/article/94396Briarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242731014996459484noreply@blogger.com