You don't award someone the MVP for a season they haven't played yet, regardless the "hope" they may have generated in training camp or the undesirable person they replaced on the team.
Politics aside, I just don't know how one justifies this award - I mean honestly. What did he do in the < 14 days after his inauguration to merit this prize? If it was given him for what he did and said on the campaign trail, then I'm even more stymied.
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"I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you." - Isa 44:22
This award is basically an award for not being George Bush. He hasn't actually really done anything deserving of a Nobel Peace Price, especially compared to what others have done in the last year, I'm sure. This award will tell all the people that thought the loss of Chicago for the Olympics meant that the world didn't like Obama that they were wrong. Of course, now this opens the door for the end of the world conspiracy theorists in some way or another...
You raise a very valid argument. It's more of a "Thanks for not being nuts" gold star from the rest of the world than anything else.
__________________ The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
-JFK
War is God's was of teaching Americans geography.
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If he had any integrity, he'd refuse the prize and give it to someone who really deserved it. And if the Nobel Prize award committee had any integrity, they'd apologize to the world.
Good grief!
I don't think I would go that far. If he was nominated and won on his own the kudos. Doesn't this also make him the only sitting president to get one of these? Talk about a mold breaker.....
__________________ The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
-JFK
War is God's was of teaching Americans geography.
-Unknown
This award is basically an award for not being George Bush. He hasn't actually really done anything deserving of a Nobel Peace Price, especially compared to what others have done in the last year,
Hasn't done anything deserving, where have you been? Look what he did in the Gates/Crowley situation. He saved the whole free world. Give him a case of Bud Lite and he'll have the PLO eating out of his hand. (As long as there are some beer nuts in it)
This award is basically an award for not being George Bush. He hasn't actually really done anything deserving of a Nobel Peace Price, especially compared to what others have done in the last year, I'm sure. This award will tell all the people that thought the loss of Chicago for the Olympics meant that the world didn't like Obama that they were wrong. Of course, now this opens the door for the end of the world conspiracy theorists in some way or another...
You read my mind.
Now please stop - I'd like a little privacy.
__________________ "If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other." Galations 5:15
"...a vice does not lose its nature, though it becomes ever so fashionable" -John Wesley
"To study too much in retreat can become an inexcusable indulgence. It behooves us to share what we have learned, to practice in administering to others what we have gathered from our experience with books" -the Brother Superior of the Glauxian Brothers of the Northern Kingdoms
9.8% unemployment. He hasn't gotten through any of his major policy initiatives. He has appointed many controversial czars, some of whom have had to be removed. Troops are still in Iraq and others are dying in Afghanistan. He lied about transparency and the stimulus bill failed greatly so far as it was mostly paybacks to those who got him elected. He failed in his Olympics bid, spending some taxpayer dollars to do so. He surrounded himself with one of the most corrupt staffs one could have, full of tax cheats and people who have been in trouble with the law, and Chicago style sleazy politicians. Yet he wins the Nobel Peace Prize? This is like when Hollywood nominates movies for awards based on political content such as anti-war, anti-Republican, or pro-gay themes. Yet these films are not loved by the people who watch movies...but because their agendas fit Hollywood, they win an award.
Hasn't done anything deserving, where have you been? Look what he did in the Gates/Crowley situation. He saved the whole free world. Give him a case of Bud Lite and he'll have the PLO eating out of his hand. (As long as there are some beer nuts in it)
LOL - But just a sec - he was responsible for turning that into a racist situation and then responsible for miraculously defusing it - - all on his lonesome.
Let's not chastise him for his methods - or do you have something against Bud Lite and Beer Nuts?
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"I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you." - Isa 44:22
I don't think I would go that far. If he was nominated and won on his own the kudos. Doesn't this also make him the only sitting president to get one of these? Talk about a mold breaker.....
No. Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919. Both men were still in office at the time.
__________________ "If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other." Galations 5:15
"...a vice does not lose its nature, though it becomes ever so fashionable" -John Wesley
"To study too much in retreat can become an inexcusable indulgence. It behooves us to share what we have learned, to practice in administering to others what we have gathered from our experience with books" -the Brother Superior of the Glauxian Brothers of the Northern Kingdoms
Look what he did in the Gates/Crowley situation. He saved the whole free world.
Give him a case of Bud Lite and he'll have the PLO eating out of his hand.
(As long as there are some beer nuts in it)
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