Well, there's always the 2010 Oscars, as well!
On Oct 9, 6:14 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tend to this view Francis - in hope. Frankly, I was think it is an
> old, doomed strategy. I note there is no real vision of what a
> peaceful world would be and how we would regulate through democracy,
> plenty and so on.
>
> On 9 Oct, 10:18, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > So, the prize committee chooses Obama, less than a year after he has
> > begun to operate on the world stage, before many concrete results have
> > been seen.
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> > Spontaneously, I see this as a gesture of thankfulness and hope;
> > thankfulness to the American people that they have elected a successor
> > to Bush, a man who did so much global damage, a successor who works
> > with different visions and ideal-structures, a more positive
> > fundamental view of what it means to be human and what societies
> > (local, national and global) can and should be doing and achieving.
>
> > Hope that he will realise some of this vision and trust that his
> > country and the world puts in him. The past few months have made me a
> > little concerned that the experts and lobbyists, advisors and
> > professional analysts are wearing him down with detail and
> > realpolitik.
>
> > Maybe this award will strengthen that "Yes, we can" impetus, in the
> > face of the everyday inertia of the thousand arguments of
> > complicatedness against changing anything, against daring to hope.
>
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