I feel that it is too early to assess Barack Obama's commitment at work, much less conclude and award him for that !
Early ( and hence undeserved ) recognition is a widely known recipe to ' burn out.' Those who start being and doing better are blessed, but rare. On Oct 9, 5:27 pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Picked with a two week resume, he joins the Nobel club with such > luminaries as Jimmy Carter and Yassir Arafat. How fitting. Dividends > from the World Apology Tour '09. > > Time to expand on that Ignobel list Archy. > > dj > > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:18 AM, frantheman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > 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. > > > Francis- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
