Mr. Johnson? Who's that? Hey, I'm just trying to counter the Obama love fest a tad. I had forgotten about Gore or I would have mentioned him as well. Nobody won in 1939? The current bunch of yahoos would probably have picked Chamberlain. I wonder if he was nominated? Sorry about the negative reaction. I probably shouldn't even comment on stuff like this just like I usually avoid discussions on God but I just couldn't help myself. I've pretty much discounted Nobel peace prizes as political speech ever since 1994. This latest award proves my point. The award should be for accomplishments. Frankly, Orn has done more for peace then Mr. Obama.
I don't think many people put much prestige behind the award anymore. Most of the people I know that actually pay attention to this sort of thing thought it was a joke. Did you see the clip from the announcement? Did you hear the gasps and muttering? I may be the lone dissenter in this group but I'm not alone in world opinion. The man didn't deserve it and he knows it. Why else give all the prize money to charity? That kind of smack would buy the First Lady a whole lot of 600 dollar shoes. dj On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually "to the person who shall > have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, > for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding > and promotion of peace congresses." > > I have to ask, Mr. Johnson, why do you only highlight what are even > questionable undeserving recipients? Why do you point up only the > negative? Is it your purpose to defeat anything good? At times your > writing sounds like it? > > But that's all right. I'll counterbalance. > > Among the more notable winners in the 114 years history of the Nobel > prize are the following: > > Theodore Roosevelt > Louis Renault > Woodrow Wilson > Frank B. Kellogg > Jane Addams > (Not so ironically, the committee awarded no peace prize in 1939, > 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943. The award in 1944 was given to the > International Red Cross.) > Cordell Hull > Albert Schweitzer > Dag Hammarskjöld > Linus Carl Pauling > Martin Luther King, Jr. > Henry A. Kissinger > Lê Ðuc Tho (refused award) > Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat > Menachem Begin > Mother Teresa > Lech Wałęsa > Desmond Mpilo Tutu > The 14th Dalai Lama > Desmond Mpilo Tutu > Nelson Mandela > Frederik Willem de Klerk > Yitzhak Rabin > Shimon Peres > Jody Williams > Kofi Annan > Shirin Ebadi > Mohamed ElBaradei > Al Gore > > According to the Nobel committee Barack Obama Was awarded the Peace > prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international > diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." No one can deny his > efforts and he may win it again for his future successes in this > goal. > > It is my hope and belief that he will achieve these goals. > > On Oct 9, 5:27 am, 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
