Apparently the Norwegians believe the world runs on rainbow power now
Obama Says He’s ‘Surprised and Humbled’ by Nobel Prize
What? WHAAAAAAAAT? But he hasn’t done anything! Surely someone out there deserves this award for actually, you know, making a difference!
I don’t doubt that Obama could do great things diplomatically, but the fact remains that right now it’s all hypothetical. Sure, he might solve the middle east’s problems, he could meaningfully combat global warming, and he may disarm North Korea and Iran, but as of right now, he hasn’t done any of that yet, and it’s by no means certain that he will!
What he’s done is given a bunch of pretty speeches, his prettiest being his recent “wouldn’t it be nice” about a nuclear-free world. Apparently, the Nobel committee members were so impressed with the idea of an American president who doesn’t like nukes that they felt they needed to call it out, and you know, give him an award usually reserved for people who have actually made a difference.
But even Sarkozy of France recognized this rainbow-powered, unicorn-frolicking world without nukes to be a nice idea, but dangerously unworkable back in reality, where there are at least a few nations who really want them. The fact remains that if the U.S. and Europe give up all their nuclear weapons, that’s not going to do a thing about the countries that have no such squeamishness around them. What it will do it simply tilt the balance of power in favor of the countries that choose to defy the toothless U.N. and do not disarm.
So no, I don’t believe Obama deserves this award. Allow me to repeat myself: he hasn’t done anything! Giving a speech of dubious merit doesn’t count! It’s not action. It’s talk. And talk is cheap. Anybody can shoot their mouth off, but it takes blood, sweat, tears, and toil to actually accomplish anything like that on the world stage. Wake me up when Obama actually done so, and then, maybe then, I’ll be willing to entertain the idea of him with a Nobel Peace prize. But now? It’s a joke. All I feel is that the Nobel committee has been so dazzled by our president’s star power and utopian dreams that they’ve ignored that (I presume) wide pool of actually deserving candidates.
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They gave Nobel Prizes to people like Elli Weisel and Rigoberta Menchu, both of who didn’t actually do anything except survive atrocities, write books where they lied about what actually happened to them and talked a lot. I guess Rigoberta did some peace work. Elli Weisel just made high schoolers everywhere feel bad.
Also, 4.2 Million dollars, holy crap. I should get working on earning one of those bad boys.
That’s true, I guess the award is pretty debased. I mean, they handed them out to Arafat and Carter who very noticeably did *not* bring about middle-east peace, for heaven’s sake! With this in mind, you shouldn’t have too hard a time getting one; just live through a bunch of crap, or else aspire to lofty goals and fail to achieve them!
I’m going to use my traumatic experience as a domestic abuse/sexual violence/torture victim to save the entire world and earn 4.2 million dollars.
PLAN GO!
Actually, it’ll be easier than that because you won’t even need to save the entire world! Maybe talk to some middle schoolers or something, I dunno, give some motivational speeches maybe, and BAM! You’ve got it in the bag. It also helps that you’re not Bush.
Wow, why didn’t I think of that? Oh yeah, because I used to believe that the Nobel Peace Prize was actually worth something.