{"id":2421,"date":"2009-10-10T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2009-10-10T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T14:16:32","slug":"nobel-nuttery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2421","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Nuttery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Obama has won a Nobel Peace prize. One reaction, from the left <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/majikthise.typepad.com\/majikthise_\/2009\/10\/obama-.html\">reads<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course the Republicans are going to freak out. Our guy wins a Nobel Peace Prize after 9 months in office, primarily for tinkering with the worst excesses of the wars their guy started. That&#8217;s humiliating. Humiliated Republicans lash out, news at eleven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm. Lash out? With remarks like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bdoza.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/09\/obama-own-nobel-peace-prize-2009-is-it-premature\/\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We appreciate his effort for peace which he just initiates and we have to wait for the result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p> Isn\u2019t it a bit premature for him to get the prize? We are not sure how it will affect his mindset.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/churumuri.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/09\/churumuri-poll-does-obama-deserve-nobel\/\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does Obama deserve The Prize? Has he done anything to warrant it? Does giving it to so young a man, in the infancy of his Presidency, devalue all those who worked long and hard to earn it? Or does it not matter at all, because the Nobel is such a political prize anyway (as anybody who has read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irving_Wallace\">Irving Wallace\u2019s<\/a> The Prize will know), given to Yasser Arafat and Menachem Begin?  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/baithak.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/nobel-peace-prize-2009-obama-gets-what.html\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This may well turn out to be the watershed year in the decline of Nobel Prizes. What were the committee members eating or smoking?<\/p>\n<p>President Obama may well deserve this award in years to come. But not at this time. He has just begun his strive and is yet to leave a mark on world peace. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, wait. Those weren&#8217;t conservative wingnuts at all. That was a collection of <i>South East Asian<\/i> blog <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2009\/10\/09\/south-asian-bloggers-on-obama%E2%80%99s-nobel-peace-prize\/\">reactions<\/a>. Try <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2009\/10\/09\/egypt-no-accolades-for-obamas-nobel-peace-prize\/\">Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a point here. The &#8220;conservative&#8221; bloggers&nbsp; and &#8220;Republicans&#8221; are &#8220;lashing&#8221; out in exactly the same way as, it seems, is the rest of the world with at best, a collective &#8220;huh, wtf?&#8221; And if you don&#8217;t find that sort of reaction reasonable and ordinary &#8230; I suggest you need to dial the tension down your partisan wig and let some blood flow return to your little grey cells. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Obama has won a Nobel Peace prize. One reaction, from the left reads: Of course the Republicans are going to freak out. Our guy wins a Nobel Peace Prize after 9 months in office, primarily for tinkering with the worst excesses of the wars their guy started. That&#8217;s humiliating. Humiliated Republicans lash out, news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,58,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-marko","category-republicans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}