{"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":"

Mr Obama has won a Nobel Peace prize. One reaction, from the left reads<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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’s humiliating. Humiliated Republicans lash out, news at eleven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmm. Lash out? With remarks like this<\/a>?<\/p>\n

We appreciate his effort for peace which he just initiates and we have to wait for the result.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

or this<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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 Irving Wallace\u2019s<\/a> The Prize will know), given to Yasser Arafat and Menachem Begin? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

or this<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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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

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

Oh, wait. Those weren’t conservative wingnuts at all. That was a collection of South East Asian<\/i> blog reactions<\/a>. Try Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a point here. The “conservative” bloggers  and “Republicans” are “lashing” out in exactly the same way as, it seems, is the rest of the world with at best, a collective “huh, wtf?” And if you don’t find that sort of reaction reasonable and ordinary … 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

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